French mathematicians are not impressed:
There is not a single fact, figure or observation that leads us to conclude that the world’s climate is in any way ‘disturbed’. It is variable, as it has always been, but rather less so now than during certain periods or geological eras. Modern methods are far from being able to accurately measure the planet’s global temperature even today, so measurements made 50 or 100 years ago are even less reliable.
Concentrations of CO2 vary, as they always have done; the figures that are being released are biased and dishonest. Rising sea levels are a normal phenomenon linked to upthrust buoyancy; they are nothing to do with so-called global warming. As for extreme weather events – they are no more frequent now than they have been in the past. We ourselves have processed the raw data on hurricanes.
We are being told that ‘a temperature increase of more than 2ºC by comparison with the beginning of the industrial age would have dramatic consequences, and absolutely has to be prevented’. When they hear this, people worry: hasn’t there already been an increase of 1.9ºC? Actually, no: the figures for the period 1995-2015 show an upward trend of about 1ºC every hundred years! Of course, these figures, which contradict public policies, are never brought to public attention.
Of course not.
[Via Steve Milloy]
I’d take them more seriously, if they didn’t stake out a position of absolute rejection of AGW theory, particularly asserting that humanity’s ability to change climate is small compared to the natural world and that CO2 levels are not being changed by human activities. I think there is something of a problem, it’s just being way overblown by special interests on the AGW gravy train.
That’s the difference between the -C-AGW and AGW theories.
Once you reject the “open-loop unstable” catastrophic aspect, there’s no ‘there’ there.
Doubtless the next Big Crisis will be that too many people are using the Internet too much and learning the answers to too many questions, with the result that the world will come to an end Real Soon Now due to a shortage of quantum indeterminacy. Check Google for information about something, destroy the universe!
I’d be more inclined to take the Climate-Change Religion seriously if they didn’t seem to be a sub-sect of THIS religion:
https://grrrgraphics.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/shrine_of_the_statists1.jpg
The end will begin with the extinction of Felis schroedinger.
There actually is a real, and massive, long term climate threat; a massive change in climate. It’s proven by the cyclic nature of glacial eras, which for millions of years have been occurring on a very regular approx. 100k cycle. There are varying theories about causation, but the regularity itself is well proven.
It’s also a fact that the era in which we live is interglacial. It’;s also a fact that this interglacial has already surpassed the average interglacial length.
Clearly, there is thus a severe danger, long term (and possibly short term) of Earth entering a new glacial era. It’s also looking very likely that there is a tipping point effect; the temperature drop accelerates after a certain point, resulting in a rapid change in climate. That’s the risk we ought to be focused on.
People like to knock young earthers but there are a lot of people who label themselves as pro-science who don’t know our recent geological history. Many of them think there is no natural warming.
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Check this out!
Energy Department smashes pumpkins for causing climate change
That’s the ticket; we can blame a plant for creating excess CO2.
Eat pumpkin pie, save the world?