The Trump Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy have begun the work of undoing the extremely ideological and damaging CO2 finding, which said that this harmelss gas was a pollutant and is the basis for all kinds of unnecessary and economically damaging regulations, like car gas mileage standards and the shutting of cheap and reliable fossil fuel plants for electricity. As part of this important, a group of the few remaining objective and honest climate scientists wrote an outstanding report, which is worth a read. It debunks all the climate hysteria nonsense. It points out that there have been substantial benefits to the increase in CO2, primarily plant production, and that none of the supposed increase in weather and other disaster events has in any way been demonstrated to be linked to CO2 or to any warming that is occurring. (DOE Report)
Dr. Roy Spencer, an author of the report whose blog is definitely worth following, has a couple of posts that discuss the report and its key findings. You can find his site and the posts here. My one quibble with some of the authors is a willingness to acknowledge that some of the warming is human-caused. While this may be true in major urban areas, I am not sure the data support the notion on a global basis. If you look at any lengthy stretch of time, there is no period in which “climate” is stable from a temperature perspective. Over a hundred year period, for example, it is always trending up or down. So claiming that something is outside this natural variability seems to require a very high level of proof to me. Adjusted data and sketchy methodologies suggest that clean data and normal methods won’t do the trick for the hysterics, so they make stuff up. Meanwhile the world is wasting trillions of dollars on a non-existent problem and creating a new one–extremely expensive and unreliable electricity sources and massive environmental issues from renewable energy. Dr. Spencer does a good job in one post of explaining how money and ideology drive most climate “science” to a pre-determined conclusion designed to benefit a few rich people. (RS Site)
