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March 8, 2023

Another ‘Consensus’ Under Scrutiny

A former Reuters reporter argues that the so-called “climate crisis” is a “very vague claim and hard to define or prove.”

Neil Winton is not exactly a household name. Winton spent decades working for the Reuters news outlet, including a time as its global science and technology correspondent. 
 
As a result, Mr. Winton has extensively covered “climate change” over the years and he knows quite a lot about the controversial issue. That’s why his latest column questioning the “scientific consensus” is raising lots of eyebrows.
 
Winton argues that one of the left’s favorite rallying cries — the so-called “climate crisis” — is a “very vague claim and hard to define or prove” that amounts to little more than “an assertion,” and most certainly is not “a fact.”
 
Consider this excerpt:
 
“My Reuters credentials meant that I had easy access to the world’s finest climate scientists. To my amazement, none of these would say categorically that the link between CO2 and global warming, now known as climate change, was a proven scientific fact.
 
"Some said human production of CO2 was a probable cause, others that it might make some contribution; some said CO2 had no role at all.
 
"Everybody agreed that the climate had warmed over the last 10,000 years as the ice age retreated, but most weren’t really sure why. The sun’s radiation, which changes over time, was a favored culprit.”
 
And while we’re in the process of “fundamentally transforming” our entire economy away from fossil fuels, communist China is doing the exact opposite, presumably because it knows fossil fuels will continue to dominate the energy landscape for decades to come.
 
A new report finds that China quadrupled the number of permits for coal-fired electricity plants in 2022 — the equivalent of “starting two large coal power plants each week.” That means anything Joe Biden does here to “save the planet,” no matter how costly or difficult, is being completely undone by communist China.
 
There is one potential upside. Since Joe Biden thinks climate change is our greatest national security threat, perhaps this new report will get him to focus more on the dangers from communist China. But I doubt it.

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