Fact-checking a CNN story
By Dave Burton, reposted from Sea Level Info
CNN announces details for climate crisis town hall
By Mark Preston, CNN
Updated 4:07 PM ET, Tue August 27, 2019
Washington (CNN) CNN on Tuesday announced the candidate lineup for its unprecedented prime-time event focused on the climate crisis.
The science says: “the climate crisis” is a myth. It is a product of politics & superstition, not science.
there is no cause for “alarm.” The “scientists” who “sound the alarm” are acting as activists, not scientists. There is no consensus among scientists that manmade climate change is harmful at all, and the best evidence is that CO2 emissions are beneficial.
Who says so? Over 30,000 American scientists, that’s who!
Read about the “Global Warming Petition” which they signed, here.
“pre-industrial” means the harsh “Little Ice Age” (LIA). Scientists call the current warm period a “climate optimum,” because it is unambiguously improved, compared to the pre-industrial LIA.
Nobody knows just how much colder the Earth’s average temperature was during the LIA, but most estimates are about 1°C, so we’ve already seen about 2/3 of that “1.5 degrees Celsius” of warming — and it has been beneficial, rather than harmful. By 2030 we’re likely to see only another 0.1 to 0.2 °C, not 0.5 °C, but even another 0.5°C would be hardly noticeable.
Climate activists rarely mention how challenging it is to measure the tiny temperature differences which characterize “global warming.” This graph, contrasting different global temperature indices, illustrates the problem. Even for the last sixty years, estimates of “measured” warming vary by a factor of two! Earlier time periods are known with even less certainty, and projections for the future are most uncertain of all:
If you understand graphs, then it should be obvious that rising CO2 levels have not affected sea-level:
That’s one of the highest-quality sea-level measurement records in the world, from a near-ideal central Pacific location, on an old, tectonically-stable island, with little or no vertical land motion, and a very typical sea-level trend.
Here’s what that very slight rise looks like on the ground. These are two photos of the Moana Surfrider Hotel, on Waikiki Beach, in Honolulu, taken nearly a century apart. Does it look like sea-level rise is a problem?
The benefits of extra CO2
for crops have been known to science for over a century. It is so dramatically beneficial that commercial greenhouses use CO2 generators to elevate daytime CO2 levels to 3-4 times outdoor levels. The benefits are so great that way back in 1920 Scientific American called it “the precious air fertilizer.” From this photo, which accompanied the article, you can certainly see why:
The widely repeated claim that July, 2019 was the hottest month ever is based on faulty data. It was warmer than average, but the best data indicates that it was only approximately the 4th warmest of the last 41 years.
For as long as we have measurement data, Greenland has been slowly losing ice. In an average year it loses about 200 billion tonnes (Gt) of ice, which sounds like a lot, but it is actually negligible. It is equivalent to less than three-hundredths of an inch of sea-level. I.e., at the current rate, meltwater from Greenland will contribute to less than three inches of sea-level rise by year 2100.
At the current rate, to melt entirely it would take the Greenland Ice sheet 100 to 150… …you thought I was going to say “years,” didn’t you?
Nope, not years.
Not decades, either.
Centuries. 100-150 centuries.
The rate of ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet fluctuates, but there’s no evidence of a sustained acceleration due to manmade climate change. In fact, in both of the last two glaciological years, Greenland had no net loss of ice at all (which is unusual).
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Obi-Wan Kenobi must have been thinking of the upcoming CNN Clown “Town Hall Kabuki Theater” when he uttered that famous line, “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
Being nearly two decades TV free, the Corrupt News Networks are easy to avoid; ‘cept what y’all post here.
Even a potato knows that increased CO2 is beneficial.
We burn octane C8H18 in our vehicles.
2(C8 H18) + 25 O2 ========> 16 CO2 and 18 H2O…………….the white puffy stuff from stacks is water vapour condensing, NOT CO2 as CO2 is colorless and odorless. CO2 is however, a by-product of combustion. no doubt.
6CO2 + 12 H2O ===with chlorophyll and sunlight=====> C6H12O6 (glucose or plant mass) + 6 O2 and 6 H2O
This folks is photosynthesis. O2 is the by-product. The glucose (plant mass) was transformed into hydro-carbons. Carbon is the basis of life and all organic compounds contain carbon. Carbon is also in steel, concrete, all synthetics and a host of other materials. Wood is about 50% carbon, eating veggies is eating carbon. I ask people, when photosynthesis takes place what happens to the carbon atom? The plant retains the carbon atom and it becomes the building block of the plant. Animals (humans) are about 18% carbon. CO2 has very, very little to do with climate, temperature or the like. the seas around Miami are not rising, Miami is sinking, too many heavy buildings being constructed on what was fill. The sea level around Churchill, Manitoba for example show signs of lowering, not true, the land mass is rising in relation to the sea level (isostatic rebound from the melting glaciers) opposite of Miami. No need to panic, the climate driver is the Sun and the workings of the Solar System (Milankovitch cycle). Best to worry that it will soon get a lot colder as we are entering a period of solar quiescence, a Grand Minimum!!
Why does the article assume that there are no leftists who reject, or are at lest skeptical, of the global warming hysteria. There is no doubt that climates change. It would be absurd to think otherwise. However, I reject the human caused CO2 increase as the sole determinant because it posits a kind of “static Earth” hypothesis. I find much of the discourse post-modernist, in that it tends to be a-historical and a-theoretical. Post modernism is not “left”. In fact, it is the degenerate offspring of several philosophical trends including neo-Kantianism, the Frankfurt School, existentialism and American pragmatism. They are currently beating the drums regarding Hurricane Dorian, for sure, a very powerful storm. But if it is, as they say, the most powerful storm on the planet this year, this also means that the Pacific has been unusually quiet.
This year, being the key words… 1936/37 (not sure on the exact year, saw a storm just as powerful
The North Indian has been relatively active:
http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/index.php?loc=northindian
But the Northeast Pacific:
http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/index.php?loc=northeastpacific
and Northwest Pacific:
http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/index.php?loc=northwestpacific
are both quieter than long-term average (so far)
CNN is the Party organ.
The latest New Green Deal poster released by Alexandria Ocasio-Without-a-Cerebral-Cortex
looks like something right out of the Old Soviet Union.
Data, facts, and the true scientific process leads to the truth and sound future policies. Mr. Burton’s statements should be recognized. All else is political posturing.
Just when we think we are oh so clever the climate disaster industry dupes millions from $trillions .
Scary global warming has replaced religion …well because we can see the seas rise …can’t we ?
Isn’t the Arctic ice free … OK… but any year now , right big AL ,and only 11 years left for earth as we know it claims a bar tender so powerful she ran off Amazon almost single handed .
The people running this show are the witch burners of yesteryear and the flock are arguably denser .
Have you ever tried to talk someone out of their religion ?
This fraud has the same makings .
We have stopped believing in so many things
the scary global warming industry provides comfort to those that crave to belong
to a virtuous cause .
North Koreans hate America because they have been brain washed to do so .
For the most part MSM has been pumping the global warming industry tires for 2 decades
without question . Surprise surprise people are gift wrapped to the cause .
Wars have been fought over less .