Climate Change Has Not Caused a Crisis, Say Heartland Institute Scientists
BY NATHAN SU, THE EPOCH TIMES
Almost 27 years after United Nations adopted the UN Framework
Almost 27 years after United Nations adopted the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), many scientists now say: There is no crisis caused by climate change.
In the last few decades, people all around the world have become used to hearing scientists insist that there is a consensus on the global warming and climate change crisis.
Most people never question the details of the so-called consensus scientists have agreed to, because everyone knows the earth is getting warmer.
But to researchers and scientists at the Heartland Institute, an Illinois-based free market think tank, the details of the climate change issue are very important.
“There are only two things scientists are in consensus: climate has become warmer, and the greenhouse gas generated by human activities made the temperature increase,” said James Taylor to The Epoch Times. Taylor is a senior fellow for environment and energy policy at Heartland Institute.
But “the real issue is whether we have created a climate crisis,” said Taylor in an interview with C-Span on discussion of the Green New Deal on Jan. 8.
In other words, a warmer climate doesn’t mean a crisis is coming.
Taylor said the Earth has been warmer or colder many times during human civilization. He said that in the past six to eight thousand years, most of that time the earth’s temperatures were much warmer than today.
For the scientists and researchers at Heartland Institute, the only consensus is: Global warming has not brought a climate change crisis.
Lead by the Heartland Institute, many researchers and scientists in the United States have joined the campaign to promote a healthy, science-based skepticism regarding the climate change crisis.
Al Gore’s Misprojection
Back in December during the 24th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) at Katowice, Poland, the Heartland Institute and the Polish Solidarity labor union issued a joint statement calling on the UN to ensure the “restoration of the Scientific Method and the dismissal of ideological dogma.”
During COP 24, the Heartland Institute shared a video that listed the top five things former Vice President Al Gore got spectacularly wrong on the climate change crisis:
No 5: Gore in 2006 said that we had 10 years to save the planet, but the planet is still not doomed at the end of 2018.
No 4: Gore predicted that the arctic would be ice-free by the summer of 2014, which was not even close.
No. 3: It was said that the flow of the Gulf Stream would slow down, leading to climate catastrophe. But NASA data shows the Gulf stream current may actually be speeding up.
No. 2: Polar bears were said to be in danger of extinction. But polar bear numbers are now at an all-time high.
No. 1: Gore said in 2006 that sea levels would rise by as much as 20 feet “in the near future.” But sea level rise has not deviated from its pace of about 3 millimeters a year, about the height of two dimes.
Taylor said that “[The] environmental movement is utilizing global warming issues as a means to centralize power and a global bureaucracy that is premised on redistributing wealth, [and increasing] government control.”
Heartland Institute’s Rebuttal of the Climate Crisis
In September 2018, while the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) was being held in San Francisco, the Heartland Institute and the Independent Institute held a joint rebuttal panel discussion in Oakland, California against GCAS.
In the rebuttal discussion, a group of scientists and researchers claimed that the climate crisis does not have universal scientific approval.
“We feel that it is very important that science drives the discussion and the politics,” said James Taylor during the rebuttal discussion.
GCAS, on the other hand, held “A Dialogue on How Science is Supporting Climate Action” as a part of its events.
The dialogue at GCAS featured speakers such as California Governor Jerry Brown, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, and California University Administrator Janet Ann Napolitano.
Taylor described the science of GCAS as “a politician or two referencing drought or Hurricane Florence, and attributing them to global warming without any data, scientific theories, explanations, or observations.”
In the rebuttal discussion, Dr. Stanley Goldenberg, one of the meteorologists who sits on the panel, read a monthly weather review published by the American Meteorology Society.
“The arctic ocean is warming up,” he read. “Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melting, the sea level will rise and make most of the coastal cities inhabitable.”
After finishing reading, Dr. Goldenberg then told the audience: “This was a monthly weather review published in 1922,” and suggested that the weather review be read at GCAS.
President Trump Shows Support
Taylor said that President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement, which seeks to combat climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, was a “fantastic decision,” and that “the basis for the Paris Agreement is false and scientifically unjustified.”
Taylor pointed out that if carbon dioxide emissions and global warming were truly the concerns of the Paris Agreement, nations around the world would appreciate and learn from the United States, because carbon dioxide emissions in the states have declined 14 percent since 2005, while in the same time period, the rest of the world had increased carbon dioxide emissions by 56 percent.
However, instead of being held as a shining example, the United States has been criticized by the nations joining the global climate summits, Taylor said.
The Paris Agreement requires developed countries to pay $100 billion each year, which proves that “the United Nations’ goal is to transfer money and power from the democracy countries to the United Nations,” Taylor stated.
Taylor said that France has the most support for taking measures to address global warming, but even in France, the yellow vest movement shows that people have a limit on how much their taxes are spent on these measures.
Although the rebuttal to the climate change crisis by these scientists comes 27 years after UNFCCC, it may just be in time for the New Green Deal battle in Congress.
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on Climate Change (UNFCCC), many scientists now say: There is no crisis caused by climate change.
In the last few decades, people all around the world have become used to hearing scientists insist that there is a consensus on the global warming and climate change crisis.
