Climate Change Debunked

Global warming alarmists lie about climate change all the time for more political power. Climate realists show evidence all the time that is doctored to appear legitimate, Yet, it is not! 10 of the most powerful global warming assertions that have either backfired on alarmists or have been totally proven false. Now, these are the very best arguments global warming alarmists can make. Open-minded readers should have very little difficulty dismissing the mythical global warming crisis after examining the top 10 assertions. Sea Levels Rising Warmer temperatures are causing glaciers and polar ice sheets to melt, increasing the amount of water in the world’s seas and oceans. True Facts The pace of sea-level rise remained relatively constant throughout the 20th century, even as global temperatures gradually rose. There has similarly been no increase in the pace of sea-level rise in recent decades. Utilizing 20th-century technologies, humans effectively adapted to global sea-level rise. Utilizing 21st-century technologies, humans will be even better equipped to adapt to global sea-level rise. The thought that polar ice sheets are melting is simply false. Alarmists point to a modest recent shrinkage in the Arctic ice sheet, that decline has been completely offset by ice sheet expansion in the Antarctic. Cumulatively, polar ice sheets have not declined at all since NASA satellite instruments began precisely measuring them 35 years ago. National Security Threatened The impacts of climate change are expected to multiply the threat of many of the world’s most unstable regions, exacerbating droughts and other natural disasters as well as leading to food, water and other resource shortages that may spur mass migrations.” True Facts The national security threat depends on assertions that (1) global warming is causing a reduction in food and water supplies and (2) migrations of people to places with more food and water will increase risks of military conflict. Objective facts refute both assertions. Regarding food and water supplies, global crop production has soared as the Earth gradually warms. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is essential to plant life, and adding more of it to the atmosphere enhances plant growth and crop production. Longer growing seasons and fewer frost events also benefit plant growth and crop production. Global crops set new production records virtually every year as our planet modestly warms. If crop shortages cause national security threats and global warming increases crop production, then global warming benefits rather than jeopardizes national security. The same holds true for water supplies. Objective data show there has been a gradual increase in global precipitation and soil moisture as our planet warms. Warmer temperatures evaporate more water from the oceans, which in turn stimulates more frequent precipitation over continental landmasses. The result of this enhanced precipitation is an improvement in soil moisture at almost all sites in the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank. If declining precipitation and declining soil moisture are military threat multipliers than global warming is creating a safer, more peaceful world. Bats Drop from the Sky In 2014, a scorching summer heatwave caused more than 100,000 bats to literally drop dead and fall from the sky in Queensland, Australia. True Facts Global warming alarmists’ preferred electricity source – wind power – kills nearly 1 million bats every year. This has nothing to do with the more than 500,000 birds killed every year from them in the United States alone. This appalling death toll occurs every year even while wind power produces just 3% of U.S. electricity. Ramping up wind power to 10, 20, or 30% of U.S. electricity production would likely increase the annual bat deaths to 10-to-30 million every year. Killing 30 million bats every year in response to dubious claims that global warming might once in a great while kill 100,000 bats makes no sense. Alarmists present no evidence that global warming caused the summer heatwave.  Climate change theory and objective data show our recent global warming is only occurring primarily in the winter, toward the poles, and at night. Australia’s highest recorded temperature occurred more than half a century ago. Only two of Australia’s seven states have set their all-time temperature record during the past 40 years. Queensland’s 2014 heatwave paled in comparison to the 1972 heatwave that occurred 42 years ago. If global warming caused the 2014 Queensland heatwave, why wasn’t it as severe as the 1972 Queensland heatwave? Blaming every single summer heatwave or extreme weather event on global warming is a stale and discredited tactic in the climate change debate. Objective science proves extreme weather events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, and droughts have become less frequent and less severe as a result of the Earth’s recent modest warming. Wind turbines kill 1.4 million birds and bats in the U.S every year, even while producing very little of the electricity for sustainability. Lyme Disease Spreads Warmer temperatures are contributing to the range expansion and severity of tick-borne Lyme disease.” True Facts Lyme Disease is much more common in northern, cooler regions of the United States than in southern, warmer regions. Without any supporting data or evidence, that a disease that prospers in cool climates will become more prevalent as a result of global warming defies objective data and common sense. A team of scientists extensively researched Lyme Disease climate and habitat and reported in the peer-reviewed science journal EcoHealth, “the only environmental variable consistently associated with increased Lyme Disease risk and incidence was the presence of forests.” You can argue that forests are thriving under global warming, with the result that forest-dwelling ticks will also benefit. So expanding forests are universally – and properly – viewed as environmentally beneficial. But the attempts to frame thriving forests as harmful perfectly illustrate the alarmists’ proclivity to claim anything and everything – no matter how beneficial – is severely harmful and caused by global warming. Even if global warming expanded the Lyme Disease range, one must look at the totality of global warming’s impact on the range of viruses and diseases. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports Lyme Disease “is rare as a cause of death in the United States.” Lyme Disease is a contributing factor to less than 25 deaths per year in the United States. Indeed, during a recent five-year span examined by the CDC, “only 1 death was recorded consistent with clinical manifestations of Lyme Disease.” Any attempts to claim global warming will cause a few more Lyme Disease deaths must be weighed against the 36,000 Americans who are killed by the flu each year not to mention Kung Flu or the Covid 19 virus. The U.S. National Institutes of Health have documented how influenza is aided and abetted by cold climate. Any attempt to connect a warmer climate to an increase in Lyme Disease must be accompanied by an acknowledgment of a warmer climate’s propensity to reduce influenza incidence and mortality. The net impact of a warmer climate on viruses and diseases such as Lyme Disease and influenza is substantially beneficial and life-saving. Allergies Worsen Allergy sufferers beware: Climate change could cause pollen counts to double in the next 30 years. The warming temperatures cause advancing weed growth, a bane for allergy sufferers. True Facts Pollen is a product and mechanism of plant reproduction and growth. As such, pollen counts will rise and fall along with plant health and vegetation intensity. Any increase in pollen will be the result of a greener biosphere with more plant growth.  The fact that expanding forests will create more habitat for the ticks that spread Lyme Disease as mentioned above. The fact of the overwhelmingly good news about global warming improving plant health but then making it seem like bad news is hypocritical to say the least. Indeed, NASA satellite instruments have documented a spectacular greening of the Earth, with foliage gains most prevalent in previously arid, semi-desert regions. For people experiencing an increase in vegetation in previously barren regions, this greening of the Earth is welcome and wonderful news. For global warming alarmists, however, a greener biosphere is terrible news and something to be opposed. This, in a nutshell, defines the opposing sides in the global warming debate. Global warming alarmists claim a greener biosphere with richer and more abundant plant life is horrible and justifies massive, economy-destroying energy restrictions. Global warming realists understand that a greener biosphere with richer and more abundant plant life is not a horrible thing simply because humans may have had some role in creating it. Beetles Destroy Iconic Western Forests Climate change has sent tree-killing beetles called mountain pine beetles into overdrive. Under normal conditions, those beetles reproduce just once annually, but the warming climate has allowed them to churn out an extra generation of new bugs each year. True Facts The claim that warmer winters are causing an increase in pine beetle populations is thoroughly debunked by objective, real-world data. Alarmists have responded to recent bitterly cold winters by claiming global warming is causing colder winters. One cannot claim global warming is causing colder winters and then turn around and simultaneously claim global warming is causing warmer winters. Global warming activists’ propensity for doing so shows just how little value they place in a truthful debate. Objective scientific data verify winters are getting colder, which counters the key prerequisite to the pine beetle claim. NOAA temperature data show winter temperatures in the United States have been getting colder for at least the past two decades. Pine beetles cannot be taking advantage of warmer winters if winters are in fact getting colder. Moreover, recent U.S. Forest Service data show pine beetle infestations have recently declined dramatically throughout the western United States. Forests and plant life are expanding globally, and particularly in the western United States. Pine beetles are a natural part of forest ecosystems. Expanding pine forests can support more beetles. The predictable increase in pine beetles is largely a product of, rather than a foil against, expanding pine forests. One can hardly argue that western pine forests are “destroying iconic Western forests” when western forests are becoming denser and more prevalent as the planet warms. Also, beetles have bored through North American forests for millennia, long before people built coal-fired power plants and drove SUVs. Beetles are not dependent on warm winters, as evidenced by their historic prevalence in places such as Alaska. Finally, pine beetles tend to target dead, unhealthy, more vulnerable pine trees rather than healthy trees. Decades of over-aggressive fire suppression policies have caused an unnatural buildup of much older, denser, more vulnerable pine forests. These conditions predictably aid pine beetles. Canada: Becoming the New America Lusher vegetation growth typically associated with the United States is now becoming more common in Canada, scientists reported in a 2012 Nature Climate Change study. True Facts Only global warming alarmists would claim that lusher vegetation and more abundant plant life is a bad thing. Playing on a general tendency for people to fear change. The global warming alarmists argue that changes in the biosphere that make it richer, lusher, and more conducive to life are changes to be feared and opposed. If barren ecosystems constitute an ideal planet, then the alarmist fears of more plant life make sense. On the contrary, global warming realists understand a climate more conducive to richer, more abundant plant life is beneficial rather than harmful. Economic Consequences The costs associated with climate change rise along with the temperatures. Severe storms and floods combined with agricultural losses cause billions of dollars in damages, and money is needed to treat and control the spread of disease. True Facts Severe storms, floods, and agricultural losses may cost a great deal of money. But such extreme weather events and their resulting costs are dramatically declining as the Earth modestly warms. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that severe storms are becoming less frequent and severe as the Earth modestly warms. This is especially evident regarding hurricane and tornado activity, which are both at historic lows. Similarly, scientific measurements and peer-reviewed studies report no increase in flooding events regarding natural-flowing rivers and streams. Any increase in flooding activity is due to human alterations of river and stream flow rather than precipitation changes. The modest recent warming is producing the U.S. and global crop production records virtually every year. This is creating billions of dollars in new economic and human welfare benefits. The spread of disease is debunked with objective evidence which shows global warming will thwart deadly outbreaks of influenza and other cold-dependent viruses. The alarmists’ desired means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions – more expensive energy sources – make economic conditions even worse. Forcing the American economy to operate on expensive and unreliable wind and solar power. This will have tremendous negative economic consequences. President Obama acknowledged this fact when he promised that under his global warming plan, “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” The economic consequences of Obama’s global warming policies can already be seen in electricity prices. Under his administration, they were the highest in U.S. history.  Obama’s global warming policies only increased electricity prices. This while new natural gas discoveries and revolutionary advances in natural gas production technologies are so evident today. The dramatic result of the decline in natural gas prices has spurred on a dramatic decline in electricity prices. But as normal these types of benefits are ignored by the climate change activists. Since obviously it does not fit their narrative. Infectious Diseases Thrive Reports that outbreaks of new or resurgent diseases are on the rise and in more disparate countries than ever before, including tropical illnesses in once cold climates. True Facts Outbreaks of “new or resurgent diseases” are occurring precisely because governments have caved in to environmental activist groups. They have implemented their anti-science agendas. in fact, DDT had all but eliminated malaria in the United States and on the global stage during the mid-20th century. However, environmental activists championed false environmental accusations against DDT and dramatically reduced the use of the life-saving mosquito killer throughout much of the world. As a result, malaria has reemerged with a vengeance and millions of people die every year as a result. The already debunked lie about global warming above on the death toll of cold-related viruses such as influenza increasing. In the United States alone, influenza kills 36,000 people every year, which dwarfs all heat-dependent viruses and diseases combined. Few people other than global warming alarmists would argue that it is better to have 36,000 people die each year from influenza than have a few people die each year from Lyme Disease. Which, as documented above, isn’t even related to global warming. Shrinking Glaciers In 2013, an iceberg larger than the city of Chicago broke off the Pine Island Glacier, the most important glacier of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. And at Montana’s Glacier National Park glaciers have gone from 150 to just 35 over the past century. True Facts Calling attention to anecdotal incidents of icebergs breaking off the Antarctic ice sheet, while deliberately ignoring the overall growth of the Antarctic ice sheet, is a misleading and favorite tactic of global warming alarmists. Icebergs break off the Antarctic ice sheet every year, with or without global warming, particularly in the Antarctic summer. However, a particular iceberg – no matter how large – breaking off the Antarctic ice sheet does not necessarily result in “Shrinking Glaciers”. To the contrary, the Antarctic Ice Sheet has been growing at a steady and substantial pace ever since NASA satellites first began measuring the Antarctic ice sheet in 1979. Indeed, during the same year, they claim this happened “an iceberg larger than the city of Chicago” broke off the Antarctic ice sheet and caused “Shrinking Glaciers,”. The Antarctic ice sheet repeatedly set new records for its largest extent in recorded history. Those 2013 records were repeatedly broken again in 2014. The Antarctic ice sheet in 2013 and 2014 was more extensive than any time in recorded history, and yet alarmists continue to push the lie that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is shrinking. The issue about the Glacier National Park is also misleading. Alpine glaciers at Glacier National Park and elsewhere have been receding for over 300 years, since the Earth’s temperature bottomed out during the depths of the Little Ice Age. The warming of the past 300 years and the resulting recession of alpine glaciers predated humans building coal-fired power plants and driving SUVs. Moreover, opening up more of the Earth’s surface to vegetation and plant and animal life would normally be considered a beneficial change. If global warming alarmists had not so thoroughly politicized the global warming discussion. These are the 10 best arguments global warming activists can make. But it also comes with the objective scientific facts that prove them wrong. No wonder global warming alarmists are so terrified of people having access to both sides of the debate.