{"id":287513,"date":"2023-11-10T21:02:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T20:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=287513"},"modified":"2023-11-10T21:03:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T20:03:01","slug":"climate-emergency-says-andrew-dessler-old-vinegar-in-a-new-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=287513","title":{"rendered":"\u201cClimate Emergency!\u201d says Andrew Dessler (old vinegar in a new bottle)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You get the story. Dessler\u2019s alarm is old vinegar in a new bottle. In view of the historical record, his readers should be cautious.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From\u00a0Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA few days ago, a recent Washington Post article<\/a> highlighted the growing chorus of scientists who increasingly view climate change as an emergency. I count myself among them. What has shifted my perspective? \u2026\u201d (- Andrew Dessler, last month<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe worst-case scenarios of climate change are truly terrible, but even middle-of-the-road scenarios portend environmental change without precedent for human society.\u201d (- Andrew Dessler, 2012)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So professor\/activist Andrew Dessler<\/a> now<\/em> believes we are in a climate emergency? I think not. He has been alarming for many years, if not for decades. Dessler has been exaggerating for so long that he now wants a \u201cit\u2019s-real-this-time\u201d do-over. Buyer beware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A First Impression<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Andy Dessler I met for lunch on Monday, January 18, 2010, in College Station told the table (Gerald North presiding) that humans would be living underground because of anthropogenic global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twelve years ago, Dessler opined<\/a> to the readers of the Houston Chronicle<\/em> that Texas\u2019s \u201chellish summer of 2011\u201d would be the new normal. \u201cGet used to it,\u201d he said. \u201cThe weather of the 21st century will be very much like the hot and dry weather of 2011.\u201d Another outlier finally happened in 2023, but for reasons that scientists are still trying to ascertain since the \u201cgreenhouse signal\u201d is less about Texas summer afternoons than Siberian winter nights<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when was the climate not<\/em> in red alert? Dessler opened his text Introduction to Modern Climate Change<\/em> (2012) with this paragraph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Future generations may well view climate change as the defining issue of our time. The worst-case scenarios of climate change are truly terrible, but even middle-of-the-road scenarios portend environmental change without precedent for human society.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Deep Fried Alarmism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, Andy tweeted on \u201cclimate dystopia\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If \u201csome humans survive\u201d is the only thing we care about, then climate change is a non-issue. I think it\u2019s certain that \u201csome\u201d humans will survive almost any climate change. They may be living short, hard lives of poverty, but they\u2019ll be alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Future humans, as they live in a climate dystopia: \u201cI thought he cared about the environment\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I find the path we\u2019re on now \u2014 the rich world survives (if lucky), but abandons everyone else \u2014 to be morally problematic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In public, the alarmist\u2019s alarmist tones it down just a bit (don\u2019t want to lose the audience, just discomfort them). But not that much. Also in 2019, Dessler editorialized<\/a> in the Houston Chronicle<\/em>: \u201cWith continued fossil fuel use, we might see warming over the current century sufficient to literally remake the Earth\u2019s environment and our place within it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You get the story. Dessler\u2019s alarm is old vinegar in a new bottle. In view of the historical record, his readers should be cautious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Dessler\u2019s substack posts are polite these days. But here is what this hot-tempered professor (even out of step with many of his colleagues), really thinks and says<\/a> when folks are not looking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey assholes. We\u2019ve been telling you for decades that this was going to happen if we didn\u2019t reduce greenhouse gas emissions. You didn\u2019t listen and now it\u2019s all happening. We hope you\u2019re happy. Enjoy the heatwaves, intense rainfall, sea level rise, ocean acidification, and many other things, you fucking morons.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

What an embarrassment \u2026 to Texas A&M, the science profession, and himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You get the story. Dessler\u2019s alarm is old vinegar in a new bottle. In view of the historical record, his readers should be cautious. From\u00a0Master Resource By Robert Bradley Jr. \u201cA few days ago, a recent Washington Post article highlighted the growing chorus of scientists who increasingly view climate change as an emergency. 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