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The perfect essay on climate change : Comments
By Don Aitkin, published 7/5/2021We use the word 'crusade' advisedly, since the frenzy over climate resembles the medieval crusades against foreign infidels and home-grown heretics. There is even a children's climate crusade.
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"In fact, history shows that warmings of a few degrees Celsius - which extended growing seasons - have been good for humanity."
Lets take a look at that claim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/media/File:2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison.png
Anyone spot on that chart were there is ANY global warming of "a few degrees" ? I mean the author claimed to have this information and made an assessment that it was "good" and yet that's an easily proven lie.
So lets use the ice core that go back further then 10,000 years have to say
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png
Last 10,000 years, the rise of human civilisation, temp looks remarkably stable ? no rises of temp increases of a couple degrees at all. Still only minor perturbations around the mean right up until the modern era, no such "warmings of a few degrees Celsius" at all. So another lie ?
As to Lindzen, the guy that claims there is no link between smoking and lung cancer is the guy you want to go with ? Why not the 1000s of other scientistic or the one who called out Lindzen's bullsh1t, Dr James Hansen ? ? If you don't like the scientists quoted, perhaps Professor Jason Box, or Professor Kevin Anderson, or Dr Peter Kalmus ?
Don't like Hansen ? Professor Oppenheimer said in an interview once, "there are a handful of truly meaningful scientific climate change studies that have been done, I have them all in my draw here, many of them are by James (Hansen)" That guy ? Not one paper there by Lindzen.
All I can surmise is the author really doesn't understand this at all. There are still many scientists who don't accept evolution. Whatever you may think of the political rhetoric around climate change, the author is being completely disingenuous about the actual science here.