‘There Is No Climate Emergency’

George Rebane

Similar to the subsequently corroborated Great Barrington Declaration on Covid (here), a new declaration on climate change was released in June 2022 entitled ‘World Climate Declaration: There Is No Climate Emergency’.  This declaration is signed by hundreds of scientists and thousands of technical professionals from almost every country in the world (here).

In asserting that there is no climate emergency, the undersigned state –

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

They conclude with –

To believe the outcome of a climate model is to believe what the model makers have put in. This is precisely the problem of today’s climate discussion to which climate models are central. Climate science has degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not on sound self-critical science. Should not we free ourselves from the naive belief in immature climate models?

Comments

[Scott O]

Maybe actual emergencies will concentrate their minds?
"In Europe, energy crisis drives growing cutbacks"
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/29/in-europe-energy-crisis-drives-growing-cutbacks
Naw - the last thing they'll do is admit the Tangerine Terror was correct - they'd rather freeze in the dark.
The globe is awash with cheap energy.
BTW - how's the hurricane season going? AlGore claims it's worsest ever in all of history going back to the Pliocene era.

[Scott O]

Looks like the weather isn't going along with the 'narrative'.
Laughable quote:
"Somnolent August is no guarantee of calm seas and skies ahead."
I see - and there were guarantees before this?
Where are the folks telling us there would be increased hurricane activity. It was "settled science" as I recall.
Oh sorry - AlGore would love to talk but his private jet is waiting. He needs to fly somewhere to tell everyone about the increase in hurricane activity.
I'll bet all the folks drowned on the Spanish galleons would have loved to hear about these 'guarantees' of no hurricanes.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-29/hurricane-alley-hasn-t-been-this-quiet-in-a-quarter-century

[Vern Pilder]

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[Tony Medler]

Although it is time demanding to wade through Porter Stansberry’s come on ads, the latest one, featuring Bill Bonner has one of the clearest descriptions of the train wreck that is coming at us through the efforts of climate control prophets and their efforts to do away with polluting energy sources. Try to Google “Bill Bonner”, select “4th Pediction” and view video. Try to forget that this is a feature to sell their service and stick through the first half. Well thought out presentation.

[Bill Tozer]

Report: No named Atlantic hurricanes through nearly all of July and August, first time since 1941

https://justthenews.com/nation/science/report-no-named-atlantic-hurricanes-through-nearly-all-july-and-august-first-time

[The Estonian Fox]

BT @5:42

You are wrong on the no-named-storms.
You must have forgotten about that Tangerine Tornado. Didn't our storm troopers, uhhh - fighters I mean, attempt to snuff that out 3 or 4 times in the last 5 years? Why does it seem to still be in the news? Is a Tornado allowed to be in circulation (no pun intended) for that long, with maybe only 5% containment?

On a lighter note - from More-Than-Just-the-News (a really back issue)

https://morethanjustthenews.com/nation/science/report-no-named-atlantic-hurricanes-for-entire-47th-millennium-BC

[Bill Tozer]

The E Fox:

Link does not work. “No secure connection to server”. Hmmm. Shadow banned? The Empire strikes back. The election censorship has begun. Democracy dies in darkness.

[The Estonian Fox]

Bill, sorry.

I used to (think) that I worked for the Babylon Bee. The connection WAS secure about 49 millennia ago. What with the distaste for secure carbon-based fuels recently, link must have been disconnected for non-payment.

And it was a really back issue.