Twelve Reasons Why I Don’t Believe There’s a Climate Emergency
I’m not a scientist. But I have reasons why I don’t fully trust the ‘climate emergency’ narrative. Here they are:
- Looking back through history, there have always been doomsday prophets, folk who say the world is coming to an end. Are modern-day activists not just the current version of this?
- I look at some of the facts – CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere; humans are responsible for just 3% of CO2; Britain is responsible for just 1% of the world’s CO2 output – and I think “really“? Will us de-carbonising really make a difference to the Earth’s climate?
- I have listened to some top scientists who say CO2 does not drive global warming; that CO2 in the atmosphere is a good or vital thing; that many other things, like the Sun and the clouds and the oceans, are more responsible for the Earth’s temperature.
- I note that most of the loudest climate activists are socialists and on the Left. Are they not just using this movement to push their dreams of a deindustrialised socialist utopia? And I also note the crossover between green activists and BLM ones, gender ones, pro-Hamas ones, none of whom I like or agree with.
- As an amateur psychologist, I know that humans are susceptible to manias. I also know that humans tend to focus on tiny slivers of time and on tiny slivers of geographical place when forming ideas and opinions. We are also extremely malleable and easily fooled, as was demonstrated in 2020 and 2021.
- I have looked into the implications of Net Zero. It is incredibly expensive. It will vastly reduce living standards and hinder economic growth. I don’t think that’s a good thing. I know that economic growth has led to higher living standards, which has made people both safer and more environmentally aware.
- Net Zero will also lead to significant diminishment of personal freedom, and it even threatens democracy, as people are told they must do certain things and they must not do other things, and they may even be restricted in speaking out on climate matters.
- What will be the worst things that will happen if the doomsayers are correct? A rise in temperature? Where? Siberia? Singapore? Stockholm? What is the ideal temperature? For how long? Will this utopia be forever maintained? I’m suspicious of utopias; the communists sought utopias.
- If one consequence of climate change is rising sea levels, would it not be better to spend money building more sea defences to protect our land? Like the Dutch did.
- It’s a narrative heavily pushed by the Guardian. I dislike the Guardian. I believe it’s been wrong on most issues through my life – socialism, immigration, race, the EU, gender, lockdowns and so on. Probably it’s wrong about climate issues too?
- I am suspicious of the amount of money that green activists and subsidised green industries make. And 40 years ago the greenies were saying the Earth was going to get too cold. Much of what they said would happen by now has not happened. Also, I trust ‘experts’ much less now, after they lied about the efficacy of lockdowns, masks and the ‘vaccines’.
- I like sunshine. I prefer being warm to being cold. It makes me feel better. It’s more fun. It saves on heating bills. It saves on clothes. It makes people happier. Far few people die of the heat than they do the cold.
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Twelve very convincing reasons to doubt MMGW or climate change, other than what has been the earth’s history for millenia.
It is the case that in science, if that is what it is supposed to be about, you question everything. ——The climate establishment and the alarmists in media don’t like you questioning climate change, and the reason for that is that it isn’t about science. It is all about politics called Sustainable Development and Net Zero. Without a climate crisis these political agenda’s collapse.
Like it. Clearly and gently expressed. It could be held up as the polar opposite of Greta Thunberg’s angry, hysterical, shrill, manipulative, venomous, reprimanding discourse.
I would add another to the excellent 12 reasons and that is that a rise in CO2 is good thing for growing more food. Born in the 1940s, the world population was 2.5 billion and it is now 8 billion and we were told in the intervening years that the world could not sutstain that level ogf population increase but we have because of a small rise in CO2.
The world’s greening is increasing but as an ex farmer, I am aware that going fully organic is a nonsense and the use of fertiliser is vital otherwise we would fail in crop production as Sri Lanka found out recently and not feed the increasing world population.
I really liked Russell David’s article and accompanying photo: honest, simple, straightforward, and cheerful!
In case anyone is interested in recent evidence that not warming, but Global Cooling, is happening right now, please scroll down the photos on the homepage of the Electroverse website. The articles themselves are now behind a paywall, but “a picture paints a thousand words”, as they say.
Electroverse – Documenting Earth Changes During The Next Grand Solar Minimum
Yes some common sense that many of the population might like to borrow. I have come to the conclusion that people are way too busy with work and family life to investigate something like climate change for themselves. They seem to think TV news is investigating it for them and giving them all the “facts”. Sadly this is not anything like the truth. 90% of media are simply climate change activists, led from the front by our own BBC who have decided their policy is never to question the climate change narrative, or the supposed energy solutions for it. Yet we all fund the BBC. So we are all effectively paying for our own brainwashing. ——-I say to people reading this article, that you might think it makes a lot of sense and it does, but I have been investigating this issue, reading about it extensively since about 2007, and it is mostly a smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency with little in the way of empirical evidence, and all based on the output from speculative climate models full of assumptions and guesses, and all for political purposes. Many ordinary people don’t seem to make the link… Read more »
PS. —–It is better to either know something or not know, but don’t “believe” things. Believing things is religion, and infact that is what climate change has become—-a secular religion, where those who don’t believe it are all heretics and sinners.
I notice the red thumbs downs, and that is perfectly fine. But what I also notice is that the person doing this never says why they disagree. Probably someone that cannot afford a fiver and if that is the case then the issue isn’t very important to them.
Ooh, you won an extra downtick!
They never have anything useful to add, always asking for links and evidence while their little brains are evidence free.
It must give them a nice warm glow inside to know that despite not wanting to pay a fiver to pass comment they are helping to save the planet by giving me a thumbs down……How infantile.
I think they are lefties who simply think they have won by putting a thumbs down. They are collectively and independently too stupid to realise that only a reasoned argument can beat a reasoned point of debate. Their pathetic little thumbs down mean even less than the stupid banners they wave around on marches.
“Looking back through history, there have always been doomsday prophets, folk who say the world is coming to an end.”
https://youtu.be/hd8PCJ3pTHE?si=UUlxUZb6t34c9pVR
All with a 100% fail rate
In 1972 we were heading for an ice age in the early 1980’s. 1976 was the most fabulous Summer of my childhood. 1984 was one of the three hottest I can remember in my 62 years. Then we had Al Gore’s millions making Global Warming which was completely and utterly debunked. That was replaced by Climate Change; impossible to dispute Climate Change because it has always happened and is the reason we exist. However, man-made climate change is as nonsensical as Canute proved holding back the tide to be.
One of my favourite arguments against climate alarmism is to take a region of the country and imagine what would happen to its climate after another (say) 1C rise in temperatures. For example, the climate of Southern England would become like the current climate of Northern France. Where is the emergency in that?
I have always seen climate change as a shifting in climate bands northwards during times of warming and southwards during colder periods. History seems to support the idea.
Since this doen’t happen quickly then people will easily adapt. If anyone wants to know t what a rise of 0.1 degree feels like imagine holidaying in S Cornwall rather than N Cornwall.
I want to know what the green jobs are and whose job is made redundant to promote the
agendapropaganda?For example, take the car industry, are there more or fewer people making IC cars than electric ones?
Are more British people employed in making wind turbines or conventional electrical generation equipment? That was a trick question as I don’t think Btirish people are employed to do either these days, as it is to costly.
The trouble with you Russell is that you are listening to both sides of the argument, thinking about it and making a rational judgement. You must have been at school some time ago because they don’t teach thinking any more, your opinions are presented to you ready formed.
Here’s another reason: It’s internally inconsistent. If there was a climate emergency which would require urgent action to avoid a catastrophe, no one could afford spending enormous amounts of money to reduce CO₂ emissions caused by humans by 1% over the course of the next 26 years as the effect of this is to delay the same rise of the atmospheric CO₂ level which would otherwise, ie, with the 1%, occurred in a year by less than 4 days. On the morning of January 4th 2051, the amount of CO₂ avoided by Net Zero UK will have found its way into the atmosphere from other sources.
There’s either no climate emergency or what we’re planning to do about it will certainly not help.
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January 5th, actually.
Good stuff but have to disagree with No1.
The world is coming to an end. Then starting over.
Says so in the Maker’s Handbook, 81% of its prophecies already fulfilled.
Correct. I don’t know the times and dates, but Jesus set out the schedule for us. It’s happening.
Had this very conversation with my son last night…unfortunately he would be one of the ones giving a thumbs down…
Same with my mother, she just answered, the DS are wrong!
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Are they not just using this movement to push their dreams of a deindustrialised socialist utopia?
Yes. It’s about controlling us.
To be honest I think the reason so many jump on every bandwagon going is because of the Archbishop of Canterbury deliberately destroying the Christian church. Christianity is on the run in all the countries where lunatic causes are rife. The basic fact is that people need something to believe in.
Remember the scene in Life Of Brian where John Cleese pronounces Brian running with one sandal is “A sign! it’s a sign!”? Covid snitches revelled, lockdown was a sign of the Faithful, supporting the indefensible in their struggle. You get the idea.
A major facet of religion is that by paying your subs, fervently believing, you will usher in a better world. Build Back Better. You do not need to be like Eve, you can buy an electric car and feel smug as its poisons are buried in the ground; you know you did The Right Thing as your deity demanded of you.
The other thing where religions and the here today creeds are the same is encapsulated by one word “Heretic”. If you do not believe you are a Heretic and therefore, 2020/21, should be locked up, exterminated. If you dare to question Settled Science you must be closed down, silenced, Ivermectined. Islam catches up with the “modern” world and we all must conform. How long until gays are once again thrown from buildings and Daily Sceptics subscribers are burnt at the stake?
So in the UK we are 1% of the 3% of the 0.04%. Yeah lets destroy our living standards based on that FFS!
Hey! Did you steal my list off my desktop? It’s identical! Pure plagiarism!
Agree on every point and I’m sure we sceptics can all tick most of your list.
No mention at all of the climate engineering factor. Like talking about “vaccines” without mentioning “gain-of-function”. A deliberate or inadvertent move in a divide-and-rule scenario.
13.I don’t like being taken for a fool by over-educated authoritarians, who think they’re smarter than me and should therefore have the right to tell me what to think, do and say …. and run my life for me.
‘Over educated’??!! Politicians the world over are just self promoting goons that follow orders from assorted psychopaths and dodgy computer modelers, oh and Greta Thumberk…
Number 4. Spot on. Global warming is a globalist, collectivist construct. Politics and not science.
A few more to add to the list. 1) There is no such thing as global temperature record because there is no global network of reporting temperature measuring instruments. Most of those used to report ‘global’ temperatures are in North America, Europe or elsewhere spread sparsely in cities and airports where Human activity causes increased heat output. Most of the Earth’s surface has no near surface temperature measuring – such as the 70% covered by seas and the entire Antarctic which is the coldest and 5th largest continent, except for a handful of stations on its West Coast warmed by the sea. 2) The reporting instruments are not calibrated against the same reference instrument. Accuracy of the reporting instruments ranges from plus/minus 0.33C to plus/minus 3C and plus/minus 5C. About 40% have an error margin above 3C. Use of algorithms (guesswork) to ‘correct’ for urban heat island effect and station drop-out add more errors. It is therefore absurd to report global warming changes in small fractions as these are within the error bars and so in effect = zero. The ‘Global Mean Temperature Anomaly’ which is used to demonstrate global warming is junk science. 3) During the Fakedemic, fossil fuel… Read more »
Great article thank you, spot on.
Photosynthesis: Plants/Plankton turning Sunlight/CO2/H2O into Food/O2; neither animal nor blade of grass would exist, absent CO2. More CO2 helps plants resist drought/damage/disease, extends growing seasons, lets plants move higher in altitude & Latitudes, shrinks deserts & reduces the spread of fire, plants using & retaining H2O more efficiently. As CO2 rises, photosynthesis flourishes & plants take in more CO2, sparking more growth, photosynthesis & CO2 uptake (recent studies indicate +20% absorption by 2100). Rising temperatures also extend growing seasons, help babies survive, increase net rainfall & save lives. We are in the short period (glacial interstitial) between long Ice Ages, the norm (where I sit) being a half mile of ice. Warm is good, cold is bad. This Cradle of Life is greener, more fertile & life sustaining than it was 200 years ago, because adding food to the base of the food-chain supports all of Nature, including humans. “It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.” R Lindzen