Great Barrier Reef records highest hard coral cover in 36 years
https://reefbuilders.com/2022/08/06/great-barrier-reef-records-highest-hard-coral-cover-in-36-years/
https://www.wri.org/insights/2023-ipcc-ar6-synthesis-report-climate-change-findings
Metmike: Busting their junk science and exposing the IPCC below
metmike: It was this warm or warmer 1,000 years ago during the Medieval Warm Period. Also 2,000 years ago-Roman Warm Period and 3,500 years ago-Minoan Warm Period. Warmer that this by 2 deg. C in the higher latitudes(Arctic between 9,000 to 5,000 years ago)
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/90592/#90999
2. Climate impacts on people and ecosystems are more widespread and severe than expected, and future risks will escalate rapidly with every fraction of a degree of warming.
metmike: Patently false! Negative impacts have all been MUCH LESS than predicted. Benefits have far outweighed negatives so far.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/92155/
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/92155/#92206
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/90946/#90995
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/88832/#89057
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/88832/#89118
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/93502/
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/93824/#93826
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/69258/
metmike: That's the main reason for all of this. They need more money.
metmike: There it is again. They need more money.
metmike: These are fake scenario's. Anybody that knows anything knows that emissions will continue to soar much higher and higher as they continue to insist they need more money. They continue to report fairy tale, manufactured scenarios and tell us we need to eliminate fossil fuels in XX number of years or we will destroy the planet. See the truth below:
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/94557/
There Is No Energy Transition, Just Energy Addition
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/12/there-is-no-energy-transition-just-energy-addition/
While wind and solar power are taking a larger piece out of a growing world primary energy pie, fossil fuels are expected to have more absolute growth through 2050.
metmike: See the graphs above and have a few laughs!
metmike: No problemo. It's the money thing again. Got a spare 431 trillion, laying around? C'mon, it's only 20 times the GDP but just think, it will save the planet from greening to death(-:
A Simple Reason Why Net Zero Is Impossible
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/93889/
Wind is anti green, anti environmental, diffuse, intermittent energy. Converting to it is wrecking the planet and using a future grid scale battery system that doesn't even exist.
metmike: Anybody remember when this exact same entity, the IPCC insisted the critical temperature was 2 deg. C and it was settled science for decades to less than a decade ago? Most of that time being called global warming. But then it stopped warming as fast and people didn't get scared enough so they had to lower the settled science disaster threshold to get people to act faster and create new fake climate simulations out to 2100 that were even hotter.
2009: https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/climate_tipping_points.pdf
Figure 1, from the IPCC Working Group II report, shows the likelihood of a given CO2
equivalent concentration leading to a temperature increase of 2ºC above preindustrial
levels. It also shows that to have a 50% likelihood of staying below 2ºC the CO 2
equivalent concentration has to be stabilized at less than 450 ppm CO2 equivalent.
2014: https://www.carbonbrief.org/two-degrees-the-history-of-climate-changes-speed-limit/
As climate negotiators meet in Lima to discuss a new global climate deal that could limit warming to two degrees or less, we look at each of the issues in turn.
Here, we take a look at where the two degree target came from, and how it has ended up guiding international climate policy.
metmike: This is number 9 on the list and 4 of them stress the need for much more money to save the planet.
Yet the effects of climate change already — and will continue to — hit poorer, historically marginalized communities the hardest.
metmike: This is the biggest, NON climate objective of the IPCC. To redistribute wealth. Let me fix their 2nd statement.
"Yet the effects benefits of the climate optimum will continue to help the poor, historically marginalized communities. The law of photosynthesis can't be repealed by the IPCC. Nor the laws of energy. Cheap, reliable and dense fossil fuels are the life blood for every developed country's economy. Take the fossil fuels away and you get energy poverty...which is the goal of the IPCC and UN for the rich country's, like the US, while allowing the poor countries, that include China to kill the planet with MUCH HIGHER CO2 emissions" CO2 is well mixed in the global atmosphere. How is it OK for China and India to kill the planet but not the US or Europe?
California tells electric car owners NOT to charge vehicles. Energy crisis in California because of unreliable, fake green/anti environmental energy!September 2022 https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/88534/
Today's release of the latest IPCC report is the quintessential example of blatantly corrupted, biased science.
The UN started the fake climate crisis predictions in the late 1980's. Then they created the IPCC(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and anointed them as the world's authority on climate for all governments to follow.
Most climate scientists work for their government and/or funded by the government.
The IPCC hijacked climate science for their agenda. One of the first actions taken by the IPCC was to rewrite climate history to wipe out the Medieval Warm Period that was this warm 1,000 years ago to make it look like this warming was unprecedented.
The 100+ studies that showed this warm period 1,000 years ago were deleted from the scientific discussion and they pretended it never happened.
They used to claim that above 2 deg and it would be a tipping point.......settled science. Then they changed it to +1.5 deg and the warming/damage would accelerate. Junk science! The earths systems almost all function with strong NEGATIVE feed backs.
As the earth warms, the amount of heat lost/radiating out to space also increases.....negative feedback. As the CO2 increases, the planet greens and gobbles up more and more CO2. These are examples of the real physics/biology. However, they build speculative models and pick equations that represent a fake earth which has built in positive feedbacks that overwhelm, the real ones(negative). Their similations of the fake earth have all been too warm and wrong. New models have been produced.........but they are even warmer because this ain't authentic science.
It's junk science for self serving enrichment to accomplish political agenda's, crony capitalism, scientific funding and to boost media ratings to profit with sensationalism.
Many hundreds of trillions of dollars for these greedy SOB's to go after using a beneficial gas that's greening the planet, causing a booming biosphere and massively increasing global food production for humans and animals. This has been humans greatest gift in history to plants and animals.
An authentic climate optimum for life on this planet.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/92155/
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/90279/#90286
Was the Medieval WARM Period real?
See for yourself below.
For the Medieval Warm Period compared to today below:
Red balloons showed it was warmer.
Blue was colder than today(in that study)
Green was wetter/more precip
Yellow was drier
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/01/03/documenting-the-global-extent-of-the-medieval-warm-period/
If you go to the link below, you can hit those individual balloons and get each individual study:
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Over 100 studies from the Medieval Warm Period, most of which show the planet was this warm or warmer 1,000 years ago. It was also this warm 2,000 years ago during the Roman Warm Period and also just over 3,000 years ago, during the Minoan Warm period. Medieval Warm Period Project: http://www.co2science.org/data/mwp/mwpp.php
 Where did the data from the bar graphs above come from so that we know that this is the authentic science vs the one that the MSM and dems describe with the fake climate crisis(where they can't show the data to prove)? List of Scientists Whose Work We Cite: http://www.co2science.org/data/mwp/scientists.php List of Research Institutions Associated With the Work We Cite http://www.co2science.org/data/mwp/institutions.php | ||
They've been wrong every year about the absurd, dire predictions and it's extremely annoying to authentic atmospheric scientists, like metmike to witness our field corrupted so badly.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/02/climate-change-short-on-proof-drowning-in-nonsense/
The IPCC continues to stress retarded energy, especially anti green, anti environmental, diffuse, intermittent wind.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/93687/
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metmike: The government is forcing energy investments to pick wind and solar.
$555billion to fight the fake climate crisis
Started by metmike - Nov. 2, 2021, 12:19 p.m.
With today's latest IPCC report, we can now update the IPCC's predictions. See the last year below.
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United Nations Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked
Associated Press – Jun 29, 1989
"A senior UN environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000"
FULL TEXT:
https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
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United Nations/IPCC- 1989-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC-1990-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 1991-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC-1992-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC-1993-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC-1994-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC-1995-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC-1996-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC-1997-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC-1998-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC-1999-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2000-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2001-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC-2002-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC-2003-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2004-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2005-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2006-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2007-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2008-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2009-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2010-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2011-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2012-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2013-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2014-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations /IPCC-2015-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2016-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2017-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2018-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC- 2019-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC-2020-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC-2021-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
United Nations/IPCC-2022-The world is doomed without a climate deal with widespread, global crop failures.
NEW: United Nations/IPCC-2023-The world is doomed without a climate deal
Planet Earth 2023- A Scientific Climate Optimum for most life-Booming Biosphere-Global Greening-Polar Bears +25%-Deaths from Extreme Weather Down-Increasing Crop yields-No Climate Crisis!
Death by Greening:
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/69258/
Anybody want to venture a guess about what the IPCC report will say in 2024?
What the condition of our planet will be then?
Whether or not the sun will rise in the east, set in the west?
Actually, for the analogy to be correct, the prediction would need to be that the sun will rise in the western sky and set in the east (-:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/20/ipcc-issues-their-annual-final-climate-warning/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/21/the-science-of-dryness-california-droughts-fire/
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/93716/#93986
The most extreme heat waves by far were during the Summers of the 1930's.
1936 was the worst:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave
Summer (June–August) 1936 average temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit. Record warmest and coldest is based on a 112-year period of records (1895–2006).[1]
Summer (June–August) 1936 precipitation, in inches. Record wettest and driest is based on a 112-year period of records (from 1895 until 2006).
Plot of NOAA/NCDC state high temperature records by decade with atmospheric CO2 concentration overlaid. From C3 Headlines with thanks – click to visit website
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Note that almost all that record smashing extreme weather above was well BEFORE climate change happened.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/20/legalized-climate-grifting/
Science Fiction!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/20/ny-climate-act-cap-and-invest-plan-going-off-the-rails/
Conclusion
In New York and elsewhere climate justice considerations are making their way into legislation. New York legislators are trying to incorporate into the cap and invest proposed laws or are in the Climate Act itself, provisions that will make New York’s cap and invest plan fail. All cap and invest programs are intended to reduce emissions that have regional or global impacts. Trying to combine cap and invest global obligations with “hotspot” neighborhood air quality obligations already covered by other air quality rules would be difficult if not impossible to do without unintended consequences. Prohibiting allowance banking eliminates a compliance mechanism widely used in all existing emission market programs. Cap and invest is a variant of cap-and-trade emission market programs so eliminating trading is absurd. Emission offsets are a necessary component of economy-wide net-zero targets. If offsets are prohibited in the cap and invest plan they will be subsidized elsewhere.
A primary component of New York’s Climate Act and cap and invest legislation was to address climate justice. I do not dispute that is a reasonable goal but appeasement of the naïve and misguided demands of the zealots pushing these demands will make NY’s program unworkable and cause reliability, affordability, and safety problems. When those problems occur, the communities that will be impacted the most will be the ones this mis-guided appeasement is intended to protect.
The government leaders of the U.S., EU and UK can’t seem to bring themselves to acknowledge that global energy outcomes regarding the world’s future energy growth, fuel use as well as emissions growth is out of their control and has been for years.
The comprehensive year 2022 BP world energy statistical review report data shows that China’s energy use alone in year 2021 exceeds the energy use of the U.S., EU and UK combined and represents 26.49% of all global energy use which is by far the largest of any global nation.
China has achieved this level of energy consumption by hugely increasing its use of coal fuel from 2005 to 2021 by over 30 exajoules with that increase alone in year 2021 energy use being 12.6% greater than the entire world’s energy provided by wind and solar in 2021. China’s growth in coal energy is larger than their increased use of both petroleum and natural gas combined during this same period.
Additionally, the non-OECD (which includes China) nations growth in yearly coal energy use between 2005 and 2021 increased by 48.32 exajoules with this increased 2021 coal energy being 77% larger than the entire world’s energy provided by wind and solar in that year.
China’s coal fuel use alone in 2021 is more than 9.3 times greater than its use of wind and solar in that year with its total fossil fuel use being more than 14 times larger than its wind and solar energy.
Biden’s Secretary of Energy seems to be completely oblivious to China’s and the non-OECD nations colossal energy use and emissions that are largely driven by its globally dominate and huge use of coal fuel as described here.
The tables and data provided below reflect year 2021 world energy statistical analysis data from the BP year 2022 Report.
The tornado adds to the latest bout of extreme weather California is experiencing.
https://www.vox.com/science/2023/3/23/23653712/los-angeles-tornado-montebello-california
There have been growing instances of extreme weather worldwide over the last few decades, with a 2020 United Nations report noting a huge uptick in major natural disasters from 2000 to 2019, compared to previous decades. That report attributed a surge in instances of flooding and storms to global warming.
While climate change’s relationship to these tornadoes is uncertain, what is evident is that thunderstorms and tornadoes of this magnitude are uncommon in this region, and that this week’s events were a product of the right conditions being in place. Those include warmer, humid air near the ground and drier, cold air higher in the atmosphere. The warmer air contributing to recent extreme weather could also become more common as global warming worsens, as could storms. Climate change leads to warmer air, and “warmer air can hold more moisture,” which can mean more precipitation, per the New York Times.
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HOGWASH!!!!!!!!!
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/92155/
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/93926/
They just keep vehemently violating the indisputable authentic science to support the politically manufactured/fake climate crisis.
From Dr. CliffMass:
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/88225/#88226
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-golden-rule-of-climate-extremes.html
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Considering the substantial confusion in the media about this critical issue, let me provide the GOLDEN RULE OF CLIMATE EXTREMES. Here it is:
The more extreme a climate or weather record is, the greater the contribution of natural variability.
Or to put it a different way, the larger or more unusual an extreme, the higher proportion of the extreme is due to natural variability.
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There have been 469 tornadoes like this one in California, with 90 injuries and no deaths because they are always WEAK tornadoes, like this one with winds around 100 mph.
https://data.redding.com/tornado-archive/
The tornadoes that kill 90% of people have winds of 200+. It's impossible for the atmospheric dynamics to have a tornado like this in California.
Many more weak tornadoes have been detected by Doppler radars that can see the wind, that were installed in the US in the 1990's.
The strong/violent tornadoes have DECREASED because of climate change as a result of the warming of the higher latitudes, with less temperature contract and weaker jet streams.
Reposting this 2019 blog post by Dr. Roy Spencer.
May 29th, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/12/12/recent-tornadoes-are-due-to-unusually-cold-weather/
When the United Nations and IPCC speak about weather/climate, we should refer to it as LIEmate(-:
The media NEVER fact checks them or the corrupt scientists. In fact, they exaggerate everything to make it even worse.
The biggest reason that they can get away with this is that almost nobody is an atmospheric scientist or has weather records or will research it.
So they hijacked climate science and even rewrote climate history to take out the previous warm periods.
Atmospheric Physicist Richard Lindzen says climate change isn’t “particularly dangerous” as climate alarmism and eco-anxiety continues to escalate.
“The strange thing – and this is what I find very peculiar about the UN’s IPCC, there’s only one section of it dealing with science, and that’s the working group one report,” Mr Lindzen told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
“Although it is biased, I won’t deny that, it never comes out with predictions of catastrophe.”
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Steve Case
March 23, 2023 10:27 am
From the comments over at the You Tube LINK:
Carl David2 days ago
My favourite Richard Lindzen quote about CO2 being a pollutant. “What sort of pollutant is it that when you remove it, everything dies”.
US Climate Is Getting Less Extreme, Not More
22 responses |
Started by metmike - Jan. 13, 2023, 12:37 p.m.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/24/media-regurgitates-ipccs-final-warning-on-climate-change-without-realizing-weve-already-passed-1-5c/
Figure 2: Analysis of Berkeley Earth global surface temperature data since 1750, showing markers for 2°C, 3°C, and 4°C of warming. Graph by Willis Eschenbach.
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Henry Pool
March 25, 2023 3:11 am
With Hadcrut4 it is barely 1K, on average, since 1850
Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs
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Dave Burton
March 25, 2023 8:58 am
Dr. Ridd’s lecture is wonderfully informative, and his comment about corals preferring warm water is spot on. Here’s a map of the world’s coral reefs. Note how they are clustered around the equator:
Note that very warm southern Red Sea is dotted with healthy coral reefs — unlike the cooler Mediterranean.
Some coral inhabit temperate zones, but most prefer tropics. In fact, where there are seasons, corals grow fastest in summer.
Harvard Law Accepts a Paper Advocating Homicide Charges for Big Oil Execs
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Mike Maguire
March 25, 2023 9:10 pm
Homicide charges?
For pushing the only true green energy, the one actually greening up the planet and massively increasing food from the contribution of CO2 in photosynthesis and manufacturing synthetic fertilizer using natural gas?
Death by Greening:
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/69258/
Another secret about fossil fuels: Haber Bosch process-fertilizers feeding the planet using natural gas-doubling food production/crop yields.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/39215/
Instead, they should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for SAVING and SUSTAINING billions of lives.
Life without fossil fuels:
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/video-of-the-day-life-without-petroleum-based-products/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/30/uns-climate-panic-is-more-politics-than-science/
https://judithcurry.com/2023/03/28/uns-climate-panic-is-more-politics-than-science/
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metmike: I have incredible respect for this climate scientist that practices the authentic scientific method and uses critical thinking as well as basing her view on the physical laws of the atmosphere while giving great weight to actual observations of the real world/empirical data.
This is also why she's a constant target.
https://judithcurry.com/2023/03/28/uns-climate-panic-is-more-politics-than-science/
Judith A. Curry (born c. 1953) is an American climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include hurricanes, remote sensing, atmospheric modeling, polar climates, air-sea interactions, climate models, and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for atmospheric research. She was a member of the National Research Council's Climate Research Committee,[1] published over a hundred scientific papers, and co-edited several major works.[2] Curry retired from academia in 2017 at age 63.[2]
Curry has become known as a contrarian scientist hosting a blog which is part of the climate change denial blogosphere.[3] Social scientists who have studied Curry's position on climate change have described it as "neo-skepticism", in that her current position includes certain features of denialism; on the one hand, she accepts that the planet is slightly warming, that human-generated greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide cause warming, and that the plausible worst-case scenario is potentially catastrophic, but on the other hand she also proposes that the rate of warming is slower than climate models have projected, emphasizes her evaluation of the uncertainty in the climate projection models, and questions whether climate change mitigation is affordable.[4] Despite the broad consensus among climate scientists that climate change requires urgent action, Curry has testified to the United States Congress that, in her opinion, there is so much uncertainty about natural climate variation that trying to reduce emissions may be pointless
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The extreme end of both sides is becoming delusional and very dangerously out of control.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/29/shining-light-on-science-educations-dark-age/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/02/daniel-mccarthy-climate-science-makes-a-bad-religion/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/01/yes-bbc-global-warming-extends-plant-growing-seasons/
Death by Greening:
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/69258/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/world/global-warming-breach-wmo-climate-intl/index.html
Scientists have long warned that the world needs to stay within 1.5 degrees of warming to avoid catastrophic and potentially irreversible changes.
Warming above this point increases the risk of triggering major tipping points, including the death of coral reefs
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Easy to debunk that long stated total DISinformation:
US Climate Is Getting Less Extreme, Not More
23 responses |
Started by metmike - Jan. 13, 2023, 12:37 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/92155/
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/92155/#92206
https://reefbuilders.com/2022/08/06/great-barrier-reef-records-highest-hard-coral-cover-in-36-years/
Despite over 3 decades of insisting that we have a major climate crisis killing the planet, while using very busted, too warm global climate models to project extreme, impossible future scenarios, the empirical data/observations of the real world continue to show a climate OPTIMUM and planet greening up with the best weather/climate and beneficial CO2 levels since humans have existed.
Death by Greening:
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/69258/
Fossil fuels=the only true green energy
Climate Crisis: short on proof, drowning in nonsense
10 responses |
Started by metmike - Feb. 28, 2023, 2:23 p.m.
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-top-five-climate-science-scandals
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Extreme emissions scenarios that map out implausible and even apocalyptic futures are a favorite in climate research and assessment. This space continues to be dominated by a scenario called RCP8.5 — which has coal consumption increasing more than 10x by 2100 (see figure above and all credit to my colleague Justin Ritchie). However, as the community comes to accept the ridiculousness of RCP8.5, efforts are being made to replace it with another extreme scenario — Right now that appears to be SSP3-7.0 which also foresees a massive increase in coal (~6x) and a world of about 13 billion people in 2100, far more than projected by the United Nations.