Commentary

“Climate change is already ravaging the world … an existential threat to human existence as we know it. We are standing at an inflection point in world history.”– President Biden, a man of science.

If the threats of climate change have yet to convince you that we are facing the end of the world as we know it, be prepared, scientists are on the verge of scaring the hell out of you with data.

What’s Ahead

“A deluge of climate data from a world in flux has scientists scrambling to find ways to store, analyze and preserve vast and unprecedented amounts of information about the effects of rising global temperature,” wrote Robert Lee Hotz in his Wall Street Journal piece, “The Climate Model Deluge.”

He writes of how scientists have been working for decades to predict changes in the climate relied mostly on calculations involving simple laws of physics and chemistry, but with little data on from the real world.

In my October 11, 2021 post in which I quoted from the Summer Edition of Issues of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, they admitted that “A continued focus on implausible emissions in climate research is a failure of science’s supposed internal quality assurance mechanisms and thus a failure of scientific integrity.”        

There are now some 900 earth-orbiting satellites gathering data about our planet, causing scientists to reinvent climate science from the ground up, according to Hotz.

“With temperatures world-wide continuing to rise – and with data collection techniques and technologies continuing to advance – scientists can now rely on meticulous measurements of temperatures, ocean currents, soil moisture, air quality, cloud cover and hundreds of other phenomena on Earth and its atmosphere,” he writes. 

So, beware the deluge of statistical data the experts will churn out in an attempt to dissuade those of us who understand that the climate changes, but refuse to believe it is responsible for mother nature’s disasters.

For decades, I have long been critical of the study of climate change, and the pseudo scientists who insist that an increase in hurricanes, floods and wildfires are the direct result of the changing climate.  Just as we have endured these disasters throughout history, our climate has been cyclical, and it will continue to be.

The federal government and environmental groups have been spending billions of dollars, funding grants for climate research at our universities and with name scientists, seeking results that support their narrative of pending doom if we don’t take action.

While current grant funding is conveniently difficult to identify, in the 2017 fiscal year, the federal government spent about $13 billion in climate change funding, according to a GAO report.

For example, in October, NOAA gave the University of Michigan and Michigan State University $5.4 million to fund the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments, where researchers pursue climate science data.

The funding enables universities to tout their work in studying the environment, and individuals, who write papers, to pad their resumes, while paying for laptops, the cost of attending conferences and the ability to pay graduate assistants.

Their research papers are published and used to impress funding sources, who they hope will provide additional funds.

However, with scientific integrity waning with each implausible prediction, and distrust of climate scientists increasing, credible research will be demanded by the skeptical public.

I began by telling you President Biden’s obsession is about to worsen.  Without the research to support the attainment of his goal, last week he committed the federal government to net-zero emissions by 2050, including directing federal agencies to make all of their vehicle purchases zero-emission units by 2035.

Not going to happen.  I’ll go out on limb and predict that Republican victories in the midterms will pave the way for us to return to responsible emission goals and the energy independence we once pridefully owned, back in 2024.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.