A friend recently sent a small descriptor of Dr. Thomas Sowell and digitized posters of his most remarkable quotes.
Sowell is an economist, social theorist, and longtime exemplar. After his several professorships at academic institutions like Amherst College, Brandeis University, Cornell, Howard University, Rutgers, and the University of California, Los Angeles, he became a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In the linked article, dated 2019, Sowell writes about the “Politics of Catchwords”.
When one talks about falsified climate change they should actually be saying or writing Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) because climate change alone is a natural phenomenon that has occurred since the world first began. You can decide whether that’s due to creationism or the origin, evolution, and structure commonly referred to as the big bang theory – irrespective ‘climate change’ has always been with us.
Sowell says “climate change denier” is simply a negative, unconstructive connotation because everyone knows that the climate changes constantly and the term merely portrays anyone refuting such as stupid and silly.
As Sowell elaborates, “Presumably the issue could be debated on the evidence and analysis. But this has become a political crusade and political issues tend to be settled by political means of which demonizing the opposition with catchwords is one”.
In more simplified terms, denier means the rejection of something proven.
The liberal left, to make climate change scarier, prefers to use the term carbon, carbon pollutant, or greenhouse gas rather than carbon dioxide. The former words conjure up a dirty, messy substance while the latter ensures the continuance of all life. What started off as global warming, after a number of more alarming modifications, has now become a climate emergency or climate crisis.
When it comes to most progressive euphemisms such as environmental justice or social justice, it can all be translated to mean “the silencing of dissent”.
As for CAGW, it has not been proven, is a theory based simply on projections by models, models that have been proven false by inaccuracy, history, and, most of all, reality. I am not a climate change denier, but rather one refusing to participate in a political fallacy and deception.
To those that believe in creating and advancing progressive government policy on anthropogenic climate change, I leave them with this Sowell jewel, “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong”.