What I find most astonishing is
that so many clever people have hung on to the dogma over so many years of outright
derision from Mother Nature. At the
height of the hysteria, before Climategate it was almost impossible to take a dissenting
view even though the leaked emails reveal the promoters themselves feeling
serious discomfort with Mother Nature who was going elsewhere.
Late in the game, a few are now
having sober second thoughts although not likely soon enough if we are treated
to a massive reversal in the next two years.
This summer is then possibly the last serious year of ice removal in the
Arctic .
Right now I am putting up the red flags and prefer to be wrong.
When the Arctic
closes in again, we will look back and recall that the fabled Northwest passage
truly exists even if it is only for a very few summers every seventy years or
so. It will help to keep us warm when
the blizzards howl outside.
Global Warming: Was It Just A
Beautiful Dream After All?
4/03/2013
Like most of you, I yearn for shorter winters, more shirt-sleeve
weather, less lashing from frigid winds. As a confirmed New Yorker, I’m not
willing to do what millions have done: move to the sunbelt. I want warmer
weather here in the Big
City
But I’ve grown old waiting for the promised global warming. I was 35 when predictions of a looming ice age were supplanted by warmmongering. Now I’m 68, and there’s still no sign of warmer weather. It’s enough to make one doubt the “settled science” of the government-funded doom-sayers.
Remember 1979? That was the year of “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge,
of “The Dukes of Hazard” on TV, and of “ Kramer vs. Kramer” on the silver
screen. It was the year the Shah was forced out of Iran. It was before the web,
before the personal computer, before the cell phone, before voicemail and
answering machines. But not before the global warming campaign.
In January of 1979, a New York Times article was headlined: “Experts Tell How Antarctic Ice Could Cause Widespread Floods.” The abstract in the Times archives says: “If the West Antarctic ice sheet slips into the sea, as some glaciologists believe is possible, boats could be launched from the bottom steps of the Capitol inWashington and a third of Florida would
be under water, a climate specialist said today.”
By 1981 (think “Chariots of Fire“), the drum beat had taken effect. Quoting from the
American Institute of Physics website: “A 1981 survey found that more than
a third of American adults claimed they had heard or read about the greenhouse
effect.”
So where’s the warming? Where are the gondolas pulling up to the
Capitol? Where are the encroaching seas in Florida
A generation and a half into climate change, née global warming, you
can’t point to a single place on earth where the weather is noticeably
different from what it was in 1979. Or 1879, for that matter. I don’t know what
subliminal changes would be detected by precise instruments, but in terms of
the human experience of climate, Boston is still Boston , Cairo is still Cairo , and Sydney is still Sydney
After all this time, when the continuation of industrial civilization itself is on the table, shouldn’t there be somepalpable, observable effect of the disaster that we are supposed to sacrifice our futures in order to avoid? Shouldn’t the doom-sayers be saying “We told you so!” backed up by a torrent of youtube videos of submerged locales and media stories reminding us about how it used to snow in Massachusetts
Climate panic, after all, is fear of dramatic, life-altering climate
changes, not about tenths of a degree. We are told that we must “take action
right now before it’s Too Late!” That doesn’t mean: before it’s too late
to avoid a Spring that comes a week earlier or summer heat records of 103
degrees instead of 102. It was to fend off utter disaster that we needed the Kyoto
With nothing panic-worthy–nothing even noticeable–ensuing after 33 years, one has to wonder whether external reality even matters amid the frenzy. (It’s recently been admitted that there has been no global warming for the last 16 years.) For the climate researchers, what matters may be gaining fame and government grants, but what about the climate-anxious trend-followers in the wider public? What explains their indifference to decade after decade of failed predictions? Beyond sheer conformity, dare I suggest a psychological cause: a sense of personal anxiety projected outward? “The planet is endangered by carbon emissions” is far more palatable than “My life is endangered by my personal evasions.” Something is indeed careening out of control, but it isn’t the atmosphere.
Meanwhile, those of us who long for warmer weather will have to give up
the dream–or move south.
The day the last chemtrail is sprayed over the major cities of the entire globe then I will turn my ear to hear what was talked about in this article. I see this spraying happening on the West Coast of the USA every year just before the start of the rainy season and it does not stop until that season is over. No wonder the entire U.S. is facing another drought this coming summer and water shortages are going into affect as you are reading this. Something sinister is going on right over your own heads in whatever city you live. This spraying changes the worlds weather patterns and as you are already reading through these many articles the human population is being blamed for it. Get to the bottom of who is doing this spraying and why and get it stopped, then we can go back to normal weather patterns.
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