The Global Warming Scare Hoax
by Peter MeyerPortuguese translation
by Artur Weber &
Adelina DomingosOn December 15, 2009, Richard K. Moore sent a message to subscribers to his mailing list entitled global warming — The official NOAA ice core data. He included several graphs, derived from NOAA data from ice cores in central Greenland, showing ice temperature in degrees Centigrade plotted against historical time over the last 50,000 years. Since these graphs (on the riseup.net page) don't appear in all web browsers I reproduce them here:
Richard referenced the NOAA web page http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/metadata/noaa-icecore-2475.html as the source of the data used for these graphs, so I went to that site and (as Richard had done) I downloaded the data, loaded it into Excel, and plotted it. My graphs are in this Excel file.
Temperature in °C 3000 BC to present
Temperature in °C 9000 BC to present
Temperature in °C 11,000 BC to present
Temperature in °C 50,000 BC to presentAfter reading Richard's message, plotting the data and thinking about it, I sent the following two messages to Richard on December 15 (some [insertions] have been added):
Subject: global warming — The official NOAA ice core dataHi Richard,
Following your investigation [as you said in your message], "I went to the official NOAA government site, and downloaded the raw data from the ice cores into Excel. I used Excel's charting feature, and compared it to" your graphs, and got the same results. Many thanks for this interesting presentation.
It certainly shows that the steep rise in temperature between about 1830 CE and about 1905 CE (the latest data from the ice cores) is far less than the steep rise which occurred 800-1000 CE at the start of the Medieval Warm Period, indicating that we have nothing to worry about.
My only reservation would be that the ice core data does not go beyond 1905, but even if that trend continued to 2000 it would still not be larger than the 800-1000 warming.
However, the AGW [Anthropogenic Global Warming] proponents could argue that even though, in the Medieval Warm Period, the temperature peaked at around 1030 CE and then went into major decline until 1257, there is no guarantee that the current warming phase will peak any time soon, and might continue upward. It might, but is there any evidence that it will? A case would have to be made that greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere since 1830 are the cause of the current warming phase and so (if they remain at current levels) will continue to push the temperature upward with no end in sight. This, I think, is the essential point of dispute, namely, whether the current warming phase can be explained in this way. But since the warming phase 800-1000 was [presumably] not due to the presence of greenhouse cases, such an explanation is dubious. Until climatologists can explain the 800-1000 warming phase I suspect we can't predict global temperature even in the near future.
Regards,
Peter Meyer
Subject: global warmingHi Richard,
Further to my previous message, it could be objected that the data for the last 50K years prior to 1900 are just for one spot in central Greenland, and evidence is needed that this temperature record can be extrapolated worldwide.
However, my main point remains, that climatologists (correct me if I am mistaken) cannot explain the much larger warming phase at the start of the Medieval Warm Period, so cannot claim that the current warming must be due to the effects of greenhouse gases. They could, however, deny that there was such a much larger warming phase, but AFAIK the occurrence of the MWP has been established.
Regards,
Peter MeyerRichard sent these two messages out on his mailing list and addeded the following reply:
Hi Peter,Thanks for reproducing my little study. It seems we have our own distributed research center, with no pollution from funding.
As for whether Greenland was special, the NOAA has other ice data sets as well:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore.htmlI haven't had a chance to look at those yet, please let me know if you do anything with them. However, note that the NOAA reassures us, below, that the Greenland set is typical. This is included at the top of the Greenland data-set file:
ABSTRACT: Greenland ice-core records provide an exceptionally clear picture of many aspects of abrupt climate changes, and particularly of those associated with the Younger Dryas event, as reviewed here. Well-preserved annual layers can be counted confidently, with only 1% errors for the age of the end of the Younger Dryas 11,500 years before present. Ice-flow corrections allow reconstruction of snow accumulation rates over tens of thousands of years with little additional uncertainty. Glaciochemical and particulate data record atmospheric-loading changes with little uncertainty introduced by changes in snow accumulation. Confident paleothermometry is provided by site-specific calibrations using ice-isotopic ratios, borehole temperatures, and gas-isotopic ratios. Near-simultaneous changes in ice-core paleoclimatic indicators of local, regional, and more-widespread climate conditions demonstrate that much of the Earth experienced abrupt climate changes synchronous with Greenland within thirty years or less. Post-Younger Dryas changes have not duplicated the size, extent and rapidity of these paleoclimatic changes.I agree with you that a case can still be made for global warming, if proof of CO2's alleged influence can be produced. But the biggest argument used so far by the global-warming crowd is that we are experiencing unprecedented and alarming temperatures, and that this correlates with CO2 levels. That argument seems to be just about demolished, although we still need to synchronize the ice-core data with thermometer records since about 1850, and then with the more recent satellite measurements.
As regards CO2's effect on climate based on other than correlation, I've seen little evidence for it, and a lot of evidence against. The IPCC's climate modelers start with the assumption that temperatures are alarming and that CO2 is the cause. Then they keep fiddling their weightings, and omitting offending data, to try to get the model to match their assumptions. A lot of research has been done since the IPCC first announced their position, which challenges their assumptions, and most of this has been ignored and dismissed by the IPCC without any logical basis.
There is a real tipping point involved in all this. I refer to the tipping point of 'consensus opinion'. Once that tipping point is reached, every 'responsible' media person and 'respectable pundit' must support the consensus opinion or be dismissed as a nutter. We then get a positive feedback loop, where the 'consensus' is supported by more and more 'unanimity'. In this case the feedback loop is more intense, because environmentalists were already worrying about CO2 before Gore pushed us over the tipping point with his pseudo documentary. The worry was has now become paranoia, due to the IPCC media hype, and the marginalizing of contrary views.
The evidence I've seen indicates that CO2 levels are well within the regulatory capacity of the Earth systems, and that the greenhouse effect of CO2 falls off logarithmically with the total amount of CO2. This would indicate that incremental CO2 added by humans has negligible effect, with or without regulation by other systems, such as precipitation. This is not intuitive. I was worried about CO2 as well, before I started investigating. I now give the danger about a 5% likelihood.
And no, they can't explain the Medieval Warm Period, which is why they try to subtract it out of their model by giving undue weight to atypical selected data sets. Meanwhile, solar-based models track temperature changes rather closely. But silly me, imagining the sun could have anything to do with temperature. Of course none of this means that burning more oil is a good thing, or that we don't need to achieve sustainability. That's the whole problem with this global warming hysteria: it's distracting from what needs to be done, and channeling our energy into making trillions for the cap-and-trade brokers, while the polluters will go right on polluting. People and corporations and industrial farming won't stop using oil, they'll just pay more for the privilege, and believe me the oil companies will get a big cut. Taxes have never stopped smoking or drinking and they won't reduce energy consumption. It's infrastructure changes we need, not ineffective sin taxes.
cheers,
rkmThe article by Rudolph Kipp, The Medieval Warm Period — a global phenomenon. Unprecedented warming or unprecedented data manipulation?, was originally written in German, and the link above leads to a page with a translation into English which is a bit mangled but nevertheless is quite comprehensible. A quote from this page:
Until about the mid-90s of last century the medieval warm period was an undisputed fact among climate researchers. Accordingly, in the first IPCC assessment report from 1990 on page 202 figure 7c [12] could be found, showing the medieval warm period clearly warmer than modern times. However, for the responsible scientists the existence of this warm period soon became a thorn in their sides. If in the 12th century it was even warmer, with the absence of human influence, than today at the so far peak of industrialization, why should the today warming not be primarily driven by mainly natural causes.
Thus, the Medieval Warm Period was soon declared an odious affair ... [and] the machinery for the deletion of the medieval warm period was already running on full power.Click on this link for one of the graphs from the Excel file. This shows the Medieval Warm Period as the peak from 1.2 thousand years BP (i.e., 800 CE) to 0.75 thousand years BP (i.e., 1250 CE). At its warmest the temperature was 1° C higher than in 1900 CE.
The following link leads to a graphic at the end of Rudolph Kipp's article which shows that the data provided by the Greenland ice cores does not just show a local Medieval Warm Period — it was a global phenomenon. This completes the refutation of the claim that we know that the current warming is due to the increase of greenhouse gases consequent upon industrial activity.
Of course, that activity might well be an important factor in the current warming, but until climatologists can explain the warming phase of the MWP we cannot be sure of that. And, as stated above, the current warming is far less than that of the MWP, and also of that of the warming period in the 2nd millennium BCE (3,300 years ago), when the temperature rose to 2.8°C above that of today, as shown in this graph (in the Excel file). And this graph shows that over the last 10,000 years there has been a long-term cooling trend, suggesting that we are headed into a new ice age.
The global warming scare is a huge scam designed to increase the profits of the corporate capitalists and the parasitic international bankers, to advance their goal of a world government (controlled by them, of course), and to impose even more "legal" restrictions upon the freedom of people to live according to how they themselves think best.
But freedom for people does not mean freedom for corporate business to exploit the natural environment, to denude hillsides of trees and to appropriate water so as to extort money from those who need it. The problem we face is not global warming but rampant capitalist exploitation of the environment and of everyone who doesn't belong to the capitalist ruling class. The solution is not "carbon trading" schemes (which would do nothing more than enrich the trade managers) but rather regaining popular control over exploitative corporations, and in the longer term a restructuring of society (or perhaps a social revolution) to curb capitalist greed and to provide common people with the means to live a decent life and to provide a decent education for their children.
... it is safe to say that the wealth of science points to a natural change in our climate, and the entire history of the world and of all humanity supports this hypothesis. Throughout history, as in the earliest African civilizations, it was the ability of different peoples to change and adapt to climate change, which determined their survival as a civilization.The folly of believing that humans can control the Earth's global climate would be exceeded only by the folly of actually trying to do so.Today, we are trying to fight it. This is a dangerous road to walk, and history will not look kindly upon our scientific ignorance and politically fear-driven society. ... Trying to fight and stop a natural phenomenon is possibly one of the most ignorant and dangerous things humanity has ever engaged in. ...
Much of the people in the world have been riled up with predictions of a catastrophic end to mankind and the world unless we don't do something about so-called "man-made" climate change. Ironically enough, our refusal to adapt to a changing world, and instead a determination to fight it with our efforts to "go green" and "carbon neutral" may, in fact, cause the catastrophic end of our civilization. And sadly, in this instance, it would undeniably be a man-made disaster.
— Andrew Gavin Marshall, Climate Change: Breaking the "Political Consensus"Further reading:
- Richard Courtney: Global Warming: How It All Began
— with Margaret Thatcher's having a B.Sc. in chemistry
- Brian O'Leary: Copenhagen Climate Cacophony, Corruption and Nonsolutions
- CO2 Science
- Medieval Warm Period Project
- Ice Core Studies Prove CO2 Is Not the Powerful Climate Driver Climate Alarmists Make It Out to Be
- David Archibald: Solar Cycle 24: Implications for the United States (PDF file, 770 KB)
- Prof. Don J. Easterbrook: Global Cooling is Here
- Richard K. Moore: Climate Science: Observations versus Models
- Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.: The Sun, Not Man, Still Rules Our Climate (5.17 MB PDF file)
- Theodor Landscheidt: Sonnenaktivität als dominanter Faktor der Klimadynamik
English translation: Solar Activity: A Dominant Factor in Climate Dynamics
- Michel Chossudovsky: Excluded from the Copenhagen Agenda: Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) and Climate Change — The manipulation of climate for military use
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was set up to ensure that world leaders had the best possible scientific advice on climate change. But (chortle, chortle!) ...
The factors influencing Earth's global climate, and those influencing regional climates, are too many and interact with too much complexity for climate scientists to understand sufficiently to make even 1-year predictions. What we can predict is that if the banks are allowed to proceed with their "carbon trading" scam then they will make even more billions, at the expense of the social welfare of ordinary people. Therefore we (via our elected governments) should concentrate on curbing the greed of the banksters rather than on attempting to change global climate. But as long as governments are controlled by the 'financial elite' (and don't represent the interests of the people) this is unlikely to happen.
- Telegraph, UK (2010-01-20): UN climate panel admits 'mistake' over Himalayan glacier melting
The United Nations' climate science panel has admitted that it made a mistake by claiming that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made the assertion two years ago, saying it was based on detailed research into the impact of global warming. ... The IPCC admitted that the prediction was based on a report written in a science journal ... the New Scientist, [which] was not even based on a research paper — it evolved from a short telephone interview with ... Dr Syed Hasnain, an Indian scientist ... [who] said that the claim was "speculation" and was not supported by any formal research. ... When finally published, the IPCC report ... went further, suggesting the likelihood of the glaciers melting was "very high".
- F. William Engdahl (2010-01-23): Glacier Meltdown: Another Scientific Scandal Involving the IPCC Climate Research Group
- Times Online (2010-01-24): UN climate panel blunders again over Himalayan glaciers
The chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Rajendra Pachauri's Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), based in New Delhi, was awarded up to £310,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the lion's share of a £2.5m EU grant funded by European taxpayers. It means that EU taxpayers are funding research into a scientific claim about glaciers that any ice researcher should immediately recognise as bogus.Hilarious! The IPCC's credibility is now close to zero.
- Mohd Peter Davis: Global Warming
What causes climate change is the Earth's varying tilt and elliptical orbit around the sun and our solar system's long journey through the Milky Way, together with cosmic radiation from exploding stars. ... Scientist now know in principle how to feed the population during the next ice age, which climatologists say will begin with a mini-ice age by 2050, within the lifespan of half of the world's population.
- Washington's Blog (2010-12-27): Why is it so Cold? Should the Big Freeze Alter Our Approach to Climate Change?
- Xavier Rizos: Do we really understand how carbon trading works?
Don't really need to. All we need to understand is that it is a scam designed to increase the profits of the banks and any others who will run these carbon trading schemes.
The Next Scientific Frontier: Sun-Earth Interactions is a page on Washington's Blog (more usually concerned with current social/economic/political matters) with subsections:
- The Sun Affects Clouds and Ozone, Which In Turn Affect Climate
- The Sun's Output Changes the Rate of Radioactive Decay On Earth
- The Sun Interacts With the Earth In Numerous Other Ways
Fascinating reading.
Also on the same website: Scientific Experiments by Top Laboratory Shows that Cosmic Rays Affect Cloud Formation, Which in Turn Affects Climate
Actually there is a threat, but it is not from bogus "global warming" but rather from an impending new ice age, as noted above, and as discussed in the articles linked to below.
- James Delingpole: Children just aren't going to know what sun is
That's what Dr David Viner, a "University of Easy Access climatologist" predicted in 2000. Of him Delingpole writes:
So ... a scientist from arguably Britain's most discredited university department — the Climatic Research Unit at the UEA — made a fool of himself and his employer by feeding to a newspaper wrongheaded disaster scenarios based on woefully inaccurate computer projections, thus lending spurious credibility to a massive media scaremongering campaign which has led to the squandering of billions of pounds on an entirely unnecessary scheme to "decarbonise" the UK economy. His reward for this has been to be granted a taxpayer-funded salary to go round the world spreading more abject nonsense about a mostly non-existent threat called "climate change."
The global warming scare is a scam, and misinformed or dishonest schemes such as Julia Gillard's carbon tax are going to cost ordinary people a bundle.
- David Rose: Forget global warming — it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again)
"World temperatures may end up a lot cooler than now for 50 years or more," said Henrik Svensmark, director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at Denmark's National Space Institute. "It will take a long battle to convince some climate scientists that the sun is important. It may well be that the sun is going to demonstrate this on its own, without the need for their help." He pointed out that, in claiming the effect of the solar minimum would be small, the Met Office was relying on the same computer models that are being undermined by the current pause in global-warming.
- Debbie Guest: Carbon tax 'alarmism' doesn't fit facts, scientists warn
"Alarmism also offers an excuse for governments to raise taxes, (for) taxpayer-funded subsidies for businesses that understand how to work the political system and (is) a lure for big donations to charitable foundations promising to save the planet."
- Washington's Blog (2012-04-15): Top Scientists, Government Agencies and Publications Have — For Over 100 Years — Been Terrified of a New Ice Age
- No Need to Panic About Global Warming
There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy.A letter signed by 16 scientists and published in the Wall Street Journal, 2012-05-29.
Alarmism over climate is of great benefit to many, providing government funding for academic research and a reason for government bureaucracies to grow. Alarmism also offers an excuse for governments to raise taxes, taxpayer-funded subsidies for businesses that understand how to work the political system, and a lure for big donations to charitable foundations promising to save the planet. ...There is no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to "decarbonize" the world's economy. Even if one accepts the inflated climate forecasts of the IPCC, aggressive greenhouse-gas control policies are not justified economically. ...
Every candidate [for public office] should support rational measures to protect and improve our environment, but it makes no sense at all to back expensive programs that divert resources from real needs and are based on alarming but untenable claims of "incontrovertible" evidence.
- David Crossland (2013-05-16): Europe loses credit as carbon trading scheme dwindles away
- Matt McGrath (BBC, 2013-05-19): Climate slowdown means extreme rates of warming 'not as likely'
Scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term. ... "The most extreme projections are looking less likely than before." ... [T]here are ongoing uncertainties surrounding the role of aerosols in the atmosphere and around the issue of clouds.Or can we infer that conventional academic climate scientists really can't predict anything with a probability of greater than 50% about the climate in the coming centuries — or even decades?
- In this YouTube video, Richard K. Moore gives a preview of his talk at the forthcoming June 2015 Thunderbolts Project conference, in which he explains that over the long term climate change follows a very definite (fractal) pattern, derived from fluctuations in electrical energy received by the Earth from the Sun.
- Goldman Strikes Again: Did A Probe Into [the] "Global Warming" Fraud Cost A Prime Minister [his] Job?
- Dr. Tim Ball:
- CO2 is not a Greenhouse Gas that Raises Global temperature. Period!
- How the world was deceived about global warming and climate change
- YouTube videos:
- The Coming Solar Cycle(s)
- Solar cycle 24 global cooling 2017-2035 = FOOD SHORTAGE !
- Armed Response to 'Climategate' question
- Freeman Dyson: A Global Warming Heretic
- Colorado Professors Kick 'Deniers' Out — "We Will Not, At Any Time, Debate Climate Change"
[No longer viewable]
- Leading climate scientist Cess admits mathematical errors in the AGW theory
- Michael Shedlock: Global Warming Scam Exposed
As usual, many of the comments display confusion between ‘global warming’ and ‘anthropogenic [i.e., human-caused] global warming’. Is it so hard to understand? The former seems to be occurring (for now) but the latter is not.- RT: ‘By 2050 half the forms of life we know will be gone’ — conservation biologist
But see the first comment at Zero Hedge
There is absolutely no evidence that current temperatures are outside the trend of totally natural variation, and all attempts to make it appear that way are misleading you by truncating the data to a sample of statistically insignificant size. And then they apply their misleading, exponential curve-fits and smoothing effects for dramatic purposes. ...We have no actual data that indicates that climate is in any way behaving abnormally, much less due to human impact. The only thing we have is a hypothesis that CO2 affects climate in a meaningful way, which is what climatologists attempt to model. But those models make terrible predictions.
And another comment:
The scientific community is putting out so much B.S. these days that nobody even believes their stupid research tales any more. Scientists of the 21st Century arrive at a conclusion then try to make the data fit their belief. This is all done because the government of late chooses the agenda, and what results they want to see, and then they fund the scientists who fall in line. It's totally bogus science coming out of publicly funded science departments. Disgusting.Isn't it about time we dethroned the High Priests of Science and consigned their worship to the scrap heap of history?
- Zahir Ebrahim: Global Warming / Climate Change - What's it all About?
Climate change due to sun's activity is a natural and cyclic phenomenon. ... The common public attention should instead be focused on the Carbon Credit scam and the Global Governance agenda under UN Agenda 21 which is being diabolically legalized using a multiplicity of propaganda covers including the fear of Climate Change in order to lend that exercise “legal” and political legitimacy.
- Scott Adams: The Non-Expert Problem and Climate Change Science
If you have been involved in any climate change debates online or in person, you know they always take the following trajectory: Climate science believers state that all the evidence, and 98% of scientists, are on the same side. Then skeptics provide links to credible-sounding articles that say the science is bunk, and why. How the heck can you — a non-expert — judge who is right?
- Two articles from The Deplorable Climate Science Blog:
- Judith Curry: Climate models for lawyers
I have been asked to write an Expert Report on climate models. ... Given the uncertainties in equilibrium climate sensitivity and the magnitude and phasing of natural internal variability on decadal to century timescales, combined with the failure of climate models to explain the early 20th century warming and the mid-century cooling, I conclude that the climate models are not fit for the purpose of identifying with high confidence the proportional amount of natural versus human causes to the 20th century warming.
- Zero Hedge: ClimateGate 2 — NOAA Whistleblower Claims World Leaders Fooled By Fake Global Warming Data
Britain's Mail on Sunday today revealed astonishing evidence that the organisation that is the world’s leading source of climate data rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming and was timed to influence the historic Paris Agreement on climate change. A high-level whistleblower has told this newspaper that America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) breached its own rules on scientific integrity when it published the sensational but flawed report, aimed at making the maximum possible impact on world leaders including Barack Obama and David Cameron at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015.
- Luboš Motl: Selection of climate model survivors isn't the scientific method
— or more exactly, Cherry-Picking Climate Models to 'Prove' AGW is Fraud
- Brad Fregger: The History and Ignorance of “Sky Is Falling” Theories with Special Emphasis on Anthropogenic Global Warming
- Part 1: Historical Perspective
- Part 2: Anthropogenic Global Warming
- Part 3: "Perfect Storm Scientific Consensus"
- Research Team Slams Global Warming Data In New Report: "Not Reality... Totally Inconsistent With Credible Temperature Data"
- Chris White: Australia Weather Bureau Caught Tampering With Climate Numbers
- Martin Armstrong: Independent Audit Exposes the Fraud in Global Warming Data
- Major Math Error Puts Widely-Cited Global Warming Study On Ice
- Letter to President Donald Trump from Richard S. Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences
- Zahir Ebrahim:
- Global Warming has Become a New Religion — What's it all About?
- Letter to Tariq Banuri, Chairman HEC, On Global Warming From Zahir Ebrahim
- The Global Warming Psyops That People Don't Get
- Bombshell Claim: Scientists Find "Man-made Climate Change Doesn't Exist In Practice"
A new scientific study could bust wide open deeply flawed fundamental assumptions underlying controversial climate legislation and initiatives such as the Green New Deal, namely, the degree to which 'climate change' is driven by natural phenomena vs. man-made issues measured as carbon footprint. Scientists in Finland found "practically no anthropogenic [man-made] climate change" after a series of studies.
- Patrick Michaels and Caleb Stewart Rossiter: The Great Failure Of The Climate Models
See also the comments to this article.
- F. William Engdahl: World Extreme Weather: Is it Man or Something Else?
- Mike Shedlock: Global Warming Fraud Exposed In Pictures
Climate change alarmists have convinced the public something must be done now. The reports are easily debunked as fraud.
I think everything's now been said on this subject that needs to be said. Better to turn one's attention to more important things and to leave the believers in anthropogenic global warming to languish in their delusion. Except that some of them are still pushing the bogus "carbon credits scheme" which, if not stopped, will mean more (obscene) profits for the big banks, corporations and NGOs, as usual. And less money available to improve the lives of the common people, about whom they couldn't care less.
But if you really want more see ClimateGate.
Creator Of Global-Warming's Infamous "Hockey Stick" Chart
Loses 'Climate-Science' Lawsuit
The Canadian court issued it’s final ruling in favor of the Dismissal motion that was filed in May 2019 by Dr Tim Ball's libel lawyers. Not only did the court grant Ball's application for dismissal of the nine-year, multi-million dollar lawsuit, it also took the additional step of awarding full legal costs to Ball. A detailed public statement from the world-renowned skeptical climatologist [Ball] is expected in due course. This extraordinary outcome is expected to trigger severe legal repercussions for Dr Mann in the U.S. and may prove fatal to climate science claims that modern temperatures are "unprecedented." ... Dr Mann lost his case because he refused to show in open court his R2 regression numbers (the 'working out') behind the world-famous 'hockey stick' graph.See also Omar Am's A climate Alarmist Sued a Skeptic for Defamation — and Lost
In case you think that Dr Mann's "hockey stick" claim of anthropogenic global warming has now been totally discredited, and that we need no longer concern ourselves with this long-running hoax, think again.
Germany Disappoints: Announces Massive Climate Plan
Germany has unveiled [September 2019] a "3-digit-billion" euro plan to address climate change ... as tens of thousands of protesters [a.k.a. useful idiots] rallied demanding more environmental protection. ... [The plan] covers a slew of measures from tackling emissions in the energy and industrial sectors, to incentives for zero-emission electric vehicles ... The package is worth about 50 billion euros ($55 billion) ... The package to save the world will be paid for by increased taxes ...So the German government will collect about $2000 from each adult German taxpayer to pay the bankers, government officials, consultants, contractors and journalists who will implement this plan "to save the world". Of course, we should all be very grateful to those generous German taxpayers.
And now the global-warming hoaxers are resorting to the despicable tactic of using a mentally-challenged 16-year-old girl to parrot their lies.
- Rob Slane: The Disturbing Cult Of Greta Thunberg
The Cult of Greta Thunberg is an extremely disturbing one, and one which marks a new low in the drain-circling that Western civilisation seems bent on. ...
[It] wasn’t from the camp of the so-called "Deniers" of facts and reason that the decision was taken to use an emotionally disturbed child to act as a global spokesperson and to make emotional appeals to the world. Rather, it was from those who claim to have the facts, the proof and the settled science. Why? If the science really is settled, and the facts really are incontrovertible, why the need to use a vulnerable girl to push the agenda, as has clearly happened? ...
On a societal level, frankly it all has the rather unpleasant whiff of a deliberate campaign to shame people into silence by the exploitation of a frankly very disturbed child. And the fact that there are people who are prepared to use this sort of emotive tactic to further their agenda is really quite sinister, and doesn't bode well. We are periliously close to becoming a society entirely governed by emotion over reason, with the results being seen in the increasing inability of large swathes of people to even accept the possibility that views other than their own should be allowed.- Ryan McMaken: Greta Thunberg To Poor Countries: Drop Dead
Greta Thunberg ... [mocks] the idea of economic growth as a "fairytale." But for people in the developing world, money and economic growth — two things Greta Thunberg thinks are contemptible — translates into a longer and better life. ... [Her] blithe disregard for the benefits of economic growth is not uncommon for people from wealthy countries who are already living in an industrialized world built by the fossil fuels of yesteryear. ... [She] has seen fit to attack countries like Brazil and Turkey for not more enthusiastically cutting off their primary means to quickly deliver a more sanitary, more well-fed, and less deadly way of life for ordinary people.
- F. William Engdahl: Climate and the Money Trail
The links between the world's largest financial groups, central banks and global corporations to the current push for a radical climate strategy to abandon the fossil fuel economy in favor of a vague, unexplained Green economy, it seems, is less about genuine concern to make our planet a clean and healthy environment to live. Rather it is an agenda, intimately tied to the UN Agenda 2030 for "sustainable" economy, and to developing literally trillions of dollars in new wealth for the global banks and financial giants who constitute the real powers that be.
- Robert P. Murphy: The Bogus "Consensus" Argument on Climate Change
Back in 2014, David Friedman worked through the original paper that kicked off the "97% consensus" talking point. What the original authors, Cook et al., actually found in their 2013 paper was that 97.1% of the relevant articles [actually, 97.1% of the one-third of articles that expressed a position on anthropogenic global warming] agreed that humans contribute to global warming. But notice that that is not at all the same thing as saying that humans are the main contributors to observed global warming ...
- 11,000 Experts Propose Final Solution To Global Warming: Just Kill Billions Of People
Mass suicide (accidental or intentional) will get the ball rolling, and Elite-induced economic and social collapse, epidemics, global nuclear war and nuclear winter will kill off the required 90% of (in Henry Kissinger's memorable phrase) "useless eaters". Unless, of course, the Elite and their "11,000 Experts" are taken out first.
- F. William Engdahl: Are We Blocking Out the Sun?
Most climate scientists are ignoring what is likely a far greater influence on Earth's climate than atmospheric CO2, namely, the influence of the Sun, affecting gamma ray intensity and resultant cloud cover. The possibility of long-term global cooling is what we need to worry about, not global warming. Anyone up for a new ice age?
- Dmitry Orlov: Avoiding the Coming Ice Age
Predictions that have not been validated through subsequent observation cannot be treated as "settled science" — by definition. They are purely theoretical. So far, we have approximately 1°C of warning since what is assumed to be "average global pre‑industrial temperature" was never measured directly. This amount of warning is neither here nor there. During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, which was around 55.5 million years ago, global average temperatures are said to have been as much as 14°C warmer than today.Since the science is still out on the extent of future global temperature rise (due to lack of time to make the observations necessary to validate the theory) we have to assume that what we are dealing with is not science but a science-based cult. Indeed, the amount of emotionalism currently displayed with regard to what the thermometer has to say is very much out of character for anyone involved in any sort of scientific endeavor and is more indicative of some sort of religious experience. There is also a nasty political angle to the overwrought and overheated rhetoric concerning global warming: developed nations, which have already squandered their endowments of fossil fuels and are therefore no longer developing, may be suspected of using climate science-based moralizing to thwart the efforts of developing nations to catch up with and overtake them. This, mind you, isn't working at all — a fact that may explain the otherwise inexplicable hysterics elicited by a 1°C global average temperature rise.
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