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August 13, 2022

It can be frustrating engaging in a discussion where facts are denied or distorted.  Equally frustrating is dealing with beliefs that are treated as facts and dependent on sound bites.  Climate change is one such topic.

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Climate change is a given.  The Earth has never had a stable climate, which can be verified by scientific evidence.  The relevant question involves the level of impact human activity is having on the climate.

The information that follows is a fraction of that collected over more than ten years.  Let’s organize the discussion by considering three questions.

a) What is the goal of the man-made climate change push?

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Many people accept that the goal is saving humanity from an existential climate change threat.  Evidence indicates that is not the case.  Here is one example.

The United Nations has been one of the organizations leading the manmade climate change push.  The paragraph below, from the February 10, 2015 Investor’s Business Daily article “U.N. Official Reveals Real Reason Behind Warming Scare” seems to state the goal clearly.

Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.  “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.

b) Does science/data support the man-made climate change claim?

At a science denial forum, which can be watched at the link below, it took over an hour for panelist Michelle Thaller, with NASA, to admit it is not known if carbon dioxide, methane, or some other gas is causing climate change.  The unstated assumptions being made appear to be that a gas is causing climate change and the total amount of the gas is primarily determined by human activity.  This specific statement can be heard at timestamp 1:02:58.

The current push involves significantly reducing carbon dioxide levels, but does this make sense?  Carbon dioxide makes up approximately 0.04% of all greenhouse gases.  Estimates indicate that human activity contributes 50% of the total and the U.S. is responsible for 20% of that amount.  In a stadium with 100,000 seats 0.04% amounts to 400 seats, 50% of 400 is 200 seats or 0.02%, and 20% of 200 is 40 seats or 0.004%.  None of these percentages appear significant, including total elimination of man-made carbon dioxide.