| A bit of refreshing news, via The GWPF: |
London, 6 September: The General-Secretary of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says that the alarmist narrative on climate change has gone off the rails and criticised the news media for provoking unjustified anxiety.
Speaking to Finland’s financial newspaper Talouselämä (“The Journal”) on 6 September 2019, Petteri Taalas called for cooler heads to prevail, saying that he does not accept arguments of climate alarmists that the end of the world is at hand.
Dr Taalas also spoke of the dangers of green extremism:
“While climate sceptisism has become less of an issue, now we are being challenged from the other side. Climate experts have been attacked by these people and they claim that we should be much more radical. They are doomsters and extremists; they make threats.”
And he called for the media both to challenge experts and allow a broader range of opinions to be heard.
The director of the Global Warming Policy Forum, Dr Benny Peiser, welcomed Dr Taalas’s intervention:
“It’s very welcome to hear the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization finally challenging eco-zealots.
“I hope mainstream climate scientists and the news media sit up and take notice; it’s high time they put some professional distance between themselves and radical greens and start to question their apocalyptic narrative of doom.”
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On 6 September 2019, Petteri Taalas called for cooler heads to prevail, saying that he does not accept arguments of climate alarmists that the end of the world is at hand.
On 1 August 2019, Petteri Taalas was quoted in a WMO press release saying time is running out and that urgent climate action is required – I wonder what he really thinks?:
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“July has re-written climate history, with dozens of new temperature records at local, national and global level,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.
“The extraordinary heat was accompanied by dramatic ice melt in Greenland, in the Arctic and on European glaciers. Unprecedented wildfires raged in the Arctic for the second consecutive month, devastating once pristine forests which used to absorb carbon dioxide and instead turning them into fiery sources of greenhouse gases. This is not science fiction. It is the reality of climate change. It is happening now and it will worsen in the future without urgent climate action,” Mr Taalas said.
“WMO expects that 2019 will be in the five top warmest years on record, and that 2015-2019 will be the warmest of any equivalent five-year period on record. Time is running out to reign in dangerous temperature increases with multiple impacts on our planet,” he said.
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/july-matched-and-maybe-broke-record-hottest-month-analysis-began
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“it’s high time they put some professional distance between themselves and radical greens”
Radical greens = Screaming Meme-ies
Actually, Mr. Taalas spoke in the article also about CC being a kind of a religion to many people. People stare at certain paragraphs in the IPCC report just like some extreme religious people refer to bible verses.
It is this extreme religion-like thing Mr. Taalas no longer approves, although he has been spokesman to it. According to his interviews in finnish press CO2 stays in the atmosphere 10000 years, Gulf of Mexico has warmed up by man, his colleague has said that we have 12 years left etc.
Instead he recommends now “stay calm and carry on” in the climate fight. In religious terms it is “labora et ora, work and prey. So do not have doubts about the CC, put your neck down and prey for the best and do your part to prevent the disaster.
To me Mr. Taalas comment sounds a lot like a religion.
Petteri Taalas is a Finn. The Finns belong to the most honest people and Finland is one of the least corrupt country in the world. So no wonder that he doesn’t go with the alarmists and warns of extremism because there is still absolutely no proof for anthropogene climate change. It’s in the character of the finns to be honest. It’s good that he is the general-secretary at the wmo. With him there is hope that the climate data are not faked and manipulated.
By the way also finnish scientists from the university of Turku in Finland deny the theory of the man-made climate change. So do scientists from the university in Kobe, Japan.
But I fear that is doesn’t help a lot. The climate sect will continue to spread the panic under the people and aren’t ready to admit that they are wrong.