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It is climate change because it does.

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— Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859), Essay on Southey's Colloquies

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.


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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

The Consensus Delusion


"Today, an overwhelming consensus of scientists say man-made carbon pollution is dangerously transforming life on the planet, melting the Arctic, fueling more ferocious fires, promoting more punishing droughts and devastating floods and wreaking havoc with our global weather systems and currents. "

The only problem with that statement is that Mother Nature doesn’t agree with the scientists who include themselves in that consensus. And if you do not have Mother Nature on your side you are lost.

CO2, a trace gas essential to life on earth, is plant food and if feeding the flora is a dangerous transformation of life on this planet my fruits and veggies are in its debt. CO2 is green

Stories about the ‘melting Arctic’ raised alarm in the 1900s, 20s, 30s and 40s. We still await the ensuing deluge. Whatever goes on in the Arctic appears to be cyclical. We have seen it before. Apparently, we don’t understand it which may explain why the ‘experts’ continue to guess wrong about the Arctic ice free date.

Forest fires are down across the world even as CO2 has continued to rise unabated in the air.

Many studies on drought have found that the droughts of the past were far worse than those we experience today.

Similar results for floods can be found in the literature.

In what year was the weather not in turmoil? We live in a non-linear, chaotic atmosphere. If the weather seems unpredictable maybe that is because it is. When has it ever been nothing but fluffy white clouds and gentle summer rain?

Isn’t it normal for the weather to be weird? We hear about it all the time. Newspapers of the past reported on it all the time. There is nothing unusual in our weather patterns. We have seen it all before.

Mother Nature is elevating her finger at the consensus. And she is never wrong.

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