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Climate Risk?

I'm not talking about climate change or global warming here.  Our discussion is about climate risk.  Just a couple of decades past, all the buzz was about global cooling. Now it is about warming.  

 Unhappily politicians have become involved.  You must ask yourself, and answer honestly.  If I support party A and they claim this, do I believe them?  Or if I support party B, and they believe the opposite, do I believe that?  Short answer.  Believe neither. 
Any politician supporting or denying "climate risk" is being political, not scientific.  NOBODY understands it.  If you really want to know, here's a very short list what to do and know.

  • Remove most of the $$$.
  • Establish theories of reflectivity of solar energy by atmospheric particle suspension, particulate and aerosol (micro and nano).
  • Understand the nature of oceanic currents, historic and current.
  • Establish consistent locations and equipment for thermal measurements.
  • Understand the effects of atmospheric conditions.
  • Accurately measure the cyclicity of historic temperature variations and glaciation.
  • Stop the claims: a. Yesterday's horrible hurricane is climate change proved. b. Last year's cold winter was predicted by the models.  If your model predicts everything that will happen, you're as scientific as an astrologer.
  • And then come the anthropomorphic issues - where all the power resides.  Sketchy and belief based only are these.  It comes to pseudo-statistics implying causality.  
  • Know this: if politicians are involved, there is inherent corruption.

It is just plain impossible to be expert at all of the scientific areas of the above list. To understand climate well enough to make predictions is currently beyond the scope of (honest) science. Scientists are trying, but they are tainted by politics and $$$.

If you don't really understand, don't confuse what you want to believe and what is true.

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