John Stossel is just so great at debunking myths.
This past week, he took on the myths surrounding climate change in a terrific video.
Stossel invited climate change activists to a debate at the Heartland Institute.
Small problem? They didn’t show up. As Stossel notes, climate change folks like Al Gore never show up to his invitations.
Scientists did show up to debunk some of the common myths being pushed by folks like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and other extremists.
Stossel noted how over the years he’d covered so many scares that had turned out not to be what people claimed, that in fact, we’re living longer than ever.
Yet the alarmists like Greta Thunberg say “entire ecosystems are collapsing” and we are on the brink of “mass extinction.” Politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and former Vice President Joe Biden proclaim, “We have 12 years left.”
The scientists took on that myth. “Please, let’s have a discussion!” begged astrophysicist Willie Soon.
Pat Michaels, former president of the American Association of State Climatologists, dissected the 12 years/extinction claim:
“It’s warmed up around one degree Celsius since 1900, and life expectancy doubled, yet that temperature ticks up another half a degree and the entire system crashes? That’s the most absurd belief.”
And what happens when in all likelihood we’re all still here in pretty much the same condition in 12 years?
Climatology Professor David Legates predicted, “In twelve years, it’ll be 12 more years.”
Exactly. How long has this been going on? Since at least the 1970s when folks pushed the spurious claim we might be entering a new ice age.
Willie Soon said it was all about emotional handwaving.
But, as the scientists explained, we adapt and address conditions. That’s the human way.
Stossel asked the scientists, “You acknowledge though the water is rising?”
Legates agreed. “Yes, the water has been rising for approximately 20,000 years.” Alrighty, now.
The scientists also debunked “global warming is making storms worse” and that carbon dioxide is harmful, both of which they pointed out is wrong.
Another myth? The government can somehow save us.
“The Obama administration’s model projects that the amount of global warming that would be saved going to zero emissions tomorrow … would be 14 hundredths of a degree Celsius,” according to Michaels.
An insignificant difference for global warning. But a killer for the country. “You’ll surely have an impoverished dark country,” he said.
But, as Stossel observes, the other side doesn’t want to debate, they just want to impose their will, without question.
So why are politicians so eager to push all this on us? One word: control.
Read more at RedState
Globalists are the sickness and Stossel is the cure i have read one of his books a picture shows him in street clothes while he is surrounded by EPA agents in the Haz-Mat Suits
Fairly sure that even if the Almighty wrote in fire in the sky this is only normal, variable weather, the Lefty/Commo/Marxists wouldn’t believe it. They are so intent on world domination via the UN nothing and no one will change their minds. What is the old quote, something like this…”There is none so blind as he who will not see!”
Global warming panic is all about control. Refusal to debate the issue public, or even just defend the position in the face of overwhelming debunking reason, is all about FEAR. They fear that an open discussion about climate science and public policy to address it will reveal how absolutely wrong they are.