“A Lie will go around the world while Truth is pulling its boots on.” This proverb was mostly likely penned by Jonathan Swift in 1710 and eloquently restated by Charles Haddon Spurgeon in 1855.
There are no witches, but once upon a time most of the general public thought that witches caused droughts, floods and famine. So, these purveyors of “evil” had to be sought out and punished. Looking back at the history of that era, and it is a long history, there may have been some vested interests pushing the propaganda about the existence of witches. Perhaps these interests were the clergy of the time or politicians seeking to label their opposition as being in league with Satan. But there are no witches. There, I said it twice. There are just people who think there are witches or just people who think they are witches. Sorry Reverend Mather of Harvard. A consensus of the esteemed learned and the general public doesn’t make it so. There are no witches.
Fossil fuels don’t cause catastrophic climate change. Fossil fuels provide convenient, portable and economic energy for the World. The burning of fossil fuels releases some carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Some of the carbon dioxide is absorbed by the oceans. But fossil fuels don’t cause catastrophic climate change. If you doubled the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from all sources, the average global surface temperature change would be less than 1-degree Celsius and it would take several decades to just do that. That would be a good thing for Canadians and those who live in Alaska, or even Siberia assuming they noticed the 1-degree improvement. They probably wouldn’t. And the World’s grain harvests would increase as well. Also a good thing. And we will adapt to this minor temperature improvement by using fossil fuels for heating, cooling, transportation, pumping, planting, plastics and fertilizing the ground. Fossil fuels don’t cause catastrophic climate change. Fossil fuels provide the back-up power for utility grids using intermittent, un-reliable sources of energy such as wind and solar panel farms. Unfortunately for anti-human environmentalists, wind and solar panel farms also need fossil fuels for mining, manufacturing and installation. A consensus of groveling university researchers, climate modeling fools, promoters of anarchy, and corrupt politicians does not alter the Truth, fossil fuels do not cause catastrophic climate change.
And one more thing, there is no catastrophic climate change, just climate change. Get used to it. We always have.
Well put! When will the general public wake up and admit to long-standing scientific knowledge?