Climate alarmists want to keep you alarmed about climate change. They want you in fear because you are easier to manipulate if you believe there is a scary crisis in the offing. If the world is NOT warming out of control than let us concentrate on the variability of the climate and make the claim that the climate will be more variable with increasing amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere. This is the power of suggestion. People will now begin to note occurrences of weather that seem to corroborate this claim.
The recent (November 2014) snowstorm in Buffalo that dropped six feet of the white stuff on the ground was followed a few days later by mild temperatures that had people worrying about flooding. Isn’t that an example of increased variability? Alarmists must be correct.
Is it assumed that such variability did not occur in the pre-industrial past when the concentration of CO2 was ‘natural’ and not ‘man made’? Do we have adequate records from the past against which to judge the validity of the claim of increased variability?
If not, then how can we know? We can’t. This makes the claim hard to disprove. A perfect ‘warn’ for alarmists. So they will keep repeating it as if it were a known fact.
Variability is a feature not a bug in our climate. We live in a dynamic complex chaotic non-linear atmosphere where the weather can change on a dime. We can’t escape it. Warm here; cold there. Heat distribution not so rare. Our man made satellite and communication systems allow us to be aware of this simple truth on a daily basis.
There is nothing in the weather trends that indicate that the climate is getting noticeably warmer from the rise in human emissions of CO2. Either CO2 traps heat to cause a significant warming or it does not. Much larger than current concentrations have occurred in the past and the planet did not enter a period of runaway global warming. This should convince anyone that CO2 is not the horrible heat trapping device that some have suggested. Instead, we should focus on the fact that CO2 is an invisible trace gas essential to life on Earth and concentrate our attention on the natural factors that do, in fact, control the climate of our planet.
Billion dollar supercomputer climate models that give the starring role to CO2 need to be reworked to include the natural factors like clouds that they currently ignore because of a lack of data. Wasting resources in pursuit of a non-problem is not a sign of intelligent behaviour. However it could be a ruse covering pursuit of a more sinister motive, the sleight of hand of the magician used to create an illusion. Beware the totalitarians among us. As a method of conquest deception is less bloody than coercion.