December 09, 2018
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is holding yet another huge climate conference, this one in Katowice, Poland – for an estimated 30,000 attendees. Organizers hope to finalize some 300 pages of guidelines to implement the 2015 Paris climate accords that they claim will save the world from cataclysmic manmade climate chaos.
In his article, CFACT president Craig Rucker explains why the entire IPCC agenda should be dismissed as an outrageously expensive hoax. Equally important, climate change is the least of concerns for developing countries: they are coping with very real and immediate energy, health and economic disasters – while climate chaos exists primarily in the realm of headlines and computer models. Asia clearly recognizes this fact: it already has nearly twice as much COAL-based electricity online or under construction as the United States is capable of generating from all sources in the height of air conditioning season.
The snow job in Poland
IPCC climate confab seeks to stampede the world into adopting destructive energy policies
Craig Rucker
Any blizzards that blanket Poland this winter can’t compare to the massive snow job climate campaigners are trying to pull off.
Some 30,000 politicians, activists, computer modelers, bureaucrats, lawyers, journalists, renewable energy sellers and a few scientists are in Katowice, Poland December 2-14, for another Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conference. Four issues will dominate the agenda.
* Proclaim that humanity and planet face existential cataclysms, unless fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are slashed to zero by 2050 – to "prevent†average planetary temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 F) above what they were in 1820, when the Little Ice Age ended and the modern industrial era began.
* Finalize 300 pages of "guidelines,†to implement the Paris climate agreement – by driving the switch from coal, oil and natural gas to wind, solar and biofuel energy.
* Reach a binding agreement that wealthy countries (excluding China and other newly rich nations) must transfer at least $100 billion annually to poor countries.
* Ensure "transparency†on discussions, disclosures and treaty compliance.
This entire agenda deserves skepticism and ridicule.
Earth’s climate is always changing somewhere, due to powerful natural forces over which humans have no control. To say we can now perpetuate current conditions by controlling emissions of plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide is sheer fantasy.
Average global temperatures have already (thankfully) risen nearly a degree since 1820. To suggest that another half degree would be catastrophic is absurd. Indeed, average temperatures were higher during the Medieval Warm Period – and except during recent El Niño events have barely risen since 1998, even as CO2 levels climbed significantly, spurring plant growth worldwide.
Constant references to the "hottest ever†day or month involve hundredths of a degree, less than the margin of measurement error, often by activist scientists who have a history of doctoring data. They also ignore record cold snaps, like this Thanksgiving weekend in the U.S. Northeast.
Human activities certainly affect climate and weather to some degree, at
least locally. But there is no real-world evidence that they have major (much
less cataclysmic) impacts.
Computer models say otherwise, but their record for
accuracy is abysmal to zero. Regarding guidelines to implement Paris, they would put the United Nations
and IPCC in charge of our energy use, economies, lives and living standards –
which would be disastrous. Fossil fuels still provide 80% of all U.S. and global
energy; wind and solar provide less than 5% and only intermittently. Forcing us to convert to wind and solar would increase electricity prices
ten times over – and blanket areas many times the size of California with
turbines, panels, batteries, and huge mines to dig out the raw materials needed
for these "eco-friendly, climate-safe, sustainable†replacements. Expensive, unreliable "renewable†energy would destroy jobs and economies,
depress living standards, keep poor nations impoverished – and cause conflicts,
famines and refugee migrations, as countries fight over increasingly scarce
energy, food and resources. Developing countries say they were promised $100 billion a year, for
starters, plus free energy technology transfers. That’s the primary reason they
signed the Paris climate treaty. They’re angry that barely $3.5 billion has been put on the table, and rich
countries say they cannot afford to pay more, especially if they’re also
supposed to slash their fossil fuel use and thus economic prosperity. The biggest snow job is any claimed devotion to transparency. Secrecy and
deception are fundamental to the IPCC process. Anyone who questions the "fossil
fuels cause climate chaos†thesis is silenced. So is anyone who suggests that
data and evidence should determine policy – instead of computer models. Katowice organizers are furious that a Trump Administration exhibit will
highlight the remarkable benefits of fossil fuels. They vilify scientists who
emphasize the sun’s vital role in climate change, or point out the many ways
that temperature, storm, drought and other climate data are cherrypicked,
"homogenized,†manipulated or even fabricated to drive alarmist narratives. They
ignore the Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age and 1970-1976 global cooling
scare. The real IPCC and Paris treaty agenda is simple. Blame humans and fossil
fuels for virtually all climate and weather events. Control energy use, economic
growth and living standards – lowering them in industrialized countries and
limiting them in developing nations. Redistribute the world’s wealth and
resources. And replace the capitalist economic model with a global green
socialist system, controlled by the UN, IPCC and green activists. Lack of energy, jobs, safe water and decent living standards is a far more
pressing issue for poor countries than climate change. No wonder Asia alone
already has some 2,000 gigawatts of coal-fired power plants operating or
under construction. That’s nearly twice as much as total US summertime
generating capacity. Meanwhile, every Irish household faces new carbon taxes of $3,000 to
$5,000 a year (!) unless their government imposes equally costly measures to
reduce "greenhouse gas†emissions and avoid paying punitive EU fines. To gauge
likely Irish reaction to that, look to France – where tens of thousands have
been rioting over President Macron’s plans to implement higher carbon taxes. Climate insanity needs to be reined in. CFACT’s delegation to Katowice is
working hard to get that process underway. Craig Rucker is president of CFACT, the Committee For A
Constructive Tomorrow, a free market think tank devoted to sound science for
both people and planet.
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