Thread: Climate Change Narrative is Driven by Agenda of Political Control—Myron Ebell

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Climate Change Narrative is Driven by Agenda of Political Control—Myron Ebell

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Is climate change actually causing a crisis, as many are saying? In the global warming debate, what is the actual “settled science” that most scientists agree on, and what exactly is being contested? And how will climate change factor into 2020?

This is American Thought Leaders, and I’m Jan Jekielek.

Today we sit down with Myron Ebell, the Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a non-profit think tank that promotes limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty.

We explore the climate change debate through his eyes, including the stark differences between climate change projection models and actual measurement data, the role of China in global greenhouse gas emissions, the Green New Deal, the political interests behind the push for wind and solar energy, and how this overall debate will impact 2020.

Warmist hysteria over purportedly ‘catastrophic’ ice melting in Greenland busted

If there were a genuine crisis at hand, those promoting the scare would not need to hype naturally-recurring cyclical phenomena as evidence of irreversible change.

June 23, 2019

By Thomas Lifson

If “global warming,” already twice re-branded as “climate change” and now “climate catastrophe,” were a genuine phenomenon, those promoting the scare would not need to hype naturally-recurring cyclical phenomena as evidence of irreversible change. Yet, over and over again, we hear that, for example, drought in California is permanent – until last year’s record rains…



New York Times article dated May 9, 2016

…or that “the end of snow” is at hand.

But con men know that you never drop the con and admit the hoax, you just distract the mark with other plays on emotion. Thus, we have the specter of catastrophic ice melting, resulting in the flooding of Florida, Manhattan, Pacific islands, and anywhere that gins up fear, pity, or self-protection emotions from the suckers.
Anthony Watts of Watts Up With That? demolishes the claims that Greenland’s ice cap is melting, a specter promoted with a picture that uses animals to pull on the heartstrings, a successor to the infamous polar bear on a piece of ice apparently drifting out to sea to starve now that his ice cap is gone – a completely phony appeal because polar bears love to jump from ice and swim wherever they want.

Watts writes:
This photo of a dog sled team going through some meltwater on ice in Greenland has made headlines….but it’s just a snapshot of one place, with summer approaching. Nothing really all that unusual is going on.

(BBC photo)

Melting as summer approaches is natural, and spikes of fast melting due to lack of cloud cover and clear skies are not unprecedented, as some overwrought people (Bill McKibben comes to mind) like to claim.

We’ve covered it before in 2012 – along with the same level of catastrophic squawking.

As usually, watt follows up with careful detail on the cyclical nature of the ice melt.But that won’t stop the cascade of other purported disaster – preferably illustrated with cute animals that people love being allegedly subjected to danger.

Bill McKibben
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This spring, Greenland is melting 3x faster even than in the early phases of the global warming era. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/06/17/the-greenland-ice-sheet-is-melting-unusually-fast?fsrc=gp_en?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/thegreenlandicesheetismeltingunusuallyfastdailycha rt …

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The Greenland ice sheet is melting unusually fast

It is losing so much water that it may raise global sea levels by a millimetre this year
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We’ve covered it before in 2012 – along with the same level of catastrophic squawking.

As usually, watt follows up with careful detail on the cyclical nature of the ice melt.But that won’t stop the cascade of other purported disaster – preferably illustrated with cute animals that people love being allegedly subjected to danger.

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Oh, look – The mainstream media was WRONG again with its phony climate change predictions

Friday, June 21, 2019 by: Ethan Huff
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(Natural News) Back in 2008, ABC aired a global warming propaganda series entitled, “Earth 2100” that predicted major calamities to occur all around the world by the year 2015 as a result of climate change. But, wouldn’t you know it? None of the show’s fear-mongering prognostications ever actually came to pass.

During a recent episode of his radio show, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh mocked the contents of a trailer for “Earth 2100” that once aired as part of a “Good Morning America” promotion. In it, the on-screen subtitles suggested that past civilizations like the Roman and Mayan empires collapsed, not because of war and conflict, but because of climate change.
“100 years from now, if New York is abandoned, I picture some explorer coming to Manhattan saying, ‘Those ignorant people! How on earth could they have ever expected to survive?'” one of the film’s “experts” is heard saying during the promo, along with scary music and imagery of the planet dying.
“We’re running out of oil. We’re running out of water. We’re running out of atmosphere. We’re poisoning the whole planet,” another “expert” declares during the promo, amid graphics of oil wells, deserts, and street pollution.

You can watch the full clip of the promo below:

YouTube Video https://youtu.be/8pcZuSDq2SE

Global warming fear-mongers hilariously claimed that a gallon of milk would be $13, and a gallon of gas more than $9, by 2015

It’s admittedly difficult to get through this entire promo clip without at least a chuckle, seeing as how the claims made in it are about as credible as Al Gore insisting that the normal tide cycles in Miami are a consequence of global warming-induced rising ocean levels.

But this is what passes as “science” to deranged climate cultists, many of whom continue to lament that inclement weather patterns must be a result of global warming. Even though the evidence is questionable, at best, in defense of such claims, climate apologists insist that the polar ice caps are melting, polar bears are starving, and everyone is going to die in 12 years unless global climate taxes are forcibly implemented.
“They were predicting that by 2015 – four years ago – milk would be 13 bucks a gallon, and gasoline over $9 a gallon,” Limbaugh joked on his show. “The video effects show Manhattan half underwater. They show very little of Miami left.”
Perhaps the worst part of the promo are the clips of young people stating that they’re ‘scared as hell right now’ about climate change destroying the planet – these extreme symptoms of climate anxiety stemming from the doomsday nonsense constantly being peddled by climate lunatics like those featured in the promo.
“One can hope that suddenly society will realize that it’s on a doomsday path, and change very rapidly,” one such lunatic is heard stating in the video.
“If we continue on the business-as-usual trajectory, there will be a tipping point that we cannot avert. We will indeed drive the car over the cliff,” laments another.
“We have a chance to get it right. We have a chance to move in the right direction now. I don’t think that window of opportunity is going to be open for very long,” states yet another, hilariously using infomercial Act Now! marketing tactics to sell the idea to viewers that we must do something immediately if we’re to even have a chance at surviving global warming.



More than a decade has since passed, however, and we’re all still here – along with the ice caps and polar bears that these crazies said should already have been long gone. Who’s in denial now?

For more stories like this, be sure to check out ClimateScienceNews.com.

Sources for this article include:

WND.com
NaturalNews.com
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