From The Daily Caller
Actually A Call For Global Socialism
2:50 PM 01/08/2019 | Energy
Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
The most popular climate paper of 2018 called for “collective human action” to keep global warming from turning Earth into a “hothouse,” according to media tracking data.
The so-called “Hothouse Earth” paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in August, sparked a wave of alarming media coverage the planet was “dangerously close” to reaching “unstoppable” warming.
“The paper was the fifth most talked-about of all journal papers published last year,” and the most talked about paper related to global warming, according to the website Carbon Brief. (RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Green New Deal’ Would Avert A ‘Barely Detectable’ Amount Of Global Warming)
“It was the subject of 460 news stories in 326 outlets, including the Guardian, BBC News, Sky News, New Scientist, Al Jazeera and the Sydney Morning Herald. Links to the paper were also included in 5,392 tweets and 34 Facebook posts,” Carbon Brief reported Tuesday.
Carbon Brief ranked climate papers based on data from Altmetric, a group that tracks papers mentioned in “news articles and blogs and shared on social media sites, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Reddit.”
The paper, co-authored by a group of prominent scientists, called for a “deep transformation based on a fundamental reorientation of human values, equity, behavior, institutions, economies, and technologies.”
The scientists warned the global warming tipping point to an uninhabitable “hothouse Earth” was 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. “Fundamental societal changes” to create a “stabilized Earth” are needed, according to the study’s press release.
Many conservatives called out the study’s authors for pushing “socialist demands” for “global government.”
“Instead of focusing on the science and identifying tipping points and trajectories, the abstract meanders off to demand global government,” Bloomberg New Energy Finance co-founder Michael Liebreich tweeted in response to the “hothouse” paper.
“Mixing science with socialist demands usually means the science is crap, and as a conservative I can’t be bothered to read it,” said Liebreich, who’s no skeptic of man-made warming.
The Global Warming Policy Forum, a U.K.-based think tank co-founded by former conservative Member of Parliament Nigel Lawson, blasted it as the “socialist agenda of climate alarmism.”
Other climate and energy experts were skeptical of the “hothouse” paper as well.
Climate scientist Bob Kopp said there was “no new science in the piece to argue that the transition to a Hothouse will be completed rapidly.” Kopp said that while a “hothouse Earth” could become a reality, “we don’t know what will trigger it, and the transition will take centuries.”
A study claiming global warming could cause a beer shortage was the fourth most talked about climate paper, according to Carbon Brief.
The study, published in October, found global barley production could drop as much as 17 percent on average under a “business as usual” scenario. However, that’s based on global warming projections deemed “exceptionally unlikely” by experts in the field.
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Climate Change is unstoppable.
To believe otherwise, is to believe a politician can make a rainy day .. sunny.
In the beginning of the AGW narrative those that pointed out it is nothing more than veiled propaganda with the ultimate goal of One World Government were called “conspiracy theorists”. Even WUWT has some that discount the “wealth redistribution” aspect of AGW as such and feel bringing it up is hurting science and making a laughing stock out of skeptics. “Stick with science” is their meme. As time passed some of AGW advocates in positions of power and authority made public statements saying AGW was not about temperature but about wealth redistribution. Obama specifically cited “wealth redistribution” as one of the goals of his administration during his inaugural speech. Now we have members of Congress openly demanding we replace Capitalism with Socialism and using AGW as their platform of change. Either the people of America wake up or they will get swallowed by the conspiracy theory come alive.
I wish it were a hothouse. I’m freezing my ass off. I detest these people and their ilk.
I wonder if “reorientation” of the planet involves the maximum number of inhabitants the planet can “sustain” as stated by DeepGreen to be 500,000,000? I wonder how they will get to that divine number?
Always was.
Pretty much the entire environmental movement was hijacked in the seventies.
As Nationalism is spreading across the world and the centre left wiped out in Europe it’s hardly likely to happen.
This source says the article was 4th most popular:
https://www.sciencealert.com/top-10-most-popular-scientific-papers-in-2018-altmetric
We seriously need to keep hammering away at two simple points.
1. The 2°C limit was plucked out of the air by Schellnhuber, on his own admission, because politicians like a nice simple narrative for the sheeple. Neither it nor its kid brother, 1.5°C, have any special significance in physics.
2. What, precisely, is the mysterious “pre-industrial figure” that we are measuring this 2° or 1.5° limit against? 14.5°C. 14°? 13.2°? The depths of the LIA? The peak of the MWP? If nobody can put a figure on it AND provide some sort of scientific evidence to support both figures then all we are getting is “flannel”
Anders Levermann of the Potsdam Institute was, according to Paul Gosselin’s notrickszone blog, here — http://notrickszone.com/2018/12/15/climate-of-confusion-nasa-pik-scientist-confirm-global-temperature-has-fallen-0-2c-since-1850/ — caught at a meeting of a parliamentary committee admitting that global temperature had actually fallen by 0.2°C since 1850.
And he gets away with it!