Climate Is Not a Synonym for Emergency
A declaration by actual scientists who observe natural phenomena, communicate observable fact, debate implications and theories, and share studies that can be replicated by other scientists.
Heads Up!
This Thursday’s PRE meeting is 7:00 pm at Jennifer Foss’s house. Bring your own chair, please! Contact someone in the group if you need the address.
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert. — Jasper Fforde
Yes, this IS relevant to November 2022
Much of the bloated bill just passed by Congress — Inflation Reduction Act, a.k.a. Build Back Better not-so-Lite — is devoted to making the world’s most plentiful, portable, and useful fuel and raw material unavailable to anyone other than the rulers of the universe. (Another part of the bill is devoted to doubling the size and arming the Internal Revenue Service; but that’s another story.) This insanity will lead to a lot more trouble than high gas prices at the pump or inability to heat your home in a South Dakota winter. The medical industry that has championed this centralized government will find itself without medical equipment and pharmaceuticals made from fossil fuel. Farmers will lose the ability to power their machines to grow our food. And so on and on and on.
The GLOBAL CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE GROUP has been circulating a DECLARATION that 1100+ scientists from around the world have signed. The bottom line is there is NO climate emergency.
There IS, however, a lot of very bad policy based on politicized climate “science.” As the declaration says, “Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific…”
The Declaration’s main points are these:
Natural as well as anthropogenic [human] factors cause warming
Warming is far slower than predicted
Climate policy relies on inadequate models
CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth
Global warming has not increased natural disasters
Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities
…SCIENCE SHOULD STRIVE FOR A SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CLIMATE SYSTEM, WHILE POLITICS SHOULD FOCUS ON MINIMIZING POTENTIAL CLIMATE DAMAGE BY PRIORITIZING ADAPTATION STRATEGIES BASED ON PROVEN AND AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGIES.
It’s Here, Too
The “climate emergency” belief system is driving South Dakota policy as well as federal policy. Right now, SD landowners are fighting proposed land-use taking for high-pressure CO2 pipelines. These pipelines are high-stakes downstream nonsense born of the fallacy that CO2 — essential for life on Earth — is a pollutant that needs to be buried and contained underground. And private property rights must be buried along with the gas(lighting).
