More than six years ago, The Guardian published an article with the headline, “We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN”. You can tell the article was published more than six years ago because there’s a little yellow rectangle at the top of the article that says, “This article is more than 6 years old” [emphasis theirs].
The editors of The Guardian put that little yellow rectangle there presumably because if you were stupid enough to fall for the headline, it’s likely you’d also be stupid enough to miss the date if they’d put it on the article. Then you’d think you still have 12 years to panic before the planet spontaneously combusts. Nice guys, those editors.
Anyway, according to the article:
The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. The authors of the landmark report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) … say urgent and unprecedented changes are needed to reach the target, which they say is affordable and feasible although it lies at the most ambitious end of the Paris agreement pledge to keep temperatures between 1.5C and 2C.
The world’s leading client scientists. Translation: The folks who’ve drunk the Kool-Aid, had their ostensible research bought and paid for, joined the IPCC, and become card-carrying members of the vaunted 97 percent of so-called scientists who believe science can be settled. (It can’t.)
Urgent and unprecedented changes. Translation: More shameless hysteria-mongering and money-grubbing tactics to ensure the globalist elites can live the lifestyles to which they hope to become accustomed … at our expense, of course. And you can bet those same 97 percent of faux scientists who support the IPCC’s bogus contentions are getting a piece of that action, too.
The IPCC didn’t bother to explain why we’ll have to contend with droughts and floods, as opposed to one or the other. Neither did they say anything about how — rather than extreme heat — people will have to contend with extreme cold and the poverty caused by the IPCC’s wealth redistribution schemes and its preposterous plans to replace reliable energy grids with wholly unreliable and marine and avian life-killing variable renewable energy resources (VREs) like wind and solar. Nevertheless, by the IPCC’s reckoning, we’re down to just six years to get this shit figured out.
Reality Bites
In case you’re interested — and because science, by definition, can’t be settled — here are a few other things to consider as you suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous popular narratives:
Exhibit A below shows changes in the earth’s temperature over a period of 485 million years as measured by the thermometer at the home of Keith Richards. It refutes the depiction of Michael Mann and his infamous hockey stick graph. After seeing this, Mann is working on his hockey stick, cherry-picking more data, and re-rendering the hockey stick as a saw blade, a boomerang, or a corkscrew. He’s not sure yet.
Exhibit A
Correspondingly, Exhibit B below shows the cyclical nature of warming and cooling periods over the history of the earth. It illustrates the fact that the planet, the climate, and reality are not settled, unlike science and the chuckleheads in the 97 percent.
Exhibit B
Similarly, Exhibit C below shows the correlation (or lack thereof) between atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and global temperatures. As anyone but Al Gore can see, there’s little correlation between the two — unless it’s award season, in which case, like Al Gore, you double down on narrative bullshit.
Exhibit C
Finally, Exhibit D below shows the effect of carbon dioxide on plant life. As it illustrates, the higher the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, the greater the proliferation of carbon-dioxide-consuming plant life. The present level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 0.04 percent. At levels of 0.02 percent, plant life begins to die, endangering the lives of vegetables like Michael Mann and Al Gore.
Exhibit D
And what happens if you don’t think for yourself and question everything — if you accept narratives and go along to get along? You can expect to get consequences just like this: “UK Gov’t Caught ‘Inventing’ Climate Data from 103 Non-Existent Stations to Push Net Zero Agenda”. As Grandma Nelson loved to say, “How do you like them apples, Shirley?”
What Should We Do?
While there’s no way to avoid the cataclysmic climate-change narrative completely, there are some things we can do to make our lives a little more peaceful, our blood pressures a little more manageable, and our psyches a little more stable. Here are just a few things to try for starters:
Think critically.
Take nothing at face value.
Question everything.
Follow the money.
Trust your senses.
When the alarm goes off tomorrow morning, check Accu-Window Weather. If the world isn’t being consumed by a raging conflagration — or if you don’t see Noah and his ark — go back to bed and hit snooze.
When you finally get up, call Michael Mann and Al Gore and ask them if we’re a bigger influence on the planet and its climatic conditions than the sun.
Avoid all members from the IPCC, all politicians from the Democrat Party, and all their water-carriers in the mainstream media like you’d avoid a wild boar in mating season. If you don’t, chances are you’ll get … uh … consummated by any or all of them.
Epilogue
There are two predominant theories purporting to explain why dinosaurs became extinct. The first one holds that a while ago, say 70 million years or so, there was violent volcanic activity in northern India that resisted all of Mahatma Ghandi’s efforts at Satyagraha (passive resistance). Ignoring Ghandi, the volcanos released massive amounts of dust and ash into the atmosphere, blocking the sunlight and causing a prolonged volcanic winter that led to the extinction of plant-eating dinosaurs first and, subsequently, the meat-eaters that relied on them for food.
The second theory suggests an event more recent than the first, in which a massive asteroid crashed into the earth about 66 million years ago, give or take a week, triggering a global firestorm, earthquakes, and tsunamis — you know, like the ones allegedly cause by anthropogenic climate change now — and making the environment inhospitable for dinosaurs.
Both of those theories are wrong. The dinosaurs became extinct because they committed suicide. They committed suicide because they knew we were coming. And even though they had brains the size of walnuts, they knew we’d manage to talk ourselves into untold amounts of bullshit. They couldn’t bear to witness it.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. (Albert Einstein)
The dinosaurs were way ahead of their time.
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