{"id":45153,"date":"2022-04-06T14:11:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45153"},"modified":"2022-04-06T14:11:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:11:50","slug":"the-sky-is-falling-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45153","title":{"rendered":"The Sky Is Falling…Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"

On April 6th, Issues & Insights<\/a> posted an article about the latest alarm about climate change.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve heard so many declarations that our \u201clast chance\u201d to avoid global warming has arrived that we\u2019ve lost count of the number of times the world has ended. But the sirens continue to wail, the latest from a United Nations grandee who says humanity has to act \u201cnow or never\u201d to avoid overheating its host planet. Pardon us while we yawn.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Jim Skea, a European academic who co-chairs the U.N.\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III, \u201cit\u2019s now or never, if we want to limit global warming\u201d to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Keeping Earth\u2019s temperatures in check \u201cwill be impossible,\u201d he said, \u201cwithout immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Skea\u2019s comment arrived wrapped up in Working Group III\u2019s just-released report on global warming mitigation, part of the IPCC\u2019s sixth climate assessment. The media, which loves to breathlessly report the demise of the world caused by human carbon dioxide emissions, says the 1.5-degree limit \u201cis recognized as a crucial global target because beyond this level, so-called tipping points become more likely. These are thresholds at which small changes can lead to dramatic shifts in Earth\u2019s entire life support system.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK, then. But let\u2019s back up a moment. Or maybe 13 years. That\u2019s when Prince Charles said, with a deep, trust-me earnestness, that our world had only \u201c100 months to act\u201d before we had done so much damage that the effects of global warming would become irreversible.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then last year, about 150 months after his previous doomsday prediction, the prince said that the upcoming climate summit in Glasgow was \u201cquite literally \u2026 the last chance saloon\u201d to stop the scourge of warming.<\/strong><\/p>\n

None of the people who continually yell that the sky is falling are willing to note that there was an extended period of global warming during the Middle Ages. During that time crops flourished, and people survived. It should also be noted that plant fossils have been found under the Greenland ice cap. At some point, green things grew in Greenland. The earth’s climate is continually changing. Man’s impact on that change, if at all, is minimal. I support clean air and clean water. I don’t support authoritative governments trying to steal the wealth of successful democratic countries and give it to poorer countries ruled by tyrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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