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Ideologues use all sorts of tricks to convince the general public to support them on the climate change issue. A perennial favorite is to trumpet the current year as the "[[warmest year on record]]", as if one [[outlier]] denotes a [[trend]]. Probably the most insidious kind of trick is to accuse objective people of cherry-picking and censorship, while hypocritically doing just that themselves.  

Ideologues use all sorts of tricks to convince the general public to support them on the climate change issue. A perennial favorite is to trumpet the current year as the "[[warmest year on record]]", as if one [[outlier]] denotes a [[trend]]. Probably the most insidious kind of trick is to accuse objective people of cherry-picking and censorship, while hypocritically doing just that themselves.  

The allegedly harmful effects of climate change include warming temperatures, changing weather patterns, an increase in sea level and in general any climate event affected by global warming.<ref>http://chaser.env.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~kengo/lec/IPCC_TAR-FRONT.pdf</ref> Climate change is one of the top [[Environmental Issues|environmental issues]], with [[liberal]]s and [[conservative]]s evenly divided on whether [[global warming]] is man-made or, if it is significantly occurring, is a natural event — along with [[global cooling]]. By 2019, voters were increasingly rejecting radical climate change policies.<ref>Burnett, H. Sterling (May 18, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/around-the-world-backlash-against-expensive-climate-change-policies Around the world, backlash against expensive climate-change policies]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved May 18, 2019.</ref>

The allegedly harmful effects of climate change include warming temperatures, changing weather patterns, an increase in sea level, and in general any climate event affected by global warming.<ref>http://chaser.env.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~kengo/lec/IPCC_TAR-FRONT.pdf</ref> Climate change is one of the top [[Environmental Issues|environmental issues]], with [[liberal]]s and [[conservative]]s evenly divided on whether [[global warming]] is man-made or, if it is significantly occurring, is a natural event — along with [[global cooling]]. By 2019, voters were increasingly rejecting radical climate change policies.<ref>Burnett, H. Sterling (May 18, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/around-the-world-backlash-against-expensive-climate-change-policies Around the world, backlash against expensive climate-change policies]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved May 18, 2019.</ref>

Jack M. Hollander wrote:

Jack M. Hollander wrote:

#*Low-altitude clouds reflect some of the sun's radiation back into the atmosphere, cooling the earth. It's not yet known whether global warming will dissipate clouds, which would effectively speed up the process of climate change, or increase [[cloud cover]], which would slow it down. [http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1912448,00.html#ixzz1EyuBDJo1]

#*Low-altitude clouds reflect some of the sun's radiation back into the atmosphere, cooling the earth. It's not yet known whether global warming will dissipate clouds, which would effectively speed up the process of climate change, or increase [[cloud cover]], which would slow it down. [http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1912448,00.html#ixzz1EyuBDJo1]

#What are the uncertainties in understanding climatic change?

#What are the uncertainties in understanding climatic change?

#*The UN's climate panel said recently there is '''a 90% chance''' that most of the last 50 to 100 years of global warming are due to human activity

#*The UN's climate panel said recently there is '''a 90% chance''' that most of the last 50 to 100 years of global warming are due to human activity.

#*[[Sallie Baliunas]] points out that the same climate panel also said, "Our ability to quantify the human influence on global climate is limited because the expected signal is still emerging from the noise of natural variability, and because there are uncertainties in key factors" [http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/books/g_warming/solar.html]

#*[[Sallie Baliunas]] points out that the same climate panel also said, "Our ability to quantify the human influence on global climate is limited because the expected signal is still emerging from the noise of natural variability, and because there are uncertainties in key factors" [http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/books/g_warming/solar.html]

#Most of this warming is man-made.

#Most of this warming is man-made.

#The warming is likely to continue and to be harmful to human, animal and plant life.

#The warming is likely to continue and to be harmful to human, animal and plant life.

#We must all work together to stop it by reducing emission of [[greenhouse gases]].

#We must all work together to stop it by reducing emissions of [[greenhouse gases]].

==Science and climate change==

==Science and climate change==

One of the major problems with many scientists' conclusions about climate change is a misunderstanding of [[correlation]] versus [[causation]]. Some studies show correlations between increasing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases and increasing [[precipitation]], and between human activity and atmospheric greenhouse gases, and then go so far as to conclude that humans are causing increased rain, snow, and catastrophic flooding.<ref>Gillis, Justin. "Study Links Rise in Rain and Snow to Human Actions." ''The New York Times'', February 16, 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/science/earth/17extreme.html?_r=2&ref=science</ref><ref>Schiermeier, Quirin. "Increased Flood Risk Linked to Global Warming." 2011. ''Nature'', Vol. 470, p. 316. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110216/full/470316a.html</ref> Correlation does not imply causation. This is especially true considering the relatively short periods of data used (a few decades at most) compared to the Earth's age, and the fact that weather patterns have been cyclic throughout history (see [[climate cycles]]).

One of the major problems with many scientists' conclusions about climate change is a misunderstanding of [[correlation]] versus [[causation]]. Some studies show correlations between increasing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases and increasing [[precipitation]], and between human activity and atmospheric greenhouse gases, and then go so far as to conclude that humans are causing increased rain, snow, and catastrophic flooding.<ref>Gillis, Justin. "Study Links Rise in Rain and Snow to Human Actions." ''The New York Times'', February 16, 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/science/earth/17extreme.html?_r=2&ref=science</ref><ref>Schiermeier, Quirin. "Increased Flood Risk Linked to Global Warming." 2011. ''Nature'', Vol. 470, p. 316. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110216/full/470316a.html</ref> Correlation does not imply causation. This is especially true considering the relatively short periods of data used (a few decades at most) compared to the Earth's age, and the fact that weather patterns have been cyclic throughout history (see [[climate cycles]]).

Climate change is neither anthropogenic nor apocalyptic. [[Douglas Pollock]] comments that 95% of greenhouse gases are water vapor 3.6% of these gases are CO₂.

Climate change is neither anthropogenic nor apocalyptic. [[Douglas Pollock]] comments that 95% of greenhouse gases are water vapor. 3.6% of these gases are CO₂.

Of the gases in the atmosphere 0.04% is CO₂, only 0.01% is generated by humans. All greenhouse gases represent 1% of the gases.

Of the gases in the atmosphere, 0.04% is CO₂; only 0.01% is generated by humans. All greenhouse gases represent 1% of the gases.

Carbon dioxide is the gas of life, it is vital for life, in fact the earth has greened between 1982 and 2014 by 15% and the Sahara has shrunk by 300 thousand km2.<ref>[https://odysee.com/globalwarming:4 The Truth about Climate Change, Global Warming and United Nations Mafia - by [[Douglas Pollock]], a scientist recognized by Donald Trump]</ref>

Carbon dioxide is the gas of life; it is vital for life. in fact, the earth has greened between 1982 and 2014 by 15% and the Sahara has shrunk by 300 thousand km2.<ref>[https://odysee.com/globalwarming:4 The Truth about Climate Change, Global Warming and United Nations Mafia - by [[Douglas Pollock]], a scientist recognized by Donald Trump]</ref>

In the Middle Ages there was a warm period on earth, instead of being detrimental, it was beneficial, as fewer people died from cold (cold kills 20 times more than heat), the greatest cathedrals and castles in history were built (including Notre Dame).

In the Middle Ages there was a warm period on earth. instead of being detrimental, it was beneficial, as fewer people died from cold (cold kills 20 times more than heat). the greatest cathedrals and castles in history were built (including Notre Dame).

In the last 8 glaciations CO₂ has been at its maximum level and in the warmings at its minimum.

Between 1945 and 1970 the temperature decreased as the world became more and more industrialized.

 

Between 1945 and 1970, the temperature decreased as the world became more and more industrialized.

The current warming has been the weakest since the last 10,000 years.

The current warming has been the weakest since the last 10,000 years.

The sun and the Earth's oscillations (Milanković cycles) are the main causes of climate change, scientists have found a correlation.

The sun and the Earth's oscillations (Milanković cycles) are the main causes of climate change; scientists have found a correlation.

The environmentalism business moves 1.3 trillion dollars.

The environmentalism business moves 1.3 trillion dollars.

Is it worth sending the economy down the drain?

Is it worth sending the economy down the drain?

Prominent personalities have spoken out on the matter:

Prominent personalities have spoken out on the matter:

John L. Casey, NASA scientist has said that climate change is the "biggest scam".

John L. Casey, NASA scientist, has said that climate change is the "biggest scam".

Patrick Moore, co-founder of GreenPeace talks about this being a scare campaign to steal more funds from taxpayers.

Patrick Moore, co-founder of GreenPeace talks about this being a scare campaign to steal more funds from taxpayers.

Dr. Ottmar Endenhofer said in 2010 "We at the IPCC de facto redistribute the world's wealth with climate policies..." "One must free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is about environmentalism. This is no longer about environmentalism."

Dr. Ottmar Endenhofer said in 2010 "We at the IPCC de facto redistribute the world's wealth with climate policies..." "One must free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is about environmentalism. This is no longer about environmentalism."

In the past 41 climate "experts" have made erroneous predictions about environmental catastrophes.

In the past 41 climate "experts" have made erroneous predictions about environmental catastrophes.

The water level is not going to rise 3 meters as predicted, the Archimedes Principle says that ice has the same density as water, it is not able to rise much when the ice melts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/09/20/nolte-climate-experts-are-0-41-with-their-doomsday-predictions/|title=Nolte: Climate ‘Experts’ Are 0-41 with Their Doomsday Predictions *UPDATE 0-53*|publisher=Breitbart|date=September 20, 2019}}</ref>

The water level is not going to rise 3 meters as predicted. the Archimedes Principle says that ice has the same density as water; it is not able to rise much when the ice melts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/09/20/nolte-climate-experts-are-0-41-with-their-doomsday-predictions/|title=Nolte: Climate ‘Experts’ Are 0-41 with Their Doomsday Predictions *UPDATE 0-53*|publisher=Breitbart|date=September 20, 2019}}</ref>

Who started with the myth of 97% of scientists agreeing that "the Earth is warming and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause" is John Cook of the Global Change Institute in Australia, "main cause" meaning over 50%, but an analysis reveals that it is only 2%.

Who started with the myth of 97% of scientists agreeing that "the Earth is warming and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause" is John Cook of the Global Change Institute in Australia, "main cause" meaning over 50%, but an analysis reveals that it is only 2%.

To get to 97% he added papers that explicitly said there is anthropogenic climate change, without saying how much of it was anthropogenic and added papers that said there is climate change, without saying it is anthropogenic although he could say implicitly.<ref>[https://odysee.com/Eco-Communism-The-Climate-Change-Hoax-Documentary:1 Eco-Communism The Climate Change Hoax Documentary]</ref><ref>[https://www.bitchute.com/video/9Vqlq3wsWrI/ GREENPEACE FOUNDER DEBUNKS CLIMATE CHANGE! (DR. PATRICK MOORE UNCUT) | LOUDER WITH CROWDER]</ref><ref>[https://www.prageru.com/video/do-97-of-climate-scientists-really-agree Do 97% of Climate Scientists Really Agree?]</ref><ref>[http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/05/97-study-falsely-classifies-scientists.html 97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists' Papers, according to the scientists that published them]</ref><ref>[https://www.wsj.com/articles/joseph-bast-and-roy-spencer-the-myth-of-the-climate-change-97-1401145980 The Myth of the Climate Change '97%']</ref><ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2015/01/06/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-is-100-wrong/?sh=62e148cb3f9f '97% Of Climate Scientists Agree' Is 100% Wrong]</ref>

To get to 97% he added papers that explicitly said there is anthropogenic climate change, without saying how much of it was anthropogenic, and added papers that said there is climate change, without saying it is anthropogenic, although he could say implicitly.<ref>[https://odysee.com/Eco-Communism-The-Climate-Change-Hoax-Documentary:1 Eco-Communism The Climate Change Hoax Documentary]</ref><ref>[https://www.bitchute.com/video/9Vqlq3wsWrI/ GREENPEACE FOUNDER DEBUNKS CLIMATE CHANGE! (DR. PATRICK MOORE UNCUT) | LOUDER WITH CROWDER]</ref><ref>[https://www.prageru.com/video/do-97-of-climate-scientists-really-agree Do 97% of Climate Scientists Really Agree?]</ref><ref>[http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/05/97-study-falsely-classifies-scientists.html 97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists' Papers, according to the scientists that published them]</ref><ref>[https://www.wsj.com/articles/joseph-bast-and-roy-spencer-the-myth-of-the-climate-change-97-1401145980 The Myth of the Climate Change '97%']</ref><ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2015/01/06/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-is-100-wrong/?sh=62e148cb3f9f '97% Of Climate Scientists Agree' Is 100% Wrong]</ref>

The Spanish Geologist Lluís Pomar states that: "The cause is not human, it is solar. The energy varies, the distance to the Earth changes. [...] The media are dominated by the official version, and those who don't follow it, cataclysm. [...] Geology is a science with a practical side, studying economic resources such as groundwater or soil permeability. And it has another historical dimension, which allows us to know that the concentration of CO2 in dinosaur times was a hundred times higher than it is today. Without human beings. [...] Yes, because the climate crisis is determined by computer models, with extrapolations of those who believe they are able to establish the future. Not me, I look to the past. [...] No one denies that the planet has warmed since 1800, but it has cooled before. [...] I consider myself a scientist who is not afraid to tell the truth. I will give you facts, not slogans. Those who indoctrinate are progressives, I am evil, fascist and whatever else can be added. [...] The Global Climate Intelligence Group was started by Dutch people five years ago. At the beginning there were very few of us, but more and more scientists are joining. [...] Those who listen to the official version, their big lie about climate change, should be more surprised. CO2 is life. Why is it bad, if its levels have never been so low since the end of the Primary Era. This is ecoterrorism."<ref>[https://www.diariodemallorca.es/mallorca/2024/01/27/lluis-pomar-geologo-co2-vida-97396333.html Lluís Pomar, geólogo: «El CO2 es la vida, el cambio climático es una gran mentira»]</ref>

The Spanish Geologist Lluís Pomar states that: "The cause is not human, it is solar. The energy varies, the distance to the Earth changes. [...] The media are dominated by the official version, and those who don't follow it, cataclysm. [...] Geology is a science with a practical side, studying economic resources such as groundwater or soil permeability. And it has another historical dimension, which allows us to know that the concentration of CO2 in dinosaur times was a hundred times higher than it is today. Without human beings. [...] Yes, because the climate crisis is determined by computer models, with extrapolations of those who believe they are able to establish the future. Not me, I look to the past. [...] No one denies that the planet has warmed since 1800, but it has cooled before. [...] I consider myself a scientist who is not afraid to tell the truth. I will give you facts, not slogans. Those who indoctrinate are progressives, I am evil, fascist and whatever else can be added. [...] The Global Climate Intelligence Group was started by Dutch people five years ago. At the beginning there were very few of us, but more and more scientists are joining. [...] Those who listen to the official version, their big lie about climate change, should be more surprised. CO2 is life. Why is it bad, if its levels have never been so low since the end of the Primary Era. This is ecoterrorism."<ref>[https://www.diariodemallorca.es/mallorca/2024/01/27/lluis-pomar-geologo-co2-vida-97396333.html Lluís Pomar, geólogo: «El CO2 es la vida, el cambio climático es una gran mentira»]</ref>

==History of Climate Change vs. Global Warming==

==History of Climate Change vs. Global Warming==

The term climate change has its origins several decades ago when physicist Gilbert Plass published a study called ''The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change'' in 1956.<ref>http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2153-3490.1956.tb01206.x/abstract</ref>

The term climate change has its origins several decades ago, when physicist Gilbert Plass published a study called ''The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change'' in 1956.<ref>http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2153-3490.1956.tb01206.x/abstract</ref>

In this study, Plass postulated the release of CO₂ into the atmosphere by industrial and other human activities may have caused the temperature rise noticed in the twentieth century.

In this study, Plass postulated that the release of CO₂ into the atmosphere by industrial and other human activities may have caused the temperature rise noticed in the twentieth century.

The term global warming was first thought to be used by Wallace Broecker, a geochemist from [[Columbia University]]'s Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. His paper, ''Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?'' <ref>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/files/2009/10/broeckerglobalwarming75.pdf</ref> acknowledged the scenario of global warming, though there was a common acknowledgement that airborne aerosols may cause global cooling.  

The term global warming was first thought to be used by Wallace Broecker, a geochemist from [[Columbia University]]'s Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. His paper, ''Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?'' <ref>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/files/2009/10/broeckerglobalwarming75.pdf</ref> acknowledged the scenario of global warming, though there was a common acknowledgement that airborne aerosols may cause global cooling.  

A National Academy of Science study of carbon dioxide's impact on climate published in 1979 also used the term global warming to refer to surface temperature change.<ref>http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~brianpm/download/charney_report.pdf</ref> Jule Charney of the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in Cambridge declared: "If carbon dioxide continues to increase, we find no reason to doubt that climate changes will result and no reason to believe that these changes will be negligible.” Climate change was still used to refer to the other changes thought to be caused by increased CO₂.

A National Academy of Science study of carbon dioxide's impact on climate, published in 1979, also used the term global warming to refer to surface temperature change.<ref>http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~brianpm/download/charney_report.pdf</ref> Jule Charney of the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in Cambridge declared: "If carbon dioxide continues to increase, we find no reason to doubt that climate changes will result and no reason to believe that these changes will be negligible.” Climate change was still used to refer to the other changes thought to be caused by increased CO₂.

==Extreme weather events==

==Extreme weather events==

With regard to the catastrophic flooding in [[Pakistan]], Fox News reported that Pakistani senator and “the country’s top climate official" Sherry Rehman, said on Twitter that Pakistan is in 2022 experiencing a "serious climate catastrophe, one of the hardest in the decade." The senator said that “we are at the moment at the ground zero of the front line of extreme weather events”, and described “an unrelenting cascade of heatwaves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacial lake outbursts, flood events and now the monster monsoon of the decade.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/world/pakistan-flooding-deaths-pass-one-thousand-in-climate-catastrophe  "Pakistan flooding deaths pass 1,000 in ‘climate catastrophe’ ". Fox News August 28, 2022]</ref>

With regard to the catastrophic flooding in [[Pakistan]], Fox News reported that Pakistani senator “the country’s top climate official" Sherry Rehman, said on Twitter that Pakistan is in 2022 experiencing a "serious climate catastrophe, one of the hardest in the decade." The senator said that “we are at the moment at the ground zero of the front line of extreme weather events”, described “an unrelenting cascade of heatwaves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacial lake outbursts, flood events and now the monster monsoon of the decade.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/world/pakistan-flooding-deaths-pass-one-thousand-in-climate-catastrophe  "Pakistan flooding deaths pass 1,000 in ‘climate catastrophe’ ". Fox News August 28, 2022]</ref>

===Winters===

===Winters===

Heavy seasonal snow and extreme snowstorms occur with great frequency, with. the number "of extreme snowstorms in the eastern two-thirds of the contiguous United States" increasing over the last hundred years. There were about double the number of extreme snowstorms in the second half of the 20th century than the first.<ref>[https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/climate-change-and-extreme-snow-us "Climate Change and Extreme Snow in the US", National Centers forEnvironmental Information]</ref>

Heavy seasonal snow and extreme snowstorms occur with great frequency, with the number "of extreme snowstorms in the eastern two-thirds of the contiguous United States" increasing over the last hundred years. There were about double the number of extreme snowstorms in the second half of the 20th century than the first.<ref>[https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/climate-change-and-extreme-snow-us "Climate Change and Extreme Snow in the US", National Centers forEnvironmental Information]</ref>

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

*[[Failed climate change predictions]]

*[[Failed climate change predictions]]

*[[Jair Bolsonaro and the Amazon Rainforest]]

*[[Jair Bolsonaro and the Amazon Rainforest]]

*[https://www.foxnews.com/category/weather Fox News on "extreme weather in USA]

*[https://www.foxnews.com/category/weather Fox News on "extreme weather in USA"]

==References==

==References==