Saturday, March 21, 2015
Preposterous!
Thus saith Patrick Moore PhD, early member of Greenpeace: I am skeptical humans are the main cause of climate change and that it will be catastrophic in the near future. There is no scientific proof of this hypothesis, yet we are told “the debate is over” and “the science is settled.” My skepticism begins with the believers’ certainty they can predict the global climate with a computer model. The entire basis for the doomsday climate change scenario is the hypothesis increased atmospheric carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel emissions will heat the Earth to unlivable temperatures.
In fact, the Earth has been warming very gradually for 300 years, since the Little Ice Age ended, long before heavy use of fossil fuels. Prior to the Little Ice Age, during the Medieval Warm Period, Vikings colonized Greenland and Newfoundland, when it was warmer there than today. And during Roman times, it was warmer, long before fossil fuels revolutionized civilization. The idea it would be catastrophic if carbon dioxide were to increase and average global temperature were to rise a few degrees is preposterous.
Climate change has become a powerful political force for many reasons. First, it is universal; we are told everything on Earth is threatened.
Second, it invokes the two most powerful human motivators: fear and guilt. We fear driving our car will kill our grandchildren, and we feel guilty for doing it.
Third, there is a powerful convergence of interests among key elites that support the climate “narrative.” Environmentalists spread fear and raise donations; politicians appear to be saving the Earth from doom; the media has a field day with sensation and conflict; science institutions raise billions in grants, create whole new departments, and stoke a feeding frenzy of scary scenarios; business wants to look green, and get huge public subsidies for projects that would otherwise be economic losers, such as wind farms and solar arrays.
Fourth, the Left sees climate change as a perfect means to redistribute wealth from industrial countries to the developing world and the UN bureaucracy.
Read full piece at: http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2015/03/20/why-i-am-climate-change-skeptic
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Hogwash. This guy was not a founder of Greenpeace.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/history/Patrick-Moore-background-information/
Anything coming from Heartland will of course have a anti climate change narration since some of their biggest tuners are fossil fuel companies.
Anyway, fi the earth is only 5 or 6 thousand years old, what's all this ice age stuff this guy is talking about?
I have revised this post to reflect the description on Wikipedia: Patrick Moore (born 1947) is a Canadian ecologist, was an early member of Greenpeace[2], in which he was an environmental activist from 1971 to 1986. Today he is the leader of Ecosense Environmental in Vancouver, a consulting firm that provides advice, lectures, opinions and committee participation to government and industry on a wide range of environmental and sustainability issues. He is a frequent public speaker at meetings of industry associations, universities, and policy groups.
Doesn't change the fact that he makes his money from those with an interest in climate change denial.
That doesn't prove that what he wrote is not true.
Nor does it prove that what he writes is true. However, on his web page since the first sentence on it is an out and out lie, it does make one wonder about his integrity.
David, I worked on government contracts my entire life, and when the one with the gold says write me a report that says the grass is blue, then if you want to get paid, you best write that report as the customer wants it.
I choose to believe 98% of the climatologists on this world that says man is inducing climate change. And by the way, I m not familiar with this scientific hypothesis that, "increased atmospheric carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel emissions will heat the Earth to unlivable temperatures."
I believe this is what this man truly is: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/dec/02/sumatra-rainforest-destruction-patrick-moore
I don't teach what my church wants we to teach simply because they pay me. My church pays me because they believe in what I teach.
and if you were to start teaching things they do not believe in.....how long would you last?
IN the for profit corporate world, the last thing anyone wants to do is irritate the customer and not give them what they want. If your customer wants a report that the grass is blue, someone, not me, but someone will write that report.
What better for Heartland, a conservative man made climate change denier, than to have a guy who advertises a lie that he is a co founder of Greenpeace to say it's not true. It worked for you, since you posted it as if it is supposed to be something earth shattering.
There's a reason these guys always pick the last 17 years in their analysis. Suggest you look it up as to why.
Here's a recent Patrick Moore video that might interest you.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/lobbyist-claims-monsanto-weed-killer-is-safe-to-drink-then-bolts-when-tv-host-offers-him-a-glass/
Tom, quite frankly I don't really care what kind of a jerk Patrick Moore may or may not be. I posted part of his article because of the content, not because of the author. I know that we disagree on this whole "climate change" issue. I consider it to be a purely political issue, not an ecological one. A thousand years ago Greenland was green. Back in the 70s there was all this hooplah about global cooling. In the 90s is switched to global warming. Now it's climate change, presumably so it can be either cooling or warming. From what I have read, the doom and gloom is mostly based on "computer models." That is pseudo-science at best. In my meager opinion, it is mostly about the distribution of wealth in order to move the world closer to a socialist utopia. Since I'm not interested in that, I have a hard time believing my tax money should be going to all these so-called green initiatives. I would rather spend it on building up our military.
That's ok. I never fully believed in climate change until maybe 2 or 3 years ago. Out of curiosity; have you ever read any of the science behind how all these scientists have concluded that man is changing the climate? Or do you just listen to AM radio and Fox and read blogs on the internet on the science. I agree if you listen to the environmental whackos and far lefties they do tend to over dramatize it. Even the Pentagon has decided it's threat in the future, if not now, and they want the funds to prepare/mitigate it.
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