Climate Change or Climate Hoax?

Selwyn Duke is a writer for The New American. He's also written for The Hill, Observer, The American Conservative, WorldNetDaily, American Thinker, and other print and online publications.

Jim opened the discussion by noting that warnings have gone out that we've experienced the hottest global temperatures ever recorded. Is it time to panic?

Selwyn referred listeners to a climate realist by the name of Steve Milloy. He's indicated that the earth's hottest days were not from July 3rd-5th. In a tweet Milloy said this is based on bogus computer modeling.

Selwyn also reference The American Thinker. They've indicated that we derive a lot of measurements from 11,000 weather stations worldwide. Satellites aside, these weather stations are not distributed evenly across the globe and there aren't nearly as many in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. This means we may not be getting accurate temperature readings from the coldest parts of the planet and averaging those properly into the overall average. It's variables like this that make for a very confusing climate picture.

Then there's the secular, end-time false-prophets. One of the more well known is Al Gore who, in 2008, predicted an ice-free Arctic by 2013. Jim provided the audio and as we all know, it never happened.

Another one is Professor Paul Ehrlich, famous for the book, The Population Bomb which, as Selwyn noted, had predictions that "bombed". He's known for predicting a major food shortage in the U.S. in the 1970's and that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death. He felt that by 1999, the U.S. population would be down to 22.6 million people. Today it's at about 335 million.