I wouldn’t say that climate-change is a “made-up” problem, but rather that the science has been politicized to support a certain narrative and political agenda. Consequently, completely opposite outcomes – extreme heat, extreme cold, extreme rainfall, or extreme drought, hurricanes or their absence – are all explained by “climate-change,” casting doubt on the predictive value of the so-called science. If a fortune teller predicts that in the next year you will have good days and bad days, her value as a fortune teller doesn’t amount to much. The same goes for much of today’s “climate science.”
I recommend that everyone read a book on natural history, and – if possible – one that focuses on their own region. This is a way to inoculate yourself from the alarmism that we encounter after every extreme weather event. Natural history teaches us that the world has undergone profound cycles of change, affecting both climate and geology. In my corner of the world (the Puget Sound area of Washington State), the coastline of the Pacific Ocean has shifted by a couple of hundred miles over millions of years, shifting from what is now the Washington-Idaho border to where it is now, many miles west of Seattle.,
Ten or twelve thousand years ago, there were several hundred feet of ice where I am sitting right now, and the north-south valleys in the area were carved-out during that last ice age. The bluffs along much of Puget Sound were created all at once by a massive earthquake a few hundred years ago. In 1980, the upper half of Mt. St. Helens blew away in a matter of minutes. Mt. Rainier and Mt. Baker are active volcanos, capable of doing the same.
So, yes, there is climate change; the question is how much of it is caused by human enterprise. Probably a very small part, despite the headlines, and the idea that we can prevent extreme weather events by adjusting our lifestyles is ludicrous. It is also ludicrous to claim that all climate change must be disastrous for human society – some effects may actually be beneficial. Climate-change – like the pandemic and “white supremacy” – is another scare tactic being used to limit our freedoms and force us into an anti-democratic, globalist scheme that would not otherwise gain popular support.
