The Democrats are once again going to be in control of the House of Representatives and that means that we are once again in a "climate crisis."
Democrat activists (including Congresswoman-elect Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez) had a "sit-in" in the office of Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi this week. It looks more like a party than a "crisis" to me considering the looks on their faces.
Ocasio-Cortez states that we only have "10 years left to plan and implement a Green New Deal before cataclysmic climate disaster."
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Pelosi, in turn, put out this statement of a Democrat proposal to spend "$1 trillion on infrastructure that will make our communities more resilient to the "climate crisis" and, for good measure, create 16 million new good-paying jobs as a result.
I think I have seen this movie before.
Didn't the Democrats have another almost $1 trillion infrastructure spending program with Obama when they were last in control in the House? I think I also remember something about shovel-ready projects with jobs.
How many good-paying jobs did that result in?
At the same time, we have Democrats blaming the horrific California wildfires on climate change.
Of course, that now includes President Trump because he removed the United States from the Paris Accord on Climate Change.
For example, singer/songwriter Neil Young, who lost his home in the blaze, is blaming Trump for "defying science" and the climate change that he says has made California more vulnerable to fires.
Of course, left unsaid is that since Trump took office the United States is the only major country in the Paris Accord where carbon emissions actually fell.
In fact, CO2 emissions in the United States in 2017 were the lowest they have been per person in 67 years!
The United States, despite its population and industrialization, is a leader in having the cleanest air quality in the world.
Have you ever seen or heard these facts in the media?
You also hear very little in the media about the science of sun spots and their effect on our climate.
I doubt you have also heard about this recent report from NASA that warns that the lack of spots scientists are currently seeing on the sun could bring us record breaking cold in a matter of months.
The sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age,” wrote Dr Tony Phillips just six weeks ago, on 27 Sep 2018.
Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018 and Earth’s upper atmosphere is responding, says Phillips, editor of spaceweather.com.
Data from NASA’s TIMED satellite show that the thermosphere (the uppermost layer of air around our planet) is cooling and shrinking, literally decreasing the radius of the atmosphere.
To help track the latest developments, Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center and his colleagues recently introduced the “Thermosphere Climate Index.”
“Right now, it is very low indeed … 10 times smaller than we see during more active phases of the solar cycle,” says Mlynczak.
Do the three charts above qualify as SCIENCE?
I sincerely hope that colder temperatures are not in our future.
Given a choice between hot or cold, I will choose hot any day. It is not because I like the beach. I like to eat as does everyone else on this planet. It does not take much in colder weather to disrupt our growing seasons and the yields of crops.
When you consider past history on climate you also quickly realize that God dwarfs anything that man can do. For example, the year 1816 was considered "The Year Without a Summer" after Mount Tambora erupted and the ash seemed to veil the sky across large swaths of earth. Crops failed around the world and famine followed. Riots and political unrest were not far behind. People tend to get really angry when they are hungry. How much did the average global temperature fall that year? - only about 1 degree!
That story has always made me much more concerned about global cooling than warming. A rise in temperatures is actually beneficial for food production. It can extend the growing season further north. More food can be produced. Cooler temperatures do the exact opposite. Given a choice there is little doubt where I come down.
Do you think it might also be considered a crisis if ice sheets covered this much of the United States?
It happened before. Who is to say a version of this could not occur again? Even something reaching 1% of this would be devastating considering the population centers involved and the grain and corn that is grown in these areas today.
I can only pray that those happy go lucky "Justice Democrats" never find out what a real crisis is. Man-made global warming or climate change is not a crisis. If they are concerned about a crisis there are plenty of them looming ahead to deal with. The national debt. Public pension funding. Social security and Medicare funding. The Islamization of Europe. 1.5 billion Chinese vs. 325 million Americans. All of these involve basic MATH.
I also wonder who there will be to blame if it does get COLDER?
Postscript:
Just after I finished writing this post these were a few headlines at The Drudge Report.
Will we see more of these in the coming months? Let's hope not.
That Chill Map. November 15, 2018. 1000AM EST.
I also find it interesting that cataclysmic disaster is always 10 years away (or 4 years in the case of Obama in 2009).
Look at some similar statements as chronicled by Instapundit. I know these people are big on renewable energy. However, it seems that these statements about the impending crisis are also renewed each year to be another 10 years away. They have been doing the same thing for the last 30+ years.
This does not even include this famous statement by Al Gore that he made in 2007 when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.
The ice cap is falling off a cliff. It could be completely gone in summer in as little as 7 years from now.
-Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, December, 2007
In July 2018, the Arctic ice extent measured 3.3 million square miles. That is actually 259,000 square miles more than it measured 7 years ago although it is true that the ice extent is about 12.5% less than its 1981-2010 average. However, a loss of 12.5% is a lot less than 100% would you not agree?
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