Climate Change impending disaster

Is the Climate Change obsession turning into the greatest scientific blunder in human history? A few terms come to mind when describing the so-called impending disaster that awaits humanity “if something is not done” about climate change. One of those terms is Consensus. Consensus means a general agreement, not an absolute agreement. In other words, having consensus in science does not mean that those who agree with something hold the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. A second term is Climate Change itself. Climate Change is the change in global or regional climate patterns. It is not necessarily associated to warming or cooling. Such a change is subject to both regional and global elements. The third term we see and hear about a lot when discussing changes in climate is IPCC. The IPCC is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations, dedicated to providing the world with a political, not a scientific view, on climate change-related issues. The important word here is POLITICAL. The IPCC is a political entity, not a scientific one. It was created in 1988 to lobby governments in the advancement of environmental policies created at the heart of the United Nations. On its website, it describes itself as “an organization of governments”, not scientists. It continues: “Through its assessments, the IPCC identifies the strength of scientific agreement in different areas.” As described before, the IPCC is an entity that seeks agreement, not scientific discovery. More alarming than that, the IPCC “does not conduct its own research”. Instead, the IPCC uses volunteer work to evaluate climate change research. On its website, the organization explains that “author teams use calibrated uncertainty language to express a level of confidence in findings based on the strength of the scientific and technical evidence and the level of agreement in the scientific, technical and socio-economic literature”. Since it is important to clarify what some relevant terms mean, let’s throw one more of those terms into the hat. This term is global cooling. Global cooling was a name given to an apparent climate trend that scientists envisioned to be taking place back in the 1970s. This supposed trend was also divulged with some kind of consensus by the scientific community. Fortunately, the scientific community was wrong back then. We know that because we are not living in igloos or freezing our rear ends until we turn into ice Mexican paletas. Before we finish checking off our understanding of important terms in the climate change debate, let’s add the last one. It is global warming. Global warming is a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect. This effect is caused by greenhouse gases that include CO2, water vapor, methane, chlorofluorocarbons, ozone, hydrofluorocarbons and others. Two relevant questions to ask here are: Which is the most abundant greenhouse gas out there? Which greenhouse gas causes the most atmospheric warming? The answers to those questions are relevant because we can determine which gases present the greatest threat to humanity. After conducting a quick search online, I have to say it was difficult to find the answer to these questions because tons of links only address the fact that CO2 levels in the atmosphere have increased over the years. But I found the answers anyways. It turns out that water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas when it comes to warming because it is the one that controls the Earth’s temperature. According to NASA, water vapor, not CO2, is the largest contributor to the Earth’s greenhouse effect. Its effect accounts for about 60% of the warming effect. So what is the role of CO2 in all this? Scientists explain that CO2 causes the rise in atmospheric temperatures, which in turn causes more water vapor to accumulate in the atmosphere. There is a kind of a feedback loop, they say, where mainly CO2 provides the conditions to feed more water vapor into the atmosphere. This extra water vapor increases atmospheric temperature. In contrast, according to NOAA, “water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere… Changes in its concentration are also considered to be a result of climate feedbacks related to the warming of the atmosphere rather than a direct result of industrialization. The feedback loop in which water is involved is critically important to projecting future climate change, but as yet is still fairly poorly measured and understood.” So, on one side, we have the mainstream media, left-wing politicians and a political entity known as the IPCC warning of impending climate disaster and on the other side, both NASA and NOAA explain that water vapor is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere, the one responsible for atmospheric warming and that the process in which CO2 allegedly contributes to such warming is poorly understood, to say the least. That means that the scientific consensus – if there is really such a thing – is based on two false premises which are the base for the alarmist speeches we hear every day on mainstream media channels. In fact, there is another scenario we never hear about on mainstream media, but that NOAA explains clearly on its website: “As water vapor increases in the atmosphere, more of it will eventually also condense into clouds, which are more able to reflect incoming solar radiation”. This means less, […] Read the rest below at the source link