Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Our favourite identity thief Peter Gleick, who stole documents from Heartland while serving as chairman of the AGU ethics committee, has written a deliciously confused piece in which he urges people not to give up, despite the inevitability of serious climate change.
Saving Earth: Don’t Fall Into Climate Change Fatalism
Peter H. Gleick
08/01/2018 05:23 pm ET
Guest WriterYou reap what you sow. The chickens have come home to roost. The ship has sailed. The s**t has hit the fan. The English language has no shortage of idioms describing lost opportunities and the consequences of failing to act. And we’ve failed to act on human-caused climate change. It is here, with a vengeance.
We see it in massive wildfires sweeping across the western United States, Scandinavia, Canada and Siberia; the brutal heat waves and rising seas; dying coral reefs and acidifying oceans; the destruction of the Arctic and melting of Antarctica; crop failures and supercharged hurricanes.
We told you so, over and over, but you wouldn’t listen. (There, I got that off my chest.)
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It’s too late to stop severe climate change – indeed we see it around us. But it is absolutely not too late to slow the rate of climate change, to accelerate the transition away from coal, and then oil, and then natural gas to the diverse and increasingly inexpensive and effective suite of renewable energy options available to us. We can, and must, still act.
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Gleick and his friends are discovering too late that fear does not motivate people to act. Prolonged chronic fear creates political paralysis.
A senior politician once taught me the secret of negative campaigning. You don’t try to frighten people into voting for you, because that doesn’t work. Instead you deliver negative messages to people who support your opponents. Negative messages make people feel disengaged, negative messages convince opposition supporters to stay home on election day.
Since only climate alarmists believe negative messages about global warming, Gleick and his buddies have been shutting down their own supporters far more effectively than we ever could – their climate scare stories terrify those who believe into disengaging from the political process.
Somehow I doubt Peter Gleick will be able to stop. Even though on some level he must realise his entire life campaign has been one long terrible mistake, Peter’s ego always seems to come first – “We told you so, over and over, but you wouldn’t listen.”.
Keep up the good work, Peter Gleick.
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Gleick is a fool.
When will you sceptic numpties face the truth about AGW. It is incredible how you ignore the evidence around this planet: http://mankindsdegradationofplanetearth.com/2018/08/02/2017-one-of-the-hottest-years-in-recorded-history-new-report-says-cnn/
Ivankinsman,
I just gave an example about facing the truth.
Heat waves in 6 Australian capitals are not becoming hotter, longer, or more frequent in the big majority of cases.
The lie from the AGW people tells the opposite.
The numbers do not lie.
Why do AGW people lie?
Geoff
Why don’t you look at what is happening this summer around the world … are you saying that these record maximum temperatures are a natural phenomenon? You’re out of your mind if you think AGW is playing no part in all of this.
Why don’t you look at what is happening this summer around the world … are you saying that these record maximum temperatures are a natural phenomenon? You’re out of your mind if you think AGW is playing no part in all of this.
I suggest you read up a lot more on what is happening to global temperatures and why they are on the rise: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44980363
And what about this drought? Is this normal weather patterns in your opinion? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-45043299
And what about this drought? Is this normal weather patterns in your opinion? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-45043299
Notice how all sources are from the alarmist BBC where like the Guardian a lot of views are not actual news, but opinionated by activists with an agenda. You can only get a job there with an alarmist view point.
Should it be cool and raining quite often all over Austrialia or should it be dry and hot often over most of Austrialia?
The continent is generally one huge desert and it has this feature because it’s often hot and dry. There is nothing unusual going on around here that hasn’t happened over numerous past decades. Heatwaves and drought have occurred here since records began.
This link shows how rainfall has varied since 1900 and highlights how there are always droughts.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-26/100-years-of-drought/5282030
April 2018 had temperatures widely between anomalies of +0.2c and +4.4c (a lot of the interior being well above average)
May 2018 had temperatures widely between anomalies of -1.6c and +1.4c (a lot of the interior being below average)
June 2018 had temperatures widely between anomalies of -1.5c and +1.4c. (interior towards the SE below average)
These anomalies are within natural variation and the interior where the huge desert remains, hardly anybody lives there.
Imaginary climate change in Austrialia.
What is incredible how past history is ignored and even over decades trying to be changed. Let’s not also forget previous hot temperature records that have been recently conveniently removed.
1) The planet has warmed since after the 1970’s, but not the only time.
2) This warming has become muted and stable.
3) Decline in solar activity has occurred this century.
4) CO2 levels continue to increase, despite muted warming.
5) CO2 levels increased while global cooling occurred for decades.
6) Any global peak in temperatures will show years around the hottest.
7) Nothing suggesting that AGW has caused most of this warming.
8) All so called examples of AGW have failed to have distinguish any difference from natural climate cycles.
9) No season, month or weather event determines anything about climate, so why do alarmist push this pointless strawman agenda?
10) Everything is blamed on AGW so how can anybody brainwashed, distinguish what is actually the truth about AGW.
You don’t know the truth about AGW so how can you judge what is the truth?
You think this is a natural climate cycle? Are you a hermit living in a cave? Temperature have increased before but not at such an accelerated rate as has been witnessed post the industrial revolution. And C02 ppm have never been so high. The evidence is staring everyone – except the US minority sceptic community – in the face.
You are mistaken.
Nothing the least bit out of the ordinary has happened to global climate since World War II, when CO2 began rising. For the first 32 years after the war, Earth cooled dramatically, despite increasing CO2. Then the PDO flipped in 1977, and the planet warmed slightly for about 20 years. The pattern of that warming is indistinguishable from the early 20th century warming cycle between the wars.
The early 18th century warming cycle, coming out of the depths of the LIA during the Maunder Minimum, rose faster, higher and lasted longer than did the late 20th century warming.
Poppycock. Increased global temperatures rising in line with increased CO2 emission. Period.
You could not possibly be more wrong.
It’s a fact not even denied by the most ardent AGW proponent who has actually looked at GASTA reconstructions such as HadCRU and GISS. The “data” gatekeepers have dealt with the problem by “adjusting” temperatures of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s up and the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s down.
But they can’t make the cooling disappear completely. Too many people recall the global cooing scare of the ’70s, and the temperature data reported then for the prior century are still on record.
This is easily shown incorrect because temperatures have increased far more significantly during ice ages and Younger Dryas then recent decades in history.
The periods between around 1912 to 1943 and 1977 to present have around the same warming rates.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadsst3gl/from/plot/hadsst3gl/from:1977/to/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1912/to:1943
The Holocene shows warmer more signifcant periods then last two centuries.
http://www.biocab.org/Holocene-Delta_T_and_Delta_CO2.jpg
CO2 levels have been increasing since the 1940’s, but temperatures declined for 4 decades after. (only shown since early 1960’s on here)
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadsst3gl/from:1943/to:1977/plot/esrl-co2/to:1977/normalise
It is the rapid rate of increase that is the issue. Look at any temperature chart and you see that sharp spike upwards from beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
There is no rapid increase, I have demonstrated the same rate of warming occurring. (1912 to 1943 and 1977 to present)
The beginning of the Industrial revolution? No overall warming for 90 years so how does CO2 effect it?
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/to:1940
And what else can these extreme global temperatures be blamed on? Why is the jet stream looping like it is – because of extreme ice loss occurring. There is a correlation between smoking and cancer. There is a correlation between man starting to dig carbon resources out of the earth and rising global temperatures.
Again doing no different, but blaming whatever happens recently on CO2 with Arctic ice being the main alarmist message. This is garbage science and has no foundation because it contradicts previous behaviour in the jet stream with changing Arctic sea ice levels. There has definitely been warming and declining Arctic sea ice, but this not the issue. CO2 increasing can’t be blamed for two opposite changes during the same period, so there must be something else causing this change in behaviour.
There has been no extreme ice loss while the jet stream has been behaving as it is. Arctic ice has been fairly stable over past decade or more. Arctic ice was significantly declining from a peak in the late 1970’s while the zonal jet stream was increasing in frequency. This period occurred between the 1980’s and 2000’s while global temperatures were warming the most. This especially later gave frequent mild winters around Europe for example because there was little blocking.
The blocking has increased over recent years due to decreasing solar activity. Low periods of solar activity are associated with blocking and therefore the jet streaming looping as you put it. The jet stream has a proper term when this happens and this is know as the meridional jet stream. The usual pattern that normally occurs is known as the zonal jet stream.
So there must be something else causing changes in this behaviour … umm I wonder what that could be? So there is no correlation at all between increased atmospheric CO2 ppm and increased global warming. You sceptics are the only people – a very small minority – who try to pin the dramatic temperature highs around this planet on B.S. like solar cycles – theories that the mainstrean climate sciece community have disproved. Keep on living in your bubble.
Why not actually answer the question concerned?
How can one factor (CO2) cause the change of two different variables (sea ice, jet stream) being opposite of each other?
“So there is no correlation at all between increased atmospheric CO2 ppm and increased global warming”
I never said or implied that, so please stop making a strawman argument.
Yet with the correlation temperature and CO2 blame everything on it whatever happens. Temperature is the cause and CO2 the effect, adding the effect is minuscule compared to the cause.
The only thing the mainstream climate science community has disproved being they are interested in using science.
Peter Gleick, another certified idiot (along with MIchael Mann) ‘recommending’ outside his field of specialization and competency …
I’m afraid I’m all tipped out and I’ve been tipped over the edge so there’s no point worrying. Just eat, drink and be merry for the short time we have left-
http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/04/25-years-of-predicting-the-global-warming-tipping-point/
Peter,
You are not forgotten. There are cases when you have no credibility left that it is best just to disappear and stay disappeared. You are one of those cases.
Why not do something useful with your life, say, by finding Lord Lucan, or Professor Moriarty (rumoured to be hiding out at a University in East Anglia).