This is a new one, coming from uber-Cult of Climastrology, and very far left, site Triple Pundit
Climate Change is Natural? And That Doesn’t Freak You Out?
In what now appears to be a regular habit, Gallup just surveyed a thousand-odd U.S. adults on their views on climate change. Overall, 49 percent of those surveyed attributed climate change to human activity while 46 percent blamed “natural†causes.
In a not-so-surprising but certainly fearful asymmetry, 72 percent of democrats but only 27 percent of republicans attributed climate change to human activity. Young adults: 61 percent human-caused, 38 percent natural; Older adults: 39 percent human-caused, 54 percent natural. This dichotomy in “beliefs†pervades other areas of scientific knowledge and splits states along political and demographic lines, as evident from the red-state-blue-state correlations in the maps above. (snip)
What I want to get at is this: If one indeed believes that climate change is natural, should that not be far scarier than if it were human-caused?
Perhaps if the Earth was heading back into a glacial age, but, a minor increase in global temperatures, less than during previous Holocene warm periods, is not particularly concerning. The article goes on to tell us about how doom-worthy this natural Hotcoldwetdry is, and why everyone who thinks it is mostly/solely natural should be freaking out, which leads to
As we sit here watching this natural climate change unfold, with glaciers melting everywhere and the arctic warming at twice the rate of the rest of the globe, there is no remedy, nothing to do and no other planet to take refuge in. The expected damage from droughts and floods and sea-level rise could devastate economies — particularly of already fragile nations — and send refugees scattering around the globe to safer ground. But if it is, as the climate scientists seem to suggest, just a matter of carbon in the atmosphere, there are ways — even at this late juncture — to fight this thing. Oil is not going to last forever anyway, and everybody hates the pollution from coal (just ask the Chinese). So it may, after all, be a good thing to innovate our way out of this climate problem. And is innovation not the lifeblood of the American economy? And here we have the opportunity to transform everything we do through brand new technologies!
So, it seems to me that meeting this natural climate variation that is heading our way with sanguine resignation locks us into economic stasis — frozen in place by the warming. I wonder what drives those who hold on to the “it’s natural†theory, the 70 percent of republicans and 54 percent of older Americans? It cannot be the fear that I feel at contemplating an unexplained, inexorable natural warming. Can it be fear of change?
So, even if it is mostly/solely natural, it still means we should spend enormous amounts of taxpayer money, increase taxation, put more and more people under the power of the central government. Why does every solution revolve around these?
As for fear of change, Republicans have been advocates for wise policies on developing alternatives that work, rather than flinging money to splatter against the wall like a monkey flinging poo in their enclosures. But, yes, we do fear quite a bit of what the Warmists are pushing, because it is about centralized authoritarian government, which will further degrade our lives.
