Climate Narrative Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

<![CDATA[In 1971, David Bowie told us to, "Turn and face the strange." I've seen a lot of strange people, mostly on the left, in my 30 years of working in media. But among the strangest have been what the Late Rush Limbaugh used to call environmental whackos. Also in that same year, Stephen Schneider, working in Maryland at the Goddard Space Flight Center for NASA, wrote a paper that largely steered the debate on human impact on Earth's climate and what we might have to do about it. His thesis? Because of all the dirty air caused by pollution, it would outweigh the effects of carbon dioxide and throw us into a mini ice age. The average global temperatures had steadily decreased from the 40's to that point, and since he was science, to quote a line by Dr. Anthony Fauci, that became the narrative...until it didn't work anymore. Schneider reviewed a book six years later called The Weather Conspiracy, and admitted he overestimated his earlier research, and that, "We just don’t know…at this stage whether we are in for warming or cooling – or when."In the 80's, the global temperatures began to increase again, and by 1981 in the House of Representatives, a young Tennessee Congressman named Al Gore began holding hearings on what he called global warming. Seven years later, then-Senator Al Gore of the Volunteer State started organizing events to raise public awareness on the subject. He knew then how to use the issue for political advantage. And in 2006, six years after losing to George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential campaign, Gore's infamous An Inconvenient Truth came out, predicting the melting of the global ice caps by the summer of 2013 if we didn't stop burning fossil fuel. Gore, now an elder statesman of the climate change movement at 77, is still a weirdo, and he's still wrong.By the mid-teens of the new century, due to the fact that the Earth wasn't boiling over fast or severe enough to keep up with the prophets of doom predicting global apocalypse, the narrative had to shift again. It wasn't cooling, and it wasn't really warming up all that much, so the term 'climate change' evolved as the preferred term of art. And for the left, it was perfect. It was all-encompassing, and gave them a 'heads, I win...tails, you lose' scenario. No matter what the climate did, whether it was a busier-than-normal hurricane season, or a drought in the American Southwest, flooding, or any inclement weather, it was blamed on climate change, and we had to reduce the use of fossil fuels as a result before it killed us all. Human-caused climate change was so insidiously evil, we were told, that it would get warmer in some places, cooler in others, drier over here, wetter over there, the seas would rise, land mass would disappear below the surface, and whatever weather anomaly occurred was branded as severe, extreme and/or unprecedented. That nonsense got us through the John Kerry years, first as Barack Obama's Secretary of State, and then the climate czar during the Biden regency. Lurch is about the biggest oddball out there, and the Trump team has been wise to undo much of the economic damage caused by that Massachusetts buffoon. Yesterday, The Guardian came out with this news - the climate isn't really changing much at all. ]]>