Bless You, John Kerry

No one here denies that the climate changes, Pam.

Your tribe has gone from referring to “global warming” to “global climate change” and then back to “global warming” depending upon how well the general public buys the warming part. 

But the real issue is whether the climate change is anthropogenic. Pointing to change or even to actual warming just begs the question.

The theory of anthropogenic climate change was scientifically interesting fifty years ago. Now, though, what is interesting is the social science, as a failed theory has become part of a state-​sponsored religion.

The theory of anthropogenic global climate change says that release of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere by human activity causes significant changes to climate by increasing the amount of light energy radiated back downward, instead of being allowed to escape into outer-space. 

Carbon dioxide, methane, and the other greenhouse gasses are like other chemicals. The greenhouse gasses don’t simply radiate light energy back towards the surface of the Earth; they radiate it in characteristic frequencies. If you had the resources for strategically placed sensors, then for the last ten, twenty, or thirty years you could have measured the light energy in the relevant frequencies, and could have compared these measurements against the changing levels of the gasses — if you wanted to know. 

Many of the various national states have the resources, and every reason to support such a study if its results conform to the theory of anthropogenic global climate change. But the results of a study effecting such measurements on a meaningful scale have not been reported. If that silence is because the results are being kept secret, then plainly they are inconvenient to whomever has kept them secret. If the silence is because such a study has not been undertaken, then plainly that is because the results are expected to be inconvenient.