Timothy Birdnow

According to Missouri's climate big cheese last year was the third warmest on record in the Show Me State and the warmest year on record ever in the world.

Well I'm from Missouri and you'd better show me!

He's full of it. The claim 2023 is warmest on record has been debunked by several people and it is essentially Michael Mann's Nature Trick, eliminating the Medieval and Roman warming periods as Mann did (the hockey stick graph), and also assuming we have proper date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (we don't; proxy data is far less accurate than what we have now and "Mike's Nature Trick" was splicing proxy sets onto real data sets and pretending they were the same so he could "hide the decline" in temperature rise as was revealed by the Climategate e-mails.)

We also know NOAA and NASA and CRU have been systematically altering historical data to make this era appear warmer. https://science.house.gov/2017/2/former-noaa-scientist-confirms-colleagues-manipulated-climate-records
and
https://reason.com/2017/02/06/climate-scientists-manipulated-temperatu/

Of course the media is dutifully reporting this to reinforce the hysteria of man-made global climate warming, a hysteria that is wholly unwarranted. IF climate change is caused by Man it is mostly through land use changes and increased atmospheric water vapor (which we had last year thanks to volcanic eruptions). I would add that humans have been drilling for fossil water in deep aquifers and thus increasing the amount of water in the atmosphere. But carbon dioxide? It is a trace gas and human contribution to the rising levels is but a fraction of that. There are just four molecules of carbon dioxide in every TEN THOUSAND molecules of air, up by one and a half molecule from pre-industrial days. And those were low thanks to the Ice Age; we saw much higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere in prior eras.

We need MORE CO2; it is what plants breathe. And it has a logarithmic warming effect; 2* C is the absolute most it will warm.

There are many reasons why Earth has warmed slightly. It is not Industrial emissions or cow farts or human exhalation. And it poses zero danger to civilization.

The REAL danger is in our response to it. We are systematically wrecking the system that made it possible for us to live at all.

Socialism and Malthusianism and Luddite thinking are what pose the real dangers to our health and survival. Pre-industrial civilizations were unhealthy and unwholesome places. There were wars. Losers were usually enslaved. Those who weren't enslaved were serfs, forced into labor for a Lord who offered protection. So if you like slavery and serfdom then by all means stampede like good little cattle into the pens they have prepared for us, and let them cull the herd as people like Bill Gates have openly said they aim to do.

P.T. Barnum warned there was a sucker born every minute. Global Climate Change alarmism is proof positive of that.

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