Happy
Holidays my unknown friends. I bring tidings of Joy! Certainly I am
no wise man from the East, but I am a thoughtful man of the Sea. And
although my gift may not be incense, frankincense or myrrh, it is
still quite precious. I bring you Amnesty. I offer you
emancipation from The Great Doom that has been prophesied for the
last 30 years – Climate Change.
Daring
to share optimistic conclusions about this topic, is a fairly certain
path to ridicule and attack. I recognize that the Green Police will
put me in their cross-hairs. But the further that I advance into the
autumn of my Life, the more I embrace The Need for Truth.
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Until
a couple of years ago, I too, was a true believer in the man-made
climate change theory. But my sea gypsy sense of adventure
accidentally led me to more carefully study some of the evidence that
was being incessantly
programmed into all of us. Some good friends
offered me an opportunity to crew for them as they attempted to sail
their fiberglass sailboat across the Northwest Passage through the
Arctic from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
I
leapt at the chance since it is considered one of the greatest
challenges in the sailing world, and very few humans have ever
achieved it. We did succeed, and I am proud of all of the obstacles
that we overcame to do so.
During
my preparations, I kept encountering people who claimed that this
voyage was no longer praiseworthy, since the ice in the far north had
practically melted. But when I investigated this, I discovered that
the facts seemed a lot more like fiction. Yes, there had been many
authorities claiming that the Arctic Ice Cap would soon melt,
but it had stubbornly refused to do so.
NASA
claimed it would be gone in 2012. The Naval Research Lab guessed it
would be 2013. Al Gore placed his bet on 2014. And James Hansen
hedged his wager by suggesting sometime between 2013 and 2018. They
were all wrong and yet the legacy media never mentions these
failures. Yet they will undoubtedly trumpet the next ice-free
prediction, which will probably be just as incorrect. Fear sells!
To
further drive my message home, here are two photos from my voyage
through the Northwest Passage in the summer of 2017. The first is of
the clothing required to withstand the balmy temperatures in July.
There are also two layers of polypropylene long underwear beneath
this expedition outer-wear. The second picture is of one of the many
ice labyrinths that we had to find a passage through. No ice...my
ass!
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Having
been astonished by the inaccurate forecasting of these supposed ice
experts, I decided to look into the earlier proclamations of other
environmental gurus, to see how accurate they had been. Because the
first Earth Day in 1970 is considered by many to be the birth of the
environmental movement, it seemed like a sensible place to search for
eco-visionaries. So, I looked into some of the statements that
appeared in publications that year. Apparently there was too much
green in their crystal balls, because their prophecies were
SPECTACULARLY wrong.
Paul
Ehrlich warned that all animal and sea life would be extinct by 1980.
LIFE magazine opined that urban dwellers would have to wear gas
masks to survive the air pollution by 1980. Kenneth Watt prophesied
a coming Ice Age by 2000 with temperatures dropping 11 degrees. TIME
magazine echoed that prediction with a cover story.
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My
confidence in scientists and ecologists was really starting to
vaporize. But then I remembered the incessantly repeated mantra that
97% of scientists agree that human-produced carbon dioxide is the
cause of Climate Change, and all of my doubts were erased.
Actually,
just the opposite occurred! That’s because I could immediately
recognize from my years as the captain of my college debate team,
that this was the classic fallacy of “Argument from Authority.”
The idea is that when you don’t have sufficient evidence to defend
your position, you just claim that you are right because “smarter
people said so!” You don’t engage in debate, you shut down
debate.
Furthermore,
the concept of 97% CONSENSUS is completely in opposition to the
principles of science, which rely on rigorous skepticism. If
Galileo had relied on the consensus of his day he would have never
proven that the Earth circles the Sun.
For
me, the final nail in the Consensus Coffin, was my discovery of the
2007 Global Warming Petition. It was not signed by a few dozen
tinfoil hat, basement-dwelling “researchers.” Instead, over
31,000 leading scientists from around the world agreed to this
statement:
“There
is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon
dioxide is causing, or will cause in the foreseeable future,
catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of
the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific
evidence that increases in atmospheric CO2 produce many beneficial
effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.”
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Now
that I have detailed some of the failures of the Eco-Doom prophets,
let’s look into what they are currently trying to force feed the
entire global population. Their basic hypothesis is that humans
generate carbon dioxide through their various activities, which
contribute to the greenhouse gas effect that warms the planet. This
heating then supposedly causes all sorts of follow-on problems that
could have catastrophic consequences.
And
what do the folks who do not buy into this Church of Climate Change
religion believe? We maintain that humans DO impact climate change,
but we further clarify that the human-produced impact is minuscule
when compared to the NATURAL CAUSES of climate change.
These
enormous factors include sun spots, volcanic eruptions, the tilt of
the Earth’s axis, the changes in the planet’s orbit pattern and
deep ocean currents - to name but a few. These phenomena are so
gigantic and so beyond the control of human intercession, that no
amount of switching to corkscrew-shaped light bulbs will ever offset
them.
And
the climate alarmists gloss over the extremely relevant statistic
that CO2 is less than ONE HALF of ONE PERCENT of the Earth’s
atmosphere. Plus, humans contribute only a fraction of that tiny
amount. How can something so puny have such an immense effect on the
climate? It’s as if one of your toenails determines the health of
your entire body.
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So,
lets scrutinize more thoroughly the Villain of the Climate Change
mythology - Carbon Dioxide. The character assassination of
this gas has gone so off the sanity rails, that alarmists are now
labeling it a POLLUTANT. But actually, it is THE GAS OF LIFE.
Without it, there is no life on this planet!!! We are carbon-based
organisms. We exhale CO2 with every breath. Indeed, two pounds a
day for those who are counting. In fact, if you reduce carbon
dioxide to less that 150 parts per million, plant life and all
life will cease.
Step
into a greenhouse and you will find carbon dioxide at much higher
than 400 parts per million because it helps plants grow bigger and
faster. Step into a submarine and you will witness men and women
flourishing for months at a time with extremely high levels of CO2.
And step into history and you will discover that the zeniths of
civilization tend to align with those eras when the Earth was warmer
and had higher carbon dioxide in the biosphere. CO2 is not our enemy
- it is our friend.
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So
how has the discussion of Climate Change become so out of whack and
taboo? How can supposed adults be calling for the arrest of people
who question the High Priests of Climate Change? (I’m looking at
you, Will Pye – the Science Dude.) I’ll discuss the innocent
explanation first. And then in the next section, I’ll describe the
more malevolent motivation.
I
suspect that the majority of the people who were first drawn to the
Global Warming crusade were idealists with good intentions. They
truly wanted to Save the Planet. But it wasn’t long before they
realized that their dedication could be parlayed into a full-time
job. And soon that gig became a career, with lots of perks in both
the scientific community and the cocktail party circuit.
But
at a certain point it became apparent that the goodies were only
flowing in one direction. If you supported the “impending doom
scenario,” you would have access to grant money and be invited to
conferences. You could also secure a foundation position and have
your research published in prestigious journals. And awards might
come your way along with television appearances.
So,
it became difficult to accept the results of one’s experiments if
they did not support the anthro-pogenic dogma. And it became tempting
to bend the projections and modeling since, after-all, you were
saving the planet. Furthermore, you were terrified when you observed
what happened to those who broke from the agenda. They were burned
at the cyber-stake.
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Now
let me shine some light on the dark, sinister cloisters of the
Climate Change High Priests. Their motivation is not innocent tree
hugging. Their desire is to both widen and deepen their control over
the lives of the vast mass of Humanity. They view themselves as our
rightful Overlords due to their self-delusions of grandeur and
superiority.
Their
master strategy is to continually concentrate more power into fewer
and fewer hands. In order to do this, they have to lessen the
sovereignty of nation states. That is why there has been an
unrelenting push for more multi-lateral institutions such as the UN,
the World Bank, the IMF, the European Union, etc. This means that
more and more of our daily actions are being dictated to us by
un-elected Elites.
Seeking
an umbrella mechanism to wield such planetary power, they decided on
Environmental Apocalypse. Here is the direct quote from the 1968
Club of Rome think tank document entitled THE FIRST GLOBAL
REVOLUTION:
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention...the real enemy then is Humanity itself.”
Then,
two years later, the first Earth Day took place and it has been
non-stop Eco-Doom ever since. In the 70s the fear was of a New Ice
Age. When that didn’t pan out, they switched to the Global Warming
bogeyman. When temperatures around the world leveled off
dramatically, they shifted to Climate Change.
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So
let me invite you aboard my beautiful sailboat and I’ll open up a
few files on this laptop and show you some charts that you will not
encounter in the legacy media or at the climate conferences.
Earth’s
climate is constantly changing. The cycles
have been extremely dramatic. Montreal was once covered by ice 3
kilometers thick. Alligators and camels
once lived in the Arctic. Here
is what I think is the
crux of the climate change issue:
WILL
THE CURRENT CHANGES THAT WE ARE SEEING IN EARTH’S CLIMATE END THE
ABILITY OF HUMANS TO INHABIT THIS PLANET?
AND THE ANSWER IS AN EMPHATIC “NO!”
Here
is a chart that should indisputably prove this contention. It
shows temperatures all the way back to 2,500 B.C. You can see that
there are enormous shifts between hot and cold periods. Through all
of these cycles, Humanity has managed to survive and flourish.
Look
carefully about 2,000 years ago and you will see the Roman Warm
Period. Surely, that was not caused by carbon emissions from Sports
Utility Chariots. And I doubt that the Medieval Warm Period, 1,000
years later, was due to soccer moms driving their kids to daycare in
minivans.
This
next chart demonstrates that even though CO2 has been steadily
increasing for the last few decades, this did not cause the huge
spike in temperatures that climate alarmists have been so certain
would occur. By the way, after a few years of this inconvenient
pause,
they decided to shift the fear phrase from Global Warming to Climate
Change. You can find this in the 2009 leaked ClimateGate emails
where they were colluding to keep their Eco-Gravy-Train chugging
along.
And
finally, to conclude this mini-tutorial, here is one more chart.
This demonstrates conclusively that the only global temperature that
is rising is in the computer models of climate change acolytes. The
blue and green data are
the actual temperatures
and the red line is the
average of their computer models. And amazingly, this is from 102
computer models that all got it wrong. Imagine the hundreds of
millions of dollars spent on this, that could have been utilized
elsewhere.
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Hopefully,
your brief visit to my seagoing classroom, has convinced many of you
that we need not fear catastrophic climate change. You might wonder
then, why the people in charge keep hammering us with it when there
is very little ecological risk.
The
reason is what I mentioned several paragraphs ago. They don’t care
about the Biosphere, they desire more power and control. Here are
some recent quotes by very senior officials in the Climate Change
Conspiracy.
Christiana Figures a recent U.N. Climate Chief recently said this:
“It
must be understood that what is occurring here in the whole climate
change process is the complete transformation of the economic
structure of the world.”
And
Ottmar Edenhoffer, who was the Lead Author on the IPCC Fourth
Assessment, revealed their true agenda with this statement:
“One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”
If
anyone finds a cat, you might want to return it to Mr. Edenhoffer’s
bag.
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As
I close this essay, I should remind you, my dear unknown reader, that
for a quarter of a century I have lived on my sailboat in the Sea.
I have sailed offshore by myself on voyages that have lasted as long
as a month. Very few humans have communed with Nature that
profoundly.
Mother
Ocean taught me a lot during that deep ocean solitude. She taught me
to be respectful and awestruck and cautious of the great forces of
the Sea and the Sky. She displayed her exquisite beauty and serenity
and she reminded me of her staggering power and fury.
The
114 essays that preceded this one at my Sea Gypsy Philosopher blog
are filled with poetic passages striving to convey my deep affection
for the natural world. I have championed our duty to protect the
oceans and their creatures. I have always believed - and still
believe - that we Earthlings should step lightly and lovingly on this
miraculously plush planet.
Although
I am not a climate scientist, and although I am not even a scientist,
I am a thoughtful man of the Sea. And after much research, I am
convinced that the Climate Change Industrial Complex does not really
care about saving the planet. They perceive themselves as our
rightful overlords, and their actual goal is to commandeer more power
and wealth using Eco-Armageddon as their justification.
It is a planetary con game. Do not fall for it!
AUTHOR’S
NOTE: Please share this and reprint it as much as you wish.
For
your own research, here are some recommendations:
Dr.
Judith Curry, Dr. Patrick Moore, Tony Heller, Dr. Roy
Spencer, Marc Morano, Alex Epstein, Dr. Tim Ball, Steve
Goreham, Mark Steyn and Lord Christopher
Monckton.
