Interior Department, in an environmental analysis, claims “There is not a climate crisis,”

[TheWorldNewsOrg]

BREAKING: Interior Department, in an environmental analysis, claims “there is not a climate crisis.” - Bloomberg

— News Breaking LIVE (@NewsBreaking) September 26, 2019

 

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

Submitted for your inspection, when you see that signpost up ahead ....

[JW Insider]

We should be careful not to mistake the activists, politicians, and doomsdayers with the consensus of scientists. Of course, there will always be some scientists who stand to gain notoriety and/or money from doomsday books or by making claims that support oil companies, fracking companies, or their favorite political parties. When climate change has become so politicized there will some fraud on both sides, although the steady money to follow is coming from corporations and governments who fund research at many of the universities.

The tweet from "News Breaking LIVE" has been taken from a Bloomberg article. It's informative to see the whole article here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-25/trump-s-interior-department-says-there-is-not-a-climate-crisis

The whole story is actually a perfect illustration of how one might "follow the money" to get to the truth of the matter in this instance. Here are the opening paragraphs of the actual article:

The Trump administration brushed aside concerns about climate change as it sought to justify plans for oil drilling in the Arctic refuge, even going so far as to suggest that a little extra warmth would do the planet good.

“There is not a climate crisis,” the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management asserted in its environmental analysis of the coming sale of drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain released earlier this month. Congress mandated the sales two years ago as part of the tax overhaul but a thorough environmental assessment is a legal requirement for holding the auctions.

In other words, the only way the BLM can make any money on the land auctions to get money from drilling companies who want to drill in the Arctic is to also produce a study that says it will not hurt the environment.

Did anyone really think that the BLM was going to come up with any other conclusion? If they did, they would lose many millions of dollars. The United States Department of Defense ran a thorough study that claimed just the opposite. But then again, the Dept of Defense is probably anticipating the need for money too, as they watch climate change result in various national fights over clean water, arable land, refugees issues from droughts or devastating storms, fights over fishing rights as fish keep diminishing, the opening up of "new" lands (like Greenland) for mining/drilling. Opening up of a northwest passage for shipping lanes. &c.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

Whether we are for climate change, formerly known as "Global warming" (hahahaha!) or are against climate change, the climate is going to change.

It's being doing that since the Earth developed an atmosphere, several BILLION years ago.

I, for one, am glad that we are not in an ice age, where glaciers covered half of North America, about 10,000 years ago.

By the way ... you do realize that all wood is made from the carbon in the atmosphere, and not the dirt .  Photosynthesis busts apart CO2, and the tree keeps the carbon to make wood, and throws the oxygen away.

The pure, clean oxygen we breathe, is actually tree poop.

and  CO2 ... is just more plant food.

[JW Insider]

4 hours ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

By the way ... you do realize that all wood is made from the carbon in the atmosphere, and not the dirt .  Photosynthesis busts apart CO2, and the tree keeps the carbon to make wood, and throws the oxygen away.

Every climate scientists realizes this. And everyone should know it. The scientists are looking at what accounts for the excess CO₂. It would be like putting half a cup of ice in a glass and getting a full cup of water when it melts. Everyone should understand why you might get nearly half a cup.