Claiming Science as Their Own

When catastrophic anthropogenic global warming(CAGW) alarmists and messianic messengers of climate change claim science as their territory it is a little like the inmates taking over the asylum. Hah!¹

Just as that picture turns the world topsy-turvy like a trip down the rabbit hole reality bears witness to the fact that CAGW advocates have most things back to front. Hah!

In darkness they dwell turning our world into a living hell. Hah!

And while alarmists try to claim science as their own they engage in anti-scientific behaviour such as declarations that the debate is over, there is a consensus and the science is settled. These announcements from the high priests of CAGW should be enough to automatically turn on the skeptical radar of any thinking person and send it into an earnest vibrational bout of wild blinking and bleeping. Not only do they want the field of science to themselves they do not want any opposition on the pitch. They want to be champion without having to play the game. That sounds more like the modus operandi of a religion not the chessboard where hypotheses are formed and tested with reality as the final arbiter of truth. While skeptics may have been late to the contest the game is now on.

Alarmists say human induced CO2 is driving temperatures to the far side of uncomfortable and if we do not curtail our emissions of CO2 soon we will see human fricassee. Hah!

But there are those who say it is not so. Since we are engaged in a family feud let us use a slightly modified version of the famous phrase from that TV game.

Science says: temperature drives CO2. Monthly CO2 changes do not affect temperature. Hah!

Alarmists say that severe weather is on the increase in both frequency and severity due to CO2 increases.

Science says: not so. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought and forest fires are all trending down even as CO2 continues to accumulate in the atmosphere. Hah!

How can CAGW driven by human induced CO2 be causing current examples of severe weather when there has been no warming for the last 16 years? Disconnect!

While alarmists try to demonize the burning of fossil fuels, CO2, a trace gas essential to life on Earth continues to provide us with untold bounty. CO2 is plant food and they love it.

Alarmists have gotten the world backwards and are so ensconced in their misanthropic delusion of global doom that they cannot see reality. Every instance of bad weather is blamed on CO2 and strengthens their global warming angst. They are projecting their own fears and guilt upon the world rather than dispassionately examining reality. Ideology floods their thinking and they are drowning in their own anxiety. CAGW is such a mixed up jumble of nonsense that it should be sent to Alice in Wonderland where the scientists treat common weather phenomena as unusual. CAGW will fit right in.

Trouble is they are trying to drown the rest of us as well. And they may succeed long before their scary sea level rise submerges the Maldives. When you put dirt in a bucket of water does the water level rise? Has anyone calculated the amount of ‘dirt’  that land erosion, silt deposition and underwater volcanic activity in the ocean might contribute to sea level rise?

Those of us who are anchored in reality are bombarded with political action that seeks to mitigate a non-existent problem by ‘getting us off fossil fuels ASAP’. Hence we have government programs to ban incandescent light bulbs, plastic bags, coal power plants as well as subsidize the manufacture of electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels and biofuels. All these actions are totally unnecessary and sets the government up for massive waste of taxpayer money when the subsidies are withdrawn, the companies fail and take the ‘green’ jobs with them.

Historians and scientists will look back upon this era as awash in erroneous apocalyptic beliefs driving a fearful political elite. Phd theses will be written by social psychologists seeking answers as to how seemingly intelligent people could be betrayed by their emotional reactions to bad weather. And they will stumble upon certain beliefs expressed in various writings and speeches that will turn on the light bulb of understanding.

Quote by Club of Rome: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose."

Quote by Christine Stewart, former Canadian Environment Minister: “No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”

These two quotes sum up the chimera that is CAGW. Alarmaholics don’t care about scientific truth. They are all about the pogo political science.

The future will look back and bestow CAGW with a more accurate acronym - Conning A Gullible
World. CAGW will be  lumped in with other scientific misadventures like the Flat Earth, Earth is the center of the solar system, the fake Moon Landing, phlogiston, et al.

H.L. Mencken was aware of the political problem many years ago when he remarked:

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

CO2 has been exhaled during the creation of this post. No living thing was harmed. Some even liked it.

¹Hah! - emphatic CO2 exhalation in defiance of imagined human induced global warming