Is Climate Change Exaggerated?

There's an interesting piece at The Federalist by Tristan Justice which mentions news that some of our environmentalist friends may not want to hear.

Justice reports that,

A coalition of more than 1,600 scientists critical of their peers’ hyperbolic claims about climate change drew a prominent recruit to sign their 2019 declaration that the climate “emergency” is a myth.

John Clauser, who won last year’s Nobel Prize in physics, became the second Nobel laureate last month to sign the document with 1,607 other scientists rebuking the idea of a climate crisis.

According to these scientists the climate crisis, so fervently believed in by much of our media and promoted by politicians and ideologically inclined scientists, doesn't exist.

“Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific,” the declaration organized by the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL) reads.

“Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.”

Last year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) debuted a roadmap to net-zero emissions that became the model for corporate bishops of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards.

A June report from the Energy Policy Research Foundation criticized the initiatives outlined as a “green mirage.” The IEA roadmap, researchers wrote, “will dramatically increase energy costs, devastate Western economies, and increase human suffering.”

“The aim of global policy should be ‘prosperity for all’ by providing reliable and affordable energy at all times,” reads CLINTEL’s World Climate Declaration. “There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm.”

There's no cause for panic or alarm, these scientists tell us, but somehow that message has not made its way to our schools and state and national capitals.

“The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people. Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience,” Clauser said.

“In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists.”

The signatories insist that the planet is warming more slowly than had been predicted and that the warming that has occurred has had little to do with whatever natural disasters the planet has suffered.

In fact,

Mega-disasters are actually on the decline, while the destruction from natural events such as hurricanes and wildfires is on the rise. The increase in billion-dollar disasters, however, is a result of there being more to destroy. But that hasn’t stopped legacy outlets from blaming every natural event on the “climate crisis.”

Two years ago, The New York Times published “Postcards From A World On Fire” despite natural disaster deaths declining by 90 percent.

When hurricanes and tornadoes hit they cause a lot of economic destruction because it's much more likely that a storm will hit highly developed areas today than it was fifty years ago when fewer areas were under asphalt.

The World Climate Declaration also notes that carbon dioxide is not a toxic pollutant. It's essential to the nourishment of plants and assimilated by them to promote their growth and release oxygen. It has generated higher crop yields and global reforestation.

But the climate change lobby never tells us that.