The well-fed polar bear above, if he could talk and read, would tell the global-warming-obsessed media, like the New York Times, how full of it they are. There have never been so many polar bears as now, the Inuit of northern Canada report. Unlike the Times reporters inhabiting the Upper West Side of New York, the Inuit live on site. There are so many polar bears that the Inuit are having to cull them to reduce the threat to their villages and children.
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Are New York City and Miami about to become snorkel sites from Greenland glaciers melting? CNN and a hundred clones have warned us repeatedly of that, but somehow this hasn’t stopped the ultra-rich from buying up multi-million dollar townhouses and condos in the very cities about to be flooded. Perhaps they don’t believe a word of the alarmist reporting appearing in the press they read, cite, and advertise in.
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Meanwhile in Iceland, next door to Greenland, the glaciers are growing. A possible reason is that the earth seems to be heading into a solar minimum like that which caused the Maunder Minimum in the 1600-1750 period.
Whatever the case, CO2 can’t be the principal driver of arctic glacial melting, as should be apparent from the fact that the arctic had less ice 6000-7000 years ago than now:
”The climate in the northern regions has never been milder since the last Ice Age than it was about 6000-7000 years ago. We still don’t know whether the Arctic Ocean was completely ice free, but there was more open water in the area north of Greenland than there is today,” says Astrid Lyså, a geologist and researcher at the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU).
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Rather than fossil fuel combustion flooding the planet with CO2, half the CO2 being emitted by combustion in the Northern Hemisphere is being “sunk” (absorbed) by vegetation. As the CO2 has increased, so has this carbon sink. This shouldn’t be surprising: CO2 is plant food.
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Media that should have known better, like the Wall Street Journal, have called the Pacific Gas and Electric bankruptcy “the first climate-change bankruptcy” and say that it “probably won’t be the last.” But many commentators have pointed out that it wasn’t climate change that caused California’s forest fires last year but poor timber management.
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Another spurious claim is that global warming is going to make 40% of insect species extinct. The press greeted the paper with the predictable magnification. The Guardian story ran under the headline “Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature.'” The refutation of the supposed science behind the headlines was not long in coming but unsurprisingly did not get covered, much less with headlines that would have been appropriate, such as “Junk insect die-off study trashed.”
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Meanwhile, Bloomberg on April 11th reported that
[President] Trump on Wednesday ordered the Transportation Department to write a new rule permitting super-chilled natural gas to be shipped in tank cars. The order follows a multiyear lobbying campaign by railroads and natural gas advocates, who argue it is needed to serve customers in the U.S. Northeast, where there aren’t enough pipelines, while also making it possible to use the gas to power ships and trains.
This has excited widespread cries from the anti-Trump press of “bomb trains.” But the tank car shipment of LNG wouldn’t be necessary if environmentalists and Governor Cuomo hadn’t done everything in their power to block pipelines through New York state to Canada and New England.
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The US economy is thriving while Europe stagnates in part because the US president exited the anti-fossil-fuel Paris Agreement and has favored an “all-azimuth” energy policy. This has made energy in the US plentiful and cheap, albeit impeded by environmentalist lawsuits and opposition in Democratic Party controlled states.
All eighteen of the declared 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have committed themselves to putting the US back into the Paris Agreement. Most also supported the wildly utopian Green New Deal draft of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez until Republican ridicule forced them into equivocation.
At the very least, Democrats will have to come up with another icon than the thriving polar bears.
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