{"id":32804,"date":"2018-03-12T10:53:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T14:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32804"},"modified":"2018-03-12T10:53:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T14:53:25","slug":"some-rational-thought-on-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32804","title":{"rendered":"Some Rational Thought On Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Horgan<\/a>, the director of the Center for Science<\/a> Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology<\/a>, has written an essay for the Scientific American<\/a><\/em> about global warming. Breitbart<\/a> posted some of his comments today.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The essay<\/a>, penned by John Horgan, the director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, analyzes two recent reports by \u201cecomodernists\u201d who reject climate panic and frame the question of climate change<\/a> and humanity\u2019s ability to cope with it in radically new terms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the reports, a work<\/a> called \u201cEnlightened Environmentalism\u201d by Harvard<\/a> iconoclast Steven Pinker<\/a>, urges people to regain some much-needed perspective on climate, especially in the context of the overwhelming material benefits of industrialization.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pooh-poohing \u201cthe mainstream environmental movement, and the radicalism and fatalism it encourages,\u201d Pinker argues that humanity can solve problems related to climate change the same way it has solved myriad other problems, by harnessing \u201cthe benevolent forces of modernity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Separating himself from environmentalists who seem to detest modernity, Pinker asserts that industrialization \u201chas been good for humanity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

…The second report put forward by Horgan is a recent article<\/a> by Will Boisvert titled \u201cThe Conquest of Climate,\u201d which contends that the \u201cconsequences for human well-being will be small\u201d even if human greenhouse emissions significantly warm the planet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boisvert, who has been described<\/a> as a \u201cleft-wing environmental expert, is no \u201cclimate denier<\/a>,\u201d yet he calls for climate alarmists to take a deep breath and step back from doomsday forecasts that likely have little to do with what will actually take place in the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As an example, the author pokes fun at a 2016 Newsweek<\/em> article announcing that \u201cClimate change could cause half a million deaths in 2050 due to reduced food availability.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The story, based on a Lancet<\/em> study, made dire forecasts regarding the effects of climate change on agriculture<\/a>, while failing to note that the study actually predicts much more abundant food availability in 2050 thanks to advances in agricultural productivity. These advances will \u201cdwarf the effects of climate change,\u201d he contends, and the \u201cpoorest countries will benefit most.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like Pinkers, Boisvert tries to factor in what climate alarmists ignore: the capability of human beings<\/a> to react to changing scenarios in remarkably ingenious ways.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The activities of civilized human beings may have some small impact on the environment, but we are not significant enough to control climate. We have a responsibility to keep the air and water as clean as possible, and sometimes we do not live up to that responsibility. As human beings, we need to be good stewards of our planet, but we do not need to cripple the economies of prosperous nations to do it.<\/p>\n

The article concludes with what is actually a concise summation of what is driving much of the climate change hysteria:<\/p>\n

While climate skeptics will welcome this gust of common sense wafting in from the Scientific American<\/em>, establishment climate alarmists will undoubtedly seek to quash the news, knowing it could affect not only the funding they depend on, but the ideologically driven political programs they seek to impose on the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After all, if the world is not under imminent peril from climate change, who will listen to\u2014and fund\u2014the prophets of doom?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It really is all about the money!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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