Tag: climate alarmism

[def. thefreedicitionary.com] the attitudes and behavior of one who exaggerates dangers or always expects disaster. This definition fits climate alarmism exactly.  With climate alarmism, the dangers are grossly exaggerated and disaster is expected (i.e.; we are destroying the earth.)  The dangers are based on the output from a large set of computer models, all of which grossly exaggerate the expected global average temperature.  As if exaggerating the global temperature was not sufficient, the alarmists go on to grossly exaggerate the effects resulting from such a temperature.  Climate alarmism then goes on to claim that anything that might be slightly unusual must be caused by global warming.  Climate alarmism sometimes blames global warming for unusual cold and claim that global warming is responsible for both excessive precipitation and for drought.  If global warming is responsible for everything, then it likely is not responsible for anything — except hysteria, maybe.

The Fake Climate Consensus

John Stossel

We are told climate change is a crisis, and that there is an “overwhelming scientific consensus.”

[This post was found on takimag.com where it was published on August 09, 2023.  It is being reproduced here under the Fair Use Doctrine.  Ed.]

“It’s a manufactured consensus,” says climate scientist Judith Curry in my new video.  She says scientists have an incentive to exaggerate risk to

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pursue “fame and fortune.”

She knows about that because she once spread alarm about climate change.

Media loved her when she published a study that seemed to show a dramatic increase in hurricane intensity.

“We found that the percent of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes had doubled,” says Curry. “This was picked up by the media,” and then climate alarmists realized, “Oh, here is the way to do it.  Tie extreme weather events to global warming!” Continue reading “The Fake Climate Consensus”

Climate Data Is Being Misused and Manipulated, Says Award-Winning Scientist

By Patrick Michaels, H. Sterling Burnett 

Climate scientist Patrick Michaels says there has been a profound suspension of the normal rules of science in the climate arena.

For Michaels’ presentation at ICCC 13 click here.

Burnett: You coauthored a book titled Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything. What is the thesis of the book?

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Michaels: Global warming is often presented as one of two alternative visions: left unattended, it will bring about an unmitigated disaster with tremendous consequences to humanity and the planet; or there is really “no such thing”—meaning little to no warming and little to no influence of human greenhouse-gas emissions on climate.

[This interview was originally published by the Heartland Institute on December 5th, 2019.  It is being printed here with the permission of Dr. H. Sterling Burnett from the Heartland Institute.]

There is a third way. I call it the ‘lukewarm” synthesis, which holds the surface temperature indeed is a bit warmer than it was around 1900, that Continue reading “Climate Data Is Being Misused and Manipulated, Says Award-Winning Scientist”