Climate change has been happening forever...

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Climate change has been happening forever...

Not that it would shock us or anything, but as it turns out, President Obama hiked to Exit Glacier in Alaska, with photographers in tow, to send the world a "message": The glacier is melting. Great! What’s new? Obama blames it on the increasing use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, which he wants to restrict not only in the United States but worldwide. Now, obviously the photo op was designed to build support for an international climate agreement he’s pushing hard to sell, so far with little success.

The interesting thing though is that the Alaska Climate Research Center reports almost no evidence of warming trends in Alaska since 1977. Hmm, interesting indeed...

Also, many scientists are actually predicting the onset of two or three centuries of cooler weather — which would mean bigger glaciers. And, that is despite the world’s growing use of fossil fuels. What needs to be understood once and for all is the fact that regardless of what humans may or may not do, temperature trends go up, and then down again; glaciers expand and then recede; sea levels rise and then fall, explains Will Happer, professor emeritus of physics at Princeton.

Evidently, that doesn’t mean pollution controls are futile. We all want to breathe clean air. But we need to stop blaming climate change on humans.

While sharing his thoughts on climate change to his Alaska audience, the president felt the need to strongly state the following idiocy: "few things will disrupt our lives as profoundly as climate change". Really, Mr. President? Come on! How about the epidemic of cop shootings in the United States, or the drowned toddlers washing up on Mediterranean shores as families flee the Middle East, or ISIS beheading thousands of Christians? Are these important enough events to disrupt our lives profoundly? Climate change? Really?

Read more, at nypost.com

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