Scientific American - Startling Reversal on Global Warming

Apocalyptic scenarios attributed to global warming are simply false and the human race will be able to accommodate whatever “climate change” throws at us, claims a remarkably sober new essay in Scientific American.

The essay, penned by John Horgan, the director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, analyzes two recent reports by “ecomodernists” who reject climate panic and frame the question of climate change and humanity’s ability to cope with it in radically new terms.

While climate skeptics will welcome this gust of common sense wafting in from the Scientific American, establishment climate alarmists will undoubtedly seek to quash the news, knowing it could affect not only the funding they depend on, but the ideologically driven political programs they seek to impose on the world.

After all, if the world is not under imminent peril from climate change, who will listen to—and fund—the prophets of doom?

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/12/in-startling-rev...

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Comment by Eskutassis on March 13, 2018 at 12:37am

Jim Palmer;

Horgan is saying that even if climate change Is real, we can deal with it as it won't be that big a deal. He is absolutely correct. We have dealt with the changes over the course of human existence and are better equipped to deal with them at this point in our technological evolution, but we have to look at what will be effective and economical, not just throw money after lunatic theories that don't work.   

Comment by Marshall Rosenthal on March 12, 2018 at 11:22pm

Perhaps some of you will find this off topic. Last week, on a sunny clear cold day in Massachusetts, between coastal nor'easter storms, I watched a large jet, "heavy" airplane, go back and forth through the sky, leaving what seemed to me to be artificial cloud-like trails behind it. In winter, cloud cover tends to warm up the ground. I wondered why this was being done. Was it being done to ease the bitter cold for the Greenfield, Northampton, Amherst, Springfield corridor, to ease the use of heating oil for building heating, in the spirit of 100% "renewable energy" policy? Then I wondered, "who could possibly afford to do this?" The only answer that made any sense was that some governmental agency was doing this. Did this artificial warming intensify the force of these storms? Was this some kind of reification of the "global warming" ploy? Is this thinking too sinister to be tolerable to "normal" minds? Or is this what we have come to in these "topsy-turvy" times? I would welcome your thoughts.

Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 12, 2018 at 5:09pm

Global Warming has been built on such incredible propaganda, it ought to be called Goebbels Warming. It's a fraud:

If they were honest, the climate alarmists would admit that they are not working feverishly to hold down global temperatures -- they would acknowledge that they are instead consumed with the goal of holding down capitalism and establishing a global welfare state.

Have doubts? Then listen to the words of former United Nations climate official Ottmar Edenhofer:

"One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole," said Edenhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015.

So what is the goal of environmental policy?

"We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy," said Edenhofer.

For those who want to believe that maybe Edenhofer just misspoke and doesn't really mean that, consider that a little more than five years ago he also said that "the next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world's resources will be negotiated."

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/another-climate-alarm...

Comment by Jim Palmer on March 12, 2018 at 4:47pm
Renewable energy may be a fraud, but that is not what Horgan is saying in his article. Does the content of the posts matter, or are we beyond trying to understand what others have to say?
Comment by Eskutassis on March 12, 2018 at 3:38pm

Climate change alarmism is just a way the Globalists have contrived to redistribute the wealth of the nations like the USA to those less fortunate. It is an economic leveling process to weaken us by making us spend inordinate amounts of money on policies that are as flawed as their science. 

Dealing with a warming period and increased levels of CO2 is a GOOD thing, not a bad thing. Increased levels of CO2 make it better to grow crops, forests, extend growing seasons and open up more land for agriculture. We will need less fuel for heat and technology will find better ways to use the fuels we now have found to be plentiful and relatively easy to get to. We have many lifetimes of nuclear energy available and gas and oil has been found to be almost unlimited. 

"Renewable" energy is a fraud except for hydro and burning waste. Wind and solar even with storage are far too expensive to make as well as distribute. If we would make the effort to defund the UN and their climate change "research" unit. They are the ones responsible for this fraud and should be challenged in the courts. Real scientists have to be allowed to speak the truth and turn this madness around. 

Comment by Jim Palmer on March 12, 2018 at 2:37pm

I was looking at John Horgan's Scientific American article, which I thought was the topic of the link.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/should-we-chill-ou...

I think that William's article in Breitbart is misrepresenting Horgan's article.  Gore being an opportunist does not effect the science.

Comment by Jim Palmer on March 12, 2018 at 1:54pm
I think that Hogan's point is that an _activist_ response to climate change will mitigate it's impact to humans; there is reason for optimism that we will overcome our environmental problems. As it concerns energy, he means that governments and corporations will work to increase energy efficiency and shift to new sources that produce less greenhouse gases. I think he would see Maine's wind energy, the HydroQuebec transmission lines, and the increased use of electric vehicles as signs of optimism. He is not saying that climate change science is wrong, just that humans are changing their contribution.

Is this how you understood the article?
Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 12, 2018 at 1:36pm

Book details Al Gore’s quest to become world’s first ‘carbon billionaire’ – ‘Lavishly’ profited off climate lobbying

http://www.climatedepot.com/2018/03/11/book-details-al-gore-quest-t...

 

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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

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