{"id":22737,"date":"2015-04-21T18:48:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T22:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22737"},"modified":"2015-04-21T18:48:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T22:48:39","slug":"what-it-takes-to-prove-global-warming-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22737\/what-it-takes-to-prove-global-warming-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Takes to Prove Global Warming Exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lost amid the charge of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/An_Inconvenient_Truth\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cinconvenient truths\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2014\/01\/the_inventor_of_the_global_warming_hockey_stick_doubles_down.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201chockey stick\u201d graphs<\/a> is a clear notion of what it would take to prove that global warming is real, man-made and alterable.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Tracinski has an answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know whether current warming departs from natural variation, nor have scientists proven the underlying mechanisms by which humans could cause such an increase,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/04\/17\/what-it-would-take-to-prove-global-warming\/ \" target=\"_blank\">writes Tracinski<\/a> at The Federalist. \u201cBut even if we did know these things, we would have to be able to forecast with reasonable accuracy how big the effect is going to be. A very small warming may not even be noticeable or may have mostly salutary effects, such as a slightly longer growing season, whereas the impact of a much larger warming is likely to cause greater disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And therein lies the trillion dollar question: If meteorologists can\u2019t consistently predict the weather from day-to-day, how on earth can humanity justify spending vast amounts of money on temperature predictions that fluctuate from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.populartechnology.net\/2013\/02\/the-1970s-global-cooling-alarmism.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cglobal cooling\u201d<\/a> to \u201cglobal warming\u201d only to settle on \u201cclimate change\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>As Tracinski says, \u201cGiven the abysmal record of climate forecasting, we should tell the warmists to go back and make a new set of predictions, then come back to us in 20 or 30 years and tell us how these predictions panned out. Then we\u2019ll talk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost amid the charge of \u201cinconvenient truths\u201d and \u201chockey stick\u201d graphs is a clear notion of what it would take to prove that global warming is real, man-made and alterable. Robert Tracinski has an answer. \u201cWe don\u2019t know whether current warming departs from natural variation, nor have scientists proven the underlying mechanisms by which humans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,196,205],"class_list":["post-22737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22737"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22744,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22737\/revisions\/22744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}