Given how much scientific work has been done on chaotic weather and climate patterns since the Second World War, it might be a surprise that the best that ‘settled’ science can come up with to explain all recent changes is that it’s all down to humans adding small amounts of a trace gas into the atmosphere by burning previously sequestered plant material. But how plausible is that hypothesis? Not very, says Dr. Stuart Harris, a retired Professor of Geography at the University of Calgary, in a recently published and wide-ranging review of climate. The relationship of carbon dioxide to atmospheric air temperature has been widely discussed for 50 years, writes the author, and evidence from 24 sites shows that warming during the current deglaciation appears to precede increasing CO2 concentrations.
As the full implications of Net Zero start to become apparent, it is increasingly clear that blaming all climate change on human-caused C02, as the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states, is a political construct that will enrich global elites and impoverish ordinary people around the world. In Harris’s view, the climate of the Earth is driven by uneven solar heating of the surface, and the movement of the excess heat in the tropics towards the cooler polar regions, primarily via ocean currents, modified by the movement of air masses. Emeritus Professor Richard Lindzen also argues that most weather and long-term climate change is caused by heat exchanges across the planet. In his view, doubling C02 from its present level would lead to only a 2% perturbation to this vast energy budget.
Settled climate science, of course, relies on a vast array of ‘attributions’ and forecasts from computer models. This accumulation of false and/or misleading claims is often referred to as the ‘overwhelming evidence’ that we’re in the midst of a ‘climate emergency’, notes Lindzen. “Without these claims, one might legitimately ask whether there is any evidence at all,” he says.
Different changes in recent temperatures over the planet – higher in the Arctic, much lower in Antarctica, with eastern China and Germany showing “no obvious warming” – raise alarm bells about the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis. Harris notes that atmospheric CO2 is present in extremely low quantities and has a narrow band of wavelengths to absorb heat. It cannot possibly compete, he continues, with much larger solar radiation reaching the Earth’s surface. The gas is mainly held down in the lower atmosphere by gravity, and models that assume it rises to the outer portion are unrealistic. “Water, in all its phases, is a much more potent agent for moving heat around the globe,” he observes.
Many scientists put great store in trying to understand long-term changes in the climate by studying Milankovitch cycles and the eccentricity of Earth’s orbit around the Sun. The cycles determine how much solar heat and energy the Earth receives and in which areas it falls. There are a number of these cycles over different time periods. Harris reports that the 23,000-year Milankovitch cycle has begun to reduce winter heat reaching the surface in the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. This results in “extreme” winter weather and high summer temperatures, and is said to herald the start of the next glaciation. Harris’s paper is an excellent summary of many of the natural influences affecting the climate. A brief outline is given of some of the Milankovitch climatic changes that may be expected in western Canada – during the next 11,500 years.
Harris notes that low levels of CO2 in the atmosphere during colder events could result in too little of this gas being available to support photosynthesis in plants, “resulting in the extermination of most life on Earth as we know it”. As the Daily Sceptic has reported, the Earth is emerging from a period of CO2 denudation where levels have been as low as any observed in the 600 million-year paleo record. The unproven human-warming hypothesis – after 50 years, not a single paper yet provides credible proof – fails on the observational front with CO2 amounts up to 15 times higher in the past. No obvious link between gas and temperature can be seen in the historic or paleo record.
One possible reason why this link is absent is the ‘saturation’ hypothesis – also noted in past Daily Sceptic articles. As Professor Harris observes, CO2 only traps heat within a narrow band of the infrared spectrum. There is a debate about the level at which peak absorption is reached, but some scientists say the heating work is mainly done around 300 parts per million (ppm) concentration, about 100 ppm below the current atmospheric level. Above 300 ppm, the warming of CO2 seems to fall off a logarithmic cliff.
Alas, the opportunity for vast financial subsidies to peddle inferior green technologies that few people want is a tad less under the saturation hypothesis of atmospheric greenhouse gas warming.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor
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The madleft clown-worlders view of the world is that they think that we need fewer cows and sheep but unlimited immigrants.
Hmm, think the immigrant problem might be solved if we become the only country in the world living under the conditions outlined above!
Book me a ticket on the last flight out!
…first…
A halal butchers near us was raided a couple of years ago. They found sheep carcasses which had identification tags from a local farm which had been suffering thefts. If meat becomes scarce and expensive expect even less observance of food production regulations.
Horsemeat in ready-meal lasagne? That’ll be the least of our worries.
Standing by for this to be reported on BBC1 in 3-2-1
oops, how strange…
Are they intimating that we eat the immigrants? Even though we do have an immigrant issue, I, personally am not up for that.
Why can’t they just leave the people alone to live their lives unabused!
‘They’ wouldn’t have anything to manage if they let people alone.
‘Manage’ is overstating it.
Becasue they believe they know better than us. To them we are the sheep and they are the shepherds. The truth is we are the beasts and they are the slaughterers in the slaughter house.
But what will happen to the sheep?
Ah.
Socialists never leave you alone. You might make your own decisions and live better.
The Michelin-starred chefs will have a ‘challenge’ to produce anything creative from whatever is left after all these foods are eliminated. At least eliminated from production in the UK itself. China will be expanding into dairy to supply the black market with it all.
Having recently watched an episode of Traffic Cops where they discovered bags and bags of cocaine in the back of someone’s car, I’m now imagining a similar scenario related to cheese. “Have you had any cheese in the last 24 hours, mate?” “What, me, cheese? Oh no officer, don’t touch the stuff” “That’s funny, because your car absolutely stinks of camembert” etc etc.
My trigger finger is itching, metaphorically of course.
No metaphors here, if they wish to take away the food we evolved to eat in preference to green slop then that is an existential threat. It should be met in kind with extreme prejudice.
You’re quite right of course but luckily here in Italy this shit doesn’t seem to be such an issue, and because I presume MI5 monitor comment threads like this I think it is good practice to be a little bit careful when it comes to armed violence.
Net Zero, Absolute Zero, Zero-Sum Games – academia’s Klimate-Kommissar Humanity-Haters leading The Great Leap Backwards to the nirvana of 2050’s Year Zero.
No limit to the evil these academician berks come up with in order to get their rocks off Telling Other People What To Do.
Someone please send for a length of sturdy rope and directions to the nearest street lamp.
Most modern street lamps do not have much of a horizontal arm. I wonder why?
Would love to know how Professor Julian Allwood currently lives his life. Just taking a punt here, but I’m willing to bet he does not live according to his principles (i.e. in a mud hut, wearing clothing made from worm casts or something similar, no transport, no holidays, no medical treatment unless it involves herbs, no TV, computers or mobile phones, no use of anything that is hydrocarbon-derived…).
Personally I think these plans are too mad for all but the maddest Net Zero advocates and unlikely to come to fruition, but it’s still worrying that this is officially out there.
Net Zero Bans Meat and Dairy
And fish.
And if it turned out that climate change was driven by solar cycles and orbital mechanics – and that carbon dioxide had a trivial effect – would The Zealots That Be change their policies back to the ‘good old days’ or would they press on with their authoritarian control?
I think we know the answer – keeping your own chickens could be a revolutionary act.
No chance – chickens all dutifully registered according to current regulation, and whole national flock culled the next time a pet gerbil catches bird flu in Guatemala.
Yes but if you have your own hens and a cockerel and a suitable incubator they have no chance of controlling your numbers. You just need a bit of space and intelligent management.
I was a young man back in the 1960s.
Well, you made your own amusement then, going to the pictures.
When the travel was hard – and I mean we still used the wheel –
But you could sit down at your table and eat a real food meal.
(Incredible String Band prophecy, 1967)
I wonder how he lives? Does he live in a home made of bricks? cement? wood? Or is he doing the responsible thing and living in a mud house?. How does he heat and cook? I assume he lives purely on a plant and insect diet with the odd bit of fake meat. His home must be heated by blankets made of hemp as solar panels destroy the environment and likewise windmills cannot be disposed of safely, plus they use concrete.
In terms of eating I assume he grows all his own food and ensures his family follow the same strictures that he does. I assume clothing is all at least second hand or produced by his wife spinning locally grown hemp. I assume lighting is provided by tallow made from sustainable sources, probably in future provided by human bodies.
In going to work I assume he walks, or uses a sustainably produced natural bicycle.
I assume he does not use a computer as these use vital resources from the earth and need electricity to power.
When he is ill of course he will only use plants as in medieval times or the odd leech.
travel and holidays abroad must be out of the question as this would be a betrayal of the correct way to live,
Perhaps the Prof and his colleagues at FIRE might like to set out for us exactly how they are living the dream wlong with their families, that they intend to force on to the rest of us. If he cannot then perhaps he should do a year of living by his edicts and then come tell us all about it, thats if he survives that long.
Exactly what I said above. Anyone proposing such radical changes to everyone else’s way of living should be forced to live as they themselves are proposing, with absolutely no exceptions for anything. As it stands, I think they somehow imagine they will be exceptions to the rule because they are doing such important work, or actually more likely they have so little imagination that they just can’t imagine how awful it would really be.
Depressing though it all is, I really don’t think it will get this far so I’m trying not to worry too much.
Long before this, the whole Net Zero/Climate change hoax will go the way of CoVid – embarrassed politicians, media and other loonies pretending it never really happened, wasn’t a big deal, relied on the “best” science at the time, mistakes were made, but “we need to move on”.
Note: “hoax” means something deliberate intended to deceive and/or defraud. It doesn’t mean joke or prank as some think.
Yup, I agree. The arse is falling right out of it and has been for some time.
Something else will come along instead though, it always does!
Embarrassed politicians? I’ve yet to meet one, they have no shame
Talk about a vote winner……still when we lock them up, they’ll be cheap to feed, just toss in some grass and a bit of bark,…..
When psychopaths meet climate alarmism.
Hands off my lamb, beef, milk and cheese. I hope this is not clearing the decks for chlorinated chicken. Or is it just clearing the fields for more solar abominations?
I predict this is used as the ‘this is what we ought to do, but we’re pragmatic so we’ll only limit you to one lamb chop one a month instead of a full ban. There, aren’t we the Good Guys?’.
I predict within 10 years that all members of UK FIRES will be on trial, followed by long prison sentences, for treason against the welfare and happiness of the English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish peoples
This will follow the Great Civil War which will enable the deportation of all unwanted illegals and misbehaving immigrants.
Beef is important to Aryans and so is leather. There is no future of humanity without the guidance of the Aryans.
I did, for a moment, wonder why beef and lamb would be banned but not pork. Then I realised that all the pigs will keep on going because they are in parliament with their noses in the trough!
Before they waste taxpayers money on these reports the government should address the fact that there is no evidence of increased severe weather events, death from climate related incidents has decreased and sea levels are not rising. Also we have increased crop yields instead of the predicted in every IPCC report crash in yields. In other words climate change predictions are total fantasy
But you won’t hear about that on the BBC / ITV etc.
Report from the Netherlands:
Health agency found high levels of PFAS (microplastics) in eggs , especially from chickens kept in backyards, not so much in eggs sold in supermarkets. So this was on the national news with an apology it was just before Easter.
Moving people away from their own food production….
Microplastics – the new horror in the war on plastics.
This aspect of the NET Zero Agenda is yet another example of government proclaiming a future successful outcome, before any thought, engagement with those of relevant experience, or serious analysis has been done on behalf of the voters, and then continuing with the agenda, in spite of the accumulating evidence that it shouldn’t have started in the first place.
IIRC, when I first encountered UK FIRES, I wondered whether it was ‘putting flesh on the bones’ of the absurd ‘oven ready’ Green policies, so highlighting the futility of it all, and the waste, and destruction. If so, it hasn’t had much effect on those driving the agenda.
Utterly terrifying what these lunatics have in store for us.
Yes Ed, I’m sure your Halal meat friendly mates will love that on. Dream on. How did 1930’s prohibition pan out??…. crickets…….
And we pay for these fantasies? This should have been posted on April 1st and I would have chuckled, today I gagged.
Is not lamb a staple food of our middle eastern ‘invaders’? Will they allow the government they thought was doing everything for them (as it seems to an indigenous native) to ban their principal food source?
And Goats, again not mentioned. I assume Halal meat is not allowed under the EU regulations? Halal probably prohibits factory junk too, unless it is “passed” by an Imam?
This guy appears to do very well out of all the grants etc so no wonder he wants to keep the fake climate change narrative going. However comments appear to be turned off on his YouTube videos so he appears unable to deal with criticism of his preposterous climate claims.