Climate alarmists are basically failed doomsday forecasters. For a few examples see here. They believe that the world as we know it will disappear, usually because of global warming, more recently renamed climate change, often in ten years or so. But they hold out one ray of hope. If the world greatly decreases emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), mainly carbon dioxide (CO2), then it will not undergo their predicted catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW). This has been their basic message for several decades. Like most doomsday forecasters, they have repeatedly had to admit that the predicted catastrophes have not happened on their doomsday schedule, but always reaffirm that their faulty predictions have only been postponed.
The alarmists say that the “necessary” reductions in GHG/CO2 emissions can be accomplished by “simply” substituting certain renewable sources of energy, mainly solar and wind, for fossil fuels, so the modern world will then be able to continue its “profligate” use of energy to help humans carry out their daily tasks without generating (as much) CO2. In their view less atmospheric CO2 means lower global temperatures and therefore lower risks of CAGW.
But What if Changes in CO2 Levels Have No Significant Effect on Global Temperatures?
But what if decreases in atmospheric CO2 levels have no significant effect on global temperatures? What if such decreases mainly adversely affect plants, so important for humans and other animals? In this case, substituting wind and solar would have no significant effect on global warming. It would simply result in substituting much more expensive, unreliable, and heavily subsidized renewables for inexpensive, reliable fossil fuels. And later (but much earlier than in the case of much longer lasting fossil fuel plants), all these windmills and solar panels will have to be torn down and disposed of when they wear out or are abandoned due to the eventual end of subsidies. The photovoltaic solar installations contain large amount of toxic substances, so this will not be easy or inexpensive. Huge windmill blades also present disposal problems. And who will pay for all this? Maybe taxpayers as the wind and solar companies go bankrupt?
In fact, recent research shows that changes in atmospheric CO2 levels have no significant effect on global temperatures. The world may be doomed, but not from increasing human-caused CO2 emissions. So climate alarmists appear to be doomed to pushing back their all important doomsday forecasts–for ever and ever. And it is ratepayers and taxpayers that are actually doomed to end up footing the huge bill first for subsidizing the construction of wind and solar installations, then enduring the resulting unreliability of the electric grids, and finally for their huge disposal costs. All this because the alarmists got their climate science wrong before starting to make their doomsday forecasts. So the major climate doom we face is that taxpayers and ratepayers will end up paying out enormous sums as a result of politicians that foolishly listened to the climate doomsayers.
Marc Motano and I must have had a similar feeling about Hawking. It feels strange having to state that Steven hawking is a dummy when it comes to global warming. He is smart about black holes. How can somebody so smart about space be so clueless about earthly climate?
Maybe Al Gore has promised Hawking a trillion bucks, if Al gets the $15T he said he needed?
I would much rather believe Hawking is greedy and corruptible, than have to take on board how stupid he would have to be to believe in climate change.
One of the doomsayers is physicist Stephen hawking at Cambridge. Recently celebrated can his 75th birthday, nice, with thoughts about the earth reaching 275 degrees because trump left the Paris shenanigans. No wonder Prince Charles is so muddled hearing lunacies like this.
There are other examples of ridiculous thoughts from people who are justly famous as smart at something else. William Shockley. Francis Crick. Ezra Pound. There have to be many many more examples.
This May be a bit different from the multitudes who trust the mainstream media endorsing climate science. This may be more of a herd instinct or preference to conform.
Why the South Sea Bubble of climate has lasted as long as it has is itsel an interesting topic.
One guy who does not deserve any blame for persistence of the Bubble is Doc Carlin. his book is more than 500 pages!
When a Hollywood actor shoots his mouth off about climate change, it’s easy to dismiss. The person is simply a chump.
However When a spokesperson for catastrophic climate change is smart person in other matters, as with Hawking, we simoly accept he is wrong about this particular topic. We are all chumps about something, even Stephen hawking.
Plenty of smart theoretical physicists have disdain for climateers. One who is Freeman Dyson, who admits to being generally leftist, but who still cannot stay silent and allow the cargo science lunacies of al gore, Jim Hansen, Obama, and Michael Mann to pass by, unremarked. Dyson has too much integrity to do the convenient thing and accept Fake news celebrity by kowtowing to the climate change belief.
We can still celebrate and respect Hawkings career despite his absurd recent statements about the Paris Agreement.
hawking has a good sense of humor and perhaps his idea that the planet would hit 250 degrees if trumo exits Paris was his idea of a farcical joke.
If so, Hawkings joke is a real kneeslapper for which The professor deserves praise. With all the real and depressing troubles on this planet, it’s wonderful to hear something so preposterous. Very fun!
And don’t forget the environmental disaster caused by millions of acres of solar farms destroying bird and wildlife habits, to say nothing of the millions of birds and bats slaughtered by windmills. These two are real destruction of the environment, unlike producing CO2 plant food to feed the biosphere.
The miserable track record of failed domesday prophesies goes back about three decades, since NASA bureaucrat Jimmy Hansen started to sense the end was nigh because of photosynthesis enabling CO2.
nASAs climateers are conveniently situated near the United Nations and the New York Times, two great champions of Fake News.
Strangely, nasas offices are a few floors above the diner used in the farcical tv show Seinfeld.
For farcical climate science, Kramer, George, and Jerry can take the elevator up to visit with Gavin Schmidt.
Global warming failed as science during the 1990s. It’s not science substantiated, it’s just a scheme to seek money and power, trying to hide behind a tiny figleaf of scientific fraud.
The absence of genuine data indicating growing warmth is why progressives Had to rebrand global warming as the more elusive climate change and later as more dangerous storms. Narratives concocted on Madison Avenue or in Hollywood. Fantasies.
Larry David’s wife empowered al gore to make a movie. So there was a nexus of the nearby UN, the nearby New York Times, the lucrative TV show Seinfeld, Mad Jim and Gavin in the very same building as the diner, And Al’s movie.
Seinfeld was not science based. It’s comedy. It’s entertaining fiction. Larrys exwife is affiliated with an environmental activist group. Hollywood actors respect how much money Larry has made, so they Bow down in respect.
This is not science, it’s entertainment and celebrities contributing to the Democratic Party.
Politicians well understand fellow actors, especially their money given for the noble cause of saving the earth.
When reported by the mainstream media, it’s Fake News.