{"id":27716,"date":"2021-08-03T17:38:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T21:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=27716"},"modified":"2021-08-03T17:38:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T21:38:31","slug":"fear-forever-if-you-liked-covid-science-youll-love-climate-change-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/fear-forever-if-you-liked-covid-science-youll-love-climate-change-science","title":{"rendered":"Fear Forever: If You Liked COVID Science, You\u2019ll Love Climate Change Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit<\/em>\u2013 In the wake of the Miami condo collapse June 29, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm suggested that rising seas caused by human-induced climate change was responsible. Citing her years of experience as Michigan governor from 2003-2011, she said she\u2019d seen the same phenomenon in the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichigan, where I\u2019m from, we\u2019ve seen the loss of beaches because the waters are rising, so this is a phenomenon that will continue,\u201d she added, referring to the Lakes\u2019 recent rise.<\/p>\n

But this was a fib.<\/p>\n

Climate Science 101 posits that shrinking \u2013 not rising \u2013 Great Lakes is a sign of global warming because the lakes are affected by evaporation and shrinking snow pack due to rising temps. The Green bible, the Third National Climate Assessment, predicts \u201cdeclines of 8 inches to 2 feet\u201d this century. Indeed, as Great Lake levels declined from 2000-2013 according to their usual 30-year cycle, Governor Granholm hyped retreating water levels as a global warming crisis \u2013 even imposing a moratorium on water-bottling plants and restricting Nestle Inc. from selling water out of state.<\/p>\n

As lake levels returned to their cyclical highs over the last decade, Democratic pols and their media chorus have simply flipped the script \u2013 declaring\u00a0rising\u00a0<\/em>lake levels a climate crisis.<\/p>\n

America, if you liked COVID science, then you\u2019ll love climate change science.<\/p>\n

For the last 18 months public health officials and politicians have played politics with COVID science in order to justify government intrusion into every corner of American life. Red state governors imposed strict restaurant restrictions despite no evidence COVID was spreading in dining facilities. Public health officials from Dr. Anthony Fauci to the CDC urged those vaccinated to return to normal, then back-tracked and claimed recipients should still wear a mask. Experts maintained a steady diet of super-spreader fear-mongering in Florida, Texas, schools, and elsewhere should citizens resist the COVID health autocracy.<\/p>\n

Now Democrats are pivoting to climate \u201cscience\u201d to justify sweeping government controls over American life.<\/p>\n

Like coronavirus, the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions grants politicians enormous power because the greenhouse gas is the byproduct of virtually all daily activity including travel, food production, and construction.<\/p>\n

By hyping catastrophic weather events as evidence of warming, the climate establishment hopes to keep the US population in the grip of fear. The Biden administration\u2019s national infrastructure tour, for example, has turned into a climate fear tour as the administration pushes its Green New Deal taking over large sections of the economy.<\/p>\n

Take the administration\u2019s obsession with Michigan this summer. On a trip here July 8, EPA Chief Regan blamed flooding in Detroit \u2013 the result of years of infrastructure neglect by one of the country\u2019s worst-run Democratic cities \u2013 on global warming.<\/p>\n

“My team tells me . . . significant investments are needed to prepare (this) facility to withstand future storms, and other impacts from climate change, which we know are becoming more visible and more extreme,”\u00a0he said while touring<\/a>\u00a0the city\u2019s Water Resource Recovery Facility.<\/p>\n

Right on cue, Democrats\u2019 media chorus \u2013 quoting only \u201cexperts\u201d that fit the Party narrative – backed up the administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe steady, sometimes heavy rains that once again caused flooding and chaos in metro Detroit last week show signs of being related to human-caused climate change,\u201d scared The Detroit Free Press July 20, citing cherry-picked data from 1901-2015. The paper twisted itself into knots trying to square the circle that global warming causes both droughts and more precipitation in the summer.<\/p>\n

In truth, top climatologists like University of Alabama-Huntsville Professor John Christy, who oversees global satellite temperatures, say the earth is warming out of a Little Ice Age that ended two centuries ago. Christy says there is no evidence of a man-made climate crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt depends on the period of time you look at,\u201d said the veteran climatologist about Midwest rainfall patterns. \u201cOver the last 40 years, there has been no upward trend. The data is ambiguous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ambiguous data doesn\u2019t scare voters into handing more power to Washington.<\/p>\n

Detroit Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib turned up the volume at the July 8 event, declaring the climate crisis is racist: “Many of these infrastructures are in the backyard of communities of color, and they have to pay the brunt when we do not invest enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats and media have been hyping weather events as evidence of a crisis. Left-wing publication Bridge Michigan\u00a0even took the opportunity<\/a> of limestone rocks falling into Lake Superior \u2013 a phenomenon that\u2019s occurred for centuries \u2013 as evidence of climate Armageddon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know if it\u2019s tied to climate change,\u201d Pictured Rocks Park chief of interpretation Susan Reece told Bridge, who nevertheless feared the erosion was caused by climate crisis-induced high lake levels.<\/p>\n

Too much water from the heavens and in lakes has become this decade\u2019s narrative of choice, a far cry from a 2007 New York Times headline that summed up that decades\u2019 manufactured horror: \u201cWater Levels in 3 Great Lakes Dip Far Below Normal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fourteen years \u2013 and the natural Great Lakes climate cycle later \u2013 the narrative has flipped.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur jobs, economy, and public health depend on the preservation of The Great Lakes. Michigan has been experiencing extreme weather and the Great Lakes are under threat due to increasing climate change effects,” Tiffany Brown, spokesperson for Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, worried to MLive.com last year about rising lake levels.<\/p>\n

Right on cue, ex-governor and Secretary of Energy Granholm is due to visit the state this week to keep revving the panic pedal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI call it the unfalsifiable hypothesis,\u201d said climatologist Christy. \u201cThis method says wait for something to happen and then claim that human-caused warming is to blame. Anything is possible, therefore nothing is testable. Whatever weather happens confirms their theory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Granholm\u2019s tour will include GM\u2019s Detroit Hamtramck plant that is manufacturing electric vehicles like the $80,000 GMC Hummer for well-to-do customers. The plant is surrounded by Detroit poverty \u2013 a city gripped in a true crisis of rising crime after Democrats\u2019 narrative over the last year to defund police.<\/p>\n

Payne is The Detroit News auto columnist and a syndicated cartoonist with Andrews McMeel.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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