https://www.city-journal.org/global-warming#.XbGKGtFqQQM.email
Here's an interesting climate change article. It is an interview of a past climatologist at Georgia Tech. Far from being a science denier, she is a science defender - but uses true scientific theory, and attempts to consider all the
many factors that impact our planet's climate, temperatures, ocean levels, etc. …. not just pre-concluding that any climate change is caused (solely or primarily) by human carbon emissions, then only using measures, models and statistics that support this forgone conclusion, and ignore all other measures, variables, occurrences that refute this pre-conclusion.
IMO saying "the science is settled" and ridiculing or name calling of people who want to know more about all the variables, and what we can do - if anything - to make a difference in climate change...
to me feels like person's who might not be so sure their "settled science" can hold up to even any modest scrutiny, or true scientific analysis.
A few points the article makes:
- The recent warming trend (say, the last two decades) basically exactly matches a warming trend from the 1860s (you know - when we had millions of cars and factories world-wide)
- The planet actually cooled in the 1970s - when carbon emissions may have been at their height. At least in the US, carbon emissions decreased significantly with the significant reduction in manufacturing in the US, and the move for companies to find cleaner, lower emission alternatives.
- The planet actually cooled by about a degree last year.
I realize most people truly have the good of the planet in mind / heart when wanting to "do something about climate change".
I just think there is opportunity for more education and information to get into the mainstream about what we do and don't know about the many causes and variables of climate change, and whether recent changes in these variables have any different impact on the climate, than what has occurred for hundreds or thousands of years. The planet has gone through cycles of being much warmer and much cooler than today, several times in the last few hundreds of years, based on scientific measures and estimates.
For others (not anyone here, I think) - some of the climate change movement isn't really about the planet at all. Instead it's about the hatred for capitalism (which has actually improved the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the globe more than any other factor) -
….preferring some sort of collective form of economy (socialism, for example). I'd put Greta Thurnberg and AOC and the Green New Deal crowd in this group. The Green New Deal people have even stated that "its not about the environment, its about deconstructing and reconstructing the economy".