Democrats, climate campaigners, and renewable energy interests are in full outrage mode over news that President Trump intends to launch a Presidential Committee on Climate Science.
The PCCS would, at long last, review and question the “dangerous man-made climate change” reports by federal agencies and investigations funded by them.
The committee would be led by Dr. Will Happer, a highly respected scientist and well-known skeptic – not of climate change, but of man-made climate chaos. He would be joined by other prominent experts – of whom there are many – who share his doubts.
No way! the climate alarmists rant. How dare you question our disaster claims? Our settled science?
No! How dare YOU use those claims to justify your agenda – and your continued efforts to bludgeon and silence us into submission – without letting anyone examine, much less debate, your supposed evidence?
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For years, you have loudly and incessantly asserted that the United States and the world must end fossil fuel use, or we are “doomed.”
Now you’re demanding that the United States completely upend its energy production, transportation and manufacturing sectors, housing and office buildings, and the entire economy.
You want the federal government to control and limit our lives, choices and living standards – and redistribute our wealth, even to those “unwilling to work,” according to confiscatory socialist principles.
For years, you Democrats, environmentalists, Deep State bureaucrats, government-grant-dependent scientists, news and social media have colluded to censor and silence man-made climate chaos skeptics and stifle any debate. All of you have huge financial, reputational and power stakes in this.
Your Climate Industrial Complex is a $2-trillion-per-year global behemoth. Your Green New Deal would cost this nation up to $93 trillion by 2030 – sticking every US family with a $65,000 annual bill.
And still, you insist that the science is settled, that there is no room for discussion, that we must act immediately to “save the planet” from climate and extreme weather disaster.
Now you want to wrap up your kangaroo court proceedings – with our side given no opportunity to present our evidence, defend fossil fuels and carbon dioxide, examine your alleged evidence, or cross-examine your experts.
If your evidence is so solid and unimpeachable, you should be more than happy to lay it on the table, subject it to scrutiny, question our experts, and let us question yours – extensively and mercilessly.
After all, the future of our planet is at stake – or so you claim. The future of our country certainly is.
Your radical agenda and actions are un-American, totalitarian, anti-science, and contrary to our most fundamental principles of open, robust debate – on one of the most critical issues in US history.
A large majority of Americans believe global warming is happening. Well, it certainly is. No one denies that. And thank goodness or we’d still be stuck in the Little Ice Age.
But that’s not the issue. The issues are: Is any likely future warming going to be disastrous? And are fossil fuels to blame?
You claim the answer is yes. Again, where is your proof? If you have any actual evidence, lay it on the table.
Show us exactly where the natural forces that have driven countless climate changes throughout history end – and where the human factors begin.
Quantify them. Don’t give us computer models that simply reflect the assumptions that went into them. Present solid, Real World evidence. If you have any.
While you’re at it, you also need to prove that dismantling America’s energy and economic system will make one whit of difference in our climate and weather (assuming for the sake of argument that human carbon dioxide emissions now drive climate and weather) – when China, India, and other countries are building thousands of coal and natural gas-fueled power plants and millions of cars and trucks.
Their emissions already dwarf ours. And they are not going to give up fossil fuels for decades, if ever.
Prove your GND energy system can actually power America, without destroying jobs, living standards, manufacturing, health, prosperity, and environment.
As I have said over, over and over, it cannot be done. Your alternatives are not workable, affordable, green, renewable, ethical, ecological or sustainable.
Here are just a few of the Real World climate science facts that alarmists don’t want to be exposed or discussed.
Temperatures have risen by tenths or hundredths of a degree in recent years – less than the margin of error, and most of the “highest temperatures on record” have been in urban areas, where local man-made heat skews the data. We’re also experiencing record cold and snow in numerous locations.
The average prediction by 102 climate models is now a full degree Fahrenheit above what satellites are measuring.
Michael Mann’s climate model could concoct hockey sticks from telephone numbers and other random numbers. Are we supposed to trust these models on critical energy policy?
Violent tornadoes (F3 to F5) averaged 56 per year from 1950 to 1985. But from 1986 to 2018 only 34 per year touched down in the USA on average – and for the first time ever not one did in 2018.
The March 3 Alabama tornado was tragic, and the 2-mile-wide 2013 Oklahoma City monster lasted 40 minutes. But the 1925 Tri-State Twister was a mile wide, traveled a record 220 miles, lasted a record 3.5 hours, and killed a record 695 people.
Are hurricanes becoming more frequent and intense? From 1920 through 1940, ten Category 3-5 hurricanes made US landfall; from 1960 through 1980, eleven; 1980 through 2000, ten; 2001 through 2018, nine.
There is no trend. Moreover, Harvey and Irma in 2017 were the first category 3-5 hurricanes to make U.S. landfall in a record twelve years. The previous record was nine years, set in the Civil War era.
A warmer Arctic? The Washington Post did report that “the Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer, and in some places, seals are finding the water too hot.” But that was in 1922!
Polar bear populations are the highest on record: between 24,500 and 28,500 or more of them!
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Oceans cannot become “more acidic,” because they are not and have never been acidic. Earth’s oceans are slightly alkaline. That slight alkalinity has decreased slightly (from 8.2 on the pH scale to 8.1) over the past few decades. But they are not getting acidic … and won’t anytime soon.
Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. It is the miracle molecule without which most life on Earth would cease to exist. In fact, the more CO2 in the air, the faster and better crop, forest and grassland plants grow – and the better they can withstand droughts, diseases, and damage from insects and viruses.
In fact, a slightly warmer planet with more atmospheric CO2 would be tremendously beneficial for plants, wildlife, and humanity.
A colder planet with less carbon dioxide would greatly reduce arable land extent, growing seasons, wildlife habitats, crop production and our ability to feed humanity.
Millions of Americans are exasperated and angry about Republicans like Congressman John Shimkus of Illinois, who recently whined that it’s “just not worth the fight anymore” to battle climate alarmism – and protect our nation’s and our children’s future.
These elected officials badly need spinal implants. Or they should resign and turn their seats over to someone who will fight for us.
That’s why tens of millions hope President Trump we elected to clean out the Deep State, get to the bottom of man-made climate chaos pseudo-science … and Make America Great Again for decades to come … will demonstrate his Real Leadership skills right now when it is so sorely needed.
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Mr. Trump: Please stand up to these Climate Totalitarians who want to destroy our nation, in the name of saving the planet from climate disasters that exist only in computer models, Hollywood movies, and self-serving assertions from the Climate Industrial Complex.
Appoint your Presidential Committee on Climate Science right now. And may the best science win.
For the entire history of the climate change movement they have “stacked the deck” making sure that all groups conducting studies are staffed by climate alarmists. The IPCC models are producing the results that were programmed into them. The national assessment on climate was done by alarmists and comes to obviously incorrect conclusions. NOAA and NASA are staffed by climate extremist to the point they fraudulently altering the data. The entire climate change movement is based on a lie and the supporters who are best informed know this. That is why they are terrified that finally a group will come along and expose their lie.
True science welcomes different view points. Comparing different theories gets us closer to the truth. The truth is the last thing the environmental leftists want.
Ocean acidity: so its alkalinity has declined from 8.2 to 8.1. So what?
Neutral water is 7 (pH).
Remember, the pH scale is logarithmic, so 8 is TEN TIMES 7 !
Long, long way to go, fellas.
Yes, the change from a pH of 8.2 to 8.1 is minor. However, read about it on web sites that support the climate fraud, and such a change is a major disaster. This is what the climate change movement does. It takes very small changes, such as an increase of a few hundredths of a degree, and says this proves the apocalypse is coming unless we get the political action that we want.
“Mr. Trump: Please stand up to these Climate Totalitarians who want to destroy our nation, in the name of saving the planet from climate disasters that exist only in computer models, Hollywood movies, and self-serving assertions from the Climate Industrial Complex.”
“Appoint your Presidential Committee on Climate Science right now. And may the best science win.”
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!