One of the biggest challenges I face with my students is giving them a perspective on world events, especially those involving climate change. I've lived long enough--and studied enough history--to know that people in power have always manipulated people by using the instinctive human worry about the weather. Today, arguably, it's worse than it has ever been because of the combination of pervasive media coverage and the illusion that "science" justifies the alarmism.
So it is with pleasure that I reblog this excellent piece:
So it is with pleasure that I reblog this excellent piece:
Scientists Grant Earth Another 15 Year Reprieve!
Scientists warn that we are about to pass a global warming tipping point.
While we may not yet have reached the “point of no return”—when no amount of cutbacks on greenhouse gas emissions will save us from potentially catastrophic global warming—climate scientists warn we may be getting awfully close.
This sounds bad, but is actually excellent news. In 1989 they only gave us until the year 2000 to stop global warming, so this is actually quite a nice reprieve.
But it is even better than it seems! Forty years ago this month climatologists told us that unless we let them melt the polar ice caps, global cooling would kill us all.
So far, we have a total of 40 years of passing the global cooling/warming tipping point. But the news gets even better. Seventy years ago, scientists said that we were about to pass a global warming tipping point.
Scientists have granted us 70 years worth of reprieves, just in the last 70 years. Not to mention the countless reprieves they granted us prior to that.
As long as we continue giving climate scientists government grants to lie about the climate, they will continue to grant us reprieves. Once they stop making threats and granting us reprieves, government has no reason to grant them any more grants.
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