We've all come across the images of polar bears drifting on ice floes: emblematic victims of the global warming that's melting the polar ice caps, symbols of the threat to the earth posed by our ceaseless energy production-above all, the carbon dioxide that factories and automobiles emit.
Do you mean that global warming isn't real? I ask.
Curry says, "Almost half of the warming observed in the twentieth century came about in the first half of the century, before carbon-dioxide emissions became large." Natural factors thus had to be the cause.
"If you don't support the UN consensus on human-caused global warming, if you express the slightest skepticism, you are a 'climate-change denier,' a stooge of Donald Trump, a quasi-fascist who must be banned from the scientific community." These days, the climatology mainstream accepts only data that reinforce its hypothesis that humanity is behind global warming.
The global warming controversy began back in 1973, during the Gulf oil embargo, which unleashed fear, especially in the United States, that the supply of petroleum would run out.
This extraordinary collusion today allows politicians and commentators to declare that "Science says that" carbon dioxide is to blame for global warming, or that a "Scientific consensus" exists on warming, implying that no further study is needed-something that makes zero sense on its face, as scientific research is not based on consensus but on contradictory views.
Is there an apocalyptic warming crisis, or not? "We're always being told that we are reaching a point of no return-that the melting of the Arctic ice pack is the beginning of the apocalypse," Curry says.
https://www.city-journal.org/global-warming#.XbGKGtFqQQM.email
Do you mean that global warming isn't real? I ask.
Curry says, "Almost half of the warming observed in the twentieth century came about in the first half of the century, before carbon-dioxide emissions became large." Natural factors thus had to be the cause.
"If you don't support the UN consensus on human-caused global warming, if you express the slightest skepticism, you are a 'climate-change denier,' a stooge of Donald Trump, a quasi-fascist who must be banned from the scientific community." These days, the climatology mainstream accepts only data that reinforce its hypothesis that humanity is behind global warming.
The global warming controversy began back in 1973, during the Gulf oil embargo, which unleashed fear, especially in the United States, that the supply of petroleum would run out.
This extraordinary collusion today allows politicians and commentators to declare that "Science says that" carbon dioxide is to blame for global warming, or that a "Scientific consensus" exists on warming, implying that no further study is needed-something that makes zero sense on its face, as scientific research is not based on consensus but on contradictory views.
Is there an apocalyptic warming crisis, or not? "We're always being told that we are reaching a point of no return-that the melting of the Arctic ice pack is the beginning of the apocalypse," Curry says.
https://www.city-journal.org/global-warming#.XbGKGtFqQQM.email
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