No, the climate isn’t always changing, as that’s the definition of ‘weather’. Rather, climate shows shifts on longer time scales, including interdecadal cycles that appear to be getting shorter, as interannual phenomena (i.e., El Nino and La Nina events) become more common. So despite the cyclical nature of climate, global warming is a trend that has proven to be statistically significant despite all the other stuff going on. The reason that the term ‘climate change’ is becoming more common is because not all predicted effects from greenhouse gases is warming, as cold-weather extremes are becoming more common, too. So climate change really is about seeing more extreme events like hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, wildfires, and floods, as we create our own apocalypse.

So what we need are new jobs that get us into the green market, such that we’re buying American windmill parts rather than importing them from Germany or China (which ironically causes more greenhouse-gas production). Let’s get the USA economy back on its feet! Fortunately, American companies are coming to realize that they need to change, notably the car industry that has been losing out in sales to foreign companies making cars with better gas mileage. A good business will work with government to develop win-win situations, that provide more certainty for economic development without destroying the environment. The writing is on the wall, if Karnick is willing to look there (rather than keep his back to the wall in siege mentality).

So there’s your free tutorial, Mr./Ms. Karnick.

Contrary to your claim of poverty for the global warming alarmism brigades, there are in fact people making huge fortunes off of “climate change” alarmism. Al Gore, for example. What, in fact, has been the push behind alarmism for the past decade? It has been a cooperative effort between government and big business. Wall Street stood to make a gargantuan fortune from cap and trade, and this monstrous ripoff of ordinary people was barely averted in the past congressional session, thanks to huge public opposition against this outrage which was supported by both Wall Street and the big energy companies in addition to the progressive Left. These are not holy, poverty-vowing forces of benevolence. They are rapacious thieves.

Dr. Vadas, like all alarmists, is on the side of big government and big business against the individual, the consumer of energy production. His efforts and those of other alarmists aid in the taking of money from ordinary people and forcibly giving it to the rich. That is the point of the new push for “renewable power” mandates, which will radically raises prices to consumers of electricity, automobile fuel, and all other forms of energy–which President Obama has openly admitted. If Dr. Vadas says otherwise, then he is disagreeing with Obama and the myriad of politicians who are pushing for the job-killing and inflationary policies Dr. Vadas supports.

Finally, readers should note the good doctor’s move away from the “global warming” claim to the blatantly self-fulfilling “climate change” assertion. The climate is always changing, regardless of what humans do, and hence the fomenting of fear of “climate change” is as sensible and justified as creating fear of the rotation of the earth. The alarmists’ change in terminology in itself proves the case against the manmade global warming alarm: the fact that its own adherents have abandoned it.

And for those who think people are “making money” off the climate-change crisis, please note that academic scientists don’t make anywhere near the obscene salaries that business CEOs do. Moreover, the funding provides pretty-modest salaries for graduate students and postdocs to help with the research. I should know, having gone through this process personally and vicariously through scientific relatives of mine.