By Stephen Einhorn
18,000 years ago, Wisconsin was under 100 feet of ice, and so it is clear that the earth has been in a warming period for thousands of years. If temperatures have increased 1-2 degrees during the past 180 years this really should not be a surprise to any of us, including the climate activists.
But frequently we are told that this small increase in the earth’s temperature is the existential issue of our time and that this global warming is gripping the globe and is caused almost solely by our wasteful and excessive use of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil). As a result, the climate activists demand that our government spend billions of dollars on mitigating climate change. Goldman Sachs estimated that the increase in our national debt from climate change mandates alone will total $1.2 trillion from the 2023 Deficit Reduction Act. The climate activists instruct us to change our lifestyles, reduce our use of fossil fuels to prevent climate changes including more dangerous hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires and droughts.
But we know from the historical scientific studies by the EPA, NASA, NFS and the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), that fossil fuels cause only an infinitesimal amount of global warming, because we do not have any more dangerous hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires or droughts than in during the past 100 years.
Millions of Americans are worried because they have been repeatedly told that the earth will become dangerously hot in a few years. But scientifically, we know from NASA, which tracks Global warming, that the 6 years after 2016 were cooler than 2016 and that the 16 years after 1998 were cooler years.
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Stephen Einhorn is a contributor for the MacIver Institute.
Originally published by the MacIver Institute. Republished with permission.
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