Letter to the editor: Climate 'consensus'

The writer of the letter “Humans have changed the climate cycle” (April 4, TribLIVE) disguises climate dogma as academic rebuttal citing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “scientific consensus.” By definition, consensus is nothing more than general agreement, and it’s certainly not scientific. The United Nations IPCC advances “anthropogenic” climate change only. It starts with the premise that humans cause it, therefore only humans can control it; non- conforming opinions are excluded.

Originally, the UN’s Advisory Group on Greenhouse Gases (AGGG) was founded by a Swedish meteorologist and Canadian climatologist. It quickly was replaced by the IPCC, which today is chaired by a South Korean economist. Economists recently assumed inflation was “transitory,” and couldn’t agree on the definition of recession. Why is one leading the charge on climate change?

Assumptions about atmospheric carbon levels 3 million years ago are questionable. Temperature records only begin 150 years ago. Dire predictions about the ice caps have been folly, and poor Greta Thunberg recently deleted a 5-year-old tweet because the world has not ended.

Human vulnerabilities lead man to believe he can control the weather. Primitive tribes performed ceremonial dances to make it rain, and ancient civilizations pleased their gods with virgin sacrifices to ensure a fruitful harvest. Today, elitists arrogantly want us to dance around limitations on our freedom, and sacrifice quality of life, to maintain their economic bounty. I’ll trust in God to make it rain on their parade.

Joe Schmidt

Lower Burrell