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Fact Checking The Climate Claims

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 7/23/2025 6:23:48 AM

The climate alarmists regularly seize on weather events they believe will help them exploit their narrative. Naturally, they ignore contradictory information. So we see it as our duty to fill in the gaps from time to time. Following are a few examples that show why the global warming story is less scientific theory than conjecture in the service of a political agenda. Let’s begin in the West Arctic, where the Northwest Passage is experiencing its third-highest level of sea ice extent in the last two decades. In 2009, Al Gore said, with his usual galling listen-to-me certainty,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: philsner 7/23/2025 7:12:44 AM (No. 1981369)
Where has this editorial board been for 30 years?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bpl40 7/23/2025 8:52:23 AM (No. 1981421)
A plane crashed in Ahmedabad, India because Republicans in the US heartland are not paying enough taxes? Only the NYT can claim something like that (albeit indirectly) with a straight face.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 7/23/2025 9:15:34 AM (No. 1981437)
The best results in the fight against climate lies is that the public has become dubious about the claims and has a Ho Hum attitude about the latest panicked proclamations. The Climate Catastrophe crowd rode the coattails of an environment movement that, quite correctly, said we had polluted water, air, and ground and forced successful cleanup of much of the mess and established monitoring to avoid renewed damage. This was appropriately celebrated by most Americans. Liberals, always looking for tools to use against Capitalism, coopted the movement to attack business with nebulous and unprovable predictions of future damage that has NEVER come true. Much of the threats predicted have been proven false over decades of real outcomes. Most of the predictive technology has been shown to be useless and other, more likely explanations have emerged. For example, well known physical laws make it impossible for rising CO2 to ramp up heat effects. Most of the increase in heat from rising CO2 has already happened. Doubling the CO2 from 400 ppm to 800 ppm will have little additional effect. Yet the scaremongers' models push explosive heating due to rising CO2. Alternatively, the increased CO2 HAS yielded a lusher green planet with significantly increased crop yields. We need to take a hard look at REAL science and what we DO know and what is made up speculation spun out of flawed computer models of a climate system too complex to be accurately modeled. We need to be doubtful about scare stories about the future and react to current and measurable conditions and deal with reality, NOT speculation.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: stablemoney 7/23/2025 10:02:28 AM (No. 1981476)
Fact check those making the climate claims, and their motives. I think all will find that they are not "experts", that we are paying them, and all are Democrats.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Catherine 7/23/2025 1:31:22 PM (No. 1981560)
Where I live, it just got summer hot, in the 90's. That usually happens in late May or early June. But July 15th, the hot weather arrived. I hate summer. But what I hate more than anything is the made up "Heat Index." If it's 95 degrees here, the heat index, according to one weather man last year, was 123 degrees. No it wasn't. If the thermometer says 95, then it's 95. Anyway, glad all these big, scary proclamations are being debunked. There might be some seeding going on, but earth is just fine. Leave her alone.
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