IPCC scientists outline a harrowing summary of climate impacts already hurting people and species. The Guardian says it is clear that not enough is being done to head off a climate disaster. Up to 14% of species on land face extinction if the temperature rises another 0.3°C. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres describes the abdication of leadership by world powers as “criminal”.
Welcome to the latest IPCC report, painting its usual grim picture of future ecological and societal disaster, and claiming to provide “scientific evidence” for all its key findings. In its summary for policymakers, it notes that “human-induced climate change, including more frequent and intense extreme events, has caused widespread adverse impacts and related losses and damages to nature and people, beyond natural climate variability”. Furthermore, the report says with “high confidence” that if the temperature rises more than 0.35°C, it would cause “unavoidable increases in multiple climate hazards and present multiple risks to ecosystems and humans”. In fact, since about 1800 the global temperature has risen about 1.1°C, seemingly without catastrophic consequences.
So back in the real world, it is ‘Spot the Scientist’ among the 330 listed authors of the latest IPCC report. The Daily Sceptic took a sample consisting of all the British authors listed down to number 120. This is what we found.
The first to appear is Mike Morecroft who runs ‘climate change’ at the Government body, Natural England. Professor Camille Parmesan holds the National Aquarium Chair in Understanding Oceans and Human Health at Plymouth University. Jeff Price works at the University of East Anglia, and holds a PhD in animal psychology. Marie-Fanny Racault has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of East Anglia. According to her web page, she is a Biological Oceanographer whose PhD was in Environmental Science. She returned to UEA in November last year, “to take the lead on the next stage of developments on the ecosystem component of the PlankTOM model series”.
The Head of Climate Impacts Research at the Met Office, Professor Richard Betts, does actually have a degree in physics. Nevertheless, in January his organisation promoted a climate impacts report that warned of future societal collapse and armed gangs roaming a U.K. ravaged by climate change. Philip Thornton works for CGIAR, a non-profit food researcher and has a BA in agriculture. James Morison is described as a “senior climate change scientist” at the Forestry Commission. Mark Pelling is a Geography Professor at King’s College, while Richard Dawson is a Professor of Earth Systems Engineering at Newcastle University. Vanessa Castan Broto is a Professor of Climate Urbanism, having joined Sheffield University in 2017 following her appointment as a Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Dr. Helen Adams is a senior lecturer at King’s College in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. Her PhD concentrated on the “role of the environment in migration decision-making in rural Peru”. It was the BBC that said the IPCC scientists had outlined a “harrowing” summary of climate impact. It quoted Dr. Adams saying it was “really, really clear” that things are bad, “but actually the future depends on us, not the climate”.
The final two scientists/authors are Emily Boyd, a Professor of Sustainability at Lund University in Sweden, where she is also described as a “leading social scientist”, and Lindsay Stringer, another Geography Professor, this time at York.
The definition of science is obviously somewhat elastic these days and geography departments have been successful in reinventing themselves under names such as Earth Sciences. Nevertheless, the lack of involvement from ‘pure’ scientists – people who study chemistry and physics – is noteworthy. Ultimately all the speculative disaster prose arises from the hypothesis that humans are causing the climate to change by burning fossil fuel and creating extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The effect of CO2 is hotly disputed in atmospheric science circles, although much of the debate is ignored under the ‘settled’ science agenda. In fact, there is not yet one single, peer-reviewed science paper that proves conclusively that humans cause all or most global warming. Nobody knows how much the atmosphere warms if CO2 levels are doubled. Climate model guesses range from 1-6°C.
Meanwhile, much of the disaster prose that is endlessly recycled has been debunked. Coral reefs are not doomed – it seems the Great Barrier Reef has rarely been in better health; Pacific islands are increasing in size; the oceans are not turning into an acid bath. Declaring a climate emergency and basing all the warnings on something called global warming is starting to wear thin. Global temperature rises started running out of steam two decades ago. In fact, according to accurate satellite data, they haven’t budged for the last 88 months. No plausible link between temperature and CO2 has been established in the current, historical or geological record.
Professor Roger Pielke from the University of Colorado has been a long time critic of the politicisation of science. His initial view is that the latest UN report “is more heavily weighted to implausible scenarios than any previous IPCC assessment”. In particular, he notes that RCP8.5 accounts for 57% of scenario mentions. According to Pielke, this alone accounts for the apocalyptic tone and conclusions throughout the report.
RCP stands for Representative Concentration Pathways. There are four pathways and the worst case RCP8.5 assumes an improbable rise in global temperature of 5°C in less than 80 years. “Remarkably, RCP8.5 is characterised in the report as a ‘business as usual future’,” said Pielke. “In reality, RCP4.5 [quoted in only 17.5% of scenario mentions] is currently thought of as an upper bound trajectory under current or stated policies, and RCP8.5 is implausible,” he added.
The climate writer Paul Homewood has spent years debunking many of the disaster tall tales. In characteristic blunt fashion, he notes that the IPCC, “relies heavily on studies written by grant-funded activist scientists. Many of these are easily debunked and they are usually based on very dodgy computer models”.
Finally comes news of a possible climate research strike. According to a recent paper from Bruce Glavovic: “Given the urgency and criticality of climate change, we argue the time has come for scientists to agree to a moratorium on climate change research as a means to first expose, then renegotiate, the broken science-society contract.” Glavovic is a Professor at the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University in New Zealand. Sometimes, a job title does not require any further comment.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic‘s Environment Editor.
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Oh, I see, here we go again with a story designed to put the wind up people. I wonder what the cost of shooting down a balloon with an F16 is these days.
Another non- newsworthy event.
Well the missile costs about $380 000 for starters.
$380,000 Dollars? That’s an awful lot of balloons!
I’m all for having some light relief or another subject to talk about but this story just takes the biscuit. Are we all meant to forget the fact it’s the Pentagon that’s behind this entire plandemic shitshow and subsequent toxic death shots? Give me strength!
https://rumble.com/v295j18-rfk-jr-the-pentagon-and-the-national-security-agency-ran-the-entire-pandemi.html
Isn’t it interesting that of all the places aliens could make an appearance, they chose the US? Not Congo, not Paraguay, not Turkmenistan, but the US, probably the most trigger happy of all the places they could chose.
Talk about bad luck.
“Talk about bad luck.”
Not half Stewart. Definitely shows a lack of forward planning on the part of the ET’s. Once the Pentagon get Spock on the job and the remains of the UFO have been combed through I an sure all will become clear.
So they haven’t ruled out UFOs? If it is a UFO that travelled many miles to get here with presumably advanced technology, then how come it couldn’t escape the clutches of an F16??
Maybe this is the start of an ‘alien invasion’!
Agree with ‘huxleypiggles’.
From the ‘Hitchhikers Guide’, re the vi’hurgs…
Maybe thats what we’ve got…
Hope so. I have H E L P spelled out with bedsheets in my back garden.
Funnily enough a commenter over at TCW is doing exactly the same thing.
Anything that is:
An Object
Flying
and Unidentified
is by definition a UFO
How do you say “UFO” in Chinese?
Do aliens cause global warming? The data say Yes.
time to read again Dr Roy Spencer’s spoof article that mocked correlation and causation – and the climate worriers thought he was serious about the aliens – read it here and smile:
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/04/do-aliens-cause-global-warming-the-data-say-yes/
Squirrels
Do you think the US is expecting bad news? On Ukraine, perhaps.
Must be the UFOs causing all the excess deaths then?
One should keep in mind that UFO means Unidentified Flying Object. Which means the real story is something like Gung-ho US F16 pilots shoot at flying things because they have no idea what they are. Let’s hope a few climate rescuer private jets were among them.
If you can’t scare people enough with a pandemic then scare them by hinting at an invasion of extra-testicles. Apparently, these hyper-intelligent beings are smart enough to fly across the universe, then they reveal themselves almost exclusively to the U.S. military who shoot them down. They sound really smart. And to think they call us conspiracy theorists. The only space travel going on here is the journey between biden’s ears.
Extra-testicles? Is that your way of saying the story is a load of bollocks? Or could it be an alien civilisation has watched our reaction to a virus, taken pity on us and have decided to replenish our supply.
Oh I love that last sentence.
If only the Yanks had been as good at shooting things down on 9/11.
Well if aliens were to invade I’m sure they’d be intelligent enough to know by now that their best bet is to just walk in via the Mexican border. Stick a mask on and you’d have no bother. Nah, I smell red herring..
Or jump in a dhingy in the Channel and wait for their RNLI taxi service to drop them at a convenient Border Force depot before onward transportation to a Four Star Hotel at our expense.
Following the unprovoked destruction of the US Air Force by Alpha Centauri terrorists, NATO refuses to negotiate, saying that to “appease aggressors” only encourages them. In late news, Detroit has suffered a total communication failure, following that of Salt Lake City half an hour ago…
If the little green men are looking for signs of intelligent life, they will be sorely disappointed.
Laurence Fox on Twitter: “Not long now. https://t.co/0ZV3NdhBY8” / Twitter
One of my all time favourite jokes is The best proof that there’s intelligent life on other planets is that nobody ever visited us.
Well they definitely wouldn’t want to harvest our blood now if most of the human race are walking spike protein-producing factories with abnormal erythrocytes. If they try then maybe the mRNA might be the death of them, like bacteria in the film….Either way, I’m really hoping we have confirmation of alien beings existing before I pop my clogs. Otherwise being brought up on a wealth of Sci-Fi shows/movies seems like a total anticlimax to me.
Look carefully at the first footage on the “asteroid”.
Tell me if you see anything unusual around it as it falls snd then explodes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11744137/Astonishing-moment-asteroid-explodes-Channel-creating-fireball.html
I see a small light thingy. As if the meteorite is being shot at before it explodes. It could just be a spark/debris from the meteorite perhaps…Any astronomers in the house?
*asteroid* I mean.
Yes it seems to move around it then runs towards it really fast just as it explodes! I’m glad I’m not the only one who saw it. Makes me wonder if it was shot at to detonate it as well.
But what moves that fast?
https://youtu.be/_eJq6DcIEzM
Im seeing it called a meteoroid.
All the meteors I have seen have moved considerably faster than the object shown. That one looks like it is being slowed by air resistance which is pretty unlikely for a large chunk of rock. It looks more like an aircraft being downed.
Edit – According to the American Meteor Society, meteorites usually hit the Earth’s atmosphere going around 160,000 MPH. Meteors enter the atmosphere at speeds ranging from 11 km/sec (25,000 mph), to 72 km/sec (160,000 mph!)
Downed satellite?
“All the meteors I have seen have moved considerably faster than the object shown”
Exactly what I was thinking.
Let us not forget that the Yanks knew about it for several days when they declined (or failed) to shoot it down. They must have assessed that it was not much of a threat to their military installations, so what changed? Was there something in the sea that they didn’t want it to see?
I guess pointing the finger at China makes a change from blaming the Big Bad Putin.
What’s the betting they’re the USA’s own spy balloons
Looks like Hunter Biden is handing the ciggies around at the Pentagon
“We’re calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason,” said Mr VanHerck.
Is the reason because they are not the balloons, perhaps? You gotta admire the militwawy. Also, VanHerck goes from being a General to a Mr is just a few sentences. Was he perhaps demobbed after his amazing insights?
High altitude (weather) ballon parachute. There are hundreds launched every year.
‘Course there are. Launched by China, just of the US coast.
So all they’re going to find in the remains are meteorological instruments, then, if that’s true.
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First one shot down was obviously Chinese spy equipment.
The rest are probably weather, research, or hobbyist launched from the US by US citizens, easily available and quite popular, see The-Rocketman.com
Lyin’ Biden – too ashamed to acknowledge further Chinese (drone) surveillance – is now blaming aliens instead of Donald Trump.
“No joke!”
Well, the answer’s obvious, innit?
Wot we clearly need to do is get Bill Gates, George Soros, that bloke running PayPal and all the rest of the WEF oligarchs to direct the world’s response to this alien attack, whilst the rest of us go and hide in caves, giving up on using gas, electricity, cars, houses, fertilisers, etc., all of which signals our presence to the aliens.
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Billy will be working on a “vaccine” to defeat the aliens as I type this.