The NYTimes published an alarmist story wrapped as a warning that the planet’s climate tipping points are frighteningly near. But are they?
The New York Times has recently published a long story warning that the planet’s climate tipping points are frighteningly near. The “great systems in the natural world,” the reporters say, “might be pushing toward collapse” due to man’s use of fossil fuel. [emphasis, links added]
Maybe so. Or the changes we’re seeing in the climate might be entirely natural.
But that won’t sell papers to a readership that suffers from a chronic and intellectually stunting case of confirmation bias.
The Times wants us to worry about the mass death of coral reefs, the abrupt thawing of permafrost, the collapse of Greenland ice, the breakup of West Antarctic ice, a sudden shift in the West African monsoon, loss of the Amazon rainforest and the shutdown of Atlantic currents.
And when might disaster be visited on all these hot spots? Well, says the Times, it depends on a number of variables, and in some cases, the timeline is just “hard to predict.”
Or maybe impossible. But again, a story with that angle won’t stir up the true believers who beg to be stirred up. Only alarmist articles will do that.
We pick on the mighty New York Times here, but it’s the legacy media’s great pleasure to spread misleading information and conjecture about the climate.
About the only truth we can know about the claims surrounding anthropogenic global warming is that it’s “political, not physical, science.”
From choosing carbon dioxide as the villain because it’s a convenient “leverage point” for assuming “control over a society,” as noted by retired Massachusetts Institute of Technology meteorology professor Richard Lindzen, to the effort to smear skeptics as “deniers,” the entire global warming enterprise has been a Trojan horse hauled into society by fanatics who are more than willing to lie about “the science” to advance their anti-capitalist, anti-freedom political agenda.
The zealots have no evidence for any of their contentions, but they are rich in speculation and are driven by envy, anger, social ambition, and quite clearly a mental illness that manifests itself in extremism.
The zealots will say anything. When they bark and wail, the truth never even gets a chance to put its pants on.
They tell us that storms, even those of low intensity, are products of man-made climate change. We saw this with last month’s Hurricane Beryl, attributed by all the right people to human-caused warming.
Every time a glacier recedes or the Antarctic loses ice, they say our fossil-fuel use is the reason. When someone miscounts the polar bear population, the screeching about oil and gas is turned up to 11.
Name any event found in nature – wildfires, droughts, floods, heavy rain and snow, rising sea levels, crop losses, famine, disease, all of which there are credible alternate explanations for, and all of which were occurring before man discovered that crude oil was the key to modernity – and they will blame humanity as if it’s a criminal enterprise bent on destruction.
The zealots have no evidence for any of their contentions, but they are rich in speculation and are driven by envy, anger, social ambition, and quite clearly a mental illness that manifests itself in extremism.
There is a remedy, but getting these people to take a strong dose of the truth is hardly a manageable task. It would be easier to sandpaper the backside of a bobcat.
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