Who Are the Real Climate Change Deniers?

November 18, 2023 By Glenn Spitzer 

 

Who are these “climate change deniers” we hear so much about? Does anyone really doubt the climate changes?  Well, yes.  There are climate change deniers — a lot of them.  They live right under our noses, and they are celebrated.  Here’s a quote from one of the most famous climate change deniers:.............That was Al Gore in 2007.  According to Gore, the climate was “shiftless” for thousands of years — a paradigm of stability..........The most important assumption in Mann’s theory is that there was no climate change prior to the 20th century.  But this assumption is false.  It is climate change denial; it is the sacrifice of truth for a desired outcome.  Mann’s 1998 study intentionally ignored several thousand scientific publications showing other periods of climate change throughout human history, such as the Medieval Warm Period (about A.D. 900 to 1300), the Little Ice Age (about 1300 to 1915), and the Roman Warm Period (about A.D. 1 to 500).  Despite claims of perpetual stability, it turns out the climate is always changing.

Scientists estimate that, during the Medieval Warm Period, for example, the temperatures in parts of Europe were 1.0–1.4° Celsius (1.8–2.5° Fahrenheit) warmer than they are now.  Oxygen isotope studies in China, Germany, Greenland, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Tibet, as well as tree ring data from many sites throughout the world, confirm the Medieval Warm Period.  The studies are so numerous (several thousand published papers confirming this warming) that it raises the obvious question: “Why do climate activists deny that the climate is always changing?”

There are two important reasons why activists deny climate change.  First, the acceptance of prior warming periods undermines the argument that a modern warming is an existential threat, and second, prior warming periods undermine the idea that anthropogenic (man-made) CO2 is the primary cause of climate change..........To Read More....

My Take - I commented on this AT article saying:

Excellent article. I've followed this and wrote about it from the beginning, and those of us who recognized this was a massive scientific fraud and wrote about it were vilified. Now, they're being called before the bar.

Michael Mann lost his SLAPP suit in Canada against Tim Ball, and it appears his SLAPP suit against Mark Steyn is finally going to court. I expect him to lose this one also and for the same reason. He'll refuse to turn over his "dirty laundry" (his term) for inspection, as he failed to do in Canada costing him the suit.  You may wish to review my Tim Ball File.

Mann has kept the legal machinery churning forever to cause a massive financial burden for those he's sued, but we need to remember Steyn counter sued, so it will be interesting to see what Steyn does if Mann loses. Given Steyn's character, I suggest this might be enormously expensive for Mann and the David Suzuki Foundation that funded these SLAPP suits for Mann.  Here's the link to My Mann Chronicles