This weekend is going to set record low temperatures across much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation. Ditto for parts of Canada. So far, this past week, 70 people have died due to cold. 300,000 remain without electricity and many won't get restored before this new storm hits full force Friday. A "bomb cyclone" is predicted. So, tell me again why warmer temperatures by a fraction of a degree are more dangerous?
What prediction has ever come true about "global warming"? The oceans are getting cooler in the N. hemisphere. Corals are thriving like they have for millions of years. Crop production continues to increase when it was predicted to fall. The Arctic Ice hasn't disappeared in summer. The Antarctic ice sheet is not doomed due to a crack in the Ross Shelf ice. Polar bears are at their highest numbers in 75 years. All these doomsday predictions have not come true and are likely not to come true even if the earth actually does warm up. Yes, we are about 1.5 degrees hotter than the middle of the 19th century... duh, that was the end of the LIA (Little Ice Age) a few hundred years of colder than average temperatures. In the past 14,000 or so years since the end of the last Ice Age, the temperatures have varied between colder and warmer periods without causing the extinction of masses of species. And regardless of the temperature, species suffer extinction on a routine basis and that's the norm for the eons. Are we disappointed because Tyrannosaurus rex doesn't roam the earth? Is climate change the cause of the demise of the saber-toothed tiger, Mastodon, dire wolf, or giant ground sloths? Maybe but more likely there is a better explanation, and science is NOT SETTLED on why the megafauna of 10,000 years ago suddenly disappeared. Asteroid, mega volcano, what? We don't know. Theory abounds without proofs.
