Someone who hails from somewhere north of the Mediterranean happened to be in Singapore on an internship as part of his “Gap Year”. We had a short and perhaps somewhat desultory conversation on how his work was going to mitigate the effects of climate change and so forth.

You know what comes next. I asked him whether he had actually READ any of the scientific articles and/ or reports in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. He said he had read both the summaries and the scientific reports pertinent to his own area of study, and that the summaries and the reports were consistent with each other.

Let’s get one thing straight. I’m no climate scientist or even any sort of scientist. What I do is keep myself abreast of things and I read, or rather, I watch or listen to, since I’m on the road most of the time, respectable persons discussing, countering each other’s points, fiercely debating or otherwise getting on a bully pulpit and shouting down any and every dissenting or questioning voice within range or even over-the-horizon. If you say that you have found scientific reports agreeing with what the IPCC summaries say, give me an example or two. I’m no scientist, but maybe I’ll be smart enough to catch maybe two thirds of what YOU tell me.

Invariably, no one on the climate crisis bandwagon ever tells me about Dr Steven E Koonin, Dr Scott Atlas, Dr Robin Batterham, Dr Bjorn Lomborg and many others. That’s beside the scintillating work already done by scientists from Creation Ministries International. No one wants to tell me how past temperatures rose substantially before any anthropogenic cause in CO2 rise in the atmosphere. No one bothers to talk about water vapour and clouds. No one tells me that when discussing climate, one needs to look at thirty-year boxes, not last year’s record or even as far back as a decade ago. No one tells me, when “record” temperatures are recorded, what time frame we are talking about, and whether ALL the available data is actually being presented.

I didn’t try to change that young man’s mind. People will continue to believe what they WANT to believe. Don’t try encouraging people to look at such mundane things as FACTS. What do you think people are, Neanderthals?