More Climate Change Wackiness and Falsehoods

Climate change politics and science are rarely synonymous, and as we are learning, it is politics that determines the science and not the other way around.

Remember how we were told the recent flooding in South Carolina after Hurricane Joaquin was a thousand year event caused by human-produced climate change? Dr. Robert Holmes of the US Geological Survey noted,

“While this certainly was a catastrophic flood with lots of damage and tragic loss of life, USGS provisional data and preliminary analysis show NO indication that a 1000-year flood discharge occurred at any USGS stream gages. However, based on that analysis, it does appear that the USGS stream gage on the Black River at Kingstree, SC and the one on the Smith Branch at Columbia, SC both measured peak floods in the neighborhood of a 500-year flood. Currently, there appear to be a few more stream gages experiencing a 25-year to 50-year flood, but the majority of USGS stream gages had flood peaks that were less than 10-year floods. USGS will have more accurate estimates of the flood probabilities out in the coming months, as the engineers and scientists in South Carolina take time to do more careful analysis of the statistics.”

Note that flooding in South Carolina did not approach 1000 years and depending upon the location in South Carolina, it ranged from recent flooding patterns to 500 years. Of course, if you accept the every 1000 years or even 500 years this could occur, that also means that Earth was warmer in the past when human activity would play little or no role. So the alarmists have to decide that the flooding did not reach the levels they claim or that the planet was as warm in the past. Either way, climate alarmists lose.

A new study shows that the planet will move toward a cooling over the next decades, reversing the alarmist’s mantra that we are going to fry to death. A leading researcher noted,

"It can be excluded, however, that this hiatus period was solely caused by changes in atmospheric forcing, either due to volcanic eruptions, more aerosols emissions in Asia, or reduced greenhouse gas emissions….Changes in ocean circulation must have played an important role. Natural variations have counteracted the greenhouse effect for a decade or so, but I expect this period is over now.”

So natural events played a role in our past climate change and now we have scientists seeing cooler temperatures reversing the universal predictions that we are going to see higher temperatures. This doesn’t mean that these scientists are correct since forty years ago, we were seeing predictions of a coming ice age but instead witnessed a warming trend before the present hiatus. The point is that there is much we don’t know about climate change including the natural events that play a significant role.

Then there is wackiness that accompanies the alarmist side. First there is Ted Cruz who schooled the Sierra Club President Aaron Mair, who was forced to mutter rehearsed talking points while he was unable to answer the Senator with even the minimal of sciences. 

There is also news where a scientist wants to reengineer human development by creating smaller human beings, since smaller humans are less of a “strain” on our fragile planet. Professor Matthew Liao has been on a crusade to make humans smaller and allergic to meat, creating a master race to survive “human-created” climate change. He went as far as beginning with interfering with children growth plates. While other climate alarmists have rejected these extremists, the alarmists' cause has included government induced population control to reduce the number of CO2 emission providers, called humans, so Liao's plan is merely a logical extension of the radicalism that is the climate alarmists.