Dear Editor:
After reading the letters on Feb. 5, I'm even more of a non-believer in global warming than ever. The letters repeated the same old tired rhetoric.
First, consensus: a consensus doesn't provide truth or data, it only expresses popular opinion. Even the consensus is challenged; as a peer review poll done a year ago showed that a majority of climate scientist polled don't believe that man is the cause of climate change. Even James Powell admits, in the introduction of his report on peer reviews, that it is not a comprehensive study and that he missed many papers on both sides of the argument and dismissed papers that didn't fit his definition of rejecting climate change. He started with 60,000 and ended with only 2,258.
Second, attack the denier; make them look primitive. We were described as tribal, religious fanatics, political, anti-science etc. Honestly that really is sad because it doesn't change anyone's opinion and actually galvanizes a person against any valid arguments the attacker may have had.
Third, ignore past prediction failures. As I wrote in my first letter none of apocalyptic predictions from the climate alarmists since 1988 have come true and they simply ignore it. NOAA reported that 2013 Atlantic hurricane season was the second slowest in 30 years with no major hurricanes forming. U.S. landfall hurricanes are less numerous and powerful than decades ago. According to Weatherbell Analytics, global hurricane, cyclone and typhoon activity are nearing 50-year lows. Ocean temps measured by Argo are cooler than predicted in climate models. A report to the IPCC from the MET Office which is the UK's foremost center for climate both in England and the world stated that there has not been a global temperature increase in 17 years. The IPCC chairman Raj Pachauri admitted to this in two separate interviews with the Australian. Global temps are measured in decimals of degree if converted to whole numbers there is no increase from 1860 to today.
Fourth, dismiss cold weather in North America as unimportant and point to hot weather in a country that is mostly desert and is 28 percent smaller than the U.S. as a significant indicator of global climate change.
Fifth, and finally, despite past failed apocalyptic predictions still predict apocalyptic events in the future unless the U.S. takes drastic action now, which is an ever increasing carbon tax and regulations.