In retrospect, it was predictable—what climate hysterics would do as the years rolled on with more and more of their predictions being refuted by direct observation.
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was made 20 years ago; the first IPCC report of the UN was 35 years ago; Congress held hearings on global warming 37 years ago; Ayn Rand commented on a Newsweek article that mentioned scientists speculating on climate change 55 years ago (“The Anti-Industrial Revolution” in Return of the Primitive).
And none of the predicted disasters have come to pass. All the warnings and the alarms about “the death of the planet” were wrong. None of the IPCC models were right in their predictions of what global temperatures were going to be.
More than that: climate has not changed in 100 years.
There’s no obvious difference from 1925 in the weather of Paris, Albuquerque, Sydney, New York City, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, London, Tel Aviv . . . you name it.
Some people are beginning to notice. Even some climate scientists. So what is the new line?
“See what we saved you from?!”
The discrepancy between how planet Earth is and what they claimed it would be is being sold as a victory for recycling, better smokestacks, and the Paris Accords. I kid you not.
Here’s my parallel.
A man comes up to you on the sidewalk and says that he has discovered that your gravity is decreasing and that in a year, your attraction to the earth will be so lessened that you will float off into the stratosphere where you will both freeze and asphyxiate. But there is a solution. If you pay him $10,000, and stand on your head for 5 minutes each day, this will keep your gravity intact.
You pay him. And try to stand on your head most days. A year later, you run into him again. You know the punchline. He says: “See, it worked!”
Returning to reality, scientists and even some regular people know that it can’t be that anything the alarmists pushed worked. For one thing, the burning of fossil fuels has not gone down over the last few decades. Here’s a graph prepared by Claude, an AI agent:
Enough said?