The United Nations has a new report out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This body has been discredited for putting out bogus data and reports that have been called into question because of all kinds of shenanigans, and this latest report is nothing more than a new effort to whoop up climate fear.
Why? Because as with COVID, fear is a great political motivator. Fear makes you do things you wouldn't otherwise do. This report has hundreds of pages of documentation, most of it generated from so-called "climate models." The idea of a climate model is that you put in data, and, of course, it all depends on what data you put in, and then you extrapolate the data over generally a longer period of time.
For example, if scientists entered data from 1970 to the present. That would be data carefully calculated to show warming because there was substantial warming between the 70s and the 90s, although not so much since then.
Of course, if you went 50 years back, the data could be seen pointing, in some cases, in the opposite direction toward global cooling. And so, the climate activists don't use that data. They choose their dates carefully to generate the result that they want, to maximize the extrapolation, so to speak. It's kind of like saying that your kid grew three inches in the past year, and therefore, extrapolating that out when they turn 70, they'll be 35 feet tall.
A lot of times a model is garbage in garbage out. That's a term actually from science called GIGO – garbage in garbage out, it means that the result you get at the end of an extrapolation is totally influenced by what you put into the sausage machine in the first place. According to these UN scientists, the Earth's temperature has gone up by 1.5 degrees.
They say that this is the fastest rise in the past 50 years that they've seen. By the way, if you went further back, let's say a century, you'd find pretty much the same. There was some warming; then there was some cooling. The warming and cooling appear to occur somewhat cyclically.
It came up in my conversation with Dr. Neil Frank last week, where we talked about how in the 1970s, the big rage among the very same climate activist community was over global cooling. So is the earth warming? Is it cooling? The truth of it is, it depends on where you look, it depends on which decades you choose. Now, you can't say this is obviously due to carbon dioxide because the levels of carbon dioxide that human beings have been putting into the atmosphere have consistently been going up since the Industrial Revolution. So, for about 150 years. The trends toward warming and cooling can't be tracked to that alone. There have to be other factors involved.
I love the way that CNN reports on this UN Climate stuff, "As the world battles historic droughts, landscape-altering wildfires and deadly floods, a landmark report from global scientists says the window is rapidly closing."
"The window's rapidly closing," I love these phrases. Since I came to United States in the 1970s, the window has been closing. It's been closing on food. It's been closing on population. It has been closing on the ozone layer. It's been closing on one thing or another.
Michael Mann, one of the biggest sort of climate scammers there is, the lead author of the IPCC's 2001 report, tells CNN, "Bottom line is that we have zero years left to avoid dangerous climate change."
People aren't buying it, and so they have to keep whipping up the alarm.
CNN then discusses the "breakneck pace in which the climate has really been warming." Really? They consider 1.5 degrees a breakneck pace? Then CNN reports that by 2050, "global temperature will still peak above the 1.5-degree threshold before falling."
Wait, wait, so this is not a consistent warming. It's apparently a warming that's supposed to go until 2050. And then the earth is going to start cooling again. So, I guess the idea is that we are facing a panicky window over the next 20 years; therefore, we have to give up our lifestyle. Stop doing this, stop doing that, stop driving cars, stop using fossil fuels. This is all a huge racket.
In some ways, it reminds me of a racket that certain fundamentalist preachers have going in which they're always predicting the end of the world. It's kind of like, "Listen, you know, you haven't really been tithing recently. Pretty much turn over all your finances to us. And don't worry about it, the world is coming to an end really soon. So you're not going to need all that cash."
This phenomenon, "the end of the world is in," has been going on for centuries. When the calendar showed 999 AD, people said, "Oh my God, we're approaching 1000 AD. The world is going to come to an end."
Remember there was some of this fever at the turn of the millennium – millennial fever, "Oh, there's going be a catastrophe around the corner." I remember reading "The Late, Great Planet Earth," "Oh, there's going to be global conflict, the Antichrist!"
Now, the Left laughs at this stuff, "Oh, you crazy fundamentalists. These wacky predictions, all this end of the worldism." Except, climate change is the secular equivalent of that. It's an equally kind of racket aimed at getting us to do things we wouldn't otherwise do.
These people have an uninterrupted history of being wrong. Every single prediction pretty much that they've made has not come to pass. They can't even call it global warming because then they're stuck with cooling, so the term "climate change" is intended to cover all their bases.
The climate is always going to be changing in some way. The way for it not to change would be for it to remain exactly the same forever. It's not going to do that.
Climate change is a wave. It is the most unscientific of theories because it makes no valid predictions. Its history of prophecy is essentially a dead letter. We can safely disbelieve all this nonsense and continue about our normal business. Yeah, if the sky is falling, give us a call when it actually happens.