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Geeze. Climate change alarmists have been so incredibly wrong for almost two generations. I've mentioned this before, but I live near Glacier National Park. In
by sjwalter 5y ago
Geeze. Climate change alarmists have been so incredibly wrong for almost two generations.
I've mentioned this before, but I live near Glacier National Park. In the early 2000s, some new screeching alarmist climate model forecasted the demise of the glaciers in the park by 2020. Signs at all the parks' entrances were erected stating this sad climate fact. But when ol' 2020 rolled around and the glaciers were still there, the signs with the climate facts were taken down with zero fanfare and zero interest in why the claim was wrong, no interest in ascertaining why the climate model failed.
Reminds me a lot of the CIA and it's hilariously worse-than-useless history. A few months before the fall of the wall and the crumbling of the Soviet empire, CIA reported that Russia was as strong as ever, a huge threat, they reported on its secret military buildups that were never in existence and this booming economy cranking out war machine stuff constantly, a real juggernaut. They were the most surprised people to find the soviet empire crumbling--they'd spent generations amping up every president that this was _the_ threat, existential, and justified all manner of ridiculous garbage. And this was just the cherry on a multi-decade ice cream sunday of failed predictions, bad intelligence, and counterproductive covert ops.
Eventually, it came to the point where the president, hilariously the son of a CIA director, had to state that their opinions were worthless, basically, before they tried to, like, improve their intelligence gathering systems.
Climate change alarmists are like post-wall CIA right now. Zero credibility. A track record that is just unbelievable--full of shrill, insane predictions over decades that have been completely disproven by basic facts and evidence.
Ice caps gone by 2000! No, wait, 75% chance they're gone by 2014! No wait, gone by 2030! Florida sunk by 2015!
For something as difficult to predict and globally observe and for something as complex as the environment, I'd say we should be very wary of anyone pushing shrill alarmism.
It should be very suspicious that the shrill alarmists seem to always have the solution which invariably involves them getting lots more money and lots more power over the carbon-spewing masses. ("Increase taxes and eat less meat to change the weather." lol)
- RappingBoomer 5y agoand did you catch how they swapped out 'global warming' for 'climate change'?
- sjwalter 5y agoYea, it's hilarious. "Fight climate change!" -> "Support climate stasis!" LOL! To boot, the explanation I heard for that gives insight into the alarmist mentality. I heard that "global warming" was a bad name because every time anyone experienced a cool summer or a hardcore freezing winter, they became convinced that "global warming" was total bullshit. But, the climate alarmists argued, this was silly--climate change and its impacts are felt over decades, half-centuries, looooong periods, and so reading any particular cold summer or brutal winter was just getting mixed up in noise, short-term variance that has no impact on or indication of the trend. But then these same activists turn around immediately and blame every single hurricane and tornado and flood and forest fire and every other natural disaster on climate change, that slow-ass, barely perceptible process that I guess causes very slow bad things, very fast bad things, but has nothing to do whatsoever with mild summers or very cold winters.