ya... I was some sort of a conspiracy theorist at the time, such as believing Climate Change is false and is a natural cycle and all of that stuff. In my 2nd and 3rd year of High School my science teachers (they changed every year) convinced me that 9/11 was made by the government. I know that they were bit out there (if you know what I mean) but the fact they taught us this is bad for the future of society.
Climate does change.
The global warming alarmists coined a new phrase, climate change, when the temperature stopped warming in accordance with their models. The real issue of climate change is political, not scientific. Carbon dioxide is called a pollutant. Plants cannot live without carbon dioxide, thus it is no more a pollutant than oxygen is. Carbon tax. Money for the government to spend, just like the Social Security trust fund is money for the government to spend, beyond what was needed for current benefits. It is about socialism. "Climate change is real and it is dangerous" says the President. The climate has always been dangerous. Hurricanes are not a recent invention. Soldiers nearly froze to death at Valley Forge and Marie Antoinette let them eat cake. 45 straight days of rain in California in 1861. Imagine the flooding. 2013, lowest calendar year rainfall on record in Los Angeles. Currently, warmest winter i recall in the 30+ years i have lived here. A few years ago we had the coolest summer on record.
I saw a video of author Michael Crighton (sp?) on Cspan around the time he died. He said that if he dropped a ball, that a group of scientists would all have essentially the same answer at to how long it would take to hit the floor, but that no one could answer uniformly, what the temperature would be in the year 2100.
In the same year, there was record low sea ice ice in the Arctic, while there was record high sea ice in the Antarctic.
What is science and what is bunk? As Dr. Jones wrote, "where's the warming?" Things were not according to model.
"In an interview with Business Insider from his office in Tennessee, Laffer admitted that he was wrong. The old maxim that dictates increasing the availability of cash through lower interest rates will lead to higher prices, he said, may need to be reexamined.
"Usually when you find the model this far off, you've probably got something wrong with the model, not that the world has changed," he said. "Inflation does not appear to be monetary base driven," he said."