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Climate Realism Rising
By Kent R. Kroeger (April 27, 2018)
No serious person can deny that global temperatures are warming (see chart above) and mankind is a major cause of this recent trend.
Nonetheless, a real scientific debate is occurring in the climate science community regarding how fast the globe is warming and exactly what is humankind’s contribution to that warming.
On one side of the debate is the vast majority of climate scientists who argue we will see global temperatures increase by at least 3.0°C over pre-industrial levels by 2100 with catastrophic results to the environment. I refer to them as climate alarmists as the term conveys the urgency they feel about the importance of converting the world economy to renewable energy sources as soon as possible.
On the other side of the argument is a small group of scientists that believe the forecast models are wrong and over-estimate the rate at which the earth is warming and under-estimate the role natural variation plays in the current warming trend. The obvious term for them may be ‘climate non-alarmists’ but I call them climate realists. They don’t deny the science, even as they question the panic mode endorsed by the climate alarmists.
Climate realists refuse to go away to the consternation of many in the climate science community. The reason revolves around the…
