Clairvoyance on climate

Vincent J. Curtis

13 Sept 22

RE: Clairvoyant climate report warned of weather extremes.  AP story by Seth Borenstein.  Published in the Hamilton Spectator 13 Sept 22.

“I’m so clairvoyant!” said climate report co-author Michael Oppenheimer, of Princeton University.  “More heat waves, worsening droughts, increasing floods, stronger tropical storms, dogs and cats living together!”  The reason these forecasts are called clairvoyant is because they’re not scientific.  They’re what you’d expect from a fortune-teller.  It’ll all happen “soon.”  The bible is full of Oppenheimer-like forecasts.

More signs that Dr. Oppenheimer reads tea-leaves as a principle occupation is his use of the relative: more this, more that, stronger something else.  Relative compared to what?  A scientific forecast would give numbers, but instead we get that somewhere, sometime, some location fell under a drought, got a strong storm, etc.  You get more precise forecasts from the Farmer’s Almanac, which has been doing it for 203 years.  Where’s the forecast that there’d be no hurricanes this season?

Twelve thousand years ago, the earth emerged from an ice age, and ocean levels were 400 feet below the present level.  When Stonehenge was built, the Arctic Ocean was ice-free in summer; now it’s permanently ice-capped.  During the little ice age, the Thames froze over; now it doesn’t.  Natural variability is much wider than climate fraudsters admit.  These stories pumping climate change want us to believe that mankind is responsible routine acts of nature.  There’s no science to show that.

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