By Thomas Lifson at American Thinker
The increase in the atmospheric trace gas of CO2 has so far failed to deliver the catastrophic consequences predicted by the alarmists like Al Gore. The headlines about “the end of snow” are now an embarrassment after a winter of abundant frozen precipitation. At least a decade ago, the fraudsters relabeled their purported peril “climate change,” allowing any unusual weather to be blamed on mankind’s use of fossil fuels.
Now another rebranding is being proposed. Michael Walsh noticed, at PJ Media:
The Left, in the form of the think thank RAND, has gone full Luddite:
Since the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, society has organized efforts to limit the magnitude of climate change around the concept of stabilization – that is, accepting some climate change but holding it within acceptable bounds. This report offers an initial exploration of the concept of climate restoration – that is, approaches that seek to return atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases to preindustrial levels within one to two generations. Using a simple integrated assessment model, the analysis examines climate restoration through the lens of risk management under conditions of deep uncertainty, exploring the technology, economic, and policy conditions under which it might be possible to achieve various climate restoration goals and the conditions under which society might be better off with (rather than without) a climate restoration goal. This report also explores near-term actions that might help manage the risks of climate restoration.
“Luddite” is a good term, for it connotes opposition to the Industrial Revolution, which was (and remains in its “Information Age” version) dependent on the combustion of carbon-based fuels for electrical generation and transportation. The longing for some imagined paradise of living in harmony with nature is even more pervasive in modern history.
Of course, anyone even slightly familiar with the history of the Earth’s climate knows there is no one climate to be restored. We have had ice ages that covered much of the land on which Americans now live in glaciers. Is that the climate we wish to be restored?
Proponents claim they merely want to get rid of the “pollutants” – i.e., CO2, which is necessary for life and is used by plants to grow. (Higher levels of atmospheric CO2 already are increasing crop yields.) But buried in this phraseology is the hidden assumption that the atmosphere, not solar activity, controls climate. This is a ridiculous assumption on its face, since the ultimate source of our energy – atmospheric and carbon-based deposits – is the Sun.
By the way, solar activity is crashing now.
“Climate restoration” is the “New Coke” of climate alarmism.
Climate restoration, huh?
Okay, well, it would help a lot if the larger percentage of them that follow this line of “thought” (and I use that word loosely) took the time to stop breathing for about 15 minutes. That rather large volume of CO2 produced by such a large population group could, if rescinded by cessation of respiration for 15 minutes, clear the air and restore an O2 balance…. or something like that.
I also suggest that they be persuaded to spend a good deal of time in the company of professional listeners. Throwing all those electronic doodads into a bin for a month or more would likewise help.
Sara, maybe I missed it but I am surprised that the CAGW crowd hasn’t gone on about the amount of CO2 produced by 7+ billion people. They have gone on about domestic ungulates and the methane they produce even though at one point in earth’s history wild ungulates probably far out number all the domestic ones that exist today.
That’s exactly what I was addressing, Edwin. If they just stop breathing – all of them – for 15 minutes twice a day, the carbon load in the atmosphere, an invisible gas which terrifies them beyond any reasoning, will be reduced to a mere whisper.
I do not think that 15 minutes of not breathing, done twice a day, is too much to ask of them if they truly want to make a sacrifice that will benefit the planet.
Just think of all those greenies jogging and exercising, raising heart rate and increased breathing rate.
Oh, the extra CO2!
Now we know who the real climate change deniers are.
hmmm… Climate Reformation perhaps … “climate science” is a religion isn’t it?
Cheers!
Joe
I so look forward to plague, small pox, mass starvation, cannabalism (why not?), typhus and cholera becoming a regular part of my life thanks to climate restoration.
You forgot dysentery and salmonella.
Such fun was life pre-industrial.
We should all purchase “climate indulgences” from Pope AlGore to rescue us from “climate purgatory” and get us to “climate heaven”.
The trick, of course, whether you believe in the snakeoil or not, is to find a way to get onto the capitalization gravy train yourself. There are tens? hundreds?-of-thousands of both direct researchers and indirect so-called “policy makers” who are on the gravy train in one form or another. From climate amelioration officers filling (not working) phony baloney positions in companies who desperately need to SOUND like they’re on the Lıberal Rightside of thinking, to gazillions of wannabe soft-science undergraduates, to just-as-many just-as-soft science Masters degree and PhD candidates … to endless focus groups, think tanks, lobbyists, lıberal leaning organizations … the gravy train is LONG. Long, and while crowded, still always in need of fuel.
“Climate restoration” is the newest self-styled eco-warrior “we can fight!” call to arms. Save a tree, eat a beaver. You know. Do stuff.
Do stuff to get tens of thousands – perhaps hundreds of thousands – of young impressionable minds and their stretch-funded parents to cough up the tuition to have them get soft-as-silk pseudoscience degrees. Or pseudo intellectual disease. The same.
I am admittedly in a sour mood. Sour that mankind is such a fûqueing delusional self-pitying creature. Sour that all excuses for a few of our population insist on having moral authority to domineer the rest of us. Go separate your fûqueing garbage! Turn off your lights! Buy a Prius! How dare you own a truck? Use biodiesel! Don’t eat non-organic anything, or feed the school kids peanut butter sandwiches!
GoatGuy
given they cannot even agree to when the industrial period started and given they no measurement of these value worth a dam from virtual any date the pick, this is going to be quite a trick.
The Midwest got into the pilot program for “climate restoration”. Someone restored our climate back to the 1970’s. Six weeks of 20+ degrees below our average highs, with some daily highs not even reaching the average low.
I am not a fan of this restoration. And don’t even get me started on platform shoes, disco, and Jimmy Carter’s economic policies! Bring back the good NEW days.
You left out the hair style, Russ. The hair was to the max!
I want out of the pilot program! Warm up for cripes sake.
They need to work on “real” problems that “can” be solved with truckloads of money.
Enjoying a global warming day down here in Florida after freezing my butt off this winter in Kentucky. Where is Al Gore these days?, on an island that was supposed to be under water by now? LOL
Another commonly heard quip comes to mind “The road to Hêll is paved with Good Intentions”
Couple that with “The master of Good is Best” and
“Never underestimate the gullibility of a Religious Man” and you have quite a thing.
It explains a lot.
GoatGuy
So, “climate” seems to mean CO2, as far as I can tell. NOTHING else defines climate, apparently.
Why not just cut to the chase, then? — “CO2 Restoration Because Nothing Else Matters” (CORBNEM, for short)
Then we can have CORBNEM activistis, CORBNEM deniers. We can shorten the name of the IPCC to IPC. The possibilities are many. What a refreshing facelift for the industry !
Hmmm. The U.S. is experiencing climate reversion already as winter lingers with a lot of snow and ice. This climate-restoration-to-preindustrial-times thing will surely not be popular, as few seem to be cheering our preview of it.
When I first heard that the climate alarmists did not factor in the energy from the sun in their models, I was dump founded. As the article stated that is the single greatest factor and to think it is consistent over time is naive. These people are not scientists but political operatives.
Surely the Holocene Climate Optimum is the obvious climate to restore.
But how are we going to cause that much warming?
Climate Restoration????
To What???
I wasn’t aware there was a climate baseline. Where should the baseline be set back to?
Oh man, this is stupid. The stupid is starting to get to me. The stupid is painful. Why do people constantly insist on being so stupid, gullible and easily brainwashed.
Engage Climate Stabilizers number one! prepare for ‘Climate Restoration’.
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Excellent analogy. I would presume that the climate stabilizers operate along the lines of the anti-inertia force compensator and the artificial gravity system.
More likely a bunch squirrel-baits spinning their wheels.
Not to forget the Heisenberg compensators.
Too bad Sir Patrick is a looney Leftist himself. The Climate Borg assimilated him,… or was it that little gill sticking out of his neck that did it? Or maybe that silly virtual game Ryker brought onboard?
Either way, Sir Patrick is a lost cause. Gave up his brains he did to keep getting Hollywood scripts.
So now they actually believe (or claim to believe) that lowering CO2 will somehow change the weather patterns we are living with.
So with any deterioration in weather, crop yields, coastal erosion, etc. we can go after the ass clowns who are even now blaming American oil companies.
And in the next chapter of “Call to Climate Arms”, we will find suggestions – nay, instructions! from the Pope of Climatewarmingoogling Algorebull Himself, calling for – wait for it! – the Climate Crusades!!!!
Arm thyselves, Good People of the Climate Crusades! Prepare ye the War of The Warm!! Prepare ye the War of The Warm!
Sounds like a musical to me. I saw one like that in the 1970s in Philadelphia. “Godspell”, it was.
This one will be “Gorespiel”.
Climealot?
Warmalot.
Zeilate?
No, I’ll stick to warmunists
These people are seriously trying to kill us. All carbon based life: plants; animals; us and even sad to say it them depend on it. Honestly, it’s like some sort of suicide cult. How did we end up with so many supposedly well educated idiots wandering around?
They were educated in the “propaganda schools”. They were taught to memorize. Problem solving was 80% part of math. They [deep state globalists] removed problem solving from math.
Well, here we are! Lead by the “memorize-rs”, by definition “the PAST”. Yes, lead to the future by the past..
PERFECT
Great. Restore the climate to the 1650s.
That made the USA uninhabitable.
These people think Camelot is based in the future
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“Climate Restoration”.
I’m surprised they’ve never used “Climate Deformation”.
“But buried in this phraseology is the hidden assumption that the atmosphere, not solar activity, controls climate. ”
Gee, I could have sworn the atmosphere had something to do with it. You learn something new every day!
You are right Kristi the atmosphere does control the climate. The sun is the heat source. However CO2 only acts as a carrier of life. It needs to recycle everywhere so that the plants can get it or we all die. The atmosphere needs more CO2 NOT less. There has been NO evidence of CO2 causing any warming. And even if it did the warming seems to be so minimal as to be laughable. I got the temperature records for the last 146 years for the city of Ottawa Canada daily lows and daily highs. I put the data into a spreadsheet and graphed the data 7 years at a time. i compared the 7 year periods throughout the whole 146 history and found NO warming. So if global warming was or is supposed to be happening but it is not happening in Ottawa Canada why do I care? I also looked at the temperature records for Augusta Georgia since 1935 when the Masters golf tournament started. There is no warming in those records. 10 of the 13 stations in the Antarctica have seen no warming for their 60 year history of temperature records. The other 3 stations are in the West Antarctica peninsula which is overtop a volcanic ridge and it melts from underneath just like Greenland does and has been like that for millions of years. Dr Willie Soon compiled temperature data from all the rural areas in the world. There was no warming. CO2 is a well mixed gas everywhere in the lower troposphere. Physics says that if it causes warming it should cause warming everywhere especially in a long term trend. if 146 years isnt long enuf for you how long do we have to wait for global warming? I have been waiting for it for 40 years and havent seen it yet. I grew up in the days when facts mattered. Things seem to be different nowadays. We need more CO2 NOT less.
Well Lord only knows that our climate is a very big part of the worlds cultural heritage and it is high time someone began the painstaking process of restoration. Like the Sistine Chapel frescoes, there are cracks and fissures in the plaster of our climate and it just doesn’t look good hanging on a wall in a museum any longer. It is way past time for climate restoration.