Charles Rotter This is Part II of a multipart, systematic refutation of the University of Exeter’s Global Tipping Points Report 2025. In Part I, the focus was the report’s rhetorical architecture: the language of catastrophe, the asserted imminence of tipping thresholds, and the tension between executive certainty and the substantial uncertainties acknowledged in the underlying literature . The central question was whether the urgency narrative accurately reflects the probabilistic nature of tip...
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” the right of humans to a safe climate ”
I’ve looked at, visited, and lived in a number of “climates”; now in one classified as Csa by the Köppen-Geiger system. Safe is a term I have never thought to apply to climate. Color me bemused.
When it comes to nature, there are no rights. Ok maybe one. The right to die in particularly horrible ways. Certainly none of the so-called god-given rights exist.
I’d like every day I ski to be a powder day.
Granted. If it’s not, the complaints department is in the mirror.
Everybody should learn about the Köppen-Geiger climate classification system. At Wikipedia, there is a graphic of world with various climates shown in a color scheme and table that used to classify the climates.
Is it possible to capture the graphic and display it here?
Don’t you know? I thought you were the internet expert.
I’m not an internet expert. I have my tech savy son for technical assistance like for grabbing charts and graphs and putting these in an image file. When I need one, I click on the sun and mountain icon in the lower right corner of the comment box and the file appears on the desk top. I click on image and it appears below the comment box.
Check out the chart for the plot the average annual average temperatures in Adelaide from 1857 to 1999.
No warming in Adelaide instead there was slight cooling which began in ca. 1940.
As I mentioned above, if you click on the chart it will expand and become clear. If you click on the “X” in the circle, the chart will contact and there is a return to Comments.
You don’t understand sarcasm, do you.
Why? What good does it do?
As Mark Twain said “Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.” Climate changes continuously, being the statistics of weather observations.
The Wikipedia graphic as it portrays the Northern parts of Australia is worse than useless, portraying the area as “Tropical Savannah”. Try driving across much of it, and you will find the landscape changes enormously.
A worthless brightly coloured graphic.
“What good does it do”? A person learns that there are a great many climates and the term “climate change” mean nothing unless you specify the climate type and what constitutes climate change there. For example what would constitutes climate change for the Atacama desert?
this?
W0W! I thank you very much.
Current ambient CO2 levels are causing a Global Greening otherwise known as Oasification. The creation of greening zones in otherwise arid areas (deserts). Our children simply won’t know what Deserts are.
The amazing resilience of our little planet! Its ability to recover from catastrophic events; comet impacts, raging volcanism, miles thick ice sheets! She just shrugs them off and returns to her life accommodating state time after time. If the long reaches of time have taught us anything it’s that this planet of ours doesn’t tip.
And the human race, which according to the climate alarmists is supposedly facing extinction unless it takes drastic measures to eliminate fossil fuels, just keeps growing despite some 80 million deaths in the two World Wars of the 1st half of the last century alone. So why would it worry about some non-problem like whatever minor climate change is occurring?
The things you describe aren’t catastrophic events to a planet. The planet doesn’t think or feel, it just is. Those thing are catastrophic to life on the planet.
Go directly to bed. Do not pass the fridge, curl up in the foetal position, pull the covers over your head, do not get up in the morning and await further instructions-
Earth’s disastrous 10th tipping point has been identified
I can’t remember when it was (probably over a decade ago), I said the next climate related BS would be a lack of oxygen.
These fools are way behind.