Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Quartz, proper stage management and timing is required to make climate studies persuasive.
To get people talking about climate change, publish your study during a hot summer
By Akshat Rathi
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That said, there’s still a sizeable population on the planet that doesn’t care about climate change or, worse, denies it’s real. To turn those people around, some of the world’s most preeminent scientists have figured out it makes sense to publish global-warming studies when it’s hot outside.
It was the trick Jim Hansen, one of the world’s leading lights on climate change, used when he gave his now-famous testimony to the US Congress on a blistering hot day in June 1988.
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The good news is that it’s not too late. “We as a global community can also manage our relationship with the system to influence future planetary conditions,” Katherine Richardson of the University of Copenhagen told the BBC. But it will require bold moves, such as switching to fully zero-carbon energy sources by mid-century, readying ways to suck carbon dioxide from the air, and maybe even consider solar geoengineering. All that, however, will require all of us to believe that the threat of global warming is real and deserves drastic action.
Read more: https://qz.com/1350565/the-hothouse-climate-change-study-is-big-news-thanks-to-the-heatwave/
Remember the fairy Tinker Bell from the story Peter Pan? In the story, every time someone says “I do not believe in fairies”, somewhere a fairy dies. The only cure was to clap loudly while reciting “I do believe in fairies” over and over, until the belief was strong enough to revive the dying fairy.
Now we have a field of science where everyone has to believe or it doesn’t work.
Every time someone says “I do not believe in climate change”, somewhere a sad climate scientist decides to write about their feelings. Perhaps if we all clap hands and recite “I do believe in the climate crisis”, we can make them smile again, and help save the world.
I guess renaming it ‘Climate Change’ wasn’t persuasive enough – what with calling it ‘Global Warming’ for so long. Kind of leaves the impression they’re changing their story… again.
Oh, wait, I forgot – NOW it’s skeptics that changed the name – to undercut the alarmism.
Sigh.
So essentially suspend belief in reality is what they’ve got for game. All I’ve asked for is real uncompromised data to convince me we are roaming out of natural ranges. Measuring a tenth of a percent C above a record in 1931 off the pier of Scripps on a day in 2018 is supposed to excite? I only marvel that it was basically this warm ~90 yrs ago! This is pretty pathetic stuff, especially when its record cold water 100km north of La Jolla!
Why would I accept empirical evidence from all other sciences to convince me but not buy into alarmist climate science. I have process patents in hydrometallurgy so Im not anti-science
https://patents.justia.com/inventor/gary-pearse
So far, all the horrors spoken of since 1988 have yet to manifest themselves in any miniscule fashion. On the contrary, I am coming to think on the evidence so far that with the greening of the planet, more likely we are heading for a prosperous Garden of Eden Earth ^тм by 2050.
Asshat Ratty.
More of the same from some of the same.