THERE WILL BE WIND, RAIN, FLOODS, STORMS – OR MAYBE NOT – AT 10:21 A.M. ET:  I immediately declare that I am not an expert on climate change, or global warming, or the end of the world, or any of the predictions made in government reports.  But I am surprised that even the most reckless "reports" are believed in full by the liberal flock, despite serious, informed doubts.  From IBD: 

Global Warming: A new White House report, issued just last Friday, makes alarming projections about future global warming. Not only will it cost billions and billions in lost economic output, that report says, but thousands of lives as well. Time for mass panic? Nope. Just more fake science.

The new National Climate Assessment (NCA) report, the fourth since 2000, seems to suggest a coming climate disaster, to paraphrase the film comedy "Ghost Busters," of "epic, even biblical proportions." But its forecasts and models border on the absurd. At some point, the scientific malpractice in these global warming scare reports has to end.

Some of the projections sound like something kicked around in a Hollywood brainstorming session for a science fiction thriller, and not like the results of sober scientific reasoning and balanced statistical modeling techniques. We shouldn't be surprised, however. The three reports that preceded this one were equally bad.

By the way, that's not us speaking,  but actual climate scientists. They say the latest government climate change report does a disservice to Americans by once again politicizing science and ignoring both real data and history.

The report's conclusions are so extreme as to be laughable. For one, it predicts that use of coal and other fossil fuels will destroy 10% of U.S. GDP by the end of the century. Those are nice projections, since none of those who made them will be alive to see them proven totally false.

The fact is, access to fossil fuels has been the key driver of global economic success since the industrial age began. Cheap, plentiful fossil fuels during the last 175 years led to the greatest economic surge in human history. Carbon-based fuels moved literally billions of people around the world out of lives of grinding poverty and hard physical labor and into unparalleled wealth and comfort.

And...

The entire global warming "reporting" process is so heavily politicized, it doesn't qualify as science. The group responsible for the report, the U.S. Global Change Research Program, is largely a creation of the Obama administration. Global warming true believers are its backbone. Indeed, parts of the report just released were written during the Obama years.

The point is, there are no real skeptics on board for this report and the three dating back to 2000 that preceded it. Just true believers. And the worst, least believable part of the White House report is based on research by organizations funded in part by  global warming extremists and billionaires Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg.

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  It's very well argued.  What we need is a neutral presidential commission, like the Challenger commission, to examine the entire field of climate change.  What do we know?  What don't we know?  What must we know to make sound decisions?

We should remember that millions are being made in the "climate change" industry.  We should recall President Eisenhower's warning about the impact of federal grants on scientific results.  We are being asked to spend trillions to counter the effects of "climate change," but the science is under serious question.

Don't depend on the media for solutions.  They're on board with the liberal agenda, regardless of facts.

November 28, 2018