Since 1975, our planet has warmed by about two-thirds of one degree centigrade. Before that, for 35 years, the Earth was cooling. It is a fascinating fact that almost no one ever mentions that 1972 was when the campaign to halt acid rain began and the removal of sulphur dioxide (SO2) from our atmosphere, which had a heating effect on our climate – SO2 acts as a precursor for water droplets to form, and increased cloud cover follows this process, which causes additional rays from our sun to be reflected into space. Less SO2 meant fewer clouds and a warmer climate.
Even more baffling are the current efforts to replace some of the SO2 that has been removed, particularly in our stratosphere. On January 9th 2024, an article in the Washington Post described a firm named Make Sunsets releasing weather balloons filled with sulphur dioxide and helium in a project designed to seed our stratosphere with SO2. This company accepts donations from mostly climate activists who want to cool our planet and uses these proceeds to fund its efforts. And, as the Post reported, nature does this already. For example, “After Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in 1991, sending 20 million tons of sulphur dioxide spewing into the atmosphere, global temperatures fell by about one degree Fahrenheit the following year.” Further complicating this Gordian Knot is the fact that these new efforts may not follow the five principles contained in the Oxford Principles of Geoengineering. The story in the Post quoted an expert in solar geoengineering governance and law named Jesse Reynolds, who said, “I looked at the five Oxford principles, and [Make Sunsets is] acting in a way that’s consistent with none of them.” Ergo, as these efforts expand, there may exist added dangers. Make Sunsets has received equity investments from two venture capital firms, a total of $750,000. As Mr. Reynolds said, “This is the ‘move fast and break things’ worldview.”
Since 1970, when the fight to limit global warming was started by the World Economic Forum (WEF), and after the First World Climate Conference was held in 1979, climate scientists have been in continuous high dudgeon without ever a single mention of the impact of pollution abatement as a possible cause of the current warming. Even worse, these pro-climate change researchers have produced an almost never-ending stream of forecasts and predictions of coming climate catastrophes — floods, droughts, wildfires, rising sea levels, famines and the spread of tropical diseases. But almost no one has tested these claims of coming cataclysms against the historical statistics. We have 50 years of hard data today, yet these foreseen calamities have yet to happen. Indeed, since 1920, the number of recorded deaths attributable to climate disasters has declined by over 95%. However, climate change advocates insist that extreme weather events are increasing and that this is an early warning that, if followed, will save countless lives. Regardless of these endless predictions of coming doom, human mortality attributable to climate change has sharply declined.
Plus, the current warming is itself saving thousands of people from premature death every year. Our warming planet has so far been a major benefit to everyone.
Since 1988, when Jim Hansen testified before Congress, we have been urged to believe that we face a coming climate catastrophe. But 35 years later we learned that the increase in the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere, along with the resulting temperature rise, has to date only improved things on our planet. The Earth is greening and thousands of lives worldwide are saved yearly. The Earth is greening and our deserts are blooming.
Turning to lives saved, a recent study published in the Lancet and done at Monash University showed that today, warmer temperatures save thousands of lives worldwide every year. This study found that “the global heat-related excess death ratio increased by 0·21 percentage points (0.13–0.31), leading to a net reduction in the overall ratio.” Ever since the Crimean War and the continuing research begun by Florence Nightingale, we know that warmth saves lives while cold kills many more people. In other words, the current warming is saving eight lives for every life that is lost due to premature death attributed to temperature.
Therefore, there is no current need to halt the burning of fossil fuels. The warming associated with climate change is so far saving thousands of lives every year, greening our planet and shrinking our deserts. But some experts insist that increases in droughts, wildfires, mass starvation and rising sea levels are just some of the consequences of our warming planet that are already occurring, but the hard data say otherwise.
- Droughts: According to the UN, droughts over the last 50 years have averaged only 13,000 deaths annually.
- Wildfires: NASA’s satellite observations found that the number of wildfires has declined, and the vast majority are attributable to human actions (arson, etc.) Deaths due to wildfires have typically been extremely low. Plus, as noted, total deaths from all climate disasters have declined by over 95% over the last 100 years.
- Mass starvation: The number of famines worldwide has sharply declined since the 1960s. Most famines are attributable to armed conflicts (wars and civil wars).
- Rising sea levels: According to NASA’s satellite data, sea levels have risen by only 100.1 mm since 1993, i.e., by just four inches over the past 30 years. The most recent scholarly study from the NASA satellite data found that 50% of the sea level increase on the East Coast of the U.S. was due to subsidence (heavy structures built near the water line are causing the land to sink.)
In 1988, James Hansen advised us that untold climate catastrophes were on the immediate horizon, and for 35 years he has been only wrong.
Like it or not, the moderate warming seen to date has saved countless lives.
Richard Burcik is the author of two short books, The DNA Lottery and Anatomy of a Lie.
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And when attending a gathering in Australia, with a Victorian Liberal MP among others, a group of black shirted “Nazis” turned up, confronting the women.
Because of this, the MP’s own party is trying to expel her; every media outlet has branded the group “Nazi sympathisers”.
So, our conservative party is trying to expel a woman MP whose crime is attending a rally to fight for the rights of women to not be exposed to naked men in toilets, gaols, etc, or in sports, and that is considered to be “Nazism”.
Can someone explain to me what I’ve missed?
I suspect that just like in the UK, politicians, judges, senior police ranks etc are all drawn from the same liberal elite clique. The colour of rosette they wear when it’s time for an election is the only difference.
Groupthinkers like this usually wear the same colour rosette
How can anyone expect the liberal elite clique to change tack when it is not in their career interests to do so? Besides, the liberal elite clique are far more fearful of the displeasure of the Left than the centre Right. The former are active, well organised, well funded, committed and successful in driving their agenda. The latter are disorganised, poorly funded, rarely if ever politically active and invariably find it easier to yield than fight their corner.
They get away with it because they can, and the police are effin useless. Even if they weren’t useless, they’d be on the wrong side.
One thing. The majority of young people supporting woke, trans ideology are girls.
Trans ideology is not the anti-women movement it is being portrayed to be.
Having said that, the world’s biggest and strongest lobby, the feminist lobby, seem to be having the most success at pushing back trans ideology.
My money.is on the feminists winning this one. They outnumber the trans and they have so much more experience self victimising.
In my opinion you have a chip on your shoulder about womens’ rights and Feminism as a whole, and your responses are getting rather predictable. Feminism has sought the political, economic, personal and social equality of the sexes.Of course, equality does not and has never meant ‘the same’, just as 2+2=4 the way 3+1=4. Different but equal. As a principle I would think Feminism is difficult to argue against,The radical outliers of the Feminist movement do not represent the whole well at all, and in many cases do a great dis-service to us all, regardless of sex. If you only look to them to decide what Feminism is, you will not see the deeper difficulties the radical trans movement poses to women.
Hear hear, regarding your entire post! It’s like if people judge all Muslims by the tiny minority who like to go around wearing suicide vests and blowing up civilians in crowded places. Utterly idiotic, nonsensical and shows a great deal about the bigotry the uninformed and ignorant person continually insists on spewing. And you’re spot on, there is certainly a chip there, as evidenced by the predictability we’ve all come to witness. I just scroll on by now. Some people are just pathological lost causes.
So true
Well said
“The majority of young people supporting woke, trans ideology are girls.”
You may well be right but where do you get that info from?
Assuming true, any theories as to why this might be?
My pet theory – women are nicer than men, less disagreeable, and wokeness attracts people who want to feel and be seen to be “nice”.
How about After 78 years of relentless German-bashing, Nazi has turned into a general expletive which means nothing but Someone of whose loathsome opinions I really disapprove of? With loathsome meaning different from mine.
Rona taught me that 80% of the sheeple are morons.
Transgender fascism has simply confirmed the above.
Mentally ill perverts, sick whackjobs, chromosome-DNA-mitochondria denying half wits.
Witch hunt indeed.
If Posie was Black, Muslim, or spouting Rona gibberish, she would be left alone.
So now the new witch is the normal, white, heterosexual female?
The Enlightenment –> To the Age of Stupid. Straight. Red. Line.
I said the same in my comment on the linked article. Imagine if a similar mob had done this to a speaker calling for taking in unlimited refugees for example…
Love the last line.Ferdlll. Puts me in mind of Clemenceau’s quote: “America; the only country to have gone from barbarism to degeneracy without the usual interval of civilisation.” And getting truer by the day.
It’s called ‘bullying’, plain and simple. The gang gets off on feeling empowered and goad each other on. It’s a tribal ‘Lord of the Flies’ thing.
It’s a pity there appeared to be no sane folk at the gathering to support/aid Ms Keen.
Disturbing though these scenes are, is there not a common factor linking them back a decade or two? Or even centuries? That factor is the bullying of dissidents in attempt to get them to comply with the party line, or “consensus”. Twenty years ago if you were working in an academic environment and expressed the slightest doubt about the issue of the day, you would find your life made uncomfortable, miserable and would wind up either leaving voluntarily or being defenestrated. The issue of the day mutates: twenty years ago it was “global warming”, ten years ago it was “reparations for the Slave Trade”, two years ago it was the persecution of the covid-sceptics and today it is gender identity. Centuries ago it was the Spanish Inquisition or Salem. The difference is superficial, concerning whether the soup is literal or metaphorical, and details of the heretics’ opinion, and the dress-code of the inquisitors. If anybody says that the Earth is warmed by the Sun and not by the oxidation of carbon, or that gender is set at conception, they will be excommunicated. The commonality runs deep, the message being “comply or be crushed”.
This is where woke ideology leads.
As Elon Musk observed:
“At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary and hateful. It basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.”
The rent a mob nasties turn up at the behest of the state to infiltrate & function as a useful tool to legitimise the woke mob’s cries of far right/na$i & the bile which they spew against whomever is standing up against the mob.
Every group which threatens the blob is at risk of being infiltrated by the blob.
I guess the BBC would call this A mostly peaceful witchhunt conducted by the innocent victims of a well-known hateful extremist. Ye shall know them by their fruits.
I just finished writing an email to friends and family describing how [a certain country that the Daily Sceptic seems not to like very much] found anti-Christian woke /CRT/ trans ideology unacceptable, degenerate and perverted … and considered the West to be doomed. I then clicked into today’s DS and found the first two articles amply describing how people with orthodox Christian views are today’s heretics for ideological zealots (woke being the new religion for both fanatics and the STATE (+ THE WHOLE OF THE WEST ) it would seem.
I then received a TikTok video of Nigel Farage amply describing in the EU parliament 8 years ago how it was going to cause war war with Russia in Ukraine. “Have you taken leave of your senses?” He asked.
The vilification of good, truthful people is one of the most disturbing features of life today.
I leave you with an image of Vice President Biden shaking hands with Prime Minister Putin in 2011…. rejecting, nevertheless, Putin’s proposal of visa-free travel in order to foster better relations.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-biden-idUSTRE7293LQ20110310
I have it on good authority that Putin was once anxious to repair relations with the west – even to the point of joining NATO. All that is now gone and the West has been consigned to what the Russians would probably describe as ‘the intellectual and spiritual dustbin’. They are looking elsewhere for sanity.
I have it on good authority that Putin’s stooges blurt about again planting a red flag on the Reichstag in Berlin and reconquering and renslaving the Germany that’s rightfully theirs. To which I reply “Good luck, chaps! You have only about 1120 more miles to go and this time, you’re not allied with all of the world but have to rely on your own merits and abilities.” And we know how that ended in 1917.
Thats horrendous, these people deserve to be on the periphery of a society, spores.
The fruits of Ardern’s labours.
So what was the point of International Womens Day?
”And what is Parker’s crime? What did this witch do? ”
She took on the role of stating that ”the Emperor is not wearing any clothes” and of course this whole thing relies on everybody accepting the ludicrous and preposterous proposition that mammalian male and female are interchangeable.
In a way the people protesting against this lady are pitiable stooges of the insidious and horrendous racket that is working to undermine our society and destroy any sense of living in a rational and reasonable world.
“Put 100 women and 10 men on a deserted island and in 100 years you will have a thriving community of men, women, boys and girls.
Put 100 Trans women and 10 men on a
deserted island and in 100 years you will find
the skeletons of 110 men.”
Like it
I might borrow that one. Very good.
Does the mob’s behaviour have anything to do with the behavioural characteristics resulting from living at the arse end of the world with sheep and rugby vying for the nation’s attention?
Imagine plod’s reaction if this were a BLM rally and a bunch of goose steppers showed up with whistles and megaphones and tomato soup. They’d have been kettled, assaulted and banged up in swift order. But waive a tranny flag and of course it’s all good. I hate the 21st century mostly because there’s nothing I can do to change this insanity.