Matt Ridley: “I’ve written about many controversial issues during my career,” Ridley said.
“Never, have I ever experienced anything like what happens when you write about climate, which is a systematic and organized attempt to blacken your name rather than your arguments, and to try to pressure any outlet that publishes me into not publishing me any more.”
Ridley cited a 2016 study authored by scientists from China, the U.S., Britain, and several other countries that showed a 14 percent increase in green vegetation between 1982 to 2011; 70 percent of that lush growth is attributed to higher concentrations of CO2. Zaichun Zhu, one of the study’s co-authors explained that “the greening over the past 33 years reported in this study is equivalent to adding a green continent about two times the size of mainland USA and has the ability to fundamentally change the cycling of water and carbon in the climate system.” We have more croplands, grasslands, and forests now than we did in the 1980s. “Frankly, I think this is big news,” Ridley told the audience. “A new continent’s worth of green vegetation in a single human generation.”
From the National Review: Matt Ridley: Climate Change’s Rational Optimist
I recommend Ridley’s full articles on these topics:
http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/endarkenment/
http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/climate-change-the-facts/
Both pretty good, and I sense Ridley is getting quite angry now – he is usually very good-natured and optimistic.
So for the West, a dark, misanthropic version if Gaia worship is filling the void left by the demise of Christianity. For the climate believers to react to the amazing news that Earth is greening with anger and rejection tells us much about the new “Climate catholicism”.
It is universal. The Paris Accord is its Nicene creed. It is an angry non-rational religion that refuses to think of costs and benefits. And rejects critical thinking. And is willing to destroy the environment with industrialized windmills and solar farms. And none of its dogmas, when applied, will make a luck of difference to the climate.
And the believers will not care.
In fact, the greening of Earth is a wicked thing to the faithful because it challenges their faith.
And their faith us hoky; to challenge it is prima facie evil.
correction of the last line: “us hoky” should be “is holy”
WUWT has an web ad in my browser for this idiotic green scam web site below.
They do not seem to know that WUWT readers will be only opponents for their BS.
https://www.terrapass.com/product/productres-recs
As CO2 ‘climate change’ theory becomes ever-more discredited expect alarmist rhetoric to ramp up in a proportionately corresponding manner. The latest admission by Myles Allen (models have been running too hot) has significantly weakened their cause and they know it, hence outright fury. Expect more of the same.
A Blast from the Past (from 2015):
“Carbon dioxide and plankton: A Recipe for Growth.”
http://marinesciencetoday.com/2015/12/04/carbon-dioxide-and-plankton-a-recipe-for-growth/
I don’t know if this has been posted here yet.
“”Accused NSA leaker called America ‘the worst thing to happen on the planet’
Reality Winner, 25, told FBI agents she was disappointed in her job as a government contractor, court records show.
In their latest filing Wednesday, prosecutors also included a partial transcript of a Facebook chat between Winner and her sister in February.
“Look, I only say I hate America like 3 times a day,” Winner wrote. “I’m no radical. It’s mostly just about Americans obsession with air conditioning.”
Her sister asked: “But you don’t actually hate America, right?”
Winner replied: “I mean yeah I do it’s literally the worst thing to happen on the planet. We invented capitalism the downfall of the environment.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/28/accused-nsa-leaker-confession/715062001/
“Her sister asked: “But you don’t actually hate America, right?”
Winner replied: “I mean yeah I do it’s literally the worst thing to happen on the planet. We invented capitalism the downfall of the environment.”
Unfortunately, this delusional thinking is the way the Radical Left looks at the U.S. and western society. Children don’t grow up hating. It is taught to them by an older generation of haters.
“Never, have I ever experienced anything like what happens when you write about climate, which is a systematic and organized attempt to blacken your name rather than your arguments, and to try to pressure any outlet that publishes me into not publishing me any more.”
This is what I’ve tried to tell people – nobody who hasn’t experienced it seems able to believe it.
I was personally attacked by 4 members of my family when I said to them that the climate scare was overblown – I have never experienced anything like it in my life – it was truly distressing seeing family members put fake ideologies over family members.
That’s how ‘civil’ wars start.