On the Bed-Wetters' Manifesto

The IPCC makes a litany of assumptions; a) that the norm of nature and climate is a steady state (rather than a chaotic one), b) that all climate change is undesirable, c) that living things are fragile and incapable of adapting to change, and d) that CO2 is the major driver of climate. To say that these assumptions are at the very minimum dubious is an understatement....................................................................................The real truth here, folks, is that a) the climate has always changed and it always will change, b) life is highly persistent and adaptable and very few species have actually gone extinct over the past million and a half years (this despite the fact that we've had multiple ice ages and warming optimums significantly higher than now), c) life for the most part has thrived during warm periods and if any climate change is to be feared it is global cooling (yeah, human beings didn't exactly do very well during the last ice age - HELLO!!), and d) there are countless variables that influence the weather and to say that a trace gas (a necessary one no less, one that we couldn't conceivably live without) which constitutes a tiny part of the overall energy budget is more important than solar forcings, oceanic oscillations, plate tectonics, volcanic (including underwater volcanoes) activity and inactivity, planetary perturbations, bacteria, cosmic rays, lunar and galactic cycles, cloud formations, etc., etc. is patently absurd..................................................................................Of course, the fact that 97% of their predictions (most of them apocalyptic) have been way off the mark and all of their reports extremely speculative hasn't helped, either.