Monday, October 14, 2019

The BFD | Climate Change: Reality vs Apocalyptic Rhetoric

The BFD | Climate Change: Reality vs Apocalyptic Rhetoric
"Listening to the apocalyptic shrieking of the Klimate Kids and the Extinction Rebellion nutters, it is clear that they are not only staggeringly ignorant of “the science” they fetishise, but completely and utterly divorced from anything approaching reality.
Like old-fashioned fire-and-brimstone preachers, scowling teenagers rant about the fire, tribulation and wailing and teeth-gnashing which awaits us climate sinners. 
But the strictly empirical evidence to date is that the mild warming of the 20th century has been extremely beneficial. 
Those are the facts.
Not “projections”, but hard, empirical data.
The concern over climate change is not so much about the warming that has occurred over the past century. 
Rather, the concern is about projections of 21st century climate change based on climate model simulations of human-caused global warming, particularly those driven by the RCP8.5 greenhouse gas concentration scenario.

Simulations and models should never, ever be confused with empirical data, let alone regarded as hard facts. 
And certainly not models which are “useless pieces of junk or worse…when they are used for climate forecasting”..."
Read all.

No comments: