By Bela “Bill” Suhayda
Aurora
Last of three parts
The previous part is at thevoice.us/readers-commentary-many-advocates-focus-solely-on-co2
“Climate Change is settled science ” said Barack Obama during his tenure in the White House. So-called climate change scientists echoed these sentiments. Falsehoods and cherry-picked information continue to be repeated in news headlines so we are made to remember the grave dangers we face every day. The fear mongers and talking heads will not allow a man-made crisis to go to waste. Too much fame, money, and glory is at stake to let it slip away.
No scientist, worth his or her salt, would utter the words “settled science” about anything. But politicians would and do. Lobbyists are those who set the agendas in D.C.. Big money talks. Let me be clear, there is no such thing as settled science! Anyone using such a term is practicing a belief system. Reality is the final arbiter of truth, not biased opinion. The realities of our world change all of the time. They change because the universe and our planet constantly change. We always will have more things to learn about everything. The search for knowledge and truth are moving targets.
Recently, researchers have been learning about climate change through the use of computer models. Our limited knowledge, in what we know of our planet, determines what we can feed the computers. Only what we think the climate realities of our world to be, can be fed into the machines. The machines processes the information, then spit back the answers according to the accuracy of the information fed.
Scientists studying computer model data, told Al Gore the North Pole would run out of ice by the year 2013. Al put this prediction into his book, An inconvenient Truth. Fortunately for us, but inconveniently for Al Gore and his book, that didn’t happen. We still have plenty of ice at the North Pole and much more than usual at the South Pole. Climate models and the information they are fed are always in revision to fit the reality we see looking out our windows. But you haven’t heard of it on the news, and you never will. Big money and Chinese influence will see to that.
When climate models fail to accurately forecast what we see with our eyes and measure with our instruments, they get recalibrated. This has been an ongoing and changing process for a long time. What computer models continue to give us is updated information and hypotheses to be tested. The models continue to be in disagreement with the reality we observe.
Yet, the Joe Biden administration, in its Green New Deal, is ready to spend tens of trillions of dollars, for decades to come, on hypothetical information that continues to be wrong about our climate crisis. It is why the mantra continues of danger! Danger! Danger! —Will Robinson.
Chinese greenhouse gas emissions continue to exceed that of the U.S. and the developed countries of the world combined!
In a joint conference with Chinese president Xi at the (APEC) summit in Beijing, Obama hailed what he called an historic agreement. Obama announced the U.S. would move much faster in cutting our pollution, with a goal to reduce emissions by 28% by 2025. In the meantime, China’s emissions continue to climb as it builds new coal-driven power plants until 2030.
We in the U.S. sabotage our energy independence and energy costs for the sake of climate change, while China ramps up its reliance on fossil fuels, the world be damned. It seems the Chinese have no regard for the rest of the world. See the COVID-19 pandemic for details.