A new mantra has appeared in defense of the Cult of Global Warming Belief. It may have appeared spontaneously as a result of intellectual curiosity. It seems unlikely that the constant drumbeat of propaganda in support of that cult could have had no effect whatsoever on the formation of the mantra. It goes something like this: If we accept the statement that the majority of the world’s scientists (in a particular field) agree that (as an example) vaccines are safe, then why do we not believe the statement that a similar majority believe that “global warming” (now conveniently altered to “climate change”) is man-made.
Indeed, the original assertion as to the unanimity of scientific opinion had to be altered when it was pointed out that it was simply not true in the case of global warming, which is fairly specific in that estimates of the temperature of the earth can be made for ancient times, and could be made for current conditions if the science was not subject to tampering. Caught in a lie, those who had offered up the assertion of “man-made global warming” altered it to “man-made climate change”, a claim far more ambiguous and more difficult to measure. It is difficult to measure because it lacks specificity.
Those scientists who concern themselves with the temperature of the earth have been in agreement that said temperature has been increasing (unsteadily) for 100,000 years. The cause of this increase is not the burning of fossil fuels in support of greedy capitalism (which seems to be where the cult has its pantyhose in a twist) but, rather, an increase in radiation from the sun.
Dire predictions have they made. By this date, the polar icecaps where predicted to have disappeared. Coastal cities would be flooded. (In 2008, ABC predicted that New York City would be underwater by June of 2015.) Fueling all of this hysteria was (among other things) false data coming from NOAA, a federal agency about which more in due course.
A really creepy aspect of all of this is the emergence of the phrase “settled science”. To say that a diamond if very hard is science. To refer to that fact as “settled science” is as unnecessary as it is smug. In the 1950 there was opposition to adding sodium fluoride to city water supplies to prevent tooth decay. Statements were made that this should not be done because sodium was highly reactive and dangerous metal and fluorine was a deadly gas. Some asserted that even one one hundredth of one percent of added to water could kill people. This was not science. It was ignorance. It was also political.
Ref: http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/tag/predictions-that-failed/
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