Living On Borrowed Time?

 Noted climate activist Greta Thunberg made this statement exactly five years ago today.

She was all of 15 years of age at the time.

It astounds me that she would have had any credibility to begin with on this subject in the first place.

However, Time Magazine named Thunberg its Person of the Year in 2019.

In 2020 she was spreading the news that the Great Barrier Reef was dying because of record-breaking water temperatures.

Two years after that these were the reports about the Great Barrier Reef.

Of course, this climate hysteria was going on long before Great Thunberg was even born.

The United Nations had some of their experts predicting back in 1989 that entire countries would be wiped off the face of the earth if the global warming trend was not reversed by the year 2000. 

Thunberg was not even born until 2003. I guess she is fortunate to even have the opportunity to be brought onto this earth. 

UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.

Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco- refugees,′ ′ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.

He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.

As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.

The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years, said Brown.

The most conservative scientific estimate was a temperature rise of 1 to 7 degrees by 2019?

The fact is that most climate models have been proven to be wildly unreliable.

For example, consider this comparison of various climate models for the 1973-2022 period for the 12-state U.S. corn belt summer temperatures vs. observed temperatures.

These are the models that are being used to promote changes in U.S. energy policy and justify trillions of government dollars to fight "climate change".

Source: https://twitter.com/_ClimateCraze/status/1670575228093702151

This data would indicate that observed temperatures have risen by about .2 F degrees in 40 years in those states. In other words, 72 degrees had become 72,2 degrees since 1973.

However, it should be kept in my mind that although we have seen some modest warming over the last 40 years, summer temperatures were much warmer in the first half of the 20th century than they are today.

Source: https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/6/

I shudder to think what the policy response would be today if we saw anything close to the temperatures and drought conditions that created the Dust Bowl in the Midwest in the 1930's.

Eco-refugees? 2.5 million Americans were forced to move from the Plains states during the 1930's (2% of the entire U..S population) because they could no longer support themselves by farming and allied businesses. It was the largest migration in American history. 

Of course, none of that "climate change" had anything to do with fossil fuels or greenhouse emissions. 

The Maldives would be enveloped by rising ocean levels?

It hasn't happened.

In fact, The Maldives are thriving.

It has opened five new airports in the past few years.

Massive amounts of investment have been made by a number of luxury resort operators.

Did they do this believing they would soon be underwater?

Keep all of this in mind as you are told we have to ban fossil fuels and The World Economic Forum is calling on global governments to reduce the private ownership of cars (including electric vehicles) by 75% over the next 25 years.

The WEF is also stating that the public will not be able to justify the need to travel by commercial air by the year 2050.

Source: https://slaynews.com/news/wef-calls-75-reduction-private-car-ownership/

This led to this question on Twitter.

Wildfires last year were estimated to produce 1.76 billion tons of CO2 in 2021 in North America and Eurasia in 2021.

I wonder if Greta Thunberg will notice today that we are five years later, China and India are using fossil fuels like there is no tomorrow and humanity shows no signs of disappearing.

At the same time it should be noted that in the last 20 years the United States and the European Union have reduced their annual carbon emissions by 2 billion tons while China and India have increased their emissions by 10 billion tons.

In fact, the United States and the EU could reduce their carbon emissions to zero and worldwide emissions would still be higher today than they were 20 years ago due solely to the increases in emissions in China over that period.

It makes you wonder why Greta Thunberg does not spend all her time lecturing the Chinese about their part in all of this. After all, it is all one planet we are talking about.

Then again, perhaps Greta realizes that the climate might be a little too hot for her in China.

What do you think?

Take time to enjoy what time you have left.

We all are living on borrowed time.

The only thing I know for sure is that humanity has a much greater chance to live a long and fulfilling life with fossil fuels than without them until such time that innovation and technology provides us a new and affordable energy source that we know nothing about today.