Happy Earth Day!

It is also Vladimir Lenin's birthday, and there is more than a little irony in that fact.

Being Earth Day, I am subjected to so much tree-hugger talk, especially this year as the Paris Climate Change Accord is signed. So much hoopla over a myth, a hoax, a theory so flawed you don't have to dig deep to see it. In fact, you can use scientific argument to expose the deep flaws in this "settled science".  Start with a review of the Scientific Method used to set up experiments and prove in or out a hypothesis.

The Scientific Method is a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.

The theory behind anthropogenic climate change is that man creates carbon dioxide at levels high enough to create a greenhouse effect in the earth's atmosphere.  Their hypothesis is this effect traps sunlight, and thus heat, warming the climate, melting the polar ice caps, and incrementally increasing the global median temperatures each year. The famous hockey stick graph was produced from their model based on the hypothesis.

Then came a monumental problem.  The measurement and observation part of the scientific method returned results that did not support their hypothesis. If true science were employed, the scientists would reformulate and modify their hypothesis, create a new model and get back to measure and observe.  

Instead, they changed temperature data from the early 1900's so their model would appear correct. And they also doubled down on claiming their hypothesis was scientific fact, peer reviewed, and settled science, expertly using the Joseph Goebbels maxim:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Those who do not believe the state fostered myth are called deniers, and some have discussed criminalizing this speech (following the Goebells blueprint). When true scientific principles are applied to anthropogenic climate change, you begin to realize the theory can only be taken as a religious theory and not a scientific truth.