Climate change, as defined by the United Nations: “Refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may be natural, such as through variations in the solar cycle.” That’s actually a good definition.
But not willing to leave well enough alone, the UN goes further, spoiling a simple and straightforward definition with: “But since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.”
It is amazing that before humans burned fossil fuels two centuries ago, it was only natural cycles that changed the climate, not backyard barbecues, gas stoves, and SUVs. Yet the UN does not explain how previous ice ages developed due to global cooling, followed by melting of mile-thick ice over the upper Midwest due to global warming, multiple times over the Earth’s history, long before there was any significant human activity.
It seems that a changing climate was a thing long before Al Gore, Greta Thunberg, and the UN thought they figured it all out. Not only does the climate change, based on both short- and long-term cycles, but much of it is also unpredictable. According to the Intragovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”
Climate change had other names over the years. In the 1970s it was “global cooling” with predictions of a coming ice age. NPR, the guardians of all proper knowledge and thought, first used the term “global warming” in 1989. It doesn’t make sense, at least to most logical people, that the planet can be both warming and cooling on a global scale, outside of normal seasonal variations, so the term “climate change” was popularized to encompass all weather events.
“Climate change” was first mentioned in 1975, but this was a time when climate scientists could not decide if temperatures were rising or falling, attributing sinister causes rather than natural and cyclic warming and cooling trends which have long preceded humans and their activities.
Since then, climate change has engulfed more than temperature, adding weather events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, droughts, and flooding. It seems that any deviation from a sunny day with temperatures in the mid ’70s with a light breeze is evidence of climate change and Republicans scheming to destroy the planet.
Global Cooling (Winter ) Global Warming (Summer ) Democrats are full of Shhht & use CLimate & Green
this & that to STEAL taxpayer Money & Shut down Our Country !!!!!!
The Earth is Just Fine & they can’t change it or control it !!!!!
Thank that crazy Nut AL GORE for pushing the crap for years giving Democrats a Money making Idea !!!!!
Put Gore in a straight Jacket & off to the Shrink !!!!!!! He went off Rambling at his Hippocritical
Meeting after flying there on his Private Jet Polluting our world !!!!!!
All the others had their Private jets lined up in a Row after they flew there Polluting our world !!!!
It was calculated that all these Jets amounted to 350,000 cars pollution equivalent !!!!!! Hippocrits
Pelosi’s Brand New Jet was most likely there too !
Democrats never cry about Global COOLING !!!!!! It is winter LOL They only cry about Warming > Summer!
Summer is hot, Winter is cold! Period! End of story!
When it rains,,,,,,,,,,it’s wet. When it doesn’t rain………..it’s dry., Puzzle solved.