I & I Editorial BoardEarlier this week, we editorialized about the Great Green Grift of the climate hustlers who line their own pockets as well as those of their co-conspirators. Today we dig into the science, which has been repeatedly abused, often abandoned and artfully prostituted to support the global warming racket.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has long been treated as always having the first and last word on global warming. Google’s artificial intelligence says it’s “widely regarded as the world’s leading authority on climate science, providing essential, peer-reviewed assessments that inform international policy.”
We are all expected to regard its conclusions as settled science and surrender to the climate conmen and ideologues — to give them all the money and power they demand.
But it’s not infallible. In fact, it seems that the IPCC has been feeding the Big Lie. The group “has just published the next generation of climate scenarios,” says environmental studies professor Roger Pielke Jr.
The IPCC has now distanced itself from its own previous claims, which were used to goad true believers and leftist activists into political action; to provide a generation of elected officials with a pretense to hike taxes, spending and regulation, thereby wasting as much as $16 trillion; and to create a blueprint for huge, but wholly unneeded, new government outlays that have zero effects on global temperatures and unsurprisingly end up in the pockets of the Democratic machine.
“The new framework has eliminated the most extreme scenarios that have dominated climate research over much of the past several decades — specifically, RCP8.5, SSP5-8.5, and SSP3-7.0,” says Pielke. “This is an absolutely huge development in climate science which will have lasting impacts across research and policy.”
It turns out that the most alarming possibilities put forth by the IPCC — the same ones used by those among us who insist we have only a few years to save Earth from global warming and have to turn over our lives to their policymaking whims — simply aren’t plausible.
It’s hard to overstate the importance of this shift, because, says Pielke, “tens of thousands of research papers have been — and continue to be — published using these scenarios,” while “a similar number of media headlines have amplified their findings, and governments and international organization have built these implausible scenarios into policy and regulation.”
It was all, he adds, “built on a foundation of sand.”
It’s lamentable that the political grift extended to the science, thereby corrupting it. It should not have taken so long to “discover” that those claims were bogus. But there was money to be made in the scientific community by ignoring the truth and forecasting disaster.
That’s why science is never settled. Unless they have been corrupted, scientists are expected to challenge each other, not sign onto “consensus” documents that are based on invalid scientific estimates.
Otherwise, it’s not really science at all — it’s merely a political agenda masquerading as science with great financial benefits.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
Should the people who have been defrauded and exploited in the name of ‘global warming’ demand restitution for the waste and corruption inflicted by those who have profited from the scam?
It really does not take a genius to realize the damage that windmills are doing to the environment, all you have to do is examine the wind currents before and wind currents after windmills, not to mention the deaths of millions of birds.
Since the grifters at the IPCC have been exposed, they have moderated their stance to prolong the grift and to re-position themselves as a source of “enlightened” climate advice for policymakers, if the money keeps flowing. Right now, it still looks like a money laundering scheme to fund the globalist agenda.
Why oh why is anything associated with the UN believed.
It’s sort of like behaving-as the beloved Rush would say-“mind numb robots” to any and everything someone with the unlikely name of “Dr Fauci” would say.
This Freddy Kreuger-like character might push us to believe-“as science”-which of course he represents-ridiculous things like masks work again viruses; social distancing of 6-10 feet protect you from germs; the vaccine against COVID is a god-send, strike that, it is something only the demi-god “Science” could create and we should all be kowtowing and bowing at the idol of “Science.”
Oh yes! Zoom education is necessary and even beneficial; children must wear the masks; everyone must isolate (no weddings, funerals or church attendance allowed).
And most importantly and emphatically: COVID did not-I repeat in capitals- “Did Not” come from China and the Wuhan Virology Center was just a front for the “good” science that was practiced. We should all be thankful for the beneficent Oz (excuse me, I meant China).
Global warming is just the COVID fiasco using a different name. The “scientists”, the Leftists, the Communists, and the “experts” of the world just want you to conform to their blather.
Even though COVID protocols are being examined and concluded as being not beneficial or accurate; and Global Warming (or as it is being iterated today: Climate Change) is the same “Look Out!”-another travail that will become an “emergency” is on the horizon.
Will we listen to such conformist-blather (and exercise its “scientific” and “trendy” protocols) the next time?
Climate science relates to real science the same way Astrology relates to Astronomy, a wacky greedy distant cousin at best.
The IPCC has known for years that Global Warming movement was a scam. See:
IPCC Third Assessment Report
Chapter 14
Section 14.2.2.2
Last paragraph:
“In sum, a strategy must recognize what is possible. In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”
This information was not included in the Summary Report for Policymakers given to the press and public.
Science, from the Latin, means to know. We do not know all things but we are now certain that scientists lie, lawyers lie, academics lie, regulators lie and politicians lie through their teeth. Climate change has greatly endangered any energy process involving fire, fission or the possibly coming fusion. We currently are in, or out??, of a war over who has the truth over nuclear energy, used in weapons and we are killing people with fire.
Look up taqiyya. It explains what is not science.
In my latest post on Mediocremonday.com, I break down a quiet but important shift in how the IPCC presents extreme scenarios like SSP5-8.5.
It was never truly meant to be a “business-as-usual” forecast — it’s a high-emissions stress-test case. I’m glad to see AR6 communicating this distinction more clearly, moving away from the years of media hype that treated it as our most likely future.
If you want honest, level-headed analysis on climate scenarios and communication, I’d love for you to read it.
Check it out here: https://www.mediocremonday.com/ipcc-worst-case-scenario-ssp585-ar6-change
Hope you find it valuable!
I believe that the information provided by the IPCC is made to appear frightening in order to allow money to flow to people. Most of it is false. I note that the previous replies to this post are all in this vein, and I am confident that the truth will come out in the end.