World Climate Declaration: 'There is no climate emergency'
Yeah, so why should we listen to them?
As the mainstream media likes to convince us through an endless barrage of polling information, they argue there is strength and credibility in numbers. Therefore let us employ that strategy here:
“Led by a Nobel Prize laureate, more than 1,100 scientists and scholars have signed a document declaring climate science is based more on personal beliefs and political agendas than sound, rigorous science.” Source
These reasons include:
Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming
Warming is far slower than predicted
Climate policy relies on inadequate models
CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth
Global warming has not increased natural disasters
Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities
Detailed information on these bullet points are sourced above. So what’s the advice of these 1,100 scientists and scholars?
“OUR ADVICE TO THE EUROPEAN LEADERS IS THAT SCIENCE SHOULD
STRIVE FOR A SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CLIMATE
SYSTEM, WHILE POLITICS SHOULD FOCUS ON MINIMIZING POTENTIAL
CLIMATE DAMAGE BY PRIORITIZING ADAPTATION STRATEGIES BASED ON
PROVEN AND AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGIES” Source
I find this statement crucial to the entire ongoing debate:
“To believe the outcome of a climate model is to believe what the model makers have put in. This is precisely the problem of today’s climate discussion to which climate models are central. Climate science has degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not on sound self-critical science. Should not we free ourselves from the naive belief in immature climate models?” Source
I lived through the energy crisis of the late 1970’s and remain to this day a proponent of doing things on a daily basis to conserve energy, our resources and anything I can do to help keep our environment clean. But I refuse to live a life of fear, held hostage by someone else’s agenda also based in fear. If we all (including you, the reader) exercised a little self control on a daily basis, this would go a LONG way in curbing negative affects on our climate. Things like turning off unused lights and keeping that thermometer in check. Easy right? Architects continue to design more energy efficient buildings with energy efficient products. Kudos to them. The list of energy conscience folks is growing and with it much needed improvements in technology continues.
What’s our part lest we be found to be merely a “clanging cymbal”, unwilling to change our behavior, expecting others to do it for us? Glad you asked. Consider the number one enemy of global warming, or so it seems. The automobile! Well, manufacturers are making them “climate friendly” with each passing day. Here are some things WE call ALL do whenever we turn over that engine. But I fear we won’t:
*At speeds less than 40mph, opening the window slightly won't really affect fuel use (I did not know this), but air conditioning increases fuel use at all speeds.
*The most efficient speed you can travel in a car in terms of achieving the best fuel economy is 55-65mph. Any faster, though, and the fuel efficiency decreases rapidly. For example, driving at 85mph uses 40% more fuel than at 70mph. And there are a LOT of people driving 80 these days, including truckers. But hey, it’s your money.
*If you are motionless for any longer than 10 seconds, say in stop and go traffic, it is more fuel efficient to switch the engine off than to idle.
*Under-inflated tires can increase fuel consumption by up to 3%, so check their pressure regularly. We should all know this one by now.
*Adaptive cruise control controls the vehicle more smoothly than human beings can & adds to fuel efficiency by fine tuning by small tweaks of the target speed. Of course many cars don’t have this so.
*Plan to coast to a stop rather than braking, when possible (look ahead in the distance and anticipate any traffic). As a bonus this one saves brake pad wear.
Now if we could only convince Mother Nature herself to stop polluting the environment with all her catastrophic volcanic activity then we’d be getting somewhere. Oy!
Jim