Politicised science led by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) holds that the only change in climate for the last 100 years has been caused by humans releasing carbon dioxide by burning fossil fuel. The proposition is nonsense of course but it is designed to enforce a collectivist Net Zero project. It is easily debunked by the mass of scientific knowledge suggesting natural causes play the dominant climate role. Now comes further news that rises in atmospheric CO2 occur after temperatures rise. A new paper from an international group of scientists has discovered that half of the current retreat in Antarctica sea ice occurred many thousands of years before CO2 levels started to rise.
According to ice core samples, considerable melting seems to have occurred in Antarctica from 21,000 to 19,500 years ago. This appears to be about 2,000 years before the local Antarctica climate started warming by up to 8°C, which led to a naturally occurring rise of CO2 of 80 parts per million (ppm). At the time, the Earth was in a period of severe and potentially dangerous CO2 denudation. Much below 150 ppm and plants start to die away. Modern levels at around 400 ppm are more beneficial, although recent research has indicated that plants are genetically disposed to thrive best at levels around 1,000 ppm. This harks back to many periods in the past when CO2 levels were much higher than they are today.
The early warming is attributed to an increase in energy from the Sun over the wider Antarctica area. The paper notes that the break-up of the ice, and the invigoration of currents in the southern ocean, may have led to substantial outgassing of deeply sequestered oceanic CO2. There is of course no reason why similar processes are not at work today, with a small 1°C increase in temperature since the start of the industrial revolution leading to oceanic outgassing. Many scientific papers have shown that temperatures rise ahead of CO2 levels in the historic and prehistoric record.
Commenting on the paper, the science web site No Tricks Zone said that the Antarctica time-lag not only suggested that CO2 was not a contributing factor in local sea ice retreat, but that the sea ice retreat may have been the factor sequentially instigating Antarctica warming and CO2 rise.
Modern climate apocalypse reporting requires every melting ice cube at the Poles to be portrayed as a sign of imminent Armageddon. Ahead of the forthcoming COP28, the BBC is in full campaigning mode, noting that Arctic sea ice has long been in decline and Antarctica sea ice has been “far lower than usual” in 2023. In fact, the natural cyclical decline of Arctic sea ice seems to have more or less stopped since 2012, and there has been a small recovery. In Antarctica, the ‘far lower’ observation only holds if you ignore similar levels identified by early weather satellites in 1966. Previous highs in sea ice around Antarctica, a continent that has seen little overall warming for at least 70 years, are said by the BBC to have “largely defied predictions and remained relatively stable”.
The BBC concludes that the “devastating climate impacts currently being experienced” highlight the challenges the world is already facing. These “devastating impacts” are of course little more than a dot-joining exercise with a number of recent climate anomalies. Needless to say, most of these involve heat, so there is little room for all the cold records that have occurred in 2023. In the interests of balance, it might be briefly noted that Argentina has just recorded its lowest November temperatures since records began, including 0.2°C at Cordoba Airport. Huge amounts of snow in parts of Europe have led to early starts in the skiing season in the French Alps. Further details of these records, and many others, ignored by mainstream media, can be seen here.
None of this is of much relevance in trying to understanding the changing, chaotic climate, whatever the role ascribed to human-caused CO2. It is just playing politics. A recent paper from two American glaciologists found that over half of the Arctic’s glaciers and ice caps (GIC) that exist today did not exist or were smaller 10,000 to 3,400 years ago. The period between 7,900 to 4,500 years ago was noted to be the peak of the interglacial Arctic warming, when temperatures were many degrees warmer than today.
The Arctic’s current ice extent is “among the largest of the last 10,000 years”, the glaciologists reported. The largest glacier and ice cap extent of the current Holocene epoch has been seen in the last millennium. This is said to suggest that any reduction in glaciers and ice caps in the last few centuries “is but a partial return to a former period of much greater warmth”.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Good man. Christmas present to self.
The comment’s section needs a new addition, where all down voters are listed so the cowards are identified.
Sounds like the social credit system…
If you don’t like a comment, at least have the decency to say so, like you did. Which is fair enough.
I’d rather get rid of the comment voting system altogether. It’s like a pointless faux reward system purely for self-gratification.
But once you start trying to shame people for disagreeing with you… that’s proper communist territory which I wholely reject.
Well done. You’ve attracted nine of the bar stewards, at the time of posting. #77 is hard at work…
Col. Dyckwatt, 77th Bde
Major Pratt, 77th Bde….
Painful is it?
Comment’s? is there only one?
Thanks.
How exactly could my short comment generate a down vote? I must have upset someone who is too frightened to challenge me.
Awwww…
Same as in Disqus.
His work is brilliant and has helped keep many of us sane.
I particularly admire the two birds sitting on a branch, which is haunting. Maybe that will also be spread more widely?
Why the omny thingy?
As of 16th November the dictatorship said that 13 million ‘booster shots’ had been given
In the days preceding the qualification for the booster had dropped to over 40 years of age
In reality only 19% of the total population were ‘fully vaccinated’
This is the real story
Omny is another false story to scare people into taking the death shot
Sorry, what’s ‘omny’? Or you referring to the moronic variant? Nothing to do with this story though, no? Just trying to understand the comment in the context of the article.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU Commission, called today for a consideration of compulsory vaccination across the entire EU.
‘Time to think about mandatory vaccination’ across the ENTIRE EU, Ursula von der Leyen warns after Austria and Germany announced plans to force jabs on all adults
Who knew that would happen!
I have a feeling I am a dead man walking.
Ever since when she was German defence minister and rattled her sabre in the direction of the Ukraine, I have suspected that Von der Leyen would like nothing better than for the German army to stomp around again in East-Central Europe.
Another angle is how this will play in anti-Antichrist DUP circles in Northern Ireland.
Ursula von der Leyen AKA The Soros Barbie.
George Soros is more likely to be her Barbie. See her family background.
According to The Local.de,
“People who aren’t registered as vaccinated will likely recieve a letter reminding to book an appointment, and a deadline by which to do so. If after a certain grace period, people still haven’t go their jabs, they’ll probably be issued with a hefty fine.”
Great. And this will be our response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV–rAMQoQk
And yet you’ve got Cristian Terheș MEP chairing these press conferences discussing the vaxports, quite impassioned speeches for freedom. These are worth a look, You can tell Terheș remembers what tyrannical oppression is all about. see links to the first and then the follow-up below…Assuming YT hasn’t had the gall to censor MEP’s now.
1st Press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_walPWEACsc
Follow up press conference https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/10/31/members-of-the-european-parliament-stand-up-for-a-second-time-no-one-grants-me-freedom-for-i-am-a-free-person/
Nice artwork, real insight. Only few designs so far but they seem decent quality.
A shame he lost his job, but it’s earned him my respect for being willing to stand his ground. I’ve bought one purely on that basis; it’s a bonus that it’s nice shirt.
Two of freedoms finest reps – Anna De Buisseret and Dolores Cahill in a Conference. Not watched but guaranteed to be worth our time.
Anna de Buisseret – Dolores Cahill – The Awakening Conference 20-11-21
https://www.bitchute.com/video/tkGDRjBAP6Kx/
Tried to set up a go fund me page
Beyond my technical abilities
Volunteer out there?
Brilliant! I’m all over it like a rash. I’ll be passing this on to my more sensible pals.
Lovely!
Nice new T for me!
Has the excellent Bob published a book of his freedom cartoons? Maybe an annual for the rest of his lifetime could be planned.
He gets our vote in the cartoon awards again. When will he be banned?
I never thought I’d be typing that minor Royal Prince Harry is, according to DM, “compares Covid pandemic to HIV as he blames ‘corporate greed and political failure’ for prolonging both pandemics…”https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10262801/
He’ll be wearing Bob Moran T-shirts next!
Stick this on a t-shirt Bob.
Luvvit, I’ll use that if you don’t mind.
Looks like Bob Moron wants to cash in on the pandemic, too.
I don’t normally respond to your juvenile postings but this takes the biscuit. Have you no idea what Bob Moran has been through? A severely disabled child. Sacked from the Torygraph for putting some fukwit, civil service lard ass in her place; a man of real, original talent.
And then you, scumbag cretin, come on here to lambast a man who is trying to earn a living. You are not even qualified to clean his brushes.
There is rubbish and there is rubbish but you are top of the First division.
Can’t you just PO from this site? You provide no input of value and waste the time of too many decent people.
In other words an Oxygen Thief.
Good on you; I think he is Champions League grade; and, in the spirit of Blatter I don’t suppose he/she gives a rats ass to the effect the wilfully demeaning comments posted might have. Inhuman and therefore no humanity.
We sure know what the ‘c’ stands for in your username.
This is not about health it’s about the impostion of a global tyranny on the back of a manufactured medical emergency .. it’s about global Chinafication
https://www.bitchute.com/video/od03vT1BSvND/
Please share far and wide this video needs to go viral
Do NOT Consent .. Do NOT coply
I’m the proud owner of two Bob originals.
Dr Rachel Clarke should rot in hell for what she has done to the Moran family.
Good luck Bob.
Yes. She certainly needs to be hung to rot.
Placed my order, the perfect gift to me and the kids (all grown up). Can’t wait to wear it maskless in Asda, Bridgwater, Somerset following my wife’s experience at the hands of their security thugs yesterday. I will post that story again today somewhere.
The Stand Firm picture gave me goosebumps. I had not seen it before.
Oh it’s Bob! That Bob! Good job Bob for making me laugh a little during all this madness