Climate Change? Are We Being Scammed?

[Jacob Petersheim]

These are short but pithy:

Climate Change Myths Part 1: Polar Bears, Arctic Ice, and Food Shortages

Climate Change Myths Part 2: Wildfires, Drought, Rising Sea Level, and Coral Reefs

It's not that climate doesn't vary. But the drumbeat of hysteria is misplaced and probably serves darker purposes.

And no, "all scientists" do not agree with the alarmist claims.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

If you get your news from YouTube, you are woefully misinformed.

 

[Mary Stetler]

In the 70's we were warned repeatedly that there was going to be global cooling.
No youtube back then.

 

[Bobby Cole]

Whether or not Global Warming / Climate change is a reality isn’t what I picked up in the title of the thread.
The SCAM part is where I continually focus because most certainly, it can be proven that there are a lot of ne’er-do-wells out there who are making huge amounts of money off of the debacle.

Two of the most prominent abusers are the Paris Accords and Al Gore:
We give 3 billion taxpayer beans to belong to the Paris accord to do what exactly? The biggest hit the “Accord” had to offer up was Greta Thunberg and she’s still at it making millions of bucks being an activist for whatever cause that can keep her uneducated self in the spotlight and make her and her parents more money.
Then there’s Al Gore who gets paid to fly from place to place in his private jet so he can make a speech or sit around and talk about global warming.
Between his energy busting mansions and jet, he’s a living and breathing hypocrite who feasts on fear.

is global warming real? I don’t know. The scientists on both sides of the isle present some valid arguements but there is no denying that there are those who are definitely not letting a crisis, whether bonafide or not, go to waste.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I agree about Al Gore, you can smell the hypocrisy from coast to coast. I have a much "greener" life style than he does, and it hasn't always been by choice. I do what I can afford to do, and don't do what I can't. My two biggest things that contribute to my carbon footprint are my car, which I can't survive without (and can barely afford) and my PC and Internet account. However, I can't help the cost of or the resulting carbon emissions of the Internet itself, just like everyone else who uses it.

But people who say Greta Thunberg is a millionaire because of her activism have no evidence to support that and there is no way they could conclusively prove it. As far as her education goes, she just graduated from High School in 2023. She isn't finished yet. In fact, she's just getting started.

 

[Susannah]

Greta seems to be moving on to another cause.

Greta Thunberg Is Headed to Gaza

townhall.com

 

[Hedi M]

Our government has lied to us all on everything from the beginning of time. However, IMO climate very well could be a problem, for several reasons. One waste, we waste so much,of that we have.Different species of bugs and animal life have changed or in the extinct mode. The lists go on.

 

[Bobby Cole]

I agree about Al Gore, you can smell the hypocrisy from coast to coast. I have a much "greener" life style than he does, and it hasn't always been by choice. I do what I can afford to do, and don't do what I can't. My two biggest things that contribute to my carbon footprint are my car, which I can't survive without (and can barely afford) and my PC and Internet account. However, I can't help the cost of or the resulting carbon emissions of the Internet itself, just like everyone else who uses it.

But people who say Greta Thunberg is a millionaire because of her activism have no evidence to support that and there is no way they could conclusively prove it. As far as her education goes, she just graduated from High School in 2023. She isn't finished yet. In fact, she's just getting started.

She does claim that she draws no money from her activist life and as a matter of record, her worth as of last year was 100K.
Now, a 100K isn’t a whole lot when we talk about legal fees, travel and hotel accommodations and other expenses that go with being a world traveled activist so let’s just say that she is “Highly” sponsored.
Between her book deal, very costly speaking engagements and of course, her merch business, she has no reason to worry about money.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

Why don't we hear a peep about the "carbon footprint" of the huge wildfires in western N.A. every year? While hard to believe, I suppose it might be trivial. But it never seems to be discussed and I haven't seen estimates of their impacts. These must happen in other parts of the world as well, but they seldom seem to be mentioned.

Then you have the wetland marsh emissions of carbon dioxide and methane. Little mention there either, though we do occasionally hear about ocean methane from time to time.

But it all becomes quite tiresome. In the end this climate alarmism seems to have goals including increasing profits and controlling populations.

 

[Don Alaska]

Whatever happened to the Ozone Hole?