The MACRO-Facts of Global Warming and Climate Change
We need to find ways to get better results,
in the fight to limit global warming.
So, we need to focus on what is truly important.
This website is part of an effort to help people make better, stronger, and more persuasive arguments, if they are trying to help slow down global warming. Therefore, it contains a carefully limited selection of hard, solid, provable facts, as part of an effort to get people to reduce the clutter, and focus on a "core" set of "MACRO-facts" that the public, the press, and all politicians or officials in the federal government need to understand.
Nothing herein is intended to criticize or belittle anyone who is already working for good, and trying to help slow down global warming. Instead, the blame falls entirely, and heavily, on paid disrupters, professional liars, and others who have turned themselves into fronts, mouth-whores, or whatever, in the hope of getting money, attention, likes and followers on social media, and maybe even power. However, those who are telling the truth, and trying their best to accomplish good things, already know, all too well, that they – or, we – need to find ways to improve, strengthen, and sharpen their/our strategies, tactics, and command of the best and most convincing arguments that can be made. “The proof is in the performance,” and the relentless and rapidly increasing destruction that is being caused and increased, by climate change, is screaming at us, and telling us that the things that environmental advocates have been trying to do, for years and even decades, simply have not been able to actually reduce carbon emissions, or slow the progression of global warming, in quantities large enough to control – or even significantly reduce – the weather and climate catastrophes that are growing worse every year.
Therefore, those who understand the destruction coming at us, and who want to at least try to help, need to begin trying, testing, developing, and implementing stronger and better-focused tactics, tools, and teachings, if we hope for even a chance to offer a decent and livable world to our children, and grandchildren.
So . . . this website urges climate activists to focus their efforts and communications on a limited and “workable” number of specific facts, which communities and networks of environmental advocates need to sort through, evaluate, and debate, among themselves, as part of a process of choosing the five or perhaps six most important facts which every intelligent and informed person – and every candidate for Congress, or the Presidency – should know about, and be able to explain, to voters, in their own words.
Therefore, this website nominates and describes nine specific facts, which it offers up in the belief that: (i) each and every one can be proven to be true, by consulting the sources described in each summary description; and, (ii) these have become the most important facts, on this entire planet, as of now, due to the catastrophic nature and severity of climate change, global warming, and sea level rise. These nine facts are intended and offered as a first draft, for review by others, in the hope that that process of analysis and discussion will help climate activists develop better strategies, tactics, tools, and approaches that might be able to help create more and better actual results, in both the real world, and “the political world”. On the summary page, if a reader clicks on any bolded red heading, that will take the reader directly to a page which explains that topic in more detail.
After the "Facts" section, the next section contains statements that can be used to cut through, and dismantle, one of the main tactics that many politicians use to try to sidestep, evade, and deny that they have a responsibility to help slow down global warming. Far too many politicians (and Republican/pro-Trump commentators and pundits) hide behind arguments that say, “Since science cannot PROVE that those bad things are going to happen, I’m not willing to spend trillions of dollars, of taxpayers' money, to keep something from happening. If the scientists aren’t even sure it’s going to happen, why should we spend trillions, to keep it from happening?”
That attempt to evade responsibility shows a total, utter, dismal, abject failure, among politicians and others who hide behind those types of arguments, to understand a basic fact about science:
Science cannot "PROVE" anything – NOT ANYTHING – if that thing HAS NOT YET HAPPENED.
As a crude example, science cannot even PROVE that the sun is going to rise in the east, tomorrow morning. It can PREDICT that that will happen, with 100% total certainty, because of how the planet's rotation and momentum work; however, it cannot PROVE that something WILL happen, if it has not yet happened.
Instead, the true power of science comes from its ability to accurately predict what will happen.
It becomes easier to understand that statement, when one realizes that every manufacturing operation that is performed, anywhere on this entire planet, is based on a prediction, rather than proof. The unstated premise of every manufacturing operation, anywhere on this planet, is the belief, by the owner of any manufacturing machine, factory, or whatever, can be stated as follows: "I am willing to bet good money, that if I put these chemicals (or components), into this machine, and then provide the right amount of power to this machine, then, this machine will turn these chemicals (or components) into a valuable product that I can sell." That is not PROOF that the next cycle, of running this machine, will indeed succeed; instead, it is only a PREDICTION, based on knowing what that machine has consistently done, in the past, over hundreds or thousands of cycles. And those types of predictions are so strong, so consistent, and so reliable, that they are enough to support and justify every investment, and every expense, in every manufacturing operation, anywhere in the world.
The section on science also explains – with illustrations, and at a level written for non-experts – how and why the inside of a car gets hotter than the air outside the car, if a car is left sitting in the summer sun, with all the windows rolled up. It is a direct and straight-forward principle; it is the very same principle which is causing carbon dioxide in the air to be making the entire planet hotter; and, it offers one of the best questions that any voter, interviewer, or debate moderator can ask, of any political candidate, to find out how much that candidate actually knows about global warming, and whether that person is just bluffing and pretending, to try to hide an appalling and shameful level of ignorance about the most important thing that is happening to the world – this year, next year, the year after that, and all of the years and decades after that, for at least the next 1000 years.
Finally, this website also contains a carefully-selected, limited, small number of recommendations, for specific tactics and strategies that climate activists and organizations should consider, as possible ways to help slow down climate change and global warming. Those recommendations have been limited to only a few specific recommendations, the same basic reason why the list of macro-facts was also limited: the goal is not to push as hard as possible, in any many areas as possible. Instead, the two main goals are: (i) to stay focused on a small, limited, and workable number of topics, which have been selected they have the potential to do the most good, if more people understand them; and, (ii) to find, and create, areas of understanding and agreement, which will allow “people in the middle” to be convinced, in larger numbers than any prior efforts have been able to achieve. Rather than trying to tell people, “You need to begin doing THIS, and THIS, and THIS, and THIS, and THIS, and THIS,” climate activists need to somehow agree on a small and limited number of practical and achievable “first steps”, in the hope that more people might begin to actually DO at least some of those things.
And so . . . the next page is titled, "Facts Come First." It would have been the first page, except . . . well, inserting an introduction, to explain WHY facts must come first, in any helpful and useful "exchange of ideas", made more sense . . .
