August, 2017, Part 2, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science:

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in manmade global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees

As we have dove into the whole issue of manmade global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control of our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.

To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical posts listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims.

1) We are going to start today’s discussion with a topic that is not exactly a global warming issue, But it is instructional why one should always be open to expert opinions but one should always be wary of anyone that thinks they have a perfect way to predict the future. Remember, “climate experts” in the 1970s were predicting a coming Ice Age and within ten years the “experts” were predicting global warming.

Benjamin Arie, writing for the Conservative Tribune on August 3, 2017, described how the “experts” were once horribly wrong in predicting the future:

• Forty five years ago there were plans to build something called the Tellico Dam in Tennessee.
• It was being planned to provide electricity for the local area with no carbon emissions.
• However, the local Little Tennessee River would have to be re-directed if the dam was built.
• But the Tennessee River was the home of a fish called the snail darter, a member of the perch family.
• Even though $100 million had already been spent to start building the dam, it turned out that the snail darter was on the endangered species list and was legally protected, and thus, some snail darter fans were able to sue to shut down the construction in order to save the snail darter from the expert prediction of extinction.
• Current Tennessee Senator at the time, Howard Baker, was frustrated by the experts that predicted the snail darter would go extinct if the dam was built: “In the midst of a national energy crisis, the snail darter demands that we scuttle a project that would produce 200 million kilowatt hours of hydroelectric power and save an estimated 15 million gallons of oil.”
• As a result of Baker’s frustration, Congress passed an amendment to the current environmental laws to exempt the Tellico Dam.

Forty five years later, whatever happened to the snail darter? Did it become extinct as the “experts” predicted way back when? Of course, not. The fish was transplanted into other rivers and it has thrived, actually being taken off of the endangered species list and downgraded to merely threatened, not endangered.

The lesson to be learned is just because the experts predict something, be it the extinction of a fish, global cooling, or global warming, take any prediction of the future with a grain of salt, it is almost always wrong. That was certainly the case with global warming since every global warming prediction by every expert never anticipated that global warming would plateau 20 years ago.

2) Global warming advocates have blamed many different things and creatures for global warming. My favorite was blaming the world’s beavers for global warming because they build dams and that causes global warming. 

But I may now have a new favorite of insanity when it comes to blaming something for global warming. According to reporting by James Barrett, writing for the Daily Wire website on August 3, 2017:

• Research by a research team at UCLA says that our pet cats and dogs cause global warming.
• This is particularly interesting since the global warming of the Earth stopped about 20 years ago but the researchers at UCLA still blame our pets.
• UCLA Geography Professor Gregory Okin clarifies the dire findings of the research: "Americans are the largest pet owners in the world, but the tradition of pet ownership in the US has considerable costs. As pet ownership increases in some developing countries, especially China, and trends continue in pet food toward higher content and quality of meat, globally, pet ownership will compound the environmental impacts of human dietary choices."
• This guy tries to equate the meat eaten by our pets with global warming and that if our pets did not exist, less meat would be created and processed and that would reduce global warming… and the beat goes on and the ability to stay logical eventually goes down the drain.
• He claims that pet food creates 64 million tons of carbon dioxide every year which he claims is the equivalent of 13.6 million cars giving off carbon dioxide.
• He continues on with silly analogies: "If Americans’ 163 million Fidos and Felixes comprised a separate country, their fluffy nation would rank fifth in global meat consumption, Okin calculated, behind only Russia, Brazil, the United States and China." 
• Continuing insanity: “But not only is all that meat our beloved pets are eating as bad as over 13 million environment-hating, gas-guzzling cars, their feces is killing Mother Earth, too. Okin calculates that our 163 million dogs and cats produce just over 5 million tons of feces per year, the equivalent of about 90 million Americans, or the trash production of the entire state of Massachusetts.”
• Note: I really cannot believe this last statistic although I have no basis for not buying his numbers: I do not believe that an average pet creates a feces total equivalent of 55% of an average American (90/163= 55%).

You can imagine what his solution is to a problem that has not gotten worse over the past 20 years despite there likely being a lot more pets in the country vs. 20 years ago: "Reducing the rate of dog and cat ownership, perhaps in favor of other pets that offer similar health and emotional benefits would considerably reduce these impacts. Simultaneous industry-wide efforts to reduce overfeeding, reduce waste, and find alternative sources of protein will also reduce these impacts."

No global warming for almost 20 years, many more pets in the world since 20 years ago, and yet, global warming advocates are still looking for boogie men ...or four legged critters to blame.

3) The biggest global warming advocate of all, Al Gore, was recently on CNN hyping his latest installment/movie on how mankind is ruining the world with its use of fossil fuels which cause global warming which is bad. So bad that global warming advocates had to rebrand their entire movement to “climate change” once global warming stopped. (As an aside, his sequel movie has bombed at the theaters.) The interview was held in a “town hall meeting format” so that regular Americans participating in the town hall meeting could ask Gore questions.

Which is exactly what a Chesapeake River fisherman did. He told Gore that he had been fishing in the same area for 50 years and he had seen absolutely no rise in the ocean waters that feed the river. Remember, one of the lynch pins of the global warming crowd is that ocean levels will rise dramatically.

So who to believe? Al Gore and the “experts” that developed a whole bunch of global warming prediction models, all of which failed miserably or a local fisherman who has been at the same place for 50 years and has firsthand experience that disproves a lynchpin of global warming, i.e. rising ocean waters? An easy choice if there ever was one.

The actual video of the exchange can be viewed at:

https://renewedright.com/lying-al-gore-just-got-called-bogus-claims-rising-sea-levels/

So, experts said the snail darter would become extinct but it did not. Experts blame our pets for global warming even though global warming stopped almost 20 years ago. And experts predicted that the ocean levels would rise but they have not. Feeling pretty good about being a global warming doubter and a believer in science.

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