Summary - Earth’s climate changes frequently,
sometimes beneficially, sometimes disastrously (as during repeated glacial
periods and the Little Ice Age of 1350-1850), as a result of shifting and
interacting solar, cosmic, oceanic, atmospheric and other forces that we
are only beginning to understand. While some continue to insist that human
“greenhouse gas” emissions are causing potentially catastrophic changes in
climate and weather, growing numbers of scientists say nature, not man, rules
the climate and causes changes of varying extent and significance every few
decades, centuries and millennia.
Humans, plants and wildlife have
survived and even prospered during past climate changes – and will continue to
do so. Indeed, our technology and wealth will make people and civilizations
much better able to prepare for and adapt to most climate changes, although
another Pleistocene-scale ice age would devastate northern cities, decimate
agricultural production, and drive human and species migrations.
Computer models are helpful for
improving our understanding of how weather and climate systems work and change
over time. However, because they are based on poor data and false, questionable
or simplistic premises, they are useless in forecasting future climate and
weather. Moreover, actual temperature and weather data demonstrate that
alarmist warnings of dangerous global warming are not supported by reality.
Regulating carbon dioxide may be profitable for certain industries and
governments, but will impose enormous costs on society – while having no effect
on our weather and climate.
Today, the real danger is laws and
policies implemented in a misplaced belief that humans can control or prevent
climate change. These policies raise energy costs, kill jobs, impose especially
heavy burdens on poor families, and make it hard for still impoverished nations
to develop, provide affordable energy, create jobs, and improve lives and
living standards. Moreover, even drastic reductions in U.S. carbon dioxide
emissions will mean nothing globally, because China, India and other developing
nations are now emitting far more CO2 than the United States could eliminate
even by shutting down its economy.
FAQ - Our Climate Change Truth File Q&A contains answers to a broad range of questions about global
warming science and policy.
CFACT
Reports - Carbon
Dioxide: The Gas of Life - In this special report, “Carbon Dioxide: The Gas of Life,” CFACT senior policy advisor Paul Driessen examines carbon
dioxide and its many benefits. While global warming alarmists rail against it,
carbon dioxide is actually the “gas of life,” without which life on earth would
perish.
Driessen explains in detail where
carbon dioxide comes from, why it spurs plant growth, how it fights pollution,
and its many other benefits. “Eliminate CO2, and plants would
shrivel and die. So would lake and ocean algae or phytoplankton, grasses, kelp
and other water plants. After that, animal and human life would disappear. Even
reducing carbon dioxide levels too much – sending it back to pre-industrial
levels, for example – would have terrible consequences for crops, other plants,
animals and humans.”
“Carbon dioxide performs as many
miracles for our planet as antibiotics and immunizations have for mankind. That
is an amazing feat for a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that represents
just 0.04 percent of our atmosphere: the equivalent of just 40 cents out of
$1,000 or 1.4 inches on a football field!”
A-Z
Climate Reality Check - As the real world evidence mounts
that global warming claims are failing, the climate activists have ramped up
predictions of future climate change impacts to declare that it “worse than we
thought.” Marc Morano, editor of CFACT’s Climate Depot, compiled a special
report entitled “A-Z Climate Reality Check”
that shatters any such illusions that the climate is “worse than we thought.”
The scientific reality is that on
virtually every claim — from A-Z — the claims of the promoters of man-made
climate fears are failing, and in many instances the claims are moving in the
opposite direction. The global warming movement is suffering the scientific
death of a thousand cuts. This Climate Depot special report categorizes and
indexes the full range of climate developments in a handy A-Z reference guide.
The A-Z report includes key facts, peer-reviewed studies and the latest data
and developments with links for further reading, on an exhaustive range of
man-made global warming claims.
The
Science and Global Politics of Climate Change - Lord Christopher Monckton’s “The Science and
Global Politics of Climate Change” is a 30 page special report written for heads of state and government, cabinet
officials, and national legislators. It provides pragmatic, factual insight
into climate science, economics and policy, and offers sensible,
straightforward, affordable answers to the key questions now before the
international community.
The world faces many real
environmental problems. In any view, however, “global warming” is not one of
them. Science shows that the world will not warm dangerously. Even if warming
were to prove severe, focused adaptation to its consequences would be the most
cost-effective approach.
Taxing or regulating carbon –
however profitable it might be for the Armageddon industry and for cash-hungry
governments – would make little measurable difference to the climate, and at a
disproportionately extravagant cost – all pain, no gain.
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