Convention of States host Meteorologist Mike Thompson to speak on climate change
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On Thursday, June 16, Meteorologist Mike Thompson spoke at The Barn at Kill Creek Farm in De Soto. This event was hosted by the Convention of States (COS), a grassroots project working to limit the federal government through Article V of the Constitution. Mike Thompson was there to speak on climate change, the science behind it, and how it is being misused to push certain policies.
“As of now, the federal government has adopted policies based on this fake science, or this information that’s been contrived that has an immediate effect on all citizens,” State Director of Convention of States David Copeland explained. “The federal government should not have the power to make up their own science. To use federal money to influence academia to adopt basic misinformation—fake science should not be allowed. Right now, it’s easy for the federal government to fund academia to then support policies that somebody wants to institute against us. We need to take that ability away from the federal government.”
Thompson holds a list of titles including Meteorologist, founder, President, and Executive Director of the Academy for Climate and Energy Analysis (ACEA), and Kansas Senator for District 10 (North of Lenexa). A few key points that he spoke on include the differences between Carbon (C) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2), the differences between climate and environment, and how wind energy is doing more harm than good.
“People need to be aware and start noticing how they are conflating climate and environment,” Thompson said. “You can do all sorts of things through the environment, but it has zero impact on the climate. The climate is determined by forces that are so big that humans have no influence at all. So, if you’re paying attention to the narrative, ‘this is bad for the environment, we have to think about our climate,’ they use it interchangeably. Same with Carbon and CO2. It’s controlling their language.”
One of the people Thompson pointed out for spreading misinformation on the so-called “climate crisis” was Dr. Stephen Schneider, who was quoted saying,
“On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but—which means we must include all doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands, and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change. To do that we need to get some broad-based support to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, means getting loads of media coverage. So, we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This ‘double ethical bind’ we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.”
The ACEA, founded by Thompson in 2019 in conjunction with Mary Pilcher-Cook, Bill Shippee, and Joseph Brickner, is working to provide solid, reliable, scientifically backed information, with an education focus on climate, energy, and the environment. Topics the ACEA will tackle include renewable energy, wind energy, nuclear energy, climate facts, anthropogenic climate change, weather vs climate, the sun, climate-based policy, and energy policy. The ACEA is seeking opportunities to work with other public policy organizations and non-profit foundations to educate the public in a positive, friendly manner about environmental, energy, and climate issues with a focus on developing programs and materials that are easy to understand. They stress that they are not a “think tank” but rather choose to operate like an “academy”—truly focused on educating the public.