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120 years of climate scares

120 years of climate scares 120 years of climate scares By Thomas Lifson Scientists seeking funding and journalists seeking an audience agree: panic sells. “Global cooling is going to kills us all!” “No, wait: global warming is going to kill us all!” All that’s  missing is a back-and-forth of “You shut up!” “No, you shut up!” That is reserved for those who doubt the need for panic. That’s the gist of an amazing chronology of the last 120 years of scare-mongering on climate, assembled by butnowyouknow.net and reprinted by the estimable Anthony Watts in Wattsupwiththat , who updates it to the present. It is truly mind-boggling: 1895  -  Geologists Think the   World May Be Frozen Up Again  –  New York Times, February 1895 1902  - “Disappearing Glaciers…deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation…scientific fact…surely disappearing.” –  Los Angeles Times 1912  -  Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age  –  New York T

The Problem with 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'

The Problem with 'Anthropogenic Global Warming' By Ferdinand Bardamu The mainstream "consensus" on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) says the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) remained stable for millions of years, until the Industrial Revolution, when it went from 280 ppm in 1750 to 414.7 ppm in 2019.  Environmentalists blame this on man's consumption of fossil fuels, which has increased significantly since the early 1900s. In support of the "consensus" view, climate change researchers write: "[T]he current CO2 concentration is unprecedented over the past 3 million years[.] ... [G]lobal temperature never exceeded the pre-industrial value by more than 2°C during the Quaternary" (Willeit et al., 2019).  Environmentalists predict that, as anthropogenic CO2 rises, there will be more and more natural disasters, threatening the lives of millions of people around the world.  These include more freque