By Bela “Bill” Suhayda
Aurora
Second of three parts
The previous part is at https://thevoice.us/readers-commentary-earth-movement-cycles-continue
There are many factors affecting the natural climate change that always has existed on our planet. The short list of the factors affecting our climate includes the Sun’s solar output, the solar sunspot cycle, the varied tilt of our axis, the changing distance of our planet from the Sun, plate tectonics, volcanic activity, ocean currents, deforestation. There is more than just this list of variables that affect our climate and how it changes. But I think you get the idea there are many variables. However, CO2 has become the only variable affecting climate change that makes the news.
They won’t tell you the other things affecting climate change for a reason. They don’t want you distracted from the only one they want you to be thinking about, CO2! Your life and mine must be altered again. This time because of what they say is man made climate change. And the reason our lives must change is because government says so, the U.S. Constitution be damned, again! We’re still in the middle of huge disruptions of our lives because of the COVID crisis for crying out loud. The Greta Thunbergs of our world say, “be ready to have your lives changed again …to save theirs.” Don’t ask questions shut up and ride your bike to work, while the elite fly their private jets to their climate summits! Stop grilling your steaks by using charcoal briquettes or methane! Don’t you know eating beef kills the planet?
To save the planet from this crisis, we must stop eating meat, and at the same time prevent bovine flatulence and cooking our food out of doors. You can’t be burning them fossil fuels! And those gasoline-driven cars you love so much, will be replaced by battery-operated electric cars. The internal combustion engine will become a relic of a once free society. But don’t be alarmed, the new electric cars are simply plugged into outlets that get electricity from, wait for it, coal-burning power plants. Yup!! It seems solar and alternative energies will not be plentiful enough, in the next 50 or so years, to run our electric cars and all the other gadgets we need driven by electricity.
But they aren’t telling you that. And they never will.
Scientists use a method of inquiry called the scientific method when looking for the answers to vexing problems of our world. We make observations, come up with hypotheses, then test them for validity. When we do this process, we must first isolate variables we think may be having a specific effect on what we are observing, or measuring. If we have more than one variable affecting what we think we are seeing, we isolate them to test how each one has on effect. When we isolate a variable, we can accurately measure one variable’s effect on what we are observing. It is how we find simple cause and effect.
When I kick a soccer ball into the air, it flies into the sky in a curved path, bounces, rolls and finally stops. The energy I put into the ball along with the motion (friction) of the air (wind) and the gravitational tug of the Earth, will be the forces that determine the flight of the ball. So for me to determine what effect I had on the ball, I would have to eliminate the forces of wind and gravity. It is a problem. How do I cancel out the effect of wind, air, or gravity. I can’t know what effect I had on the ball independent of these other forces unless I leave the planet where there is no gravity or air. Hmm….
This same problem of isolating variables, in the flight of a soccer ball, exists when a scientist wants to find the effect of CO2 on climate change. See above for the variables affecting our climate. How then do I know the effect of each of these variables separately from the others affecting climate when they are all working in unison, and I am unable to measure their effects individually? The only way I can eliminate the effect of the atmosphere and gravity on that soccer ball is by going where there is no air, or gravity. So for me, it is not possible to determine the effect of my foot alone on the ball.
The same thing is true of CO2. We cannot find the effect CO2, by itself, has on our climate.
Continued at thevoice.us/readers-commentary-strange-bedfellows-politics-science