Basecamp for Men E269: Climate Facts Over Climate Fear

E269: Climate Facts Over Climate Fear w Special Guest Dr. Michael Karbowski

 

E269 Introduction

One of the great things about being alive right now is watching all the false narratives start to hemorrhage and bleed out. It is starting to dawn on more and more good humans that we have been lied about about damn near everything. All of the most sacred cows have not and will not survive the litmus test that is simply truth.

Isn’t that just amazing? The most dizzying maze of lies that we have been sold and told to believe are shown for all the world to see as an emperor with no clothes. We all sensed there were lies but we needed to be shown the truth to really know for ourselves.

Which brings us to the climate narrative. If you are a Gen Xer or a Baby Boomer, see if any of this sounds familiar.

I have heard throughout my life that humans were causing planetary harm and certain extinction of our species along with all of the others. When I was a kid, it was acid rain, remember that. Acid rain was going to kill us all. Wasn’t true.

Then it was the ozone layer. We were damaging the ozone layer so much that we would be lucky to see another decade at most. Wasn‘t true.

Then it was Al Gore and the inconvenient truth that the polar ice caps were melting, rapidly raising sea levels and this was spelling doom for all of us, especially in coastal areas. Not true. Not even close.

Then you had Global warming. That would CERTAiNLY be our end. Nope. Not true.

Since they can’t sell melting ice caps and global warming, let‘s just call the whole thing Climate Change. That way, no matter what happens, we can say “see, it‘s climate change” and be right about something. Oye vay.

What IS clear is that this non-stop doomer narrative creates fear and lots of money on the backs of taxpayers for the endless NGO’s or Foundations like the Gates Foundation that are pushing (and enriching themselves) off of the climate narrative.

To the point, if they are noisy about the climate, you can bet they are grifting off of our backs and don‘t want us to look at science lest we call them out for what they are: opportunists with an agenda that suits them and not WE THE PEOPLE.

We are going to get into all that today with a retired doctor who has done a deep dive to look for (and find) the facts about climate change. Enjoy the interview.

Dr. Michael Karbowski Bio

My guest today is Dr. Michael Karbowski. Dr. Karbowski is a retired anesthesiologist and former head of the anesthesiology department at Group Health here in Redmond. Michael has a PhD in pharmacology and has taken a deep interest in climate change and the climate narrative. Something he shares with us today. Here is my interview w Dr. Michael Karbowski.

Basecamp for Men E184: Climate Clarity

E184: Climate Clarity with Special Guest Dr. Judith Curry

 

E184 Introduction

Today’s conversation is one that I have been wanting to have for quite some time. Climate change. It is a topic that is much more controversial and up-for-debate than all the MSM pundits would have you believe.

As a life-long nature lover, living in harmony with our beloved planet is important to me and my family. Yet, how do we separate the signal from all the noise? Especially when any dissenting opinions from highly qualified climate scientists like my guest today are being suppressed, ridiculed, and cancelled.

Haven’t we seen this before? Didn’t those that did not want to participate in a MRNa clinical trials, the unvaccinated, get ridiculed, ostracized, and cancelled amidst all the Covid noise? Can you see a similar dynamic here? I can.

My intention with this episode was and is to find clarity for myself on a issue that is important to me. I want to be informed on this topic, not be spoon fed one side of the debate. I want to know what is what and I hope you do to.

Before we get started, here a 3 quotes to help tee up the interview. The first one is from the author herself who says “Such apocalyptic statements rightfully draw criticism for leading people to believe that these scenarios are inevitable, rather than implausible. Dystopian climate fiction is the place to explore such scenarios.”

Another from Brian O’Neil one of the lead architects of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways who says “There isn’t, you know, like a Mad Max scenarios amongst the SSP’s. We are generally in the climate change field NOT talking about futures that are worse than today.”

And finally from anthropologist Peter Wood who says “Climate change is just a mental tattoo. A phrase we invoke with an air of scientific sophistication to give some sense of knowledge ability about the unknowable.”

Let’s go sit around the fire with a climate scientist who will help us separate solid scientific consensus signal from all the noise that poses as such. Enjoy the interview.

Dr. Judith Curry Bio

Dr. Judith Curry is the President and co-founder of Climate Forecast Applications Network. She is a Professor Emerita at Georgia Institute of Technology where she served as the Chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences for 13 years. Her expertise is in climate dynamics, extreme weather, and prediction/predictability. Dr. Curry is a Fellow at the American Meteorological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Geophysical Union. She is also the author of the upcoming book, which we will talk about today: Climate Uncertainty and Risk. Here is my interview with Dr. Judith Curry.

E184 Final Thoughts

I hope you enjoyed that interview as much as I did. If I could boil down one of the big takeaways, its that there is a distinct difference between a scientific consensus and simply a consensus of scientist. MSM presents the climate issue as a scientific consensus when it is not.

I also found it useful to deconstruct the whole narrative around Climate change, using Dr. Judith as a scientific reference, to see what we know for sure and what is still very much up for debate. I hope we broke this down in a way that was easy to follow.

For those of you looking to get a bit more informed, I highly recommend Dr. Judith’s upcoming book Climate Uncertainty and Risk. You can find it at www.anthempress.com/climate-uncertainty-and-risk-hb

Thank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.