Jim Ludlow: Climate change is just latest fear-mongering
The Bee has a climate change article almost every day. I decided to check the facts.
The oft quoted “97 percent of scientists agree” came from John Cook reviews climate scientific papers. When scientists complained that their papers were being mischaracterized, David Friedman reviewed the same papers. Yes, 97 percent said there was climate change, but only 1.6 percent said it was man-made.
Physicist Philip Lloyd, former lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change, now believes ice-core evidence shows that recent climate change is well within historical natural variability.
Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, has repeatedly stated that he is not a believer in climate change.
John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at University of Alabama, says out of 117 climate change predictions only three were accurate. It’s clear the climate is changing. It always has. But so far, scientists do not know exactly how or why.
Every year I’ve been alive there’s been some fear that worried and none ever happened. Remember Ebola? Y2K? Russian Nuclear War? In the 1970s it was the coming Ice Age? Halley’s Comet? SARS? The Rapture? Nostradamus? The list goes on and on.
Why do we scare ourselves so much? The answer is simple. Fear sells.
Jim Ludlow, Turlock
This story was originally published August 20, 2015 at 6:34 PM with the headline "Jim Ludlow: Climate change is just latest fear-mongering."