We're Doomed! No, Wait.....

Global Warming. No, wait, it's Anthropomorphic Climate Change. No, wait, it's Climate Weirding. When it's hot, it's because of climate change. When it's cold, it's because climate change caused changes in weather patterns. If you don't agree that 1) the planet is heating to death and 2) it's all humanity's fault and 3) we have five years to save the planet, you are a climate change 'denier'. As in 'holocaust denier'. You hate science and polar bears and puppies and sunshine and are ignorant.

Except it's not true. Nope. Let me explain.

I was a little kid when Star Wars came out and I loved it. My parents were good parents and used this as a way to get me interested in science. They bought me a telescope and some science textbooks (that I read for fun; yes, I am a geek) and took me to planetarium shows. If you've never taken a kid to a planetarium show, you really should. It will blow their mind. Anyway, a few of the planetarium shows talked about global cooling and how air pollution, specifically sulfur compounds in it, was going to cause a global ice age. The solution was to close power plants and factories and set up an international unelected bureaucracy with massive powers to regulate up to the point of limiting the number of children people could have. This was a theme carried over from a doomsday scenario from the late 60s and early 70s called the 'population bomb' claiming that there was overpopulation to the point that hundreds of millions of people were going to start starving to death in about five to ten years. The solution was to set up a massive international unelected bureaucracy with the power to regulate up to the point of limiting the number of children people could have. Several years later, temperatures changed and we were told about acid rain (primarily caused by air pollution, specifically sulfur compounds and carbon dioxide) and how it was going to kill plant and animal life and kill the oceans. After that, it was the destruction of the rainforests and then Global Warming.

Global Warming has been happening since... fifteen minutes after people stopped laughing over the global cooling hoax. The causes are the same, the solutions are the same, the people involved are the same and the time frame for massive action is always five to ten years. Global warming OF LESS THAN A DEGREE stopped in 1998 but warmists can't ever seem to mention that. They also can't seem to mention that there were similar rises and lowering of the temperatures of Mars and Venus and Jupiter, almost like the sun fluctuates in the amount of energy it releases. Al Gore (he speaks for the trees) won an Oscar for his documentary that ignored inconvenient facts like

• Climatologists say we were in what they call the 'Little Ice Age' until the 18th century.
• There have been many periods of time where the temperature was higher than it is now, such as the Roman Warming Period and the Medieval Warming Period. Gore's film ignored these because they invalidate his theory.
  
• There were ice ages when CO2 levels were higher than now.
• Carbon Dioxide levels and temperature levels do appear to be linked. The problem is, temperature levels change and the carbon dioxide levels change TWO YEARS LATER. Yes, temperature levels change and CO2 levels respond. CO2 levels don't drive temperature levels.

• All of the warmist predictions are based on computer models that don't work. If they were predictive, you would be able to take a period in the past, plug the data into the model and check your results with the actual data. The models don't do this. It's junk science.

I can (and will) go into more detail about all of this at a later date. I came across an article the other day that talked about this and made me think about all this.