The Historyscoper's Climate Watch: What makes global warming different from other apocalyptic predictions that turned out to be false (such as Y2K and global cooling)?

Friday, August 23, 2019

What makes global warming different from other apocalyptic predictions that turned out to be false (such as Y2K and global cooling)?

https://www.quora.com/What-makes-global-warming-different-from-other-apocalyptic-predictions-that-turned-out-to-be-false-such-as-Y2K-and-global-cooling/

My reply:

https://www.quora.com/What-makes-global-warming-different-from-other-apocalyptic-predictions-that-turned-out-to-be-false-such-as-Y2K-and-global-cooling/answer/TL-Winslow

The Y2K scare was based on the utterly dumb level of programming art back in the 1970s-90s that thought of computer memory as dear and every byte to be saved, thus they kept the date only as two decimal digits, e.g., 75 instead of four, i.e., 1975. Beginning programming manuals all seemed to teach this trick. Too bad, the U.S. govt, full of even dumber managers purchased vast software systems that it fielded for decades, long after the original programmers disappeared, and when the 1990s rolled around somebody noticed that when the year 2000 rolls around those 2-digit dates will rollover from 99 to 00, perhaps causing catastrophic failure of their systems when two dates are subtracted, e.g., letting all prisoners out of their cells because they served 100 years of their sentences, or worse, causing two airliners to crash in the sky because they were supposed to be nowhere near each other, or even worse, causing the fail-safe on nuclear missile silos to go off after thinking they received no signals for 100 years. By the time the problem was discovered, the Millennium Bug was 100 times more expensive to fix, what a boondoggle for programmers, imagine all the padded overtime, but there was no Y2K apocalypse, so it’s all water under the bridge now. The blindness was compounded by evangelic Christians who preached the end of the world in 2000. If they had thought ahead, every programming org. should have had a Y2K Compliance Office that issued Y2K Compliance Certificates for every software project slated to be used on or after the year 2000.

Year 2000 problem - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem)

Global cooling was big in the news in the 1970s, with scientists predicting a coming ice age, although peer-reviewed global cooling articles were almost non-existent, ditto for global warming. Instead it was about ozone and acid rain.

“Climate experts believe the next ice age is on it’s way…within a lifetime…” (https://www.johnlocke.org/update/climate-experts-believe-the-next-ice-age-is-on-its-way-within-a-lifetime/)

In 1988 atmospheric (mainly Venus) scientist James Hansen, in cahoots with politician Al Gore and Canadian Marxist U.N. honcho Maurice Strong gave a speech to Congress that spooked them about a coming global warming apocalypse caused by the fossil fuel industry (really capitalism itself), and a gigantic complex of scientific orgs., scientists, academics, and journalists was born called the U.N. IPCC that began sucking millions and billions with the goal of foisting the scare on the world with visions of a Marxist world govt. dancing in their heads, finally dethroning the white supremacist U.S. and achieving global racial and social justice. The U.S. Congress resisted it, but the U.N. octopus of world govts. full of haters of the U.S. pushed it along anyway, capturing the U.S. leftists and eventually the whole Democratic Party in a perfect storm, with Big Oil thoroughly demonized along with capitalism itself, using their very attempt to protect themselves as proof of guilt.

James Hansen - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen)

Al Gore - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore)

Maurice Strong - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Strong)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC)
https://climatism.blog/2019/05/28/dr-tim-ball-must-read-environmentalism-evidence-suggests-it-was-always-and-only-about-achieving-world-government/

Too bad for them, most people in the U.S. still don’t buy the scare, which doesn’t keep them from continuing to try. At least they scared Big Oil into making a deal for a piece of the renewable energy pie, taking them out of the scientific fight, although they still fund lobbyists, leaving it to the blogsphere to take up the torch and spread the truth that CO2 is good not bad, and Marxism is bad not good. Despite most scientists needing to go along to keep their paychecks, more and more brave independent and retired scientists are coming out with the truth that the CO2 AGW theory is a hoax with ulterior motives.

"The AGW climate scare of the last 30 years did not come to the forefront from individual scientists beginning to coalesce around the idea that rising levels of CO2 might pose a serious future climate threat to society. This threat was, by contrast, imposed upon the world from ‘above' by the coming together of globally influential politicians, environmentalists, internationalists, etc. who knew little about climate but saw great political opportunities by using the rising CO2 levels as a scare tactic in order to exercise control over them. People respond best out of fear. But lasting response to fear must have a firm basis in truth. The AGW scare does not." - Colo. State U. atmospheric scientist William M. Gray (1929–2006) The Physical Flaws of the Global Warming Theory and Deep Ocean Circulation Changes as the Primary Climate Driver (https://hifast.wordpress.com/2019/02/27/the-physical-flaws-of-the-global-warming-theory-and-deep-ocean-circulation-changes-as-the-primary-climate-driver/)

TL Winslow's answer to Has there actually been a scientific debate over global warming? (https://www.quora.com/Has-there-actually-been-a-scientific-debate-over-global-warming/answer/TL-Winslow)

TL Winslow's answer to Is climate change/global warming a money grab for corporations? (https://www.quora.com/Is-climate-change-global-warming-a-money-grab-for-corporations/answer/TL-Winslow)

TL Winslow's answer to If climate change is a hoax, why do so many scientists say it's happening? (https://www.quora.com/If-climate-change-is-a-hoax-why-do-so-many-scientists-say-its-happening/answer/TL-Winslow)

TL Winslow's answer to Are there any university Physics educated climate change skeptics who can definitively refute the 120 year old basis for Anthropogenic Global warming? (https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-university-Physics-educated-climate-change-skeptics-who-can-definitively-refute-the-120-year-old-basis-for-Anthropogenic-Global-warming/answer/TL-Winslow)

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What Is the Antarctic Volcanoes Project?

It's too bad the current brouhaha about CO2 is so narrowly focused. So what if a higher concentration in the atmosphere raises global average temps? If higher temps were accompanied by increased atmospheric moisture, it would even out around the world and turn it into a paradise planet, greening the deserts so that the teeming billions could be fed. Cold temperatures are inimical to life, not a goal of life.

Too bad, it might take a lot more CO2 than you think to really change the global weather, but not because it has any control over Earth's surface temperatures. In fact atmospheric CO2 can't melt an ice cube with its 15 micron main radiation wavelength that has a Planck radiation temperature of -80C, colder than dry ice (-78.5C).

Why do they call CO2 greenhouse gas? Because plants breathe it, and they pump it into greenhouses to help them grow and thrive. Polar regions and deserts look good in postcards, but who wants to live there. Meanwhile global pop. is zooming, so obviously the real answer is to pump more CO2 and water vapor into the atmosphere to turn the Earth into a greenhouse, turning deserts both hot and cold into lush green crop-growing regions like 35 million years ago when the avg. global temp was 88F and the CO2 level was 1K parts per million (vs. 415 PPM today). So what if we lose some desert polar regions and even some yummy coastline, the adjustments will be inconvenient but temporary, but I prefer shirt-sleeve weather to Frosty the Snowman. How many arctic animals can't adapt to a warmer climate? What animal needs to live in ice and snow and wouldn't like a vacation to Tahiti? They can lose the fat, hair or feathers.

The real question is can we make and keep the global CO2/H20 levels high enough, and for how long? Sooner or later mass global starvation will become unstoppable if world pop. keeps climbing, and this is the way to forestall it, if we act soon enough. Don't give me them Malthusian objections, give me some CO2/H20 solutions. I like a paradise Earth in the possibility window.

So, while the world is debating the horrors, extent or lack thereof of global warming caused by CO2, let's engineer the CO2/H20 solution to making the Earth a warm temperate planet from pole to pole with no deserts or ice wastelands, allowing vastly more food to be grown and turning poor nations rich. I DON'T mean a planet with wild swings between super-hot summers and super-cold winters, but one that is warmer than now everywhere, but moister and greener, with a giant network of plant life helping to avoid extremes. Since CO2 and water vapor are the keys, and the paltry amounts in the atmosphere need to be increased as soon as possible to turn deserts green and get the warming process off to a good start, but the new levels have to be maintained permanently, I'm looking to remote Antarctica (which is really a sea) as the most promising source for unlimited CO2 and water vapor generation, given that noxious emissions (sulfur dioxide, etc.) can be controlled.

This blog is for posting news on the world climate situation, scientific and political, along with my own articles. I'm sure it will start out with hardly any interest or followers, but I'm hoping that it will attract the smartest people eventually and in the end I hope for a global consensus that if it can be done it must be done.

So what is the Antarctic Volcanoes Project? My working idea is that an international effort to reactivate as many volcanoes in Antarctica as possible in an ideal location for distributing the CO2/H20 will produce the best and most cost-effective results. Sorry, one-worlders, it won't give you a license to override and control any country's economy, but if your country is suffering from lack of food you will be too busy expanding farming to care. Hence until I think of or hear about a better way to increase world CO2/H20 levels, this is my pet project. If you are a scientist, please climb aboard my AVP Express and let's make it happen.

It Would Be Funny If It Were's So Sad

It would be funny it weren't so sad, but when the scientists say "greenhouse gas" they are using a malaprop. It should be greenhouse GLASS, because that's why a greenhouse stays warm, by glass walls stopping convection of air and trapping heat. Yes, CO2 is pumped into greenhouses, but not for heating purposes, only to help plants BREATHE. So the whole sucker's game of "greenhouse gas" must truly be for the purpose of stopping more vegetation from growing and feeding the teeming billions. Is that their true goal? Another blip on the horizon is the promise of melting permafrost releasing gigantic amounts of CO2 from the Arctic not Antarctic sector. Let's hope we at least get some more good CO2 that way.

Jan. 14, 2011. Good article on CO2 levels and global temps 30-40 million years ago