A history lesson . . .
In June of 1988, as James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies was about to give testimony to The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the weather in Washington was a stifling 98° and the air conditioning in the testimonial committee room had malfunctioned – Senator Tim Wirth of Colorado has confirmed that he tampered with the unit the night prior making the room purposefully oppressive.
It was the year that much of Yellowstone National Park burned while Washington DC had 21 days over 95 degrees in the month of June – not to be repeated since that year.
Steadily wiping the perspiration from his brow, Hansen testified that people had actually been feeling the globe warming. He spoke of his greenhouse theory involving carbon dioxide and its cause and effect. The CO2 levels at the time were at 350 parts per million (PPM) - approximately 70 PPM lower than today.
Hansen made many predictions on that day including stronger hurricanes, complete ice melt in Greenland, and several other prophecies. Yet, none of his predictions have ever come true, not a single one, and it is not in the 10 years he projected but now going more than 36 years.
As in all years, I continue to see and feel weather as weather – shivering in the cold and perspiring in the warmth – often having a want for summers and wanting away of winters.
As the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) once quipped, it is the continuance of the issue and not the resolution that remains of utmost importance to the eco-politicians, gravy train scientists, activists, and environmental exploiters and profiteers. Further, the WSJ wrote relative to temperature predictions, “And it isn’t just Mr. Hansen who got it wrong. Models devised by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have, on average, predicted about twice as much warming as has been observed since global satellite temperature monitoring began 40 years ago.”
The alarm of global warming turned climate change, turned climate emergency, turned climate chaos, turned climate crisis has been the prank, preaching, and panic of global warming alarmists ever since Hansen’s perfidious prognostications.
As a large swath of the country seeks cooler air, there are sadistic smiles on the faces of politically progressive activists, including their government and academic-funded science and scientists, and the left-biased media. This they will bathe to the public as certain evidence of our self-demise.
History knows better as shown below: