Fudging the Global Temperature Record
During a news conference with the presidents of Canada and Mexico in 2014, President Barack Obama declared that concern over climate change “has to affect all of our decisions at this stage because the science is irrefutable.” He made the statement, of course, in the context of catastrophic “climate change,” née global warming, being caused by man-made emissions of greenhouse gases. It is a familiar claim that President Obama has made many times and a version of “the science is settled” assertion that we all have heard repeatedly from Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel, Ban Ki-moon, Leonardo DeCaprio, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the New York Times, CNN, ABC, NBC, et al.
Governments have spent hundreds of billions of dollars and are calling for commandeering trillions of dollars more to fight anthropogenic (man-made) global warming (AGW) based on the claims of “irrefutable science.” Moreover, besides redirecting the economic assets of the entire planet, the fight against AGW also means effecting “a complete transformation of the economic structure of the world,” according to the UN’s climate czarina Christiana Figures. Unlike the Industrial Revolution and other transformative periods, this “is a centralized transformation that is taking place because governments have decided that they need to listen to science,” she says, “and one that is going to make the life of everyone on the planet very different.”
So we can all rest easy because “science has spoken,” right? And whatever plans, policies, regulations, taxes, and “centralized transformations” the politicians and their minions may devise to avert the predicted AGW apocalypse — no matter how costly, draconian, and tyrannical they may appear — they are really OK, because they are being dictated by the wisdom of “science.” Right? That is, in essence, the argument of the AGW apocalyptists.
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