Climate Change
CO2 climate change is a vast left-wing conspiracy theory. To claim that a teeny-tiny 0.0129% increase in CO2 has impacted climate is akin to trying to turn a molehill into a mountain.
How do we know CO2 climate change is a sham?
By understanding that atmospheric CO2 has increased by a minuscule 1.29 parts per 10,000 since 1880.
The Mythbusters TV show demonstrated the warming effect of increasing CO2 by 1.4 parts per 10,000 to be only +0.0017° C. That's 1.7 one-thousandth of a degree!
Atmospheric CO2 on 9/5/2023: 419.68 ppm
That's a 1.29 parts per 10,000 increase since 1880
SOURCE: Data recorded by the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
NOTE: Readings fluctuate up and down within a small range of about 4 ppm. We cite 1880 CO2 levels because that is when historical temperature data begins.
Source: NASA
Note how they magnified the graph in order to make a minuscule change look like a lot (a form of lying with statistics).
CO2 levels were at 291 ppm in 1880 according to ice core data.
This is what atmospheric CO2 concentrations look like when the graph is not deceptively magnified by alarmists:
"Atmospheric trace gases such as carbon dioxide do NOT have any influence on the climate."
-- Swiss physicist, Thomas Allmendinger
"The very fact that recent tree ring data erroneously suggests cooling in the last 50 years, when in fact there has been warming, should be a warning flag about using tree ring data for figuring out how warm it was 1,000 years ago." - Dr Roy Spencer, Ph D, former NASA scientist
"There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere" -- 31,478 scientists (Oregon Petition)
"The long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible" - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
“There is no climate emergency” - over 1,100 signatories of the World Climate Declaration
"Climate scientists need there to be a problem in order to get funding" -- Dr Roy Spencer
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hires scientists to provide them with 'information’ that supports the climate emergency narrative" -- Patrick Moore
“80% of all science research in the United States is in universities. In these universities, you cannot get a [monetary] grant about climate unless you are on the scare story side. It just won’t happen. Not only that, you will be ostracized by your peers and sent out with a pitchfork in your rear end if you do such a thing as to counter the narrative” -- Dr. Patrick Moore
"Tens of thousands of jobs depend upon global warming right now." -- Professor Patrick Michaels, Department of Environmental Sciences - University of Virginia, US
“It’s a manufactured consensus” -- Judith Curry
“The Sun is a primary driver of climate change — and has a far greater impact than changes in CO2." "This warming and cooling of arctic temperatures agrees almost perfectly with the changes in the sun's energy output.” -- Dr. Wie-Hock “Willie” Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"This debate was always about left-wing ideology, quasi-religious hysteria, and follow-the-money corruption -- Never about science" -- James Delingpole
"There are vast quantities of scientists who at least question the concept of man-made global warming. It is true that the ones who go public are usually scientists either who have retired or who come from other disciplines. They’ve got nothing to lose. In this day and age it can be fairly dangerous to one’s career if you are a climate scientist and express some vociferous objection to the concept of dangerous global warming." -- Professor Garth Paltridge, Atmospheric Physicist
"Renewable energy can't do the job. Government should switch green subsidies into R&D" -- Bill Gates, globalist and left-wing propagandist
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" -- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist
BELOW: The purpose of climate hysteria is wealth redistribution -- not 'saving the planet'.
OVERVIEW
We have been lectured by the agenda-driven media, grant-dependent academics, governments, politicians, corporations, organizations, and other bad actors that CO2 is a greenhouse gas that is causing the earth to warm, is dangerous, and that we can/must stop it. They show us charts that depict a sudden and drastic rise in temperature that correlates with the industrial revolution, and tell us that such-and-such glacier is shrinking at an alarming rate, and that 97% of scientists agree that humans are causing the planet to overheat. The debate is over and The Science™ is settled!
INFORMATION MONOPOLY / RIGGED SEARCH RESULTS: Making matters worse, search engines such as Google are shadow-banning differing opinions on anthropogenic climate change. Search queries for such terms as "climate change" or even "argument against climate change" and "climate change skepticism" simply produce more and more debate-is-over science-is-settled webpages. Completely missing are links to CO2Coalition.org, WattsUpWithThat.com, ClimateDepot.com, DailySceptic.org, DrRoySpencer.com, JustTheFacts.com, InfoGalactic.com, NewClimateModel.com, JunkScience.com, TruthInEnergyAndClimate.com, etc. The far-left-wing United Nations openly admits that they have teamed up with not just Google, but Facebook, and other social media platforms, to snuff out skeptic websites from searches.
"We own the science" [by working with Google to censor search engine results] -- Melissa Fleming, the hysterical United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications
BELOW: Wikipedia tells us that the debate is over and the science is settled. Nothing could be more ANTI-science and further from the truth. Wikipedia's 'main driver' claim flies in the face of even alarmist, John Cook who says that 66.4% of scientific papers express no opinion on whether humans are causing significant warming.
BELOW: Wikipedia's climate change propaganda - image credit
BELOW: Wikipedia propaganda, summarily claiming that the debate is over and the science is settled...
BELOW: Like something straight out of the novel 1984, Wikipedia gaslights climate skepticism as unwarranted, manufactured, agenda-driven, pseudoscience, propaganda, and even a psychological coping mechanism for denying reality. Also, notice how Wikipedia states that it is a settled fact that climate change IS caused by humans.
BELOW: To top it off, Wikipedia's "Climate Change Skepticism" page is empty. Instead, they redirect readers to the above "Climate Change Denial" propaganda article.
Media paid millions to promote climate propaganda
Media organizations receive millions from anti-fossil fuel foundations, such as the Rockefeller Foundation. A 2018 study found that 19 major foundations provided significant funding to oppose the fossil fuel industry and promote renewable energy. More than 500 news and media outlets (representing an audience of 2 billion people in 57 countries) partner with Covering Climate Now, which is funded by billionaires. Covering Climate Now encourages reporters to connect climate change to every extreme weather event.
The Washington Post is partners with the Rockefeller Foundation to advance its coverage of climate change. The Associated Press was paid 8 million dollars by the Rockefeller Foundation to promote claims of global warming. The Guardian also has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Alarmist Shananigans
Alarmists claim that earth's surface temperatures have risen about 1 degree since 1940. They tell us that this alleged sudden rise is exceptionally divergent compared to previous centuries. But, even if true, correlation does not prove causation. Earth's climate has changed since the dawn of time. Ice core data suggests that the earth's climate has changed drastically at times. The Medieval Warm Period (485 papers written) and the Little Ice Age (1,413 papers) are well-established climatic events that humans are not responsible for. Yet, somehow these anomalies have been magically smoothed over by the people who are pushing anthropogenic global warming. Anyone who understands how easy it is to lie with statistics will start to question both the magical disappearance of these climactic events as depicted by their reconstructions, as well as the claimed drastic rise in temperature. The more complex something is, the easier it becomes to lie with statistics.
Alarmists will never tell you that measuring temperature is an imperfect science. Due to margin of error alone, there could actually have been no warming from 1880 to 2000.
Climatologist John Christy and his team at the University of Alabama at Huntsville found that alarmist climate models are exaggerated by as much as 75 percent.
Meteorologist Roy Spencer, Ph.D found that 36 climate models used to guide national policy may have exaggerated “global warming” over the last 50 years by as much as 50 percent.
Thermometer data only goes back to 1880, and over time, may have become gradually and artificially skewed to the upside over time by localized urbanization (thermometers near heat absorbing roads, airports, etc) and therefore unreliable in reconstructing global or even regional temperatures. To estimate temperatures before 1880, scientists analyze, among other things, tree rings. However, tree ring data from the last 50 years actually contradicts thermometer data. Thermometers indicate warming, while the tree rings indicate cooling. This calls into question how reliable tree rings really are at reconstructing data going back many hundreds of years. That's a problem for climate change alarmists. Remember, that to even begin to argue that humans are causing the climate to change, you must put our recent climate in perspective versus the past.
Scientists have also manipulated temperature data by increasingly abandoning using thermometer data from cooler high altitude sites in favor of thermometer data from hot airports, all in order to create the effect of rising temperatures.
By default, the people of authority should not be trusted on climate change: The COVID pandemic also serves as a great learning experience about how governments, the media, scientists, and other presumed trusted sources (e.g., the CDC, the World Health Organization, Cambridge University, Neil Ferguson, etc) can rush to judgment and be so completely wrong, so dishonest, and/or so molded by groupthink when it comes to The Science™ of masks, lockdowns, asymptomatic spread, outdoor spread, the origin of the virus, death models, Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, natural immunity, the risk to children, conflating unhealthy with the healthy, vaccine side effects, etc, etc. We also learned how truth-tellers like Dr. Kelly Victory and Dr. Simone Gold were smeared and defamed as 'conspiracy theorists spreading medical misinformation'. The same thing is happening with climate change hysteria.
THE BIG ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
CO2 levels have gone up a teeny tiny amount
Finding the truth often begins by observing the obvious. Carbon dioxide is a trace gas that constitutes only about 0.042% percent of the earth's total atmosphere. But, climate change alarmists like to lie with statistics. They start by purposely expressing CO2 concentration in parts per million in order to produce a larger, scarier number. As of Sept 2023, CO2 levels were at 419.68 ppm. 420 sounds scarier than 0.042. That's your first lesson in how to lie with statistics, and we've only just begun!
Furthermore, humans cannot be responsible for all of this 420 ppm because much of it was preexisting. Nobody should be citing a figure that includes preexisting CO2. In 1880, when we began collecting temperature data, CO2 concentrations were at 291 ppm. Subtract 291 from 420 and we arrive at 129. Therefore, we could assume that humans have only added a little more than one 100th of one percent CO2 (or 129 ppm) to the atmosphere (minus naturally released CO2, such as oceanic CO2). That's 1.29 parts CO2 out of 10,000 parts total atmosphere! Common sense dictates that adding such a tiny amount of CO2 cannot have any impact on temperatures. A Mythbusters experiment has already demonstrated the insignificance of adding such a tiny amount of CO2 (as we discuss later in this article).
BELOW: Don't let the math confuse you.
A portion of the 1.29 parts CO2 increase may actually be from natural sources, such as oceans, volcanoes, etc: Human CO2 contribution to the 1.29 parts per 10,000 CO2 increase (measured over the last 150 years) may be less. The theory is that when oceans warm, CO2 is released. Of course, climate hysterians will blame humans for ocean warming, if any. However, this could be due to natural warming of the oceans. Even if you choose to believe alarmists, we're still left with a teeny tiny human impact.
More lying with statistics: Here's another example straight out of the book 'How to Lie with Statistics'. Climate alarmists like to cite the fact that CO2 levels have risen 50% since the 1800s. But, what they don't tell you is that such a statistic is meaningless when talking about small quantities. Imagine if someone told you that they made a killing on the stock market because the stock they own went up 50%. They might even show you a chart depicting a sudden, drastic rise in stock price. If their investment went from $10 million to $15 million, that would be significant. But, if it went from 2 cents to 3 cents, that 50% increase would be meaningless. Climate alarmists use the same deception. If you have a slight change in something over time, you exaggerate it by not extending the graph from 0% to 100%. Instead, they show you a magnified graph (like the one below) that only goes from 0.025% to 0.045%. This makes a 0.0129% increase look BIG! And, they tell us that CO2 levels have increased by a whopping 50%! Never mind that it's still just 1.29 parts out of 10,000.
BELOW: Lying with statistics by using a truncated chart and by going way back to the 1700s. The 200 ppm range of this chart is only 3 inches tall. If it included all 100% of the atmosphere it would be 5,000 inches tall (or 416.6 feet tall).
Lying with statistics on caffeine: More than 2,000 billion metric tons of CO2 have been added to the atmosphere by humans. That sounds much scarier than 1.29 parts out of 10,000.
Lying with statistics on Red Bull: It's even scarier to talk in terms of joules per second! 21.7 trillion joules per second! That's the daily equivalent of 28,500 Hiroshima bombs over an area the size of just the United States! That means that 57,000 nuclear bombs were going off daily before the industrial revolution even began. How did we ever survive the prior 300,000 years? This is math so "highly simplified" that the IPCC could do it in second grade, says the YouTuber.
Lying with statistics on steroids! It's even scarier to talk in terms of molecules! Never mind that it's still just 1.29 parts out of 10,000 (since 1880). And, for good measure, they included preexisting CO2 in their figure. How has the planet survived with 29 thousand billion billion billion billion molecules of preexisting CO2?
Or just scare people with red illustrations! The planet is on fire and it's ExxonMobil's fault!
Exaggerated experiments: Another stunt used by alarmists is to create ridiculous lab experiments showing that CO2 creates warming when they saturate the test container with huge quantities of CO2! What would happen if these YouTubers instead added only 0.0129 parts CO2 and didn't pressurize the container? No such lab experiment exists because it would not produce any measureable increase in temperature. And, as described later, how do you replicate the earth's thousands of feedback mechanisms (cloud feedback, plant absorbtion, ocean absorbtion, etc) in a lab experiment?
BELOW: This YouTuber conveniently never measured (as a percentage) how much CO2 he pumped in. Was it 5%? 10%? And he evidently increased the pressure inside the test bottle. Increase in pressure increases temperature (basic physics)!
This experiment is also contradicted by a Norwegian study.
Mythbusters lying by gross exaggeration
BUSTING MYTHBUSTERS: The TV show MythBusters once aired on The Discovery Channel. At the time, Discovery was owned by the far-left-wing AT&T company. On this show, they conducted a CO2 experiment in which they strangely never verbally disclosed how much CO2 they were pumping into their test chamber. The narrator used the power of suggestion to convince viewers that they were only adding tiny quantities of CO2. At one point the narrator said that "they can up the greenhouse levels in minutely accurate increments". Most viewers would be led to believe that they only added an amount of CO2 that was on par with how much CO2 levels have increased since before the industrial revolution. In reality, the gas monitoring expert's computer showed a whopping 7.351% CO2 level! That would be 523 times more CO2 than CO2 levels have increased over the last 250 years! That's also 567 times more CO2 than levels have increased since 1880.
Note that, in our calculations below, we subtracted the pre-existing (pre-industrial revolution) 0.028 parts CO2 level from 7.351% to arrive at 7.323%
7.323 ÷ 0.014 = 523 times exaggerated experiment
(CO2 concentration in their experiment ÷ actual CO2 increase = Their exaggeration factor)
HOW MUCH HAVE HUMANS LIKELY INCREASED TEMPERATURE OVER LAST 250 YEARS: In this experiment, they claimed that the temperature in the CO2 chamber averaged 0.9° Celsius (or 1.62° Fahrenheit) higher than the control chamber. Therefore, with simple mathematics, we divide 0.9° C by 523. Their lab experiment tells us that the CO2 level increase since the 1800s has increased Earth's temperature by a teeny tiny 0.0017° Celsius (or 0.00309° F).
0.9 ÷ 523 = 0.0017 degrees Celsius current increase
(Temperature increase from experiment ÷ their exaggeration factor = True temperature increase caused by CO2 increase since the 1800s)
HOW MUCH WILL HUMANS INCREASE TEMPERATURE BY THE YEAR 2100? By the end of the century, CO2 levels are projected to reach 800 ppm, of which humans would be responsible for 520 ppm. In this case, we would divide 0.9° C (1.62° F) by 140.8 because the MythBusters experiment is 140.8 times exaggerated versus the actual projected CO2 levels for the year 2100 (7.323 ÷ 520 = 140.8). That takes us to 0.00639° Celsius, an increase of less than 1/100th of a degree Celsius. When expressed in Fahrenheit, that's an increase of 0.0115°. That's about one hundredths of a degree in Fahrenheit temperature increase! We'll say it again... Teeny tiny!
0.9 ÷ 140.8 = 0.00639 degrees Celsius increase by 2100
(Claimed temperature increase ÷ their exaggeration factor = True future temperature increase)
BELOW: If you weren't paying attention, you easily missed the Los Gatos Labs gas monitoring expert's computer showing a whopping 7.351% in CO2 concentration! This is 523 times more CO2 than humans have added to the atmosphere over the last 150 years.
SHAMELESS LIARS: At the end of the grossly exaggerated experiment, MythBusters used the kid to declare "I think that this is showing that CO2 and methane are major culprits for global warming". One of the hosts declared that "the results from the global warming experiment were pretty conclusive." Confirmed. As always, the debate is over and The Science™ is settled.
If it's simple, then case closed!
Climate alarmist, Naomi Oreskes said at the Davos forum, that understanding climate change is really simple. You just have to understand that carbon dioxide traps heat. She said, "The thing I always say about climate science... It's actually not that complicated. Carbon dioxide traps heat. If you trap heat, the thing that the heat is trapped in will get hotter. That's really simple." Of course she omitted mentioning the teeny-tiny CO2 increase.
But, based on her logic, we don't need to get lost in all of the complex minutia of climate science. All we need to understand is that CO2 levels have increased by only 1.29 parts per 10,000 since 1880. It's too small to have had any impact on climate! The notion that humans have been causing the planet to heat up is a sham.
CO2 is the 'main driver' of next to nothing
When faced with the fact that humans have released such a tiny amount of CO2, climate hysterians may revert to talking about climate forcings that may amplify the greenhouse effect. For example, they tell us that increased CO2 triggers higher temperature, which triggers more clouds which then can trap heat from the sun (clouds can also cause cooling). But, remember that CO2 levels have increased by about only 1.4 parts per 10,000 parts atmosphere since the late 1700s. There can't be climate forcing effects without significant amounts of CO2 and/or subsquent warming to trigger those forcings. And, most importantly, the alarmist scientists tell us that CO2 is the 'main driver' of climate change! Mythbusters has already demonstrated that this 'main driver' is insignificant!
Alarmists' Rebuttal to Teeny Tiny: Comparing Apples to Oranges
When called out by the reality of CO2 having only gone up by 1.4 parts per 10,000 since the 1700's, alarmists will typically resort to conflating physics (greenhouse gas effect) with biology. They might say that a teeny tiny amount of poison will kill a person, and therefore 1.4 parts CO2 per 10,000 must have superpowers! It is true that as little as 100 micrograms of sarin nerve agent can kill a 150 pound man -- That's 1 part per 6.8 billion parts of body weight! But, it is patently absurd to conflate biology with physics!
A University of Oslo team of physicists found that 100% (1,000,000 ppm) CO2 “heats” air to about the same temperature that non-greenhouse gases do, and found no significant temperature difference in containers with 0.04% vs. 100% CO2 [1, 2].
Seim and Olsen, 2020 further affirmed that adding pure (100%) CO2 to a halogen-heated chamber has almost no effect at all.
“We do not observe any significant difference in the two curves due to the increase in the CO2 concentration from ca. 400 ppm to about 100% in the front chamber.”
“The results of our study show the near-identical heating curves when we change from air [N2, O2] to 100% CO2 or to Argon gas with low CO2 concentration.”
Imaginary tipping point:
Panic! The oceans can't take in an extra... wait for it...
2 parts per 1 million!
One of the most fantastic claims made by alarmists is to claim that the oceans have supposedly reached some sort of CO2 'tipping point'. They tell us that it just so happens that the oceans simply cannot absorb an extra two parts per million (30 GT) per year, but conveniently have exactly enough room for the other annual 52 parts per million (780 GT) of CO2 that come from natural sources (such as volcanoes). This, they tell us, is causing the weather to spin out of control. If you believe this fairytale, you might fall for being sold the Brooklyn Bridge.
Even if we take their claim as fact, it is much ado about nothing. It makes no difference whether the oceans are absorbing some or all of the new CO2 that's released into the air each year. We already know (from Mauna Loa Observatory measurements) that CO2 levels have been increasing by only about 2.5 parts per million per year. It's still teeny tiny!
BELOW: More lying with statistics. Alarmists speak in terms of gigatons instead of parts per million.
Alarmists may also use circular reasoning to claim that global warming is heating up the oceans, which in turn is causing oceans to release even more CO2, thus accelerating global warming. Again, humans cannot be causing the planet to warm because CO2 levels have gone up by a negligible 0.014% since the 1700s.
Is CO2 a greenhouse gas? The science is NOT settled!
Despite all you have heard, the fundamental assertion that CO2 is a greenhouse (heat-trapping) gas is a theory that is in question [1, 2, 3].
A study by two University of Oslo physicists found no significant temperature difference in test containers with 0.04% CO2 vs. 100% CO2.
Warming is not possible because the atmosphere is
already 'saturated' with CO2
4-24-2024 - A study by a group of world-renowned Polish scientists found that carbon emissions CANNOT cause ‘global warming’.
Does CO2 cause more warming than oxygen and nitrogen?
Recent studies show CO2 warming effect to be either nil or very small. Popular classroom demonstrations that purport to demonstrate radioactive greenhouse effect may actually be due to the suppression of convective heat transfer (Wagoner et al., 2010).
Does CO2 cause warming on earth?
If you choose to believe that CO2 is a greenhouse gas (versus oxygen and nitrogen), we next need to consider that the earth is not an isolated science lab experiment. Earth has thousands of feedback mechanisms, each of which responds in different ways to climate forcings such as temperature or CO2 changes. These feedbacks may either reinforce or oppose the warming effects of extra CO2. For example, warmer temperatures cause water vapors to condense into clouds which in turn reflect sunlight, thus reducing warming. According to Dr. Roy Spenser, "Adding more [CO2] 'should' cause warming, with the magnitude of that warming being the real question. But, I’m still open to the possibility that a major error has been made on this fundamental point [that CO2 should cause warming]. Stranger things have happened in science before."
CO2 may contribute as little as only 9% to greenhouse effect
If you choose to believe that CO2 is a greenhouse gas (versus oxygen and nitrogen), we need to consider that CO2 is just one of many supposed greenhouse gases.
Water vapors and clouds: 36% - 72%
Carbon Dioxide: 9% - 26%
Methane: 4% - 9%
Ozone: 3% - 7%
What is the 'normal' CO2 level?
Earth's CO2 levels have been determined to have been as high as 7,000 ppm, long before there were humans. During the dinosaur age, CO2 levels ranged between 1,000 and 2,500 ppm. At 420 ppm we are at levels so low that they have not been reached since about 300 million years ago. CO2 is lower now than in more than 95 percent of Earth’s history. Yet websites like this one perpetuate the notion that "the very future of our planet earth is in peril" because CO2 levels of 420 ppm represent some sort of 'danger level'.
Is CO2 a pollutant? No
No. CO2 is vital for plant life. At current levels, plants are on a starvation CO2 diet. Global warming hysterians claim that species will become extinct if the planet warms. In reality, warmer weather has increased biodiversity.
Scientists have observed that between 1982 and 2015, vegetation around the world has increased by 11 percent, possibly due to 'carbon dioxide fertilization'. A 2005 study of 12 experiments at 475–600 ppm CO2 showed an average gain of 17% in crop yield.
DO NOT CONFLATE BIOLOGY WITH PHYSICS: It is important to note that this is an effect of biology -- not physics (as with greenhouse effect). Alarmists may falsely try to argue that carbon dioxide fertilization proves that a minute increase in CO2 can cause warming. There are no experiments that demonstrate measurable temperature increase from raising CO2 in minute amounts (ex - 1.29 parts per 10,000).
Yet politicians, the media, and alarmists have portrayed CO2 as a pollutant.
ABOVE: The Marxist city of San Francisco reinforcing the lie that "the debate is over" and "the science is settled".
Follow the money: Monopolist funding
The US government is heavily involved in financing the position that global warming is dangerous, and is caused by industry, transportation, and the generation of electricity by carbon-based fuels. Thousands of scientists are being paid handsomely to find a connection between human carbon emissions and the climate. In order to get on the government payroll and continue to get paid, you must agree with the government's global warming hypothesis. Hardly any have been paid to debunk anthropogenic global warming. Much of the debunking work is left to grass roots volunteers.
From 1993 to 2014 the US government spent 166 billion dollars (in 2012 dollars) on climate change. When adjusted for inflation, we've spent almost as must as was spent on the Apollo mission.
From 1989 until 2009 the U.S. government spent more than $32.5 billion on climate studies. They additionally spent another $79 billion on climate change related technology research, foreign aid and tax breaks for "green energy." This does not include funding from other governments and is not adjusted for inflation.
Grant-seeking scientists and others can get very rich from a career in global warming. If you put global warming in your article or research proposal then you qualify for a lucrative government research grant!
People like Al Gore earn $100,000, plus travel, hotel, security, and per diem expenses per speaking engagement.
The IPCC was created for the purpose of finding a human impact on global warming. That is their agenda and therefore the IPCC is biased.
Correlation does not prove causation
Just because two things correlate does not necessarily mean that one causes the other. We don't even know for sure that there is a correlation between the small rising CO2 levels and alleged rising thermometer temperature over the last century. For example, the urban heat island effect causes localized temperatures to go up due to human activities (example: Installing more and more heat-retaining pavement over time).
Furthermore, if we are to assume that thermometer data is an accurate proxy for the last century, we still have to put it in perspective versus the past. We must compare it to perhaps the last 1,000 or more years. Can we really rely on data extracted from things like tree rings? Or do temperatures readings get compressed in the isotopic analysis, thus making the last century of thermometer data look anomalous? And do we even have enough tree ring, sediment, and other samples from various regions from which to come to conclusions about temperatures on a global scale?
Al Gore's massaged 'Hockey Stick'
The Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age are well established. Georef lists 485 papers on the Medieval Warm Period and 1,413 papers on the Little Ice Age, yet the IPCC 3rd report concluded that neither the Medieval Warm Period nor the Little Ice Age were global climatic events.
Climatologist Dr. Michael Mann created a temperature reconstruction chart (below) which doesn't have a medieval warm period. How is this possible? Without a medieval warm period, you inevitably help create unprecedented 20th century warming for the hockey stick formation. In fact, the data before the year 1421 was reportedly constructed from rings of one single alpine tree!
He also apparently attached instrument data to tree ring data. This has the effect of increasing post world war 2 economic boom warming. Remember that according to Dr. Roy Spencer, the tree ring data shows no warming over the last 50 years. The fact that tree ring data and instrument data don't match up is an issue for climaphobics.
Al Gore's 'Hockey Stick' collapsing in court
7/4/2017 - Thankfully, the truth is coming out in a libel case in which Dr. Mann sued scientist Dr. Tim Ball for stating that Mann “belongs in the state pen, not Penn. State". Dr. Mann has refused to turn over his data related to this hockey stick graph for court examination. Under Canada’s unique ‘Truth Defense’ it could be ruled that this 'state pen' comment is true if the court rules that Mann hid the data because it is fake. According to Principia Scientific International, the "Only possible outcome: Mann’s humiliation, defeat and likely criminal investigation in the U.S." Predictably, Michael Mann hates people who support Trump.
Contrary to Christiane Amanpour and PBS, Mann's defamation case victory does not prove global warming or that The Science™ is settled
2/15/2024 update: Mann won a $1 million defamation lawsuit against Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn where the two men fiercely criticized his work while making the mistake of comparing Mann to a convicted child molestor. According to the left-wing propaganda network, PBS, the defendants accused Mann of 'faking his data'. Defending Steyn, Rich Lowry from the National Review said, “In common polemical usage, ‘fraudulent’ doesn’t mean honest-to-goodness criminal fraud. It means intellectually bogus and wrong. I consider Mann’s prospective lawsuit fraudulent.” As previously discussed, before the year 1421, just one alpine tree was used to build this temperature data. How is one localized tree a proxy for the entire Northern Hemisphere? How is tree ring data a proxy for global temperatures when recent tree ring data does not match up with instrument data? When it comes to climate science, there is disagreement about how data should be interpreted. Michael Mann's graph is just one interpretation of data.
On PBS, Christiane Amanpour tried to spin this defamation case as a Climate-Science-Is-Settled case. She declared ‘I hope this verdict sends a message that falsely attacking climate scientists is not protected speech.’ We interject! Climate scientists are not a protected class. Criticising them is free speech. Defaming them by making unfounded comparisons to child molestors is not free speech. We will agree to disagree that when speaking in shorthand by calling someone's work 'fraudulent' instead of 'intellectually dishonest' is a grey area of law.
Evidence of data tampering by the IPCC
In 1990 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produced this chart showing average global temperature changes over the past 1,000 years (based on proxies). Low and behold, it shows a “Medieval warm period” and a “Little Ice Age”!
Somehow we went from that to this...
Evidence of data tampering by NASA, GISS, etc
Altering old data to reflect new conclusions, agendas?
NASA, GISS, NASR, and others have a recent history of revising old temperature charts from years and decades ago to the upside to show more warming. Here's the problem: Old data does not change! This suggests data tampering, or some sort of lack of reliability.
Here's just one example from this website, which has many more examples of revisions:
At first NASA said that surface temperatures were cooling, then they said there was no warming from 1876 to 1976, then they decided that it was warming from 1940 to 1970. They did this by cooling the past.
Furthermore in 1974 the National Center For Atmospheric Research reported cooling of 0.4 degrees from 1940 to 1970, and no warming from 1870 to 1970.
"There doesn’t necessarily need to be a conspiracy. It doesn’t require any centrally coordinated deceit or covert instructions to operate. Instead it’s the lack of funding for the alternatives that leaves a vacuum and creates a systemic failure. The force of monopolistic funding works like a ratchet mechanism on science. Results can move in both directions, but the funding means that only results from one side of the equation get traction."
-- Science and Public Policy Institute
1880 to present is too small of a sampling size
Thermometer records (AKA "instrument records") only go back to 1880. Even if you choose to believe that temperatures have gone up since the industrial revolution, which is disputable, 140 years is just a blink of an eye in geological terms. It's not a long enough time period to jump to any conclusions. It would be like trying to determine Babe Ruth's lifetime batting average by looking at just one month.
Instrument records are not reliable
Thermometers located near cities may not provide reliable data due to the urban heat island effect. Temperatures in cities are increasing due to human activities. For example thermometers that were once situated next to undeveloped land are now in close proximity to heat absorbing pavement. One 10 year study found that 60 major US cities were 2.4°F hotter than rural areas. Urban heat island effect is even more intense during the summer. On average, major cities were 4°F hotter than surrounding rural areas. But this is a localized effect that may be falsely and gradually skewing global temperature estimates to the upside over time.
Falsely inflated temperature data: Meteorologist finds 96 percent of NOAA temperature stations located in ‘urban heat islands,’ including next to exhaust fans and on ‘blistering-hot rooftops.’
A prime example of using thermometers next to busy airports to collect temperature data in order to produce 'record temperature'.
In fact, about one half of all land surface temperature measurements used to show global warming and promote the command-and-control Net Zero agenda are taken near or adjacent to airport runways. This artificially inflates recent temperature readings.
Heat contamination: US temperature readings are junk, due to thermometers in close proximity to asphalt, machinery, and other heat-producing, heat-trapping, or heat-accentuating objects.
Just laughable lying with thermometer placement: England's Meteorological Office declared a 'hottest day of the year' by using a thermometer located just metres from a massive heat-generating electricity sub-station.
A Third of U.K. Met Office temperature stations may be wrong by up to 5°C. Another 48.7% of the total 380 stations could produce errors up to 2°C, meaning nearly eight out of ten stations (77.9%) are producing ‘junk’ or ‘near junk’ readings of surface air temperatures.
Thermometer records margin of error: Possibly no warming at all!
A study determined that there could actually be no warming from 1880 to 2000. The margin of error was found to be plus or minus 0.46 C (for a total range of 0.92 C). Thermometer data indicates a global land-ocean temperature increase of only 8/10 of one degree. So 8/10 of a degree is statistically indistinguishable from zero degrees Celsius!
As temps rise, radiation escapes -- Not vice versa
UN computer modellers were proven proven wrong. More outgoing radiation escapes to space as temperatures rise, rather than being trapped as the UN computer modellers believe.
Climategate blows the lid off global warming
Emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia revealed that scientists may be trying to conceal data and discussions, they view their job as political rather than scientific, and they admit to themselves that much of their science is weak and dependent on deliberate manipulation of facts and data.
One guy is in charge of gathering and massaging temperature data!
A professor named Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, is the sole person in charge of the database of global temperatures. The original raw data no longer exists. All that remains is the massaged, homogenized, altered data. Mr. Jones was also part of the Climategate scandal discussed above.
Climate Records and Reconstructions
Background:
Instrument temperature records only go back to 1880. In geological
terms 140 years would be a blink of an eye. But CO2 emissions did not
even begin to accelerate until about 1950. So in reality we're
scrutinizing a time period of only 70 years. 70 years is far too tiny
of a time period to leap to any conclusions about humans affecting
temperature change.
In this NASA temperature chart we cannot see how temperatures fluctuated before 1880, but we can at least see that from 1880 to 1910, temperatures were dropping at about as steep of a pace as temperatures rose from 1950 to 2000 (during the post-war economic boom when CO2 emissions spiked). Temperatures have to rise before they can fall. So by looking at this chart alone, even a non-scientist can deduce that temperature fluctuations without human "help" was/is normal.
And from 1910 to 1940, temperatures spiked up at about the same rate of increase as from 1970 - 2000, again, without any significant humans "help". If we're supposed to get alarmed by temperature fluctuations, any reasonable skeptic must ask how the hell did these fluctuations occur on their own without significant human "assistance"?
It is a fact that we are currently releasing 6 times more CO2 today than we did back in the 1940's. This is a problem for global warming alarmists because temperatures spiked upward from 1910 to 1940 (at the same rate of acceleration as they did from 1965 to 2000)? What caused temperatures to spike if humans were releasing much smaller amounts of CO2? This strongly suggests that temperature changes are normal.
ABOVE: According to NASA's temperature chart, from 1910 to about 1942 temperatures spiked up at about a 45 degree angle. This is about the same 45 degree angle as from 1966 to 2004, yet we were producing 50% to 85% less CO2 from 1910 to 1942.
And from about 1943 to 1976 temperatures dropped despite the fact that CO2 emissions gradually increased 5 fold.
BELOW: And for 18 years there was NO global warming, yet a whopping 25% of ALL human caused CO2 gas was released during this very time period.
There is nothing unusual about the last 100 years
says northern hemisphere reconstructions
(Page 38) This climate reconstruction indicates that, at least in the northern hemisphere (on mostly north American land), there is no 'hockey stick' to be found. Global warming alarmists' rebuttal is that this is dampened somewhat by southern hemisphere records. But this doesn't pass the smell test. Why would an area of land this large not show a spike in temperature during the industrial revolution?
BELOW: Even if you accept the exaggerated claim that global temperatures have gone up 1.2 degrees since 1880, there is nothing unusual about it.
There is nothing unusual about the last 100 years
says the Greenland and Antarctica temperature reconstructions
You simply cannot jump to any conclusions about recent
warming without putting it in perspective versus longer time
periods. Through isotope analysis scientists have been able to extract
temperature data from ice drilled out from sites in Greenland and
Antarctica. The ice years read like rings on a tree. Some of this data
goes back 420,000 years. Unfortunately this ice core data is localized
and it only goes up to the year 1850 (apparently because scientists
must wait many years for recent snow layers to compact before they can
extract recent temperature data). Conversely instrument records don't
begin until 1880. For now the ice core sample data is some of
the best we have in putting the 1950 to 2000 temperature rise in
perspective.
It was 1 degree warmer than today in Europe during Roman and Medieval times
Going back 5,000 years with Al Gore's hockey stick reconstructed: As you can see, temperature spikes every 500 to 1,000 years is normal. It suggests there is nothing out of the ordinary about our recent warming trend...
Going back 11,000 years...
Going back 420,000 years...
If you look at the 420,000 year trend you would agree that we are eventually heading back into another ice age! Cold weather is BAD for most life! If you believe that higher CO2 levels cause warming then we need to release more CO2 -- not less!
BELOW: We are living in the coldest times ever.
Reconstructions for central England show no rise in temperatures over the last 350 years.
Climate alarmists' smoking gun becoming a dud
Over the last 5 years (2012 - 2017) arctic sea ice has increased by 40%!
Study finds human impact on temperature no more than 0.01%
A study out of Finland has found that human activity can account for no more than a .01°C rise in global temperatures. The paper explains that the IPCC erred when they failed to account for the influences of low cloud cover and how it impacts global temperatures.
Fits like a glove: Correlation between sun spots and temperature
Scientists at the Danish Meteorological Institute compared sun spot data with temperature records and discovered an incredibly close correlation.
Ice Caps on Mars have been diminishing
ARTICLE: Simultaneous warming on mars suggests the sun, not humans, is causing warming.
STUDY: Geophysical, archaeological, and historical evidence support a solar-output model for climate change.
97% of creatively chosen, government-paid scientists agree
that climate change is man-made and dangerous!
There is actually NO consensus on whether humans are causing the planet to warm. For an in depth understanding watch this You Tube video by Joseph Bast, president of the Heartland Institute.
Here are cliff notes of the video...
What it boils down to is that the people conducting these fake 'studies' created bad samples that don’t accurately represent the whole. NASA nevertheless cited these 4 flawed studies in their footnotes to support their statement that 97% of scientists agree that climate change is man-made and dangerous. The fact that NASA picked false and fraudulent studies is a clear indication that NASA is either dishonest and has an agenda, or they are hasty and incompetent.
75% of 8% of cherry picked articles is not a consensus: NASA cited a highly partisan far-left-wing Australian blogger named Naomi Oreskes (AKA "the socialist historian") whose opinion editorial was not peer reviewed. She claimed that 75% of scientists believe that humans were responsible for most of the observed warming of the last half-century. She cherry picked scientists by searching for "global climate change" instead of "climate change". In doing so she was able to weed out 92% of articles! She is not a scientist and so she misinterpreted many articles. A follow up study aimed at updating her 75% figure found that only 7% of recent papers support the "scientists agree" claim. (NOTE: We ask, how many of those cherry picked 7% of papers were written by scientists who were given government grants. Probably all of them!)
98% of 79 cherry picked scientists is not a consensus: Maggie Kendall Zimmerman a student at the University of Illinois and her professor Peter Doran, conducted a two minute online survey of so-called "earth scientists" working for government and universities. Only 5% of these scientists identified themselves as "climate scientists". She essentially asked all of the wrong people! She omitted the people whose opinions we would value most, namely solar scientists, space scientists, cosmologists, physicists, meteorologists, and astronomers. She also asked all the wrong questions. For example she asked if human activity was a "significant contributing factor". To a scientist, the word "significant" could mean a very small amount! She found that 98% of scientists agree, but only after surveying.... wait for it.... just 79 climate scientists! (NOTE: We ask, how many of these cherry picked climate scientists were given government grants. Probably all of them!)
98% of 50 cherry picked scientists is not a consensus: After cherry picking scientists, Stanford student William R. Love Anderegg based the opinions of only 50 scientists to come to his "98% of scientists" statistic that was cited by NASA. He cherry picked the "most prolific" scientists. In doing so he assumed that just because a scientist has written lots of papers then their opinion was more important than someone who had written just a few papers. Why didn't he assume that scientists who don't believe in anthropogenic global warming and don't have the financial incentives (government grants, etc), would waste their time writing lots of papers? He used also Google Scholar to select publications. The problem with Google Scholar is that it's a poor way to collect a database of studies. It includes not just peer-reviewed journals, but op-ed pieces (opinion pieces). He just looked at abstracts because he's not a scientist. Abstracts are inaccurate and misleading. (NOTE: We ask, how many of those 50 cherry picked scientists were given government grants. Probably all of them!)
97% after using questionnaire trickery and conveniently discarding 7,930 papers: NASA's 4th dubious source is an Australian global warming activist named John Cook. John Cook runs a partisan website called skepticalscience.com where he attacks global warming skeptics. He also has a partisan book entitled "Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand". In other words John Cook is not the objective researcher you would ever want to conduct such a study.
Cook claimed that 97% of articles published from 1991 to 2011 endorsed the view that human activity is responsible for some warming. The operative word is 'some'. To a scientist 'some' could mean very little. So, most scientists, including skeptics, were already likely to agree with the question. Like other flawed studies, he looked at only abstracts.
The John Cook study essentially broke all kinds of rules of scientific data collection and scientific method by massaging results and managing to cherry pick researchers who just happened to support his alarmist views, etc. A follow up study by Climatologist David Legates found that in reality only 32.6% percent of papers endorsed the claim of just some human caused warming. In other words if you believed that humans were contributing to just 1% of all warming, then you were lumped in with those who believe that humans are the proximate cause of global warming. A whopping 66.4% expressed no opinion. Those respondent opinions were conveniently thrown out in order to create the false 97% headline!
"Scientific consensus that human activity is very likely causing most of the current global warming (AKA anthropological global warming)"
100% - 11,944 abstracts reviewed
66.4% - 7,930 were EXCLUDED for expressing no opinion on AGW!!!
32.6% - 3,896 marked as agreeing we cause some warming, but how much is "some"??? Minuscule amounts?
0.7% - 64 (later found to be 41) marked as endorsing consensus as defined.
0.3% - 41 actually endorsed consensus as defined.
0.0% - 0 marked as endorsing man-made catastrophe.
In David Legates' follow up study, the 64 papers that John Cook claimed were marked as endorsing the consensus as defined, and found that 1/3 of them did NOT actually endorse the consensus as defined. Only 41 of this specific group of 64 actually endorsed the idea that global warming is mostly man made. (NOTE: We ask, how many of those cherry picked 41 papers were written by scientists who were given government grants. Probably all of them!)
In response to Cook's study, Richard Tol (a prominent economist in the global warming debate) said "the main finding of the paper is incorrect, invalid, and unrepresentative". Mr. Tol discovered that marketing of the Cook paper was being planned before the research had even begun!
Christopher Monckton said "this project was not a scientific investigation... but a public relations exercise".
Another 97% lie: Anonymous online survey subjects
with likely critics of AGW excluded
Only 25 out of 2,500 IPCC related scientists agreed with the 2007 IPCC report. So then two University of Illinois researchers conducted a 2-minute anonymous online survey. They solicited 10,257 earth scientists but only 77 chose to take the survey! 75 anonymous people agreed with the survey's two questions. Also from the get go, these two "researchers" did not survey any scientists who would be critical of anthropological global warming, including solar scientists, atmospheric physicists, space scientists, cosmologists, physicists, meteorologists and astronomers. Clearly these crackpot researchers had an agenda.
It gets worse. Only 20% of UN IPCC scientists deal with climate. 80% of the UN’s IPCC membership are experts in other fields and have no dealing with or expertise in climate change as part of their academic studies!
Another Fake Study
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency conducted a so-called study that claimed that 66% of climate experts believed that humans were mostly responsible for warming since 1950. However Jose Duarte, a specialist in survey design, noted that they diluted their sample of experts by including large numbers of psychologists, pollsters, philosophers, political scientists, and other non-experts.
What is the real consensus, if any?
A study out of Finland found that over the last century the human contribution to a rise of 0.1°C in global temperatures as a result of CO2 is just 0.01°C. That's 1/10th of 1/10th of a degree of global temperature rise due to CO2.
According to Klaus-Martin Schulte, 2008, "the proportion of papers that now explicitly or implicitly endorse the consensus has fallen from 75% [Oreske's claim] to just 45%."
According to peer reviewed research by Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch, on 54 scientific questions, just one third are alarmist, one third are skeptics, and one third say they are uncertain.
The peer reviewed journal Verhaggen, et al found that only 42% agree with the IPCC's claim to be highly confident that more than half of modern warming is due to human activity.
In 2012 the American Meteorological Society (AMS) conducted a survey of its 7,000 members. 1,800 responded. 52% of those 1,800 respondents believe the warming of the past 150 years has happened and is mostly man-made. The remaining 48% believe that it's mostly natural, didn't happen or they don't know. Only 40% believe man-made global warming could be dangerous. As for the opinions of the 5,200 members who did not respond to the survey, one has to believe that alarmists are more likely than non-alarmists to answer these types of surveys. Therefore it may be that less than 52% believe that earth has warmed and humans are to blame.
31,478 American scientists, including 9,021 with PhD's, signed the Oregon Petition which says in part: "there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere". The Hardline Institute printed the names, specialties, degrees and states of residence of every one of these scientists.
Phil Jones, the one guy who has the database of global temperatures, was asked if the scientific debate is over. He said "I do not believe the vast majority of climate scientists think this. This is not my view". It should be noted that the original data no longer exists. All that remains is the massaged, homogenized, altered data.
Putting it in perspective, science is not determined by consensus anyway. It's determined by proof -- not by vote of scientists who have been bought and paid for government. Similarly, you could get a 97% consensus of prisoners to agree that prisons should be abolished. Dr. Roy Spenser says that in the case of global warming, “scientific consensus” is nearly worthless.
Empirical evidence that does not support AGW
ARTICLE: Most of the Alps were ice free 6,000 years ago.
ARTICLE: About only 20,000 years ago New York sat under a mile thick glacier. OMG! The glaciers melted!
ARTICLE: Southern Greenland may have once been green.
Cities only take up 2% of the earth's landscape.
Their most important projections missed the mark
Scientists estimated conservatively that the Earth’s temperature would rise 1 to 7 degrees by 2019. [1, 2]
The scientists over-estimated rises in air and ocean temperatures. And their predictions of an atmospheric hot spot completely missed the mark.
BELOW: In 2008 the ABC propaganda network hysterically predicted that New York would be under water by 2015.
In 1989, climate expert, Jim Hansen predicted that 'the West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water".
In 2004 The Guardian told us that "Major European cities will be sunken beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a Siberian climate by 2020."
In 2006 Al Gore told us that "the North pole will be ice-free in the summer by 2013 because of man-made global warming."
The US Navy predicted that the arctic would be ice-free by 2016.
Scientists predicted that 101 islands of Tuvalu would be under water soon. Instead they have grown in land mass by 2.9%.
Alarmist scientists also predicted that water vapor would amplify temperatures thus causing a greenhouse effect. In reality two decades of satellite data has showed that the earth gives off more heat when its surface is warmer.
Scientists predicted that arctic sea ice was to
have melted by 2016, then they moved the goal posts to 2050
Experts predicted that the arctic ice sheet would melt by 2016. They were wrong. Now they are saying that there's a 66% chance of being ice free by 2050. This tells you that scientists really don't know much about climate. Furthermore even if it does melt at some point, this doesn't mean that it is man-made.
Northern hemisphere snow cover at 56-year high
Snow cover across the Northern Hemisphere has reached its highest level since measurements began in 1967 by NOAA and Rutgers University.
Failed prediction of rising oceans sinking major European cities
ARTICLE: The 'experts" warned that major European cities would sink beneath the seas. Britain would descend into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. They predicted that violent storms smash coastal barriers rendering large parts of the Netherlands uninhabitable by 2007. They forecasted that nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine, and widespread rioting would erupt across the world.
Furthermore, nobody believes that sea levels are rising. Barack Obama and other politicians own beachfront property. Insurance companies continue to insure homes on the beach.
Antarctic ice sheet is growing... and it represents 90% of the world's glaciers!
According to even NASA, satellite data indicates that the Antarctic ice sheet gained 112 billion tons of ice per year from 1992 to 2001. And from 2003 to 2008 it gained 82 billion tons of ice per year. Antarctica represents 90% of the world's glaciers, and it is growing. Antarctic sea ice has been growing nearly as fast as Arctic ice has been melting over the last 30+ years.
Antarctica was colder during the winter of 2021- 2022 than any winter in the past 50 years.
BELOW: Global sea levels began slowly and steadily rising long before the increase in human CO2 emissions.
THE GREAT BARRIER REEF IS GROWING
They told us that the Great Barrier Reef was disappearing because of 'climate change'. Not so fast. The Great Barrier Reef has had more coral cover than at any point since records began in 1986, with 2024 setting a new record.
NASA DATA TAMPERING
BELOW: NASA falsely claims that actic sea ice is melting. They did this by hiding data before 1979 in order to create the illusion of melting sea ice. NASA falsely claims that satellite observations began in 1979. During the 1960's, sea ice was measured with the Nimbus satellites.
BELOW: This 1990 report by the IPCC shows data going back before 1979 which debunks NASA's claim of melting.
BELOW: By 2001, NASA simply tampered with the data, turning sea ice gains into loses.
Conflating localized melting with global melting
Article: Climate alarmists love to cherry pick certain glaciers that are declining in order to declare that earth is over-heating. But a shrinking glacier is merely a localized phenomenon. It is intellectually dishonest to declare cherry-picked glaciers as proxies for temperature of the entire globe. Most importantly, nobody can know if any actual melting of a glacier is manmade or natural.
'Glacier National Park Glaciers will melt by 2020'
Oooops... They are growing!
Glacier National Park had posted signs declaring that all glaciers would melt by 2020. That prediction ended badly. To save embarrassment, they quietly removed the signs when the glaciers were found to be growing -- not melting.
All of humanity wiped out by 2023!
Climate buffoon, Greta Thunberg deleted her Tweet about how 'all of humanity' would be wiped out by 2023. She cited James Anderson, Harvard University professor of atmospheric chemistry, who claimed that the burning of fossil fuels would melt the ice caps at both poles.
ABOVE: The Tweet that Greta quietly removed.
More failed predictions:
Expert, Paul Ehrlich proclaimed in 1969 that "Unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years."
In 1989 a senior UN environmental official said that "Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000."
In 2008 a top NASA scientist told the Associated Press that "in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer."
In 2009 John Kerry said that in 5 years we would have the first ice free Arctic summer.
Neil deGrasse Tyson said that water would rise to the elbow of the Statue of Liberty by 2014.
Air pollution will cause an ice age
It wasn't long ago that the experts were predicting cooling instead of warming. "Air pollution may obliterate the sun and cause a new ice age in the first third of the next century." -- The Boston Globe in 1970
The Brown University Science Department sent a letter to the Whitehouse in 1972, expressing "deep concern with the future of the world... falls within the rank of processes which produced the last ice age."
The Guardian reported in 1974 that "Spy satellites show new ice age is coming fast"
They claim that California droughts are unprecedented and caused by humans
LYING BY OMISSION: Failed presidential candidate, Tom Steyer ran TV ads (via his NexGen Climate
group) summarily claiming that humans are causing California drought. A sad Indian is brow-beating you...
(Of course, comments to this video were disabled. Leftists do not like to be fact-checked.)
LYING BY OMISSION: A study published in PNAS, Diffenbaugh et al., which was co-authored by none other than the dubious, Michael 'Hockey Stick' Mann, claims that there is accumulating evidence that anthropogenic climatic changes are influencing the frequency, magnitude, and duration of drought in California. The study claims that 10 of the past 14 years have had below normal precipitation and water runoff in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins, and the past 3 years have been the driest and hottest in the full instrumental record (presumably since 1880). Is this an unprecedented irregularity?
TRUTH: What propagandists like Tom Steyer fail to mention is that evidence from tree rings shows that historically, droughts on the West coast have been widespread, including a 240-year drought that started in 850, and another 50 years later that lasted 180 years.
There is no climate emergency: There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and such-like natural disasters, or making them more frequent.
ABOVE: Hysterical propaganda from left-wing Forbes magazine
The media falsely claims that hurricanes are increasing in frequency
After each hurricane, the media rushes to attribute them to climate change. In reality, hurricanes are not increasing in frequency. They have actually become slightly less frequent. Even the NOAA and alarmist IPCC predict that hurricanes will become 25% less frequent this century.
Greenland ice sheets recover. Earlier loss was natural.
Paper finds that it was just El Niño -- not CO2. Another lesson for climate activists showing that 'short-term correlation is not causation'.
Coral Reefs Unharmed by Anthropogenic Global Warming
Polar bear population has more than doubled
Contrary to alarmist propaganda, the polar bears population has bounced back from 12,000 in the 60's to 26,000 now.
Furthermore, polar bears are not going to go extinct if temperatures go up. During the Eemian interglacial warm period, between 130,000 and 115,000 years ago, it was 14° hotter than today! Polar bears originated some 150,000 years ago, according to genetic analyses of a polar bear fossil.
Scientists in 2017: CO2 levels are past the point of no return
March 2017: Scientists who believe in anthropological global warming now agree that we are past the point of no return as far as the carbon threshold. In other words if you believe that humans are causing warming, there is nothing we can do about it.
They move the goal posts repeatedly...
October 2018: A year and a half later scientists are now saying that magically we have a reprieve of 12 more years to avert climate disaster. So much for being past the point of no return. By 2030 we humans must reduce CO2 by about 45 percent (from 2010 levels), and have zero emissions by 2050.
July 2020: Time Magazine declared 2020 is our last chance to save the planet. Panic!
June 2021: "It’s now clear we are coming to a point of no return." -- António Guterres, UN secretary general
October 2021: Time Magazine propaganda cover says "Last call" (to save the planet).
Inconvenient facts about electric cars, batteries, wind farms
With an EV you don’t eliminate emissions. You export emissions somewhere else. You have to dig up about 5,000 pounds of materials to make a single 1,000 lb battery. It takes 100 - 300 barrels of oil to manufacture a battery that can hold 1 barrel of oil equivalent energy. Just manufacturing the battery can have a carbon debt rate ranging from 10 tons to 40 tons of CO2.
A study published by the Ifo Institute of Germany in 2019 found that an electric Tesla Model 3 emits 11% to 28% more CO2 over its lifespan than a diesel Mercedes C220D.
Wind and solar will never work - They inherently produce electricity less than half the time. All the batteries in the world will never meet our enormous needs. Batteries are enormously expensive. The cost of battery storage is economically impossible.
ABOVE: All the battery storage in the world versus the electricity demands of just one state.
EV batteries last 8 - 12 years.
According to a Finnish government report, there is not enough lithium and cobalt to replace all batteries every 10 years.
Manufacturing, charging, operating, and disposing of electric vehicles produces more of every major category of pollutants than conventional cars: Increase in fine particulate matter formation (26%), human carcinogenic (20%) and non-carcinogenic toxicity (61%), terrestrial ecotoxicity (31%), freshwater ecotoxicity (39%), and marine ecotoxicity (41%) relative to petrol vehicles.
Transportation contributes to only about 28% of U.S. carbon emissions.
61% of electricity is produced from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum).
Electric cars are on average 35% more expensive than gas-powered cars. The price disparity is likely to increase as demand for critical minerals grows.
EV insurance costs may be up to 67% more.
Tires wear out 20% faster.
Replacement cost of hybrid batteries is typically $1,000 - $8,000. But, may cost as much as $20,744.
$60,000 to replace battery.
Repair costs can be shocking! For example, one Chevy Volt owner reports a bill of nearly $30,000 dollars to replace a battery after a little over 70,000 miles.
Lithium, cobalt, and nickel are the key minerals used to make lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles.
There isn't enough lithium to switch to electric cars.
China owns 70-80% of the entire supply chain for electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries, thus putting the US at geo-political risk if we were to become overreliant on EVs.
Battery production causes more environmental damage than carbon emissions alone.
There is a lack of charging stations.
Most EVs today can’t go more than 250 miles on a charge (and less in cold weather).
It takes 7911 kWh of energy to manufacture just the battery for an EV (contributing 184 pounds of CO2). A gallon of gasoline is equivalent to 33.6 kWh of energy (the equivalent of 235 gallons of gasoline). This amount of gasoline could allow a Toyota Corolla to drive 6,345 miles at 27 MPG.
The energy needed to manufacture the average EV is 31,757 kWh, which is 28% higher than an internal combustion engine car, at 22,794 kWh.
EV's have 79% more problems than conventional cars.
Wind farms are killing whales.
Electric vehicles spontaneously burst into flames! Another spontaneously combusts!
Electric vehicles are much heavier than gas-powered cars. Being hit by a car that weighs 1,000 pounds more than your own car increases your odds of being killed by 47 percent!
Electric vehicles are the 'biggest scam of modern times'.
Electric cars are literally racist and liberals don't care (because they're hypocrites)! Your electric car is powered by cheap African children exposed to toxic chemicals. An EV battery contains about 40 pounds of cobalt, 75% of which is mined in Africa. Congo is home to more than 50% of the world’s cobalt reserves.
Mathematics: Cutting CO2 wouldn't make a difference anyway
Even if you believe (erroneously) that humans are causing the planet to warm, cutting CO2 will have little effect. In order to forestall just 1 degree Fahrenheit of warming, humans would have to produce no CO2 for 33 years. That means no cars, no trains, no planes, no electricity, no hospitals, no factories, etc. This 33 year number is calculated based on the United Nations' own accepted CO2 emissions numbers. We burn 30 billion tons of CO2 per year (or 2 ppm into the atmosphere). The UN says we are going to increase CO2 by 468 ppm in the next century.
Climate activists' complete lack of foresight:
Joe Biden's war on American fossil fuels without a viable replacement is proving to be disastrous. High gas prices are causing inflation, a recession, and stock and bond market collapse. Century Aluminum's plant in Hawesville, Kentucky, shut down production due to rising energy costs. Meanwhile, high gas prices are helping Russia fund its war on Ukraine.
CONCLUSION: It's time we called anthropogenic climate change for what it is: A left-wing conspiracy theory.
Notes for climate skeptics.
For those who are still convinced that humans are causing the planet to heat up, now would be a good time to review the Milgram social psychology experiment, as well as mass formation psychosis and how people can become hypnotized by propaganda
1,200 Scientists and Professionals Declare: “There is No Climate Emergency”
Steve Milloy (senior fellow at the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute) debunks global warming narrative.
Conservapedia's global warming summary - Must read
Q&A with former NASA climatologist
What warming? Greenland hasn't warmed since 2001
Climatechangereconsidered.org - Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change
Delingpole: Global warming almost entirely natural
Article - The Hockey Stick Collapses: 60 New (2016) Scientific Papers Affirm Today’s Warming Isn’t Global, Unprecedented, Or Remarkable
Massive Climate Funding Exposed -
Climate Truth File - Required reading
Debunking Al Gore's exaggerated hockey stick - An exercise in poor mathematics that was massaged and doctored to create a predetermined conclusion.
Government scientists got their major climate predictions wrong - Feedback
Climate Change Driven by Ocean - Required reading
World leaders duped by manipulated data -
18 Spectacularly wrong predictions - Scientists and their blunders.
External video - The Great Global Warming Swindle
External article - Correlation of global temperature with solar activity
External video - There has been a lot of NASA deceit regarding polar ice.
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