From the doom and gloom section of the Guardian today.
Humans are pushing the Earth closer to a climate cliff
A new study examines potential climate feedbacks that could push Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state
A new paper, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has received a lot of media attention. The attention is justified because the paper paints a very grim picture of the climate and what humans may be doing to it. In particular, the authors of this study tried to determine the trajectory that the Earth is on so we can predict what the future climate will be.
There are many really important insights from this paper. The authors wanted to know how feedbacks in the Earth’s climate will play a role in shaping the climate in the future. By feedbacks, we mean a change in one part of the climate that then causes another change, which in turn may cause another change, and so on, potentially setting up chain reactions.
The author, John Abraham, is a climate activist, and part of the whole Skeptical Science wailing alarm crew. He hasn’t the ability to detect he’s been duped by his own confirmation bias. The article was written to pander to the alarmist base of readers at The Guardian.
The previous interglacial period, the Eemian, was warmer than this one with more ice cap melting and higher sea levels yet no tipping point was ever crossed and the last ice age ensued. The Earth’s climate has been stable enough for at least the past 500 million years for life to evolve, the evidence being that we are here. CO2 levels have been more than 10 times what they are today and during that time there were both ice ages and warm periods and no tipping points were ever crossed. So you can rest easy tonight knowing that your exhaling CO2 will not cause a climate disaster.
I seem to recall that the authors of this abomination of a paper based all their work on existing climate models. Ergo for their paper to have any validity the models would have to have some degree of correctness -which they do not. Still they managed to make even more money out of them which is after all the whole purpose of the AGW movement. For them it is a success.
As long as they put it in print and put a date on it, all good. Just add it the the long list of failed predictions. Sea level, arctic, children knowing what snow is etc etc
The climate obsessed are now denying reality.
There is no physical pathway for humans to cause a runaway climate catastrophe.
The entire revisit to scary scifi movie plot land is anti-science.
If positive feedbacks drove climate then we wouldn’t be here now.
Humans are pushing the Earth closer to a climate cliff
“Closer” ?!? We have been told over and over again that the tipping point was near and then passed.
Embrace the horror. We are already doomed already.