Climate Change in 2025
The global warming ‘wolf’ cry.
The metaphor of the global warming ‘wolf’ seems fitting. Only Allah knows the number of times it’s been cried out. This ‘wolf’ represents the looming threat of climate catastrophe, a predator silently encroaching upon our fragile ecosystem. The urgency to address the factors contributing to climate change has never been more reported and dramatized.
Despite the considerable impact of human activities in recent centuries, the debate continues regarding the extent to which current global warming (climate change) can be attributed to natural processes versus human-caused factors.
Natural phenomena have always played a critical role in shaping the global climate. These natural factors include volcanic eruptions, changes in solar radiation waves, and oceanic currents. These particulars have influenced the Earth’s climate for millions of years, causing cycles of warming and cooling long before human activity became an allegedly significant influence.
There have been hundreds of millions of dollars spent on studies, many of which have been granted to support the proposition of climate change, meaning to ‘prove’ Al Gore’s global warming theory. Innumerable computer models were also funded.
We know that buying the climate change theory and believing the world must immediately change the way it powers civilization is expensive. The Biden administration bought the whole nine yards of climate change, So, we experienced 4 years of EOs and regulations to curb the use of fossil fuels in the US and save the world. However, we also now know that solar and wind power generation does not happen without atmospheric carbon and other unwanted emissions,
As an aside here, let’s also note the two other countries with the most fossil fuel usage and emissions but without the climate change religion, namely China and India, which continue to simply ignore the “wolf” calls.
Meanwhile, the US and some European countries have experienced high inflation on basically everything because energy is a common expense for farm production to store, from manufacture to customer.
Now comes an additional piece to be added to the climate change scenario, namely space weather. This aspect refers to solar flares and cosmic rays and the role they play in Earth’s climate system. The sun has an 11-year cycle, but it also apparently has an approximate 100-year cycle as well.
Solar flares, for example, can influence the amount of solar energy reaching Earth, potentially altering weather patterns. Cosmic rays, on the other hand, may affect cloud formation by ionizing atmospheric particles.
Scientists are now investigating how these cosmic events impact atmospheric patterns. A better understanding of these phenomena on the long-term implications on the earth’s climate is needed and worthwhile. Satellites and space probes are being utilized to gather data, hopefully to provide more insight into how these extraterrestrial events may be contributing to global warming and climate variability.
Part of the ‘wolf’ scenario is the immediacy of mitigating actions. That’s based on the proposition that the earth has not experienced such a rapid change over millennium. The major source of that information is the rings in trees, some fossilized, some in polar ice. I don’t think most people believe the wolf is at the gate based on tree trunk rings.
Couple all this ‘science’ with a 2023 report by the Global Carbon Project that the earth has witnessed a notable shift downward in the rate of global carbon emissions with temp rises slowing down – despite little change in CO2 emissions.
What this all boils down to is we don’t know what some wholeheartedly believe.
Even if one concedes an acceptance of the need for lower carbon emissions, the alternatives offered with current technology thus far provide little overall net mitigation thereof.
It also ignores the ingenuity of humans to not only reduce carbon emissions while continuing the use of fossil fuel, but to capture those emissions and put it to some good use – perhaps even energy generation. Why not unleash the private sector rather than government assuming it has more knowledge and ability?
The current administration is on the skeptical side of climate change and is reversing most of the EO restrictions and agency regulations designed to eliminate the use of fossil fuel and related carbon emissions.
So far in 2025, it’s fair to say the public is supportive of those reversals.
We know that there is no such thing as scientific proof. Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic.
Ergo, science is not right or wrong.
It requires many experiments of a theory producing the same evidence to even be temporarily accepted.
‘Climate change’ as it exists is science – and is not conclusive.
Let’s not undo civilization based on theory.
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Have a great and prosperous week.
Hug somebody.
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