Summarised by Centrist
Dr Matthew Wielicki, an Earth scientist and author, argues climate alarmists never fail to blame climate change as the culprit behind every extreme weather event.
“And there’s always a climate scientist at some university who’s willing to make a statement blaming the current catastrophe on our profligate use of fossil fuels,” he says.
Yet, according to Wielicki, instead of “observable data”- data we can easily measure, the truth is clouded by “obscure metrics and highly speculative models.”
“The scarier the better,” he says.
As an example, Wielicki discusses a major flaw in the narrative that says climate change makes air travel more dangerous.
He details how US turbulence-related accidents have remained constant from 1989 to 2018—even as airline passenger numbers shot from 400 million to nearly a billion annually.
Wielicki extends his critique to the other climate crisis narratives. These include no rise in extreme weather since 2000. This contradicts claims of increasing events. No rise in deaths from climate-related disasters; and weather-related losses as a percentage of global GDP have not significantly increased.
Instead of fixating on unverified predictions, he advocates for scepticism and a focus on observable, measurable data.
“The blame game—‘it’s climate change’—gets us nowhere,” he says.
