2014 - Hottest year yet recorded.
... Recorded by the same people in charge of those adjusted charts? Got it.
Those people are climate scientists.
Please Rodeo, there is no place for logic in this thread. In this thread, we believe in 4chan information and blog posts. We don't believe in climate scientists, Pssh.
...ya, climate scientists would never lie to save their jobs
Never. Like most other folks their house, car, lifestyle is debt-free so they have nothing to lose by not following the party line. You see this unbiased integrity everywhere, the mass media is another prime example.
...mass media is the BIGGEST WHORE!!!
Politicians fix the facts to fit their theory. Then it´s off to a long and very bloody and profitable war. The fish rots from the head down. Long tradition of corrupt leadership, well you can´t expect that to result in a populace of exceptional integrity.
There is an enormous pay-day if energy can be taxed more with 'cap-n-trade' type constructs. Trillions with a 'T' most likely. Just managing the money flows will net some huge wins even if one doesn't stick their hand into the cookie jar to much. I've read projections that Goldman Sachs will rake in billions just running the trading platform.
It makes perfect sense, then, that the stops are pulled out to get this thing cranking along. They key is to appeal to a broad swath of entities.
- The Socialists get to at least fool themselves into thinking that this is the path to 'social justice'.
- The environmentalists get to fool themselves into thinking this is the way to get rid Gaia's blight of humans.
- The energy companies will just pass the costs on since people need energy no matter what the costs.
- The governments get to create a giant bureaucracy, and what department head doesn't want more minions?
- The contractors have business force-funneled there way through the regulatory process.
- The financial institutions get to create more money to take interest on since the loans are more abundant and amounts bigger.
- The 'scientists' have a clear career path by producing the 'correct' results.
I've been screwing around with Bitcoin for a while and have dodged a lot of bullets. Why? I have a good nose for scams. This whole 'catastrophic anthropogenic global climate change' (the current favored permutation since 'warming' is not working well lately) is a scam of titanic proportions. I am convinced of that after studying it for half a year or so.
I'm sure the climate is changing and always has. I don't doubt that humans have at least a bit to do with it. I think it unlikely that it will result in any significant 'catastrophe'. Some people will be impacted more than others, but compared to the catastrophe of allowing the banksters and the minions of miscreants to win and the scientists destroy science I suspect that more people will be better off if the whole scammy climate change scare would just die.