Climate zealots are always wrong — but never admit – Latest News
I suppose United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres didn’t assume his hyping world warming dangers introduced him enough consideration, so now he says, “The era of global boiling has arrived!”
Global boiling? Give me a break.
Yes, the climate is warming.
We can deal with that.
What annoys me is politicians, activists and media pushing hysterical myths.
Myth 1: The Arctic will quickly be ice-free.
It “could already be ice-free by the summer of 2030!” shrieks a DW News report.
“‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than scientists thought,” provides the BBC. “Earth’s biggest cities are at risk!”
Nonsense.
“It’s not happening at nearly the catastrophic pace that they claim,” says Heartland Institute fellow Linnea Lueken.
But the media show dramatic photographs of melting and lacking ice.
“No ice! There’s all these walruses laying out on a stony beach . . . It’s because it’s the summertime! In the winter, it all comes right back!”
As far as ice disappearing in winter, too, “Compared to the amount of ice that’s in the Arctic,” says Lueken, it “is like a grain of sand . . . so minuscule compared to the amount of ice that’s there, it doesn’t even show up on a trend chart when you plot it.”
But zealots push hysteria.
In 2009, Al Gore, whereas accumulating a Nobel Prize, stated there was “a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap . . . during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years!”
In simply 5 to seven years! Oh, no!
Wait . . . seven years have handed. In reality, 16 years handed. The ice cap has a lot of ice, even in summer time.
Yet no person calls him on it.
“They absolutely should be calling him on it,” says Lueken.
Myth 2: Polar bears are going extinct.
Polar bears look cute, so environmental teams use them in advertisements to sucker you into donating money.
But polar bear populations have elevated!
In the Nineteen Sixties, 17,000-19,000 was the very best of three scientific estimates of polar bear population. Today, there are about 26,000 polar bears.
Yet the Environmental Defense Fund collected nearly a quarter-billion {dollars} from gullible donors operating advertisements that say: “Your support can help Environmental Defense Fund save the polar bears!”
The EDF hasn’t agreed to my interview requests.
I perceive why. I might call their promoting sleazy.
“Absolutely,” agrees Lueken, “the data is right there. It’s not hard to find out that polar bears are fine.”
OK, possibly polar bears aren’t going extinct, but we’d starve!
That’s Myth 3.
MSNBC shrieks, “Climate change could create a massive global food shortage.”
President Barack Obama stated, “Our changing climate is already making it more difficult to produce food!”
“There is no claim less true.” sighs Lueken. “Food production has skyrocketed.”
She’s proper, and the information is there for everybody to see. Agriculture output units document highs 12 months after 12 months.
In reality, the additional carbon dioxide in greenhouse gases in all probability will increase food manufacturing.
“We inject CO2 into greenhouses for a reason,” Lueken factors out. “It helps to fertilize plants for faster and better growth.”
As the climate has warmed, the world skilled the most important drop in starvation and malnutrition ever.
Still, when food costs rise, media idiots will blame climate change.
The New York Times claimed “devastation that climate change had wrought” induced a rise in espresso costs.
But world espresso manufacturing has elevated by 82% because the Nineties.
The Times story centered on a temporary decline in espresso manufacturing in Honduras.
But because the ’90s, espresso manufacturing there rose more than 200%.
“They never apologize,” I observe. “They never say, ‘Oh, we got this wrong.’”
“No,” replies Lueken. “Even if they did have a retraction, the damage is already done.”
Alarmist media and environmental teams never apologize.
When doom doesn’t occur, they only transfer on to the following scare.
John Stossel is the creator of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.”
