By Robert Bradley Jr. — August 24, 2022
“… there is ample evidence that CO2 mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly. Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities. There is no climate emergency.”
There are a lot of very smart people in the world. And most do not work at colleges and universities and pressure groups. They are curious free agents, free to think and even be politically incorrect.
When the history of climate alarmism is written decades from now, there will be recognition about how a very able undercurrent of thought kept check on an intellectual/political/media elite declaring a dire emergency from the human influence on climate. Sites such as WUWT–“the world’s leading climate website”–will be acknowledged. So will the sober commentary of Judith Curry at Climate Etc.
And so more than a thousand intellectual, critical thinkers have signed a manifesto challenging the current orthodoxy that remains in political power. Chris Morrison reported in The Daily Skeptic last week:
The political fiction that humans cause most or all climate change and the claim that the science behind this notion is ‘settled’, has been dealt a savage blow by the publication of a ‘World Climate Declaration (WCD)’ signed by over 1,100 scientists and professionals. There is no climate emergency, say the authors, who are drawn from across the world and led by the Norwegian physics Nobel Prize laureate Professor Ivar Giaever. Climate science is said to have degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not on sound self-critical science.
He added:
The scale of the opposition to modern day ‘settled’ climate science is remarkable, given how difficult it is in academia to raise grants for any climate research that departs from the political orthodoxy. (A full list of the signatories is available here.) Another lead author of the declaration, Professor Richard Lindzen, has called the current climate narrative “absurd”, but acknowledged that trillions of dollars and the relentless propaganda from grant-dependent academics and agenda-driven journalists currently says it is not absurd.
The World Climate Declaration (Global Climate Intelligence Group) follows:
There is no climate emergency Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.
Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming. The geological archive reveals that Earth’s climate has varied as long as the planet has existed, with natural cold and warm phases. The Little Ice Age ended as recently as 1850. Therefore, it is no surprise that we now are experiencing a period of warming.
Warming is far slower than predicted. The world has warmed significantly less than predicted by IPCC on the basis of modeled anthropogenic forcing. The gap between the real world and the modeled world tells us that we are far from understanding climate change.
Climate policy relies on inadequate models Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools. They do not only exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gases, they also ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial.
CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. More CO2 is favorable for nature, greening our planet. Additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also profitable for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide.
Global warming has not increased natural disasters There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent. However, there is ample evidence that CO2 mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly.
Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm. We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050. Go for adaptation instead of mitigation; adaptation works whatever the causes are.
OUR ADVICE TO THE EUROPEAN LEADERS IS THAT SCIENCE SHOULD STRIVE FOR A SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CLIMATE SYSTEM, WHILE POLITICS SHOULD FOCUS ON MINIMIZING POTENTIAL CLIMATE DAMAGE BY PRIORITIZING ADAPTATION STRATEGIES BASED ON PROVEN AND AFFORDABLE TECHNOLOGIES.
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COP27 is several months ahead. The world is recommitting itself to fossil fuels, while only government largesse keeps the wind/solar/battery gravy train going. Global Climate Intelligence Group’s World Climate Declaration stands as a beacon light to a wholly different approach of free-market adaptation, not government mitigation.
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This whole climate thing reminds me of the inquisition a few centuries ago.
Those who did not believe in the orthodoxy were punished severely. Which I’m sure the current high priests of the climate cult would love to implement. Fully. Thus far, they have managed to make life difficult for the non-believers and, in some cases, cancelled the “heretics” via the compliant MSM and some governments.
History repeats itself. Learn from it or suffer the consequences from the power crazed amongst us. Including those in academia, organized religion and government.
Glad to see some calling out the foolishness and outright ignorance.
Political,Social, Industrial, and Redistributive Climate Change per chance catastrophe.
That said, do your part, albeit a perturbation, go green, emit.
How the Earth lost Her plane consensus.
The physics of CO2 needs to be front and center. For example:
CO2 infrared absorption – Climate Auditor
The rest of the thermal infrared emitted by the earth is unaffected by CO2. It’s like having a cargo net for a roof. There is a reason why it cools down so rapidly at night in deserts. CO2 is the primary GHG there.
“When the history of climate alarmism is written” – The climate realists have to win first.
“History is written by the winners” – Napoleon Buonaparte.
But on the TV news at noon today they had a 20’s something “expert” telling us about how unprecedented this year’s weather is and then “if we stop putting this extra carbon into the air the temperatures will immediately stop going up.” I kid you not, he really said that.
Some are deep into the fantasy.
This battle will be won, I am sure of it. But it won’t be won in the halls of academia or science labs or the halls of Congress. It will be won when the average guy has finally been convinced that he/she have been lied to and cheated for the last few decades. All of the science and studies need to be done but in the end someone has to boil it down in plain language so that the average teenager can understand it. If we do that the green devils are finished. When a large enough minority of the population learns how badly they have been deceived all that will be left for us to do will be sit back and watch the fireworks.
Cooling while CO2 increases will be the spell-breaker.
The alarmists need for the temperatures to continue to climb in order to maintain the scare.
The current warming seems to be running out of gas.
Will temperatures reach or exceed the temperatures of 2016, before the year 2030? I would bet no. Will temperatures cool and switch over to a temperature downtrend by the year 2030? I would say there’s a good chance of that happening based on what’s going on now and what has gone on in the past.
Time will tell.
“There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent.” This is weak. Why not say “There is no statistical evidence that hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, are intensifying or becoming more frequent at all.”