A
Presidential Committee on Climate Security (PCCS) is needed now, By CFACT 3/8/19
Congratulations President Trump on
having the interest in and courage to ask that the American people be given the
benefits of a fact based and unbiased examination of the topic of climate
change. Your Presidential Committee on Climate Security (PCCS) holds the first
promise of an open, and fact-based examination of the much talked about, but
not scientifically quantified buzz-word “man-made, dangerous climate change.”
Journalists, the media, and many of the scientific community usually drop the
qualifier “man-made,” and treat it as a new and alarming phenomenon.
No student of history or of the
scientific record denies that the climate changes. It is an indisputable
attribute of the phenomenon known as climate that it has and will forever be
changing on some time scale at all places on earth. No one knows why the last
ice-age began or ended around 10,000 years ago. No one knows why the medieval
warm period (950AD-1250AD) began, nor ended and was followed by the little ice
age (1300AD-1850AD) …fossil fuels were not in any significant use.
As a graduate engineer and physician, I
am attuned to classical scientific inquiry in attempting to explain physical
phenomena. Open inquiry with multiple possible theoretical explanations is
essential to determining the valid one, resulting from a process of hypothesis,
testing of that hypothesis, and final formation of a theory. That theory is
only so good until another one can be formulated with greater predictive
accuracy.
The American people are rightly
concerned about being good stewards of the environment. They deserve to be
reassured that in their daily lives and activities that warnings issued
concerning impacts on the climate are based on the scientific method, and not
the result of biased motivations based on monetary, reputation enhancement, or
misplaced good intentions
It is of concern that this expected
scientific methodology and due process has been largely ignored by those
promoting the fear of catastrophic climate change. I recall that Vice President
Al Gore would not take questions from his audience when challenged on his
claims. The earth did not exhibit a fever as he claimed. Beginning in 1979,
satellite data became available and they show cycles of temperature change,
with a long period of temperature stability. When verifiable satellite
temperature did not show the proclaimed fever, global warming was rebranded
with the amorphous term “climate change,” and somehow natural earth rhythms
became an aberration. Polar bears have continued to thrive, droughts have come
and gone, and pacific islands have not sunk beneath a rising ocean. I recall no
publicized series of debates on the merits of a quantifiable change in global
climate attributable to human activity. No one has defined the ideal earth
climate.
Fast forward to the present. The idea
that catastrophic, man-made climate change is factual has become an
unassailable point in the media and academia. There has been no open proof of
this…yet to question it brings ridicule and threats, but never any validated scientific
proof. There is reference to a vague collection of scientists at the 97% level,
but never any explanation of who they are or how that oft repeated number
actually came about. Climate change disasters have become the stuff of urban
legends, always imminent but never documented, always off in the future. The
human remedy to change the climate has never been proved. Faulty climate models
and computers portray a runaway climate, but those predictions have not matched
the real-world record, which is mostly benign and without ominous trend.
As a physician, I can give another
analogy. Another respected physician refers a patient to me with a serious
diagnosis. I prescribe a plan of treatment based on that diagnosis. The patient
does not respond and gets worse. Concerned, I refer the patient to another
physician and provide the same diagnosis. He looks at my record and tries
another therapy for that diagnosis. He sends the patient to another expert in
the field, who treats the patient. The patient dies. What went wrong? None of
the physicians questioned the original diagnosis, there was a consensus of
thought and an appeal to authority which no one dared to question. They all
treated the patient for the wrong disease.
This is the current status of climate
dogma in America. Climate policy is being set in the media on the free-thought
ramblings of a former cocktail waitress, and school children reciting the
agenda of their handlers. Our British friends might label these as tweets by
twits.
America needs your PCCS and Dr. Happer
is the qualified adult in the room to head it up. - Charles G. Battig, MD, Houston,
TX
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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