No end in sight

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Last week I argued that climate “alarmists” continually fail in their doom and gloom predictions. I need to walk that back. 

I found one area where their predictions of doom and gloom are correct — the rising of the oceans. You see, during Donald Trump’s presidency the sea rose an average of 2.84 mm per year (0.1118 inches), and it looks like there is no end in sight. 

When Jimmy Carter was president, the ocean also rose at a rate of 2.84 mm per year. Here are some more figures: Franklin Roosevelt: 2.84 mm per year, Teddy Roosevelt: 2.84 mm per year and Abraham Lincoln: 2.84 mm per year.

These numbers are from the tide gauge in Lower Manhattan, New York, courtesy of NOAA.

How can this be? It was 1882 when the first coal powered electrical power plant in the United States was built. Lincoln was president from 1861-1865.

The ocean has been rising at about the same rate for thousands of years, demonstrating that humans have had little to no effect.

If you recall history class from middle school, anthropologists believe humans migrated from Siberia to North America by walking over a land bridge. 

This was possible because 20 thousand years ago — during the last glacial age — the ocean was about 400 feet lower than it is today.

From 14,000 years ago to 8,000 years ago, sea levels rose very quickly. Since then, it has been a gradual increase like we are experiencing today.

Climate alarmists don’t want you to know that. They want you to correlate the rise of the oceans with man and carbon emissions.

This deception is accomplished by showing the ocean rise with graphs going back to the 1920s, overlooking thousands of years of history.

Climate change deception is easily achieved by choosing the date where a graph begins.

Tom Heller has a video on YouTube that demonstrates this. It’s called “My Gift to Climate Alarmists.” I highly recommend you watch it. It is very eye-opening.

Heller demonstrates this fabrication with a Waverly, Ohio graph showing the number of days above 90 degrees Fahrenheit. He shows that in 1895, there were 73 days above 90 degrees. In 1936, there were 82 days above 90 degrees. Since the 1930s, there has been a downward trend in the number of days above 90 degrees for Waverly.

Climate alarmists show their observations starting in 1955 — the low point on the graph dating back to 1890 — to demonstrate an increase in 90-degree days from eight or nine to 30 or 40.

Make no mistake, this has been a hot summer. But the worst year for heat waves in the United States was 1936 followed by 1934, 1931 and 1930. Number seven and ten are 2011 and 2012. These records are from data from 1895 to 2020.

These are all figures that climate alarmists do not want us to know about.

Another example environmentalists and their political allies give for global warming is the increase in forest fires. However, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service, forest fires reached their peak in the 1930s and have declined by 80 percent through 2019.

The true agenda for environmentalists is demonstrated in the following quotes. Former United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said that the true aim of the U.N.’s 2014 Paris climate conference was “to change the (capitalist) economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”

Christine Stewart, Canada’s former minister of the environment, said: “No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits. … Climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”

Tim Wirth, former United States undersecretary of state for global affairs who helped set up the Kyoto Protocol, said: “We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”

Ottmar Edenhofer, lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fourth summary report released in 2007, speaking in 2010 advised: “One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.”

Someone once said; “It is easier to deceive people than convince them that they are deceived.”