Increasing numbers of commentators are starting to call peak Net Zero and this process is being helped by the crumbling of the decades-long suffocating stranglehold exerted on ‘settled’ climate science by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The latest body-blow to its credibility has come from last year’s joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, Dr John Clauser. He has warned the Nobel Foundation not to model a proposed new body to police ‘misinformation’ on the IPCC, adding: “In my opinion the IPCC is one of the worst sources of dangerous misinformation.” It would seem unhelpful that at a time when Clauser voiced his criticism, the UN’s Secretary General headed for a public stage and upgraded global warming to “global boiling”.
Of course, by ramping up the fear to ‘boiling’ point, the unhinged Antonio Guterres has fallen into the ‘worse than Hitler’ trap. Where can you go after you call someone a Nazi, or tell a world audience that the Earth is bubbling beneath its feet?
Details have recently been made public about the short speech Clauser gave to young scientists in South Korea. He implored them to follow the scientific method based on good observations and experiments. Good observations always overrule purely speculative theory, he told them. Referring to climate science, he noted the current world was “literally awash, saturated, with pseudoscience, with bad science, with scientific misinformation and disinformation”.
Referring often to climate science, he told his audience that if they are doing good science they must beware since it may take them on paths that lead them into “political incorrect” areas. “If you’re a good scientist, you will follow them… I can confidently say that there is no real climate crisis and that climate change does not cause extreme events,” he said.
Easier said than done of course since most scientists are funded in one form or another by governments. In the area of climate, politicians require scientific backing for their collectivist plans to re-order society around Net Zero. Huge amounts of public money are flowing into untested, unproductive new technologies, few of which would be viable in a free capital market. Green subsidy hunters are making serious fortunes with little risk involved. The climate narrative is absurd, says MIT Emeritus Professor Richard Lindzen, but trillions of dollars says it is not absurd.
There are a number of fault lines that run through the IPCC science narrative. It maintains that all changes in the climate since 1900 are caused by humans burning fossil fuel. This is plainly odd since it asks us to ignore almost all natural variation, having accepted that natural causes were responsible for climate change in the past. It also suggests that the current period in the Earth’s history is the hottest for 125,000 years, ignoring copious evidence that temperatures were much higher in the Holocene Thermal Maximum about 9,700 – 5,700 years ago. The IPCC would have us believe that higher levels of carbon dioxide cause the temperature to inevitably rise, despite observational evidence throughout the paleo record that contradicts that simple hypothesis. After 50 years of trying, not a single credible paper has yet been published providing conclusive proof for the anthropogenic global warming boiling hypothesis.
Earlier this year, a group of scientists operating through the Clintel Foundation examined the latest work of the IPCC. The authors were damning about its most recent report, finding it emphasised worst-case scenarios, rewrote climate history and had a huge bias against good news. Its standout revelation was that 42% of the IPCC’s claims were based on climate models fed with the implausible assumption that global temperatures would rise by around 5°C in less than 80 years. Deep in the main body of its work, even the IPCC admits this is of “low likelihood”. Even worse, Clintel noted, was that about half the extreme climate model forecasts found across the entire body of scientific literature are based on this 5°C boost. It is a fair bet that almost 100% of the clickbait scare stories that dominate mainstream media are taken from these sources.
The former IPCC author and economics professor Roger Pielke Jr. thinks that the continuing reliance on these implausible assumptions by the IPCC is “one of the most significant failures of scientific integrity in the 21st Century”.
The tide could well be turning as the voices of previously cancelled giants of science are heard. In the UK, there is increasing media interest in the retrospective uplifts to temperature datasets enabling previous inconvenient pauses to be removed, and ‘records’ to be declared at regular intervals. Not before time, the Met Office’s habit of declaring heat highs amidst the jet exhaust at British airports is becoming something of a national joke.
One of those science giants, atmospheric scientist Richard Lindzen, recently told a U.S. government body that climate science “is awash with manipulated data, which provides no reliable scientific evidence”. In his view, the IPCC only issues “government-dictated findings”, noting that the important, and much quoted, “Summary for Policymakers” must be approved for publication by all governments. He further noted that, “misrepresentation, exaggeration, cherry-picking or outright lying pretty much covers all the so-called global warming caused by fossil fuel and CO2”.
Dr Clauser signed off his inspiring talk to young scientists in South Korea by telling them to observe nature directly so they could determine real truth. “Use the information gained from carefully performed experiments and research to stop the spread of scientific misinformation, disinformation,” he said.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
Stop Press: The new head of the IPCC, Professor Jim Skea, recognises that constantly pumping out apocalyptic predictions which don’t come true is damaging the credibility of the IPCC. In a series of press interviews following his appointment, he warned doom-mongering was doing more harm than good. “If you constantly communicate the message that we are all doomed to extinction, then that paralyses people and prevents them from taking the necessary steps to get a grip on climate change,” he told one newspaper. The Telegraph has more.
Stop Press 2: Janan Ganesh, the FT columnist, thinks the Conservative victory in the Uxbridge by-election is the beginning of the end of the pro-Net Zero consensus: “It was always paper-thin. In 2019, when Britain committed to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the century, inflation was 2 per cent. A decade had passed since the previous recession. Had politicians been frank about the cost of the green transition, voters might have felt prosperous enough to pay it. Now? Not a chance.” Not paywalled and worth reading in full.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
Two cults, Two sets of retards with overlapping memberships and elite control – Korona and Klimat.
1970s – Globaloney Cooling and the coming Ice Age. 1980s GlobaloneyWarming. 2000s Weirding Weathering. 2010s Globaloney Changing. 2023 Globaloney Boiling. Not sure where you can go with the bullshit propaganda after boiling (melting?).
Temps, ice coverage, have done nada since 1970s. And you might have noticed in the UK the worst July evah in temps – ugly, rainy, no sun. Undoubtedly July here will be the hottest evah….
Data fraud. Measurement fraud. Money for propaganda (fat chicks for free). A cult dedictated, like Rona, to erasing our liberty, civilisation and reality (fascism).
For the record fossils don’t make hydrocarbons, which are abiotic and burning them has zero impact on weather or climate. Ending them does nothing. So yeah a complete corrupt cult of f*ing stupid.
HOW DARE YOU.. Ferd111..
I was thinking about what’s the next catchphrase for the catastrophists – global evaporating or global steaming just don’t seem to have the right ring about them, do they?
Global blistering?
Global infernoing?
Global sweltering?
Global air-frying
Global burning would be my guess.
I thought about global grilling but that would imply an external heat source – like that big yellow thing in the sky that’s been in very short supply around these parts recently – but it wouldn’t play into The Narrative™, would it?
I like that — Let’s have a global grilling instead of a global boiling!
But grilling is something which is done and not suffered, hence, it doesn’t really fit.
Panclimademic?
Sounds vaguely saucy…
Canada’s Globe and Mail came up with metastasizing climate heating.
I am reminded of one of the eco-loons on GB news stating that people were ‘boiling in their own sweat’
Gave and the presenters a good laugh but it was something that the nutter truly believed in.
That’s it —Give it to them tight mate. Don’t hold back, because they would whisk you off to the climate change gulag in an instant if they thought they could get away with it.
I’m obviously stuck in the 1900s..
The science is settled!
Great post!
We’ve just “enjoyed” a cold, miserable July – temperatures way below average – yet we’re supposed to believe the seas are boiling.
It’s fiction; there is no genuine science underpinning the climate hysteria, just the Globalists’ desire for money, power and control of the masses.
Fortunately, now it’s becoming obvious to many “ordinary” people that the goal is to impoverish them and reduce their standard of living, they’re starting to kick back.
And in addition to the temperature levels, the solar PV output at my place was -13% down compared with the 5 year average. My apple trees are a bit slow and late on account of the reduced amount of useful light as well. No shortage of water though; I expect the water companies will be quiet about reservoir levels for a while.
Despite to dry spells this year my local meteorologist in North London has recorded 98% of average rainfall. I expect it to be back over 100% and climbing in the next 2 weeks.
I could be wrong, but I think hosepipe bans are in place in Cornwall, Kent and Sussex.
Hosepipe bans never seem to expire.
They are in Dartmouth and have been since last summer
In Cornwall definitely..
Crazy.
Unfortunately my impression is that well-briefed alarmists will snort and say, “Don’t you people recognise a bit of legitimate political hyperbole in talking about the earth boiling?”
And then they will criticise the political backlash against ULEZ by saying the opponents don’t care about all those children dying from PM2.5. In vain will you suggest there may be a little scientific hyperbole going on as well.
Unfortunately my impression is that well-briefed alarmists will snort and say, “Don’t you people recognise a bit of legitimate political hyperbole in talking about the earth boiling?”
Like this, perhaps?
Of course we shouldn’t expect anything else..the zero green nutters are no different to any single cause nutters…they always think they are right..they always want to punish and malign and exclude people who they think are wrong..or who don’t agree….
they always want to insist that the ‘subject/science is settled’ with ‘101% of scientists/experts in full agreement’™️
And they NeVeR admit when they are wrong….!
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year/
Where’s the accountability, when they are wrong?
ebygum lad.. accountability’s not on the agenda I’m afraid.. may I suggest sustainability.. SDG’s..
No, no. That was the other lot who made those predictions. Our predictions will be right, you’ll see.
LOL!…..
to both of you…..
Correct, Soundof.
Just like Communism. A few unfortunate glitches in the past.
But when I am running the show, with my very own dictatoship of the proletariat, it will be an utopian paradise on Earth!
Just like in Brazil, where Jail-Bird Loopy da Silva has restored the Amazon 60% in six months! Some “scientists” say, no, Miraculous! At least 70%! Even more! Just shows what getting rid of “far-right” Jair Bolsonaro achieved!
More communists! Just the ticket!
Dear António Guterres when Americans say 100 degrees they mean Fahrenheit not Celsius. Earth is not boiling. António Guterres Portuguese Man of Marxism.
If the whole planet achieved net zero today it wouldn’t change CO2 levels for at least 100 years. Net Zero is a stupid and pointless exercise. Add that to the fact that (a) the world will not achieve Net Zero for another 50 years and (b) it’s not even CO2 that causes climate change, the stupidity and pointlessness of Net Zero increases exponentially.
Net Zero is likely to be interpreted as a commercial opportunity by some. From their perspective, it’s not stupid – just another financial route to follow. Whether that’s good for most of us, that’s open to discussion (at least, I hope so).
The world can never achieve “net zero,” this is a joke term devoid of any plausibility.
The “Climate is boiling” anouncement by the U.N demonstrates beyond doubt the contempt with which they hold those who are not in their tax free earnings, its who you know, not what you know club. They clearly think we are all stupid and I suppose as in the era of Covid will believe anything told to us by “authority” figures rather than trusting what we see for ourselves.
Gutteres needs to go on a diet, he very obviously lives an oppulent lifestyle on the monies our taxed pay funds.
“Gutteres needs to go on a diet”
Just spit it out Hester – Gutteres is a fat fu#ker.
Ok Gutteres is so fat when he has sex you have to roll over twice to get off him,
Gutteres is so fat he needs a guide to find his ass,
Gutteres is so fat his belt size is equator
Gutteres has more chins than a chinese phone directory.
AHHHH Thats better, release
Don’t you mean a fu#king fat fa#ker..
Ok George
With the longer term plan of massive planetary depopulation, requiring an unarguable excuse to implement destructive dystopian policies, we’re unlikely to see any relenting on ‘climate change’.
Just look at the face on that imbecile standing at that podium making his ridiculous eco socialist pronouncements like they were all some kind of ultimate truth, when infact they are nothing but a jumble of manufactured climate crisis crap for political purposes. The politics of Sustainable Development which is about utopian dreams of a perfect world of social justice conjured up in Davos by the would be world government people with CLIMATE as the main tool in their box.
“ Increasing numbers of commentators are staring to call peak Net Zero and this process is being helped by the crumbling of the decades-long suffocating stranglehold exerted on ‘settled’ climate science by the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).” Hello, is that the editing and punctuation department, is there anyone there? What does this gobbledegook even mean?
“Stop Press: The new head of the IPPC, Professor Jim Skea…..get a grip on climate change,”” That’s the thing, it’s the climate, driven by the sun, we can’t grip it or change it.
“Ah, but I may as well try to catch the wind.”
The UK government could help stop global warming by turning off the power supply, presumably a dedicated power station since they usually are, to the Met Office’s supercomputers.
Excellent, Smithers
Although I don’t think we are at “global boiling”
just yet it is good to know that I have contributed in at least a small way to raising the temperature of the planet. Northern England is decidedly on the cool side and is also very wet and has been throughout July so if we all hadn’t contributed to a bit of AGW we would have been shivering terribly.
Maybe not boiling but getting up to a simmer would certainly be a tad more comfortable.
Interesting observation: So-called extremely hot global temperatures always coincide with summer in the northern hemisphere. If this supposedly natural phenomenon is truly global, why doesn’t it also happen in the European winter when it’s summer in the southern hemisphere?
August in Kent today, pouring with rain, 16C but ‘real-feel’ 11C. The burning, boiling planet.
“If you constantly communicate the message that we are all doomed to extinction, then that paralyses people and prevents them from taking the necessary steps to get a grip on climate change,”
Doesn’t get it dies he. People realise it’s all a load of baloney and there’s nothing to get a ‘grip’ on.
And when was there ever clilate stasis?
Climate change deniers are those who deny climate change can happen unless Mankind burns fossil fuels, and they deny it has ever happened frequently in the past prior to the Industrial Revolution.
Net Zero is an eco-marxist fantasy aimed at impoverishing Canada and the Western world. Net zero is unnecessary, immoral and fantastical. Unnecessary because the minimal warming that CO2 might cause will be beneficial to mankind just like the Roman and Medieval warm periods were. Already the extra atmospheric CO2 has greened the planet by over 30% and is responsible in part for the significantly improved crop yields that we have witnessed. Net Zero is immoral because not using hydrocarbons will drive up the cost of energy, further impoverish the poor and prevent third world nations from having reliable grid electricity so that they can raise their standard of living to Western levels. Finally Net Zero is fantastical as hydrocarbons are the very basis of our high quality of life and longevity. Without hydrocarbons we would have no steel, no cement, no fertilizer and none of the versatile plastics that make our lives so convenient and our healthcare safe and effective.
Net zero will return us to a medieval existence when life was nasty brutish and short.
“Net zero will return us to a medieval existence when life was nasty brutish and short.”
Yes. That is the intention.
How our Lords and Beloved Leaders will chuckle as they fly over us, back to Mustique, or that Vigin Island (ex Epstein), in their shiny new private jets!
Precisely. (And in 1400 the world population was circa 500. million.)
The Covid hoax teaches us that anything the government tells you is a flat out lie and should be routinely ignored
“Never believe anything until it has been officially denied”
Otto von Bismarck
“heat highs amidst the jet exhaust at British airports”
It is obvious that this is neither good nor honest science. To have any credibility, we should be looking for the COLDEST examples. When everywhere is LESS COLD than it has ever been, we can say with truth that things are hotting up overall. Trouble is, it still won’t tell us whether fossil fuels are responsible, but at least it would justify an urgent and scientific search for cause.
Any ideas why my longer posts (much shorter than many I see posted) won’t post?! How do I contact this website?
That FT article by Janan Ganesh in fact is paywalled.
in error – can’t delete
If the oceans, rivers and lakes are boiling then we we don’t have heat water anymore, just go to your nearest body of water to get boiling water.
Currently temperature is 19c but feels like 35c with climate warming (boiling)!
Next : Global Evaporation ! YEAH Then: Global Atomisation. Phew!