You go to the doctor and he says that you have a life-threatening disease. So what do you do? The average person would get a second or third opinion. A form of mass psychosis has permeated most of Western society and it is most peculiar.
When it comes to claims of a climate catastrophe, millions of people have blindly accepted that supposition and not searched for a second opinion.
Many must be somewhat forgiven as they have been subjected to Goebbels’s big lie, driven largely by politicians, elitists, and the mainstream media seeking power and money.
So let’s examine patient Earth to start. Since we’re talking about climate change, let’s begin with Earth’s climates. Notice the word is plural and you will find the map above and many others with detailed explanations.
In reality, the Earth is split into five main climate zones: Three of them are tropical (1) (always hot), temperate (2) (hot/cold), and polar (3) (always cold).
Koppen has subdivided these zones into 30 types and so the patient has a complicated climate anatomy. There are many different factors that drive this diversity.
The catastrophe is all about life on Earth so it is largely to begin to understand the distribution of that life relating to climates.
With simplicity, the greatest diversity and abundance of life is in the hot tropics and the least is in the coldest polar regions.
As well, the prestigious medical journal Lancet estimates that a minimum of ten times more humans die from cold than from heat.
Also, history chronicles civilizations prospering during warm periods and waning during cold periods. See the Little Ice Age.
Next is to understand what creates the myriad of different climates. First are the Earth’s wind patterns, specifically Hadley and Ferrel cells.
Then there are ocean currents. Along with continental shapes and topographies, wind and ocean currents drive temperatures that create a multitude of different climates.
The most important fact is that the planet is not static. Everything, including tectonic plates, is constantly in motion and so climate change is constant.
There are some final pieces of homework to do. Now, examine the Scotese-Berner climate graph. The Earth today is cold, about 7°C colder than 80% of the last 600 million years.
Over the last 800,000 thousand years, Earth’s temperatures have cycled through eight full glacial epochs and we are now in a warm period called an interglacial.
Now go to the Vostok ice core sample graphs and the pattern is clear with temps roughly 10°C colder than today. The link relates that temperatures drive Carbon Dioxide, not the reverse as we’ve been told.
At the very least you will realize the absolute complexity of climates but this goes further. You’ve all experienced that local daily temperature estimates are most often 2 to 3 degrees wrong.
Settled climate science predicts 1.5839 degrees of warming in the coming decades will be catastrophic. This is taking the sublime to the ridiculous.
The word settled is a misnomer as, for example, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is still under dispute.
Finally, there is more to understand and the Scotese-Berner graph (NOAA has a similar graph) shows it well.
One, carbon dioxide and temperatures are rarely in sync. Two, the catastrophists cannot explain what caused the massive changes in the past.
With the massive complexity of the climate, we cannot predict the future and logic dictates getting a second opinion.
And remember the jocular truism from Yogi Berra: “Predictions are hard, especially about the future.”
Note also the 2001 IPCC statement: ‘The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.’
Share this with your family and friends, especially those with K- through 12-aged children. Understanding the fascinating complexity of our “Blue Marble” in the vastness of the cosmos can create joy and wonderment in the young.
It will also give them the knowledge to make rational decisions (ones not driven by catastrophic fearmongering) in the future regarding how to protect what we have been blessed with.
Alan L. Stewart is a retired cabinet maker and a housing contractor with thousands of hours of study on the subject of climate change.
Excellent article, Alan. Well done.
Regarding hurricanes and “climate change”… the first five decades of NOAA’s recorded landfalls and hurricane impacts on the USA reveal an average of 19 hurricanes a decade with eight of the 50 years having no hurricane making landfall in the USA. By contrast during the past five decades (1980 to date) the USA has averaged 20% fewer landfall hurricanes per decade and 11 of 44 years (one in four) having no hurricanes making landfall.
Evidently, “climate change” is not increasing hurricanes (as IPCC types claim), it is decreasing them… or, more to the point, using fossil fuels has nothing to do with either climate change or hurricanes.
Here’s an example of the complexity of Earth’s climate, divided into zones. In Canada’s vast north west where numerous wildfires occurred this year, the arctic circle receives very little precipitation, around 4″ annually. Technically, it’s a desert. In June and July, the sun shines there 20 hours a day. The jet stream this year held a stubborn pattern and dried out everything in its path, including the American Midwest and east to Quebec. We are not equipped to effectively fight naturally occurring wild fires over such a vast area. We could be if we chose to be.
we hear about this climate catastrophe.but then I go outside the front door and see a nice blue sky, beautiful weather…. the logic just doesnt gel.
Agree. What those pushing the “climate catastrophe” scam is hoping we do not remember the past. I am 69 and do remember the ups and downs of weather during those years. And that we had hurricanes, flooding, droughts, and tornadoes have happened for centuries. It’s been hotter and colder than it is now when CO2 levels were lower and higher than it is now without the climate going off the deep end. So how did that happen?
If the climate cult gets its way, a few years from now when you go outside your front door you’ll see hordes of people begging you for food.