climatedepot--2020-06-09--Sowing the Seeds of Climate Corruption: ‘So-called UN climate summits have little to do with global

Sowing the Seeds of Climate Corruption: ‘So-called UN climate summits have little to do with global climate. They are smokescreens for the UN’s intent of changing the world and how it is governed’

“ Searching for truth at the United Nations is like looking for kernels of wheat in a mountain of horse dung.
” Attributed to : “ A playground for the vile and dangerous.
” By Piers Akerman , Daily Telegraph , September 30 , 2009 ) Perhaps Piers Akerman was a little harsh over his criticism of the United Nations ( UN ) although there is no doubt that current climate hysteria had its origins within that organisation .
To its credit , the UN initially focused on nuclear arms control , disarmament , the protection of human rights , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the economic development of poor countries .
Starting its journey for world peace and human rights , the UN has now morphed into a massive unelected socialist bureaucracy that attempts to interfere in the business of nations worldwide on just about every aspect of their lives .
The UN now sees itself as a quasi-world government with global socialism as its raison d ’ être .
Rational people want to lift everyone out of poverty , yet many selfish advocates would deny those in developing countries access to the things we take for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ constraints on industry and human progress , arguing that the world can only be “ saved ” by stifling economic growth .
So-called “ climate summits ” have little to do with global climate .
They are smokescreens for the UN ’ s intent of changing the world and how it is governed .
The UN wants to see the suppression of capitalism , but who would be made to pay for the universal welfare system they crave ?
Developing countries would receive on-going payments from those countries that are developed and successful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to lower their standard of living to meet the UN ’ s demands .
“ Given that the UN is a spigot of innovative ideas for emptying the pockets of , well , everyone , not just the rich , and the paucity of proof that it has ever achieved anything worthwhile… .
” Australia would be expected to pay “ climate compensation ” for damage to developing countries , allegedly caused by extreme weather .
The UN has a Commission on Global Governance and this is seen as central to global control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We foresee a seamless system of governance from local communities , individual states , regional unions and up through to the United Nations itself.
” “ Communication goes in one direction only .
From them-on their high thrones in Geneva-to us .
This is an anti-democratic institution and since we didn ’ t vote them into office , we have no ability to turf them out .
We have no means of objecting , no way of insisting that UN priorities are not our priorities.
” THE UN WANTS YOUR MONEY In short @ @ @ @ @ @ @ governance whilst controlling the re-distribution of wealth from developed countries that have earned it to poor countries that simply want it .
More likely , we would see the transfer of money from the poor in rich countries to the rich in poor countries .
One goal would be to persuade western nations to provide climate compensation of $ 100 billion a year by 2020 to the UN with a commitment to pay 1.5 % of their GDP annually .
Paragraph 33 of annex 1 reads : “ By 2020 the scale of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ countries must be [ at least USD 67 billion ] [ in the range of USD 70-140 billion ] per year.
” UN officials realise that to get nations to cut back on their economic growth and transfer their wealth to developing countries , they must somehow persuade politicians from developed countries that the planet is heating up dangerously because of their industrial carbon dioxide emissions .
The UN would build on this feeling of guilt to penalise them financially .
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) 2008 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ UN Adaptation Fund that would transfer money into “ climate protection.
” Unfortunately , many politicians believed the IPCC ’ s global warming alarmism and the need for global reductions of carbon dioxide emissions .
They also thought that paying the UN was justified , with Australia ’ s then Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announcing in 2014 that the Federal Government would contribute 200 million taxpayer dollars to the UN ’ s Green Climate Fund ( GCF ) .
To his credit , Australia ’ s current Prime Minister , Scott Morrison , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be forthcoming , saying : “ Nor are we bound to go and tip money into that big climate fund ; we ’ re not going to do that either.
” “ So I ’ m not going to spend money on global climate conferences and all that sort of nonsense.
” Other politicians were not fooled by the UN ’ s goals .
Canada ’ s former Prime Minister Stephen Harper said : “ Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations.
” WHO IS BEHIND THE @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Dr. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber wants to link “ sustainability ” with global governance , saying : “ Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature ’ s capacities and resources or a “ Great Transformation ” towards global sustainability would be initiated in due course .
Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets… “ Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer was co-chair of the IPCC ’ s Working Group III , and lead author of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 2007 .
Edenhofer hasn ’ t even tried to hide the UN ’ s ideological goals goals , saying : “ The climate summit in Cancun —- is not a climate conference , but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War.
” He reiterated what the UN intentions are : “ We redistribute de facto the world ’ s wealth by climate policy.
” In an interview with Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung ( Nov. 14 , 2010 ) Edenhofer confessed : “ One has to free oneself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is environmental policy .
This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.
” Another UN official , Connie Hedegaard said she doesn ’ t care about scientific facts or that people would face higher energy costs : “ Let ’ s say that science , some decades from now , said ‘ we were wrong , it was not about climate ’ , would it not in any case have been good to do many of the things you have to do in order to combat climate change ?
” Hedegaard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the thousands worldwide who are already suffering and dying because they can ’ t get access to an inexpensive , reliable electricity supply.She added : “ I think we have to realise that in the world of the 21st century for us to have the cheapest possible energy is not the answer.
” In 2014 , Christiana Figueres replaced Yvo de Boeras the Executive Secretary to the UNFCCC , the body responsible for the annual Conferences of the Parties ( COPS ) .
When Figueres , was head of the UNFCCC , she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ UN was never about preventing ecological calamity .
Rather , it was about changing the global economic model : “ This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally , within a defined period of time , to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years , since the Industrial Revolution.
” And : “ Our aim is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
” Figueres went on to say that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the UN ’ s objectives .
Economist Dr. Dan Mitchell reflected on the main goal of Figueres and the UN as being to : “ Make the world look at their right hand while they choke developed economies with their left.
” But firstly , the UN had to convincingly demonise atmospheric carbon dioxide and persuade a largely scientifically-challenged population , the drama-seeking media and pliant politicians that the trivial amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide ( 400 ppm ) was the root cause of “ imaginary ” climate chaos .
It mattered not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ global temperature at any stage over the last 500 million years .
See for instance : There are now more than 1,300 peer-reviewed , published papers promoting skeptical arguments against climate alarmism .
Such evidence would be completely ignored by UN officials since they knew that few members of the public would check and understand the science .
They also knew that the media would promote the imaginary greenhouse problem whilst politicians would simply accept it – especially if they thought that the majority in their electorates believed it .
So how was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first World Climate Conference warned nations about ( imaginary ) carbon dioxide-driven global warming and associated dangers such as ice sheet and glacier melt , extreme weather , sea level rise , spread of disease , ocean acidification and any number of imaginary dangers that simply haven ’ t happened .
In 1985 the Villach conference concocted the following statement : “ As a result of the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases , it is now believed that in the first half of the next century a rise of global mean temperature which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s history could occur.
” This would completely ignore the many previous , well-documented beneficial warming periods “ in man ’ s history ” that took place well before industrialization .
Carbon dioxide had to be made into public enemy number one for “ The Cause.
” “ While some warming of the climate now appears inevitable due to past actions , the rate and degree of future warming could be profoundly affected by government policies on energy conservation , use of fossil fuels , and the emission of greenhouse gases.
” The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political arena and had to convince the public and politicians that catastrophic anthropogenic global warming ( CAGW ) was a real threat to the planet .
Senator Timothy Wirth , former US undersecretary for global affairs , made clear his political stance .
Apparently Wirth cares not one jot about the evidence .
He said : “ We have to ride the global warming issue .
Even if the theory of global warming is wrong.
” The catastrophic anthropogenic global warming ( CAGW ) deception had its origins with Maurice Strong ( 1929-2015 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world governance by the UN .
He promoted the global warming hysteria and the UN ’ s Agenda 21 with its deceptive aim of sustainable living , saying : “ Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake , use of fossil fuels , appliances , air-conditioning , and suburban housing – are not sustainable .
A shift is necessary which will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system , including the United Nations.
” Strong went on to say : And : “ In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us , we came up with the idea that the threat of global warming would fit the bill… .
the real enemy , then , is humanity itself… .we believe humanity requires a common motivation , namely a common adversary in order to realize world government .
It does not matter if this common enemy is a real one or one invented for the purpose.
” It was here that catastrophic anthropogenic global warming was “ invented for the purpose.
” Strong was a founding member of the Club of Rome , established @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the 1798 essay by Thomas Malthus : Essay on the Principle of Population.Malthus incorrectly linked the geometric progression of growing populations with the arithmetic progression of food production leading , as Malthus thought , to population outstripping food supplies , starvation and deaths .
As Elaine Dewar explained in her book Cloak of Green after spending five days with Strong at the UN : “ Strong was using the UN as a platform to sell a global environment crisis and his Global Governance Agenda.
” So the unfounded scare of catastrophic anthropogenic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ socialist reform and a number of scientists who continue to support The Causefor their own selfish reasons , knew they would have to be economical with the truth .
Dr. Stephen Schneider thought it acceptable to bend the truth for environmentalism : “ We need to get some broad based supportto capture the public ’ s imagination… So we have to offer up scary scenarios , make simplified , dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts… Each of us has to decide what the right balanceis between being effective and being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Malthus argument in his 1968 book The Population Bomb , with his ridiculous prediction that : “ The battle to feed humanity is over .
In the 1970 ’ s , the world will undergo famines .
Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of crash programs embarked upon now .
Population control is the only answer.
” Ehrlich ramped up his foolish predictions and went on to say : “ By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hungry people.
” And : “ Between 1980 and 1989 , four billion people , including 65 million Americans , will perish due to lack of food and other resources.
” Many other UN bureaucrats think that evidence is unimportant when promoting The Cause , as Richard Benedik explained : “ A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect.
” In 1989 , Noel Brown , when a senior environmental official at the UN and Director of the New York office of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to ramp up climate alarmism .
Brown said : “ Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000.
” And : “ Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of “ eco-refugees ” threatening political chaos and governments have a 10 year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect.
” The World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) felt there was a need for a scientific assessment of the claims that increasing emissions of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s climate and life on Earth.The WMO proposed the setting up of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) .
This would be advertised as an independent authoritative scientific vehicle with an expert team of climate scientists carefully looking at all available climate literature to provide reliable advice on climate change .
To convince the media and politicians that the Earth is warming dangerously and that a looming climate catastrophe is fast approaching , the UN established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) in 1988 .
This would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ persuade the gullible that we face a climate emergency .
UN officials knew that few would read the IPCC technical reports , produced in good faith by contributing scientists .
They also knew that , if easy to read report summaries were made available to the media and politicians , those summaries could be “ massaged ” by UN officials and made sufficiently alarming to convince the media , the public and politicians that we face a climate crisis .
More importantly , the UN knew that many gullible politicians would eagerly pull @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and climate legislation would follow .
UN goals would be achieved and taxpayers would pay the price .
Perhaps Piers Akerman was right after all .
Dr. John Happs M.Sc.1st Class ; D.Phil .
John has an academic background in the geosciences with special interests in climate , and paleoclimate .
He has been a science educator at several universities in Australia and overseas and was President of the Western Australian Skeptics for 25 years .


climatedepot--2020-06-10--‘This has become a neo-Maoist war on the past’: ‘The woke elites have launched a Cultural Revolution

‘This has become a neo-Maoist war on the past’: ‘The woke elites have launched a Cultural Revolution. They must be stopped’

Brendan O'Neill of Spike : `` Wide-eyed Woke Guards , heirs to Maoist-style intolerance , are compiling lists of monuments to target and individuals to humiliate .
They are remorseless .
Nothing old that runs counter to their newthink can be tolerated .
Tear it all down ... That millions of people , white and black , are losing their jobs as a result of the lockdown and yet left-wing debate is dominated by the question of which 200-year-old statue to tear down next is testament to the left ’ s replacement of class and economic questions by virtue-signalling and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the gospel of genderfluidity , wonder out loud if ‘ white privilege ’ is really a thing , deny the truth of the End of Days foretold by climate change – you do all these things at your peril ...
It ’ s time to stand up to this Cultural Revolution .
This isn ’ t about defending slave traders , which is the latest slur that the enforcers of woke orthodoxy throw at their critics .
It ’ s about defending reason , freedom , the right to dissent , and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ . ''
Britain is in the throes of a Cultural Revolution .
Statues are being tumbled , past art erased , people cancelled .
Wide-eyed Woke Guards , heirs to Maoist-style intolerance , are compiling lists of monuments to target and individuals to humiliate .
They are remorseless .
Nothing old that runs counter to their newthink can be tolerated .
Tear it all down .
The speed with which protests over the murder of George Floyd morphed into a war on the past has been staggering .
The mob ’ s toppling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Colston in Bristol was the noisiest , most visible victory so far for the new Cultural Revolution .
They ’ ve moved on swiftly .
The appetite for erasure seems insatiable .
Last night , a crowd in Oxford demanded the destruction of the likeness of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College .
In an effort to keep the woke wolf from the door , the Museum of London Docklands took down a statue of slave trader Robert Milligan yesterday .
The Woke Guards are circulating a list of the next evil bronze and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It includes statues of globally significant historical figures .
Sir Francis Drake , Christopher Columbus .
Purge them , erase them .
Britain ’ s neo-Maoist cousins in the US have already made short shrift of Columbus : yesterday in Richmond , Virginia a mob tore down his statue , set it on fire , and threw it in a lake .
Their fervour and madness are easily a match for the most committed Red Guards who swept China for ‘ unacceptable ’ artifacts in the late 1960s .
When a statue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is abused .
Churchill ’ s monument in Westminster was spray-painted with the word ‘ racist ’ .
Even Abraham Lincoln , who fought a war to end slavery , did not escape the mob ’ s grafitti .
Well , he ’ s a white man , thus evil .
In Leeds , the statue of Queen Victoria was defaced , including with the spraying of pink paint on her breasts and crotch , bringing to mind the extra element of sexual humiliation – hair-cutting , the confiscation of clothes – that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ upon women who dared to possess incorrect thoughts .
The fervour for erasure is not limited to statues .
Incorrect art and entertainment is expunged , too .
Yesterday the BBC and Netflix cast into the memory hole old episodes of Little Britain because they feature white actors occasionally dressing up as black people .
Leigh Francis ( aka Keith Lemon ) tried to placate the Woke Guards by issuing an emotional apology for his past mimicking of famous black people .
Aussie comic Chris Lilley , who has also played non-white characters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ massively outdated comedies ’ must be razed too , says one compliant cheerleader of the new Cultural Revolution .
They won ’ t stop there .
History is full of film , literature and entertainment with questionable depictions .
Light the matches .
Indeed , Gone with the Wind has already been taken down by HBO Max because of its depiction of black people .
What will be next ?
In the US , the list of the cancelled grows longer every day .
It includes senior editors at the New York Times @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the new Cultural Revolution ’ s kangaroo court of publishing incorrect thoughts .
The British wing of this deranged crusade against wrongthink has blood in its nostrils now .
It will likewise seek to cleanse the media of thoughtcriminals .
Already it is going after Melanie Phillips and Nick Ferrari , fine journalists whose only offence is to have made utterances that displeased the cancel-hungry mob of neo-Maoists .
The similarities with the Cultural Revolution are striking .
In that feverish war on the past , statues were torn down and cast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Virginia yesterday .
Buddhist statues were a favourite target because they embodied the ‘ old customs ’ the Red Guards longed to erase .
It was a ‘ frenzy of smashing ’ , as one account puts it .
Any statue that depicted ‘ political swindlers ’ was torn down .
The Red Guards were as offended by monuments to Confucianism as the Woke Guards are by monuments to long-dead slave traders .
Like today ’ s giddy statue-smashers , they , too , thought they were being progressive by sweeping aside memorials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as in the original Cultural Revolution , in Britain there is already fear among the political elites who for the past week have flattered and fawned over the neo-Maoist crusaders that perhaps they are starting to go too far .
Liverpool University , in response to a group of students , has agreed to erase the name of William Gladstone , the 19th-century Liberal prime minister , from its halls of residence on the basis that his father was involved in slavery .
The sins of the father… Gladstone , of course , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ important historical leaders .
He left a lasting legacy , including via the Third Reform Act ( 1884 ) that expanded the vote to more men .
By promoting the idea of Home Rule for Ireland , he helped to set in motion the journey towards Irish independence .
That even a figure like Gladstone is being cancelled has got some people worried .
Mao had a similar experience .
Alarmed by the fervour of the Red Guards , he sent police to protect the most important historical and cultural monuments from attack @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Whether you ’ re Mao or a tragic Labour MP who tries to appear relevant by cheering on middle-class youths tearing down statues , you should know that it is easy to unleash febrile intolerance but hard to rein it in .
This is why London mayor Sadiq Khan is making such a colossal error by cynically trying to institutionalise the intolerant war on the past and on offensive artifacts .
He has set up a commission to review London ’ s statues , street names , building names and plaques , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to slavery or racism .
This Stalinist commission aspires to nothing less than the overhaul of London ’ s streets and monuments to the satisfaction of noisy woke crusaders .
And already some are asking if Khan will topple the newly erected statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square on the basis that she held some questionable views .
Everyone in history did .
In institutionalising the middle-class mob ’ s appetite for destroying all things ‘ problematic ’ , Khan is cultivating a climate of historical and political intolerance that could have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happen so fast ?
How did protests over the police killing of a black man in Minneapolis become a PC war on statues , street names , art and people judged to be suffering from wrongthink ?
Partly , it speaks to the colonisation of public life by the narrow , eccentric concerns of the over-educated middle classes and ostensibly progressive bourgeoisie .
That millions of people , white and black , are losing their jobs as a result of the lockdown and yet left-wing debate is dominated by the question of which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ testament to the left ’ s replacement of class and economic questions by virtue-signalling and an obsession with woke propriety .
More fundamentally , this is all a continuation of what had already been happening .
We live in an era of intolerance and unreason .
From higher education to the political sphere , from the new media to activist circles , PC censoriousness is rampant .
New orthodoxies emerge with extraordinary speed and are enforced with rigour .
Say the wrong thing on gender or race and you ’ re out .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ out loud if ‘ white privilege ’ is really a thing , deny the truth of the End of Days foretold by climate change – you do all these things at your peril .
What we are witnessing right now is something that is actually disgustingly cynical : the exploitation of the anger over George Floyd ’ s death to bolster the zealous crusade to institutionalise PC orthodoxies that would have been as alien to Floyd as they are to most normal people .
Let ’ s call it what it is .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Guards might use more flowery language than the Red Guards , talking about ‘ a radical reorientation of our consciousness ’ ( in the words of much-celebrated author Ibram Kendi ) .
But it amounts to the same enforcement of orthodoxy that we have seen in history .
It ’ s time to stand up to this Cultural Revolution .
This isn ’ t about defending slave traders , which is the latest slur that the enforcers of woke orthodoxy throw at their critics .
It ’ s about defending reason , freedom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pluralism and complexity of the public square .

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climatedepot--2020-06-10--Study: Educating Poor People Increases Global CO2 Emissions

A chilling study which potentially opens the door to questioning the benefits of the ubiquitous drive to raise global education levels .
Education May Increase Emissions but Mitigate Human Cost of Climate Change Increasing education in the developing world could lead to a modest increase in carbon emissions due to economic growth , but education could also reduce the negative impact of climate change on vulnerable populations .
The study found that in the slow to stalled educational attainment scenarios , net emissions through 2100 actually decreased .
More rapid growth in educational attainment , on the other hand , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and an eventual net increase in emissions of around 5 % to 25 % by 2100 , depending on the region .
That ’ s despite the counterbalancing impact of education and economic growth on the fertility rate ( lowering it ) , which slows population growth and emissions .
Researchers note , however , that higher levels of education also correlated with much better scores on the Human Development Index , indicating that better educated people are more resilient in the face of the negative impacts of climate change .
The abstract @ @ @ @ @ @ @ education on determinants of climate change risks Increased educational attainment is a sustainable development priority and has been posited to have benefits for other social and environmental issues , including climate change .
However , links between education and climate change risks can involve both synergies and trade-offs , and the balance of these effects remains ambiguous .
Increases in educational attainment could lead to faster economic growth and therefore higher emissions , more climate change and higher risks .
At the same time , improved attainment would be associated with faster fertility @ @ @ @ @ @ @ growth and therefore lower emissions , and would also be likely to reduce vulnerability to climate impacts .
We employ a multiregion , multisector model of the world economy , driven with country-specific projections of future population by level of education , to test the net effect of education on emissions and on the Human Development Index ( HDI ) , an indicator that correlates with adaptive capacity to climate impacts .
We find that improved educational attainment is associated with a modest net increase in emissions but substantial improvement in the HDI @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stalled progress in educational attainment and achieving gains at least consistent with historical trends is especially important in reducing future vulnerability .
One of the authors , Shonali Pachauri , is the daughter of the late Rajendra Pachauri , former head of the IPCC , who resigned in 2015 .
The study authors are keen to emphasise the benefits of education to those who receive a better education .
They obviously don ’ t want their work to be used to justify cutbacks in international education aid programmes .
But that frightening alternative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who need it most still lingers .
The idea that education is a net global harm in terms of overall CO2 emissions may yet have consequences , so long as policy makers believe reducing total global CO2 emissions is a priority .


climatedepot--2020-06-10--Swiss Doctors issue report ‘Facts about Covid-19’ – ‘Even in global ‘hotspots’, risk of death for ge

Swiss Doctors issue report ‘Facts about Covid-19’ – ‘Even in global ‘hotspots’, risk of death for general population of school & working age is in range of a daily car ride to work’

Updated : June 2020 ; Share on : Twitter / Facebook Languages : CZ , DE , EN , ES , FI , FR , GR , HBS , HE , HU , IT , JP , KO , NL , NO , PL , PT , RO , RU , SE , SI , SK , TR Fully referenced facts about Covid-19 , provided by experts in the field , to help our readers make a realistic risk assessment .
( Regular updates below ) “ The only means to fight the plague is honesty.
” ( Albert Camus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ latest immunological and serological studies , the overall lethality of Covid-19 ( IFR ) is at most 0.1 % and thus in the range of a strong seasonal influenza ( flu ) .
• Even in the global “ hotspots ” , the risk of death for the general population of school and working age is typically in the range of a daily car ride to work .
The risk was initially overestimated because many people with only mild or no symptoms were not taken into account .
• Up to 80 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Even among 70-79 year olds , about 60 % remain symptom-free .
Over 95 % of all persons develop mild symptoms at most .
• Up to 60 % of all persons may already have a certain cellular background immunity to Covid19 due to contact with previous coronaviruses ( i.e .
common cold viruses ) .
• The median or average age of the deceased in most countries ( including Italy ) is over 80 years and only about 4 % of the deceased had no serious preconditions .
The age and risk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ normal mortality .
• In many countries , up to two thirds of all extra deaths occurred in nursing homes , which do not benefit from a general lockdown .
Moreover , in many cases it is not clear whether these people really died from Covid19 or from weeks of extreme stress and isolation .
• Up to 30 % of all additional deaths may have been caused not by Covid19 , but by the effects of the lockdown , panic and fear .
For example , the treatment of heart attacks and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because many patients no longer dared to go to hospital .
• Even in so-called “ Covid19 deaths ” it is often not clear whether they died from or with coronavirus ( i.e .
from underlying diseases ) or if they were counted as “ presumed cases ” and not tested at all .
However , official figures usually do not reflect this distinction .
• Many media reports of young and healthy people dying from Covid19 turned out to be false : many of these young people either did not die from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ill ( e.g .
from undiagnosed leukaemia ) , or they were in fact 109 instead of 9 years old .
The claimed increase in Kawasaki disease in children also turned out to be false .
• The normal overall mortality per day is about 8000 people in the US , about 2600 in Germany and about 1800 in Italy .
Influenza mortality per season is up to 80,000 in the US and up to 25,000 in Germany and Italy .
In several countries Covid19 deaths remained below strong flu seasons .
• @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is a collapse in the care of the elderly and sick as a result of infection or panic , or if there are additional risk factors such as severe air pollution .
Special regulations for dealing with the deceased sometimes led to additional bottlenecks in funeral or cremation services .
• In countries such as Italy and Spain , and to some extent the UK and the US , hospital overloads due to strong flu waves are not unusual .
In addition , up to 15 % of doctors and health workers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even if they develop no symptoms .
• The often shown exponential curves of “ corona cases ” are misleading , as the number of tests also increased exponentially .
In most countries , the ratio of positive tests to tests overall ( i.e .
the positive rate ) remained constant at 5 % to 25 % or increased only slightly .
In many countries , the peak of the spread was already reached well before the lockdown .
• Countries without curfews and contact bans , such as Japan , South Korea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more negative course of events than other countries .
Sweden was even praised by the WHO and now benefits from higher immunity compared to lockdown countries .
• The fear of a shortage of ventilators was unjustified .
According to lung specialists , the invasive ventilation ( intubation ) of Covid19 patients , which is partly done out of fear of spreading the virus , is in fact often counterproductive and damaging to the lungs .
• Contrary to original assumptions , various studies have shown that there is no evidence of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tiny particles floating in the air ) or through smear infections ( e.g .
on door handles or smartphones ) .
The main modes of transmission are direct contact and droplets produced when coughing or sneezing .
• There is also no scientific evidence for the effectiveness of face masks in healthy or asymptomatic individuals .
On the contrary , experts warn that such masks interfere with normal breathing and may become “ germ carriers ” .
Leading doctors called them a “ media hype ” and “ ridiculous ” .
• Many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strongly underutilized or almost empty during the Covid19 peak and in some cases had to send staff home .
Numerous operations and therapies were cancelled , including many cancer screenings and organ transplants .
• Several media were caught trying to dramatize the situation in hospitals , sometimes even with manipulative images and videos .
In general , the unprofessional reporting of many media maximized fear and panic in the population .
• The virus test kits used internationally are prone to errors and can produce false positive and false negative results .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ not clinically validated due to time pressure and may sometimes react positive to other coronaviruses .
• Numerous internationally renowned experts in the fields of virology , immunology and epidemiology consider the measures taken to be counterproductive and recommend rapid natural immunisation of the general population and protection of risk groups .
The risks for children are virtually zero and closing schools was never medically warranted .
• Several medical experts described vaccines against coronaviruses as unnecessary or even dangerous .
Indeed , the vaccine against the so-called swine flu of 2009 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neurological damage and lawsuits in the millions .
• The number of people suffering from unemployment , depressions and domestic violence as a result of the measures has reached historic record values .
Several experts predict that the measures will claim more lives than the virus itself .
According to the UN millions of people around the world may fall into absolute poverty and famine .
• NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden warned that the “ corona crisis ” will be used for the massive and permanent expansion of global surveillance .
The renowned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ global media terror ” and “ totalitarian measures ” .
Leading British virologist professor John Oxford spoke of a “ media epidemic ” .
• More than 500 scientists have warned against an “ unprecedented surveillance of society ” through problematic apps for “ contact tracing ” .
In some countries , such “ contact tracing ” is already carried out directly by the secret service .
In several parts of the world , the population is already being monitored by drones and facing serious police overreach .
• A 2019 WHO study @ @ @ @ @ @ @ found that from a medical perspective , “ contact tracing ” is “ not recommended in any circumstances ” .


climatedepot--2020-06-10--Flashback 2015: New Yorker mag: ‘Environmentalism’s Racist History’ – From Sierra Club’s founder Mui

Flashback 2015: New Yorker mag: ‘Environmentalism’s Racist History’ – From Sierra Club’s founder Muir to Ehrlich

This strain of misanthropy seemed to appear again in biologist Paul Ehrlich ’ s 1968 runaway best-seller “ The Population Bomb.
” Ehrlich illustrated overpopulation with a scene of a Delhi slum seen through a taxi window : a “ mob ” with a “ hellish aspect , ” full of “ people eating , people washing , people sleeping .
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People thrusting their hands through the taxi window , begging .
People defecating .
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” He confessed to being afraid that he and his wife would never @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on that night he came to understand overpopulation “ emotionally.
” John Muir , who founded the Sierra Club in 1892 : Muir , who felt fraternity with four-legged “ animal people ” and even plants , was at best ambivalent about human brotherhood .
Describing a thousand-mile walk from the Upper Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico , he reported the laziness of “ Sambos.
” Later he lamented the “ dirty and irregular life ” of Indians in the Merced River valley , near Yosemite .
In “ Our National Parks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to promote parks tourism , he assured readers that , “ As to Indians , most of them are dead or civilized into useless innocence.
” By Jedediah Purdy – August 13 , 2015 – Purdy teaches at Duke University .
His most recent book is “ After Nature.
” For these conservationists , who prized the expert governance of resources , it was an unsettlingly short step from managing forests to managing the human gene pool .
In a 1909 report to Roosevelt ’ s National Conservation Commission , Yale professor Irving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ public health to recommend preventing “ paupers ” and physically unhealthy people from reproducing , and warned against the “ race suicide ” that would follow if the country did not replenish itself with Northern European stock .
Fisher took the term “ race suicide ” from Roosevelt , who , in a 1905 speech , had pinned it on women who dodged childbearing .
Gifford Pinchot , the country ’ s foremost theorizer and popularizer of conservation , was a delegate to the first and second International Eugenics Congress , in 1912 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the advisory council of the American Eugenics Society , from 1925 to 1935 .
Roosevelt put Pinchot in charge of the National Conservation Commission , and made him head of the new Forest Service , but he also cultivated the Romantic naturalist John Muir , who founded the Sierra Club in 1892 .
In the Sierra Club ’ s early leaders , the environmental movement has some less troubling ancestors .
Following Muir , whose bearded face and St. Francis-like persona were as much its icons as Yosemite Valley , the club adopted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Emerson , and Wordsworth .
The point of preserving wild places , for these men—and , unlike in Roosevelt ’ s circles , some women—was to escape the utilitarian grind of lowland life and , as Muir wrote , to see the face of God in the high country .
But Muir , who felt fraternity with four-legged “ animal people ” and even plants , was at best ambivalent about human brotherhood .
Describing a thousand-mile walk from the Upper Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico , he reported the laziness of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ dirty and irregular life ” of Indians in the Merced River valley , near Yosemite .
In “ Our National Parks , ” a 1901 essay collection written to promote parks tourism , he assured readers that , “ As to Indians , most of them are dead or civilized into useless innocence.
” This might have been incisive irony , but in the same paragraph Muir was more concerned with human perfidy toward bears ( “ Poor fellows , they have been poisoned , trapped , and shot at until they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) than with how Native Americans had been killed and driven from their homes .
What does it mean that they cared more about “ animal people ” than about some human beings ?
The time they lived in is part of an explanation , but not an excuse .
For each of these environmentalist icons , the meaning of nature and wilderness was constrained , even produced , by an idea of civilization .
Their literary icon , Thoreau , had said in his 1854 speech “ Slavery in Massachusetts ” that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him pleasure when he thought of human injustice : “ What signifies the beauty of nature when men are base ?
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The remembrance of my country spoils my walk.
” But Thoreau also shared Muir ’ s problem ; in some ways , he created it .
When he wrote about American nature , Thoreau was arguing about American culture , which , even for most abolitionists , meant the culture of a white nation .
In his essay “ Walking , ” which gave environmentalists the slogan “ In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” Thoreau proposed that American greatness arose as “ the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow , and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.
” For both Muir and Thoreau , working , consuming , occupying , and admiring American nature was a way for a certain kind of white person to become symbolically native to the continent .
The nineteen-seventies saw a raft of new environmental laws and the growth of the Sierra Club ’ s membership from tens to hundreds of thousands @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this wave of environmental concern shared much with the older , exclusionary politics of nature .
In 1948 , more than a decade before Rachel Carson ’ s “ Silent Spring ” ( most of which was first published in this magazine ) , a pair of best-selling works of popular ecology sounded many of Carson ’ s themes , from the dangers of pesticides to the need to respect nature ’ s harmonies .
William Vogt ’ s “ Road to Survival ” embraced eugenics as a response to overpopulation , urging @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for sterilization , which would have “ a favorable selective influence ” on the species .
In “ Our Plundered Planet , ” Fairfield Osborn , the son of Madison Grant ’ s friend and ally Henry Fairfield Osborn , forecast that postwar humanitarianism , which allowed more people to survive into adulthood , would prove incompatible with natural limits .
While neither man evinced Madison Grant ’ s racial obsessions , they shared his eagerness to champion an admirable “ nature ” against a debased humanity that had flourished beyond its proper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to appear again in biologist Paul Ehrlich ’ s 1968 runaway best-seller “ The Population Bomb.
” Ehrlich illustrated overpopulation with a scene of a Delhi slum seen through a taxi window : a “ mob ” with a “ hellish aspect , ” full of “ people eating , people washing , people sleeping .
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People thrusting their hands through the taxi window , begging .
People defecating .
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People , people , people , people.
” He confessed to being afraid that he and his wife @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reported that on that night he came to understand overpopulation “ emotionally.
” By the evidence , what he had encountered was poverty .
Ehrlich was announcing that his environmentalist imperatives were powered by fear and repugnance at slum dwellers leading their lives in public view .
At the very least , he assumed that his readers would find those feelings resonant .
Even as environmentalism took on big new problems in the seventies , it also seemed to promise an escape hatch from continuing crises of inequality , social conflict , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Time described the environmental crisis as a problem that Americans “ might actually solve , unlike the immensely more elusive problems of race prejudice or the war in Vietnam.
” In his 1970 State of the Union address , in which he expended less than a hundred words on Vietnam , made no explicit reference to race , and yet launched a new racialized politics with calls for a “ war ” on crime and attacks on the welfare system , Richard Nixon spent almost a thousand words on the environment , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ party and beyond factions.
” That meant , of course , that he thought it could be a cause for the white majority .
Environmentalism largely was that .
When the Sierra Club polled its members , in 1972 , on whether the club should “ concern itself with the conservation problems of such special groups as the urban poor and ethnic minorities , ” forty per cent of respondents were strongly opposed , and only fifteen per cent were supportive .
( The phrasing of the question made the club ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its race problem took the movement nearly two decades .


climatedepot--2020-06-10--Gore Goes Woke: Links ‘white supremacists’ to ‘climate change’ – Gore’s training will have a ‘sustai

Gore Goes Woke: Links ‘white supremacists’ to ‘climate change’ – Gore’s training will have a ‘sustained emphasis on nexus between racism’ & ‘climate’

Gore decries 'the nexus between the climate crisis and racism ' Gore : `` These issues are inextricably braided together ...
The one stupid trick that white supremacists have used for 150 years is to accentuate racial division in order to build support among lower-income , majority-white voters for a corporate agenda that actually hurts them .
It does this by increasing the amount of pollution in their communities ... '' `` The training is about a good deal more than simply learning the facts and figures and narratives that make up the slideshow .
It will have a deep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racism and diversity and the climate challenge ... '' `` I 'm optimistic that joining together the climate movement and the racial equality movement will give us strength in numbers that will ultimately lead to success . ''
Question Emily Atkin to Al Gore : “ Does the new online training address the nexus of racial justice and climate justice in any way ?
” Al Gore : “ Oh , very definitely .
The training is about a good deal more than simply learning the facts and figures and narratives that make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a deep and sustained emphasis on the nexus between racism and diversity and the climate challenge… These issues are inextricably braided together .
The climate issue and the voter suppression issue , for example , are the same issue .
There ’ s a phrase that shows that up on the Internet quite a bit : “ Here ’ s one stupid trick.
” Well , the one stupid trick that white supremacists have used for 150 years is to accentuate racial division in order to build support among lower-income , majority-white voters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them .
It does this by increasing the amount of pollution in their communities , keeping wages low , stripping workers in the gig economy of health benefits , family leave , child care , et cetera.
” Gore : “ I do think we are crossing , at long last , the fabled good tipping point on climate .
I hope that we are close to passing a tipping point on race in America .
But I ’ m old enough and have seen enough to know that that ’ s a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I ’ m optimistic that joining together the climate movement and the racial equality movement will give us strength in numbers that will ultimately lead to success.
” “ What you will get is a very solid grounding in the science of climate , the causes of the climate crisis , the nexus between the climate crisis and racism .
You will also acquire communication skills , advocacy skills.
” “ I have been speaking out quite a bit over the last two months on the nexus between racism and climate and COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a feeling that I was addressing these systemic racism issues.
” “ We have always included a very heavy part of our curriculum on the nexus between racism and climate .
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climatedepot--2020-06-10--Chief Climate Policy Advisor to NYC Mayor: ‘There is no climate justice without racial justice. To c

Chief Climate Policy Advisor to NYC Mayor: ‘There is no climate justice without racial justice. To confront our climate crisis, we have a responsibility to dismantle the injustice of systemic racism’

Daniel Zarrilli is the Chief Climate Policy Advisor to NYC Mayor : `` There is no climate justice without racial @ @ @ @ @ climate crisis , we have a responsibility to dismantle the injustice of systemic racism that @ @ @ @ @ s core .
Building a strong and fair city will only succeed because we know @ @ @ @ @ ''


climatedepot--2020-06-10--Woke Warmist Jonathan Foley claims climate skeptics are ‘nasty male chauvinists’ who threaten people

Woke Warmist Jonathan Foley claims climate skeptics are ‘nasty male chauvinists’ who threaten people’s lives

Today I learned something truly shocking from @ GlobalEcoGuy : Women like @ curryja , @ sjc_pbs , @ JoanneNova @ @ @ @ @ JennMarohasy are `` nasty male chauvinists '' !
@ jjacobs22 https : //t.co/dwqxWpgqHS In climate @ @ @ @ @ , climate skeptics are n't people who question global warming junk science–they are `` nasty @ @ @ @ @ funded by the petroleum industry and who threaten people 's lives .
https : //t.co/w556pnmDml


climatedepot--2020-06-10--Sierra Club goes full woke: ‘We will never survive the climate crisis without ending white supremacy

Sierra Club goes full woke: ‘We will never survive the climate crisis without ending white supremacy’ – “When the U.S. pours carbon pollution into the air…that is white supremacy’

Excerpts : During the street protests and marches of the past two weeks , many people carried signs that read “ Racism Is Killing Us.
” It ’ s no exaggeration to say that racism and white supremacy harm all of us , because in addition to robbing us of our humanity , racism is also killing the planet we all share .
An idea—a long-overdue realization—is growing in the environmental movement .
It goes something like this : “ We ’ ll never stop climate change without ending white supremacy.
” This argument has entered the outdoor recreation and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Black , Indigenous , and other people of color in the climate justice movement .
The idea has taken on new force as folks in the mainstream environmental movement do our best to show up for George Floyd , Breonna Taylor , Tony McDade , and all the Black people still living and subject to police violence .
I know that a lot of people are struggling with the thought that addressing the environmental crises must involve dismantling white supremacy .
At Sierra Club meetings , some people hear me say something like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fighting climate change wasn ’ t hard enough already ?
Now we have to end racism and white supremacy too ?
Seriously , man ?
” I get that feeling of being overwhelmed .
It ’ s a lot to carry .
It ’ s a lot to hold .
We all have enough to do without feeling like we ’ re taking on even more .
But I want to share another lens from which we can view this moment .
I really believe in my heart of hearts—after a lifetime of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will never survive the climate crisis without ending white supremacy .
Here ’ s why : You can ’ t have climate change without sacrifice zones , and you can ’ t have sacrifice zones without disposable people , and you can ’ t have disposable people without racism .
When a kid in East Oakland gets asthma from car pollution because her neighborhood is surrounded by freeways , that is white supremacy .


climatedepot--2020-06-12--Greta Thunberg Demands Canada and Norway Stop Expanding Fossil Fuel Extraction

Greta wants to use her alleged influence over 20 % of the United Nations vote to try to pressure Norway and Canada into a climate virtue bidding war , as they both contend for a seat on the UN Security Council .
Greta Thunberg looks to UN security council election for leverage on climate Youth activists have written to small island negotiators , urging them to use their vote to pressure Canada and Norway into ending oil extraction Greta Thunberg is urging small island diplomats to put Canada and Norway ’ s oil interests in the spotlight as the two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ council .
Thunberg is one of four youth activists to sign a letter , along with 22 climate scientists , raising “ grave concerns ” about the Arctic nations ’ policies to expand and subsidise fossil fuel extraction .
Canada and Norway are competing with Ireland for two seats on the UN security council , both promising to address climate change as a threat to peace and stability .
Yet their support for increased oil and gas production is incompatible with international climate goals , argued signatories to the letter , published in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ island developing states , as some of the most vulnerable countries to climate breakdown , to use their vote to highlight these concerns .
While their numbers are not sufficient to wield veto power , the 38 small island developing states hold 20 % of votes .


climatedepot--2020-06-12--Oceans Cooling May 2020 – ‘Earth’s ocean cooling off after last summer’s warming in the Northern Hem

Oceans Cooling May 2020 – ‘Earth’s ocean cooling off after last summer’s warming in the Northern Hemisphere’

The cool 2020 Spring is not just your local experience , it ’ s the result of Earth ’ s ocean cooling off after last summer ’ s warming in the Northern Hemisphere .
The chart below shows SST monthly anomalies as reported in HadSST3 starting in 2015 through May 2020 .
The best context for understanding decadal temperature changes comes from the world ’ s sea surface temperatures ( SST ) , for several reasons : • The ocean covers 71 % of the globe and drives average temperatures ; • SSTs have a constant water content , ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a better reading of heat content variations ; • A major El Nino was the dominant climate feature in recent years .
HadSST is generally regarded as the best of the global SST data sets , and so the temperature story here comes from that source , the latest version being HadSST3 .
More on what distinguishes HadSST3 from other SST products at the end .
The cool 2020 Spring is not just your local experience , it ’ s the result of Earth ’ s ocean cooling off after last summer ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The chart below shows SST monthly anomalies as reported in HadSST3 starting in 2015 through May 2020 .
A global cooling pattern is seen clearly in the Tropics since its peak in 2016 , joined by NH and SH cycling downward since 2016 .
In 2019 all regions had been converging to reach nearly the same value in April .
Then NH rose exceptionally by almost 0.5C over the four summer months , in August exceeding previous summer peaks in NH since 2015 .
In the 4 succeeding months , that warm NH @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anomaly is up a little from March but matching last November .
SH and Tropics SSTs bumped upward in March , but dropped sharply since .
In May the Global anomaly is the same as December 2019 .
Note that higher temps in 2015 and 2016 were first of all due to a sharp rise in Tropical SST , beginning in March 2015 , peaking in January 2016 , and steadily declining back below its beginning level .
Secondly , the Northern Hemisphere added three bumps on the shoulders of Tropical warming , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
A fourth NH bump was lower and peaked in September 2018 .
As noted above , a fifth peak in August 2019 exceeded the four previous upward bumps in NH .
And as before , note that the global release of heat was not dramatic , due to the Southern Hemisphere offsetting the Northern one .
The major difference between now and 2015-2016 is the absence of Tropical warming driving the SSTs .
The graph below is noisy , but the density is needed to see the seasonal patterns in the oceanic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rise and fall of the last El Nino starting in 2015 .
This post adds a longer view , encompassing the significant 1998 El Nino and since .
The color schemes are retained for Global , Tropics , NH and SH anomalies .
Despite the longer time frame , I have kept the monthly data ( rather than yearly averages ) because of interesting shifts between January and July .
1995 is a reasonable ( ENSO neutral ) starting point prior to the first El Nino .
The sharp Tropical rise peaking in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ starting Jan. ’ 97 to pull up SSTs uniformly before returning to the same level Jan. ’ 99 .
For the next 2 years , the Tropics stayed down , and the world ’ s oceans held steady around 0.2C above 1961 to 1990 average .
Then comes a steady rise over two years to a lesser peak Jan. 2003 , but again uniformly pulling all oceans up around 0.4C .
Something changes at this point , with more hemispheric divergence than before .
Over the 4 years until Jan 2007 , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NH a series of ups and SH mostly downs .
As a result the Global average fluctuates around that same 0.4C , which also turns out to be the average for the entire record since 1995 .
2007 stands out with a sharp drop in temperatures so that Jan.08 matches the low in Jan. ’ 99 , but starting from a lower high .
The oceans all decline as well , until temps build peaking in 2010 .
Now again a different pattern appears .
The Tropics cool sharply to Jan 11 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jan 15 , at which point the most recent major El Nino takes off .
But this time in contrast to ’ 97- ’ 99 , the Northern Hemisphere produces peaks every summer pulling up the Global average .
In fact , these NH peaks appear every July starting in 2003 , growing stronger to produce 3 massive highs in 2014 , 15 and 16 .
NH July 2017 was only slightly lower , and a fifth NH peak still lower in Sept. 2018 .
The highest summer NH peak came in 2019 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ SH are offsetting rather adding to the warming .
Since 2014 SH has played a moderating role , offsetting the NH warming pulses .
Now in January 2020 last summer ’ s unusually high NH SSTs have been erased .
( Note : these are high anomalies on top of the highest absolute temps in the NH . )
What to make of all this ?
The patterns suggest that in addition to El Ninos in the Pacific driving the Tropic SSTs , something else is going on in the NH .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ since I have seen this sort of pulsing before .
After reading some papers by David Dilley , I confirmed his observation of Atlantic pulses into the Arctic every 8 to 10 years .
But the peaks coming nearly every summer in HadSST require a different picture .
Let ’ s look at August , the hottest month in the North Atlantic from the Kaplan dataset .
The AMO Index is from from Kaplan SST v2 , the unaltered and not detrended dataset .
By definition , the data are monthly average SSTs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ North Atlantic basically 0 to 70N .
The graph shows warming began after 1992 up to 1998 , with a series of matching years since .
Because the N. Atlantic has partnered with the Pacific ENSO recently , let ’ s take a closer look at some AMO years in the last 2 decades .
This graph shows monthly AMO temps for some important years .
The Peak years were 1998 , 2010 and 2016 , with the latter emphasized as the most recent .
The other years show lesser warming , with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last 20 years .
Note the red 2018 line is at the bottom of all these tracks .
The black line shows that 2020 began slightly warm , then set records for 3 months before dropping below 2016 and 2017 .
The oceans are driving the warming this century .
SSTs took a step up with the 1998 El Nino and have stayed there with help from the North Atlantic , and more recently the Pacific northern “ Blob.
” The ocean surfaces are releasing a lot of energy , warming the air @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effect .
The decline after 1937 was rapid by comparison , so one wonders : How long can the oceans keep this up ?
If the pattern of recent years continues , NH SST anomalies may rise slightly in coming months , but once again , ENSO which has weakened will probably determine the outcome .
HadSST3 is distinguished from other SST products because HadCRU ( Hadley Climatic Research Unit ) does not engage in SST interpolation , i.e .
infilling estimated anomalies into grid cells lacking sufficient sampling in a given month @ @ @ @ @ @ @ queries to Met Office , this is their procedure .
HadSST3 imports data from gridcells containing ocean , excluding land cells .
From past records , they have calculated daily and monthly average readings for each grid cell for the period 1961 to 1990 .
Those temperatures form the baseline from which anomalies are calculated .
In a given month , each gridcell with sufficient sampling is averaged for the month and then the baseline value for that cell and that month is subtracted , resulting in the monthly anomaly for that cell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ averaged to produce global , hemispheric and tropical anomalies for the month , based on the cells in those locations .
For example , Tropics averages include ocean grid cells lying between latitudes 20N and 20S .
Gridcells lacking sufficient sampling that month are left out of the averaging , and the uncertainty from such missing data is estimated .
IMO that is more reasonable than inventing data to infill .
And it seems that the Global Drifter Array displayed in the top image is providing more uniform coverage of the oceans than @ @ @ @


climatedepot--2020-06-12--Green stimulus programs to be defunded to balance budgets – ‘EVs, Solar, Wind Sidelined as State Bud

Green stimulus programs to be defunded to balance budgets – ‘EVs, Solar, Wind Sidelined as State Budgets Slashed’

The future of many climate change and renewable energy projects across the United States is in serious doubt as states slash budgets due to the fallout from the CCP virus crisis .
With fiscal black holes looming and taxation and other income having been decimated , state governors look set to cut back where they can to ensure the provision of essential services .
Rebates for EVs and funding for renewables such as wind and solar are at the top of the chopping list.
< A prime example is California .
Gov .
Gavin Newsom faces a $ 54 billion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chinese Communist Party ) virus , also known as the novel coronavirus .
His recent budgetary amendments were singled out for criticism by the California Sierra Club for “ cutting and shifting funds away from key environmental programs.
” According to the International Energy Agency ’ s ( IEA ) recent World Energy Investment 2020 report , the global economy is currently facing “ the largest decline in global energy investment in history.
” “ At the start of 2020 , global energy investment was on track for its largest annual rise in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ report .
“ But after the COVID-19 crisis brought large swathes of the world economy to a standstill in a matter of months , investment is now expected to plummet by 20 percent , or almost $ 400 billion , compared with last year .
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climatedepot--2020-06-12--UK Not Really Buying Into Climate Activism

The shallowness of climate concern among the public and voters is a large elephant in the climate room .
A recent poll by the American Energy Alliance confirmed that U.S. voters are much more interested in pocketbook issues than in the ephemeral , politicized issue of “ climate change.
” The same is true when it comes to politics as Senator Sheldon Whitehouse ( D-RI ) lamented earlier this year : The same appears to be the case in the United Kingdom , despite all the establishment hype about climate concern .
Specifically , a row has developed between the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , detailed in a Reuters article of May 25 , 2020 , “ Bust-up over climate weighs on EU-UK talks , risks trade rifts.
” On the surface , it appears that this is more form than substance since each has the same long-term CO2 emission goals .
But long-term aspirational goals mean little is the UK scales back and finds itself facing “ border adjustments ” ( tariffs ) from the EU members .
But there is something going on that is more fundamental .
A recent analysis by Rebecca Willis in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t Want to be Seen As a Zealot ’ : What MPs Really Think About the Climate Crisis ( May 21 , 2020 ) , tells the story .
“ [ The MP ] told me she regularly speaks for her party on climate change , telling people about the need for action to tackle emissions .
And yet , she said , there was a catch : lots of people in the constituency she represents have jobs in an industry responsible for huge amounts of carbon pollution… .
She was simultaneously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There is very little honest debate about the major changes to our economy and society that will be needed if we are to meet this challenge .
Like my interviewee , we ’ re all in favour of climate action , but we haven ’ t yet had an honest conversation about the power and the vested interests involved , or the choices that will have to be made if we are to achieve significant reductions in emissions.
” “ I have come to think of this as the dual reality of climate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to change , and yet we ’ re embedded in our current lives and our current politics .
We exist in both realities at once.
” “ Politicians make grand statements about the threat of climate change , then flip straight back into politics-as-usual .
They find it hard to imagine , and to get others to imagine , how we might talk about and bring into being a politics with climate at its heart .
It ’ s easier to look away.
” “ Covid-19 is , understandably , taking up all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , for now .
But the need for fast , radical carbon cuts – and a political strategy that will allow this to happen – has not gone away .
Will green investment be prioritised in the economic stimulus packages that are undoubtedly needed ?
Will people think differently about travel or food security ?
Will we emerge with a politics that focuses more on a collective approach to global challenges such as climate ?
Or will we fall back into desperate attempts to rekindle the old economy and the old ways ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But my research offers some clues about how the recovery could be climate-proofed.
” “ Politicians quietly passed a radical act of parliament [ Climate Change Act of 2009 ] committing the UK to serious change – and then carried on as normal.
” “ With the backing of Green Alliance and some philanthropic funders , I set up a training programme .
We offered parliamentary candidates and new MPs the chance to learn about the science , policy and politics of climate in a series of tailor-made workshops… .
And then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they walked out of the door and back to their normal lives.
” “ All the politicians I spoke to accepted the science of climate change .
And yet they downplayed the consequences .
They showed a reluctance to discuss how climate change would reshape human society.
” “ I asked [ the MP ] why , if it ’ s so significant , [ climate ] wasn ’ t discussed much in parliament .
But he didn ’ t answer .
He couldn ’ t , or didn ’ t want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he steered the discussion on to electoral cycles , the health service , the economy .
He was back in the manageable normality he knew , rejecting the reality of a climate-changed future that had , just a few moments before , terrified him.
” “ The way politicians responded to climate didn ’ t just depend on what they thought about the science .
Instead , it became clear to me that there were two main reasons why MPs struggled with the issue : first , because it didn ’ t fit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and their own identity as a parliamentarian ; and second , because they worried that public support for climate action was limited , and that , as representatives , they needed to be led by their electorate.
” “ One former MP , who had been an active climate campaigner in parliament , said : ‘ I was known as being a freak.
’ Another told me about how he tried to avoid being seen as a ‘ zealot ’ .
These remarks were common in my conversations with politicians.
” “ Some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mention of climate for fear that it would put an unhelpful label on them .
One confident , outspoken MP who worked on energy policy told me that he did what he could to promote policies that would reduce carbon , but justified his proposals on other grounds , such as reducing fuel bills .
‘ I don ’ t use climate change as the word because I think it ’ s just toxic , ’ he told me .
‘ As is the way in these issues which are contentious , you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politically.
’ ” “ Socially organised denial is alive and well in the [ House of ] Commons .
It is exacerbated by very deliberate strategies from those who have a stake in high-carbon activities : countries , and companies , that depend on fossil fuels.
” “ Little has been done to curb carbon-intensive activity .
New coal mines are opened and new airports built with little discussion of climate impacts .
If we are constantly finding new ways to dig up and burn carbon , it won ’ t be enough @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Study after study shows that meeting climate goals means phasing out the extraction and use of oil , coal and gas – yet no mainstream political party has a coherent plan to do this.
” “ … no MP felt that their voters were putting them under particular pressure to act .
As one said to me , ‘ I ’ ve knocked hundreds , literally thousands of doors , and had tens of thousands of conversations with voters … and I just don ’ t have conversations about climate change.
’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , global issue with no clear beginning or end – it ’ s more complicated .
Politicians have to work quite hard to make a claim for why acting on climate is in the best interests of their electorate.
” “ Another told me about proposals for a new road in his constituency , which he opposed .
If he had used a climate argument , he said , ‘ there would have been a rolling of eyes and saying : “ Oh , here he goes again ” .
’ Instead , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , saying that investment in public transport was a better option.
” “ In this new world of the coronavirus pandemic … some have cheered the unintentional environmental benefits of lockdown .
It ’ s certainly true that the air is cleaner , the streets quieter .
We can hear the birdsong .
Carbon emissions have taken a dive , too .
But this is in no way a model for climate strategy.
” The world is rejecting climate alarmism .
Many simply do not buy the apocalypse .
Many more pay lip @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to get through the day .
That leaves the all-committed noisy protesters , who blindly refuse to check their premises and reconsider redirecting their passion and resources toward real here-and-now problems .
It will be a slow , excruciating death for advocates of “ green ” energy in a futile crusade against dense , storable , portable mineral energies .
The faster the futile deindustrialization crusade is ended , the better .


climatedepot--2020-06-12--Cooling In Eurasia, North America, Africa, Australia, South America, Greenland, Antarctica Undercuts

Cooling In Eurasia, North America, Africa, Australia, South America, Greenland, Antarctica Undercuts ‘Global’ WarmingB

In recent decades there have been “ notable cooling trends ” throughout many regions of the globe according to several new studies .
A year ago NoTricksZone ( NTZ ) announced Greenland Has Been Cooling In Recent Years – 26 Of Its 47 Largest Glaciers Now Stable Or Gaining Ice .
Six months ago NTZ cited several scientific papers indicating The Region From 50-70°S Has Cooled Since The 1980s As North Atlantic SSTs Have Cooled 1°C Since 2004 .
Three months ago we reported A Massive Cooling Of 2°C In 8 Years ( 2008-2016 ) Has Jolted Large Regions Of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ago we shared a New Study Finds The Larsen Ice Shelf ( Antarctic Peninsula ) Has Cooled More Than 2°C Since 1991 .
Now we shine the light on 3 more studies that assess “ Eurasia , North America , Africa , Australia , South America , and Greenland experienced notable cooling trends ” from 2002 to 2013 ( Xu et al.
, 2020 ) , and both West and East Antarctica have been rapidly cooling since the mid-2000s ( Hrbáček and Uxa , 2020 and Fatras et al.
, 2020 ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be asked : Just how global is recent “ global warming ” ?
“ Concurrent with the slowdown of global warming during 2002–2013 , the wintertime land surface air temperatures over Eurasia , North America , Africa , Australia , South America , and Greenland experienced notable cooling trends .
… The slowdown concurs with a negative phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation ( PDO ) , indicating that PDO plays an important role in modulating the global warming signal .
Not all ensemble members capture the cooling trends over the continents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ variability.
” “ A significant air temperature decrease started around 2000 along most of the Western AP .
The cooling triggered by natural variability of cyclonic activity and increasing sea‐ice concentrations near coastlines caused MAAT trends of −0.16 to 0.05°C y−1 in the period 2006–2015 .
In contrast , the MAAT on JRI was increasing at a non‐significant rate of 0.10°C y−1 , which corresponds to observations from other sites of the north‐eastern AP where positive , but non‐significant , trends between 0.02 and 0.08°C y−1 have been reported.10 Unlike MAAT , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ y−1 for MAGT 5 .
Interestingly , the MSAT and MSGT 5 trends were positive only in autumn ( MAM ) , at 0.30 and 0.13°C y−1 , respectively , while they were negative in the other three seasons .
Yet , the north‐eastern AP region exhibited a MAAT more than 1°C lower in the period 2006–2015 compared to 1996–2005 , and autumn ( MAM ) air temperature was even about 1.5°C lower.
” “ The mean annual Sea Surface Temperature ( SST ) variations from ECMWF ERA interim database are displayed on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ particular trend for the 1979–2018 period , with variations contained between -1°C and +0.15°C .
Nevertheless , the mean temperature between 1979 and 2000 is -0.45°C and decreases to -0.64°C during the 2000–2015 period .
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climatedepot--2020-06-12--Natural Climate Forces Dominate: New Paper Shows CO2 Doesn’t Lead To More Weather Blocking: ‘Quite S

Natural Climate Forces Dominate: New Paper Shows CO2 Doesn’t Lead To More Weather Blocking: ‘Quite Some Nonsense’

On June 3 , 2020 , npj Climate and Atmospheric Science published a study by Athanasiadis et al .
2020 , in which the authors investigated the question of whether changes in the frequency of blocked weather situations in the North Atlantic and Central European region are predictable .
Previously , scientists inclined towards climate alarmism had told us that CO2 would lead to more and more blocked weather situations .
Quite some nonsense as it now turns out , because the blockings are more likely to be due to the 60-year AMO ocean cycle , which in turn affects @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Decadal predictability of North Atlantic blocking and the NAO Can multi-annual variations in the frequency of North Atlantic atmospheric blocking and mid-latitude circulation regimes be skilfully predicted ?
Recent advances in seasonal forecasting have shown that mid-latitude climate variability does exhibit significant predictability .
However , atmospheric predictability has generally been found to be quite limited on multi-annual timescales .
New decadal prediction experiments from NCAR are found to exhibit remarkable skill in reproducing the observed multi-annual variations of wintertime blocking frequency over the North Atlantic and of the North Atlantic Oscillation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ partly due to the large ensemble size that allows the predictable component of the atmospheric variability to emerge from the background chaotic component .
The predictable atmospheric anomalies represent a forced response to oceanic low-frequency variability that strongly resembles the Atlantic Multi-decadal Variability ( AMV ) , correctly reproduced in the decadal hindcasts thanks to realistic ocean initialization and ocean dynamics .
The occurrence of blocking in certain areas of the Euro-Atlantic domain determines the concurrent circulation regime and the phase of known teleconnections , such as the NAO , consequently affecting the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ extreme weather events .
Therefore , skilfully predicting the decadal fluctuations of blocking frequency and the NAO may be used in statistical predictions of near-term climate anomalies , and it provides a strong indication that impactful climate anomalies may also be predictable with improved dynamical models .
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climatedepot--2020-06-12--Facebook Back to Censoring ‘Global Warming’ Dissenting Views

Hyperpartisan “ Fact-checkers ” Appear to Find a Video Loophole in the 2019 Policy Change of Not Blocking Opinion Pieces “ Facebook Thinks its Opinion is Better than Yours ” provides a detailed scientific response , with links to all relevant documents , to the “ false ” label placed by Facebook in May on Dr. Michaels ’ expert opinion that about half of the one degree Celsius global warming since 1900 is natural , with the other half being human-caused , from emissions of carbon dioxide .
As the Science & Policy Brief notes , Dr. Michaels ’ opinion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate change agency .
The CO2 Coalition of climate scientists today published a Science & Policy Brief by Dr. Patrick Michaels , formerly the president of the association of state climatologists and an expert reviewer and author for the UN ’ s climate change agency , about the recent censorship by Facebook of his three-million view appearance on the Life , Liberty & Levin television show .
A “ false ” label on Facebook creates a “ shadow ban ” that blocks distribution and advertisement .
In 2019 Facebook , relying on a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact-checker , ” similarly censored an op-ed on computer models of the climate that was published in the Washington Examiner by Dr. Michaels and the CO2 Coalition ’ s executive director , former statistics professor Caleb Rossiter .
After a detailed appeal to CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Dr. Michaels and Dr. Rossiter , Facebook removed the label and adopted a new policy of not submitting op-eds to “ fact-checking.
” “ There are two issues we are asking Mr. Zuckerberg to address in this new case , ” said Dr. Rossiter .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the lack of clarity in Facebook ’ s definition of ‘ opinion ’ that will not be subject to censorship .
Why should spoken opinions about scientific judgment be censored when written ones are not ?
Second , why is Facebook still relying on Eric Michelman ’ s alarmist Climate Feedback ?
As Dr. Michaels shows in the Brief , this group has a long history as a biased ‘ goon squad ’ whose climate science claims are sloppy and weak.
” Download the Science & Policy Brief Facebook Thinks its Opinion @ @ @ @


climatedepot--2020-06-12--A Green New Deal architect: Racial protests & ‘climate crisis’ are ‘connected’

Demands for climate action have largely faded into the background as the covid-19 pandemic , the economic meltdown , and widespread protests over police brutality have seized the world ’ s attention .
But for Rhiana Gunn-Wright , the director of climate policy at the Roosevelt Institute and one of the architects of the Green New Deal , the issues are inextricably intertwined .
You can ’ t appreciate the real toll of the fossil-fuel sector if you ’ re not looking at it through the lenses of racial justice , economic inequality , and public health , she says @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ The people most likely to die from toxic fumes are the same people most likely to die from Covid-19 , ” she wrote .
“ It ’ s like we are watching a preview of the worst possible impacts of the climate crisis roll right before our eyes.
” One critique of the Green New Deal was that it took on too much , multiplying the difficulty of making progress on any one of the deeply polarized issues it addressed .
But Gunn-Wright argues that this was its strength : tying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sweeping policy package underscored the connections between them and helped build a broader coalition of supporters behind them .
In the interview that follows , she says everything that ’ s happened in 2020 has only deepened those convictions .
This interview has been edited for length and clarity .
How have the protests , or the reactions to the protests , changed your thinking specifically around how to tackle climate and environmental justice issues ?
Mostly it made me realize that we were right .
When the Green New Deal came out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ press , and it felt like I spent six months answering the same set of questions .
What role does equity have in this ?
Why attach it to a climate proposal ?
Won ’ t this actually make it harder ?
People were nervous that attaching climate change and climate policy to calls for racial justice or economic justice was too much , that we were actually going to make it harder to make progress on climate—as if they aren ’ t all connected , which they are .
We were essentially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a technical problem .
It ’ s not just an issue of emissions .
It ’ s an issue of the systems that have allowed an industry that essentially poisons people to continue , and to do so even as it further and further imperils our survival , both as a nation and as a globe .
It comes down to issues of race and class and place .
And so this moment actually makes me glad that we did that work before .
Because it has meant that some groups that are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sunrise Movement , have invested in this set of uprisings .
They ’ re working with the Movement for Black Lives to get their members out to protest , to connect them to actions , to help them understand how climate is connected to this .
The Green New Deal helped push the conversations around climate away from a purely technocratic space .
The increasingly popular stance on it—at least among climate experts , wonks , activists in the climate space—is about the nexus of jobs , justice and environment .
And I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lot easier for climate change to continue to be talked about in this moment and not be shoved aside .
Last week , you tweeted : “ climate twitter seems real silent these days….
” You were just saying that in some ways , you ’ ve seen a broadening of support across groups .
Did you mean there that you ’ re still not seeing the climate community doing enough to stand up for racial justice issues and policing reforms ?
Yeah , I can say I ’ m not seeing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saying it was from nothing to , you know , something .
And I have noticed before that when other big things happened—not quite this big—there will always be a silence .
But then I would watch people have , like , three-day-long conversations about utility tariffs .
So I do think that there ’ s still that divide .
There ’ s still a fair amount of people who think of climate as something that ’ s outside of our social systems .
I think part of it is the discipline silo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change in the public sphere by questioning if it was really happening .
So it has become a really technical and scientific space , because one way to fight back against that is to continually produce more data , and new ways to prove what ’ s going on .
A downside is , sometimes it can feel like if it ’ s not scientific , you shouldn ’ t talk about it .
Unless you have reams of data to support it , you shouldn ’ t introduce it .
Which is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t tell us what ’ s true ; data tells us what we decided to measure .
And especially when you ’ re talking about race , and racial justice , there are a lot of lived experiences that haven ’ t been quantified .
What role should climate have in any upcoming economic recovery packages ?
There ’ s a growing consensus that for an economic recovery from covid to be robust , decarbonization has to be a significant part of it .
In my estimation , it should be centered around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like , a nice thing to have .
It makes economic sense .
Investments in clean energy have better multipliers , right ?
They give you more bang for your buck .
They create more jobs .
They catalyze more innovation .
And most of all , they help stabilize the climate , which is crucial economically speaking , particularly given the levels of temperature increases we ’ re looking at by the end of the century .
Fixing that is an incredibly stabilizing force .
We ’ re going to be left @ @ @ @ @ @ @ generate huge numbers of jobs , and where you have to offset a really significant drop in demand .
And decarbonization is one of the only spaces that can do that .
It ’ s one of the only spaces where we can generate that many jobs , where they ’ ll also create new industries , and where you have the chance to spark new innovations that essentially help continue to grow the economy even after the initial investment is made .
And so you have all those arguments stacking up for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ makes the most economic sense .
Really , the only reasons to not do it are political reasons .
But in the US , that ’ s not what ’ s happening so far .
A lot of our recovery money is going to oil and gas industries , and renewables are losing ground .
There ’ s no targeted support for them in the CARES Act [ the economic relief bill passed in late March ] .
What can the climate community do to be more inclusive and more responsive to other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people of color .
And particularly people of color who don ’ t have the same educational background as I think is common in climate or policy work in general .
If we want to actually be serious about supporting other movements that are aligned around justice , we have to make sure that the inside of our organizations actually looks like that .
And that means not just hiring people of color , but also not just hiring people of color from the Ivy League .
Hire people who have been activists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about a topic from being in it .
Even if people are deep in this discipline , it ’ s important to not silo ourselves off intellectually .
It ’ s always important for us , particularly if we ’ re not activists out in the street , to remember that the ways that we theorize around or think of a problem is not actually necessarily the way it ’ s happening .


climatedepot--2020-06-12--Inconvenient Truth: Tornado Numbers Expose Al Gore’s Lies – Reality Check: ‘Tornado activity has bee

Inconvenient Truth: Tornado Numbers Expose Al Gore’s Lies – Reality Check: ‘Tornado activity has been declining for decades’

In two articles published this past week here at Climate Realism , we showed how Al Gore ’ s predictions about melting glaciers in Glacier National Park and disappearing snows at Mt .
Kilimanjaro have proven spectacularly wrong .
Those were the only two concrete predictions Gore made with a definitive timeline prior to today in his book , An Inconvenient Truth .
Gore failed on both accounts .
But those weren ’ t Gore ’ s only spectacular embarrassments .
Let ’ s take a look at what Gore claimed about tornadoes .
On page 86 in An Inconvenient @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2004 , the all-time record for tornadoes in the United States was broken.
” Worse than his two failed predictions , this one is a flat-out lie .
And it was a flat-out lie when Gore asserted it .
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) has been meticulously keeping tornado records going back 65 years , to 1954 .
As shown in the NOAA graph reproduced below , there were 600 tornadoes in 2004 .
Prior to 2004 , however , there were six different years in which NOAA documented @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s statement was a lie the second he made it .
Even more embarrassingly for Gore , the NOAA graph likely undercounted tornadoes during the mid-1950s through the late 20th century .
That is because advanced radar in recent years has enabled scientists to identify tornadoes in the middle of nowhere that previously would not have been counted .
As a result , it is likely that there were well more than six years between 1954 and 2004 with more tornadoes than Gore ’ s ‘ all-time-record year ’ of 2004 .
Occasionally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ OK , but what about strong tornadoes – the ones that really cause a lot of damage .
Those are the ones that really matter , and perhaps Gore was talking about those.
’ As you can see from this additional NOAA chart below , strong tornadoes ( F3 and above ) have been in long-term decline , with 2004 ( like most recent years ) experiencing a well-below-average number of tornadoes .
Any way you cut it , 2004 was not the all-time record year for tornadoes .
It wasn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been declining for decades .
Yet the establishment media fawns over Gore as a global warming prophet while attacking as “ deniers ” anybody who points out the facts above .
I place my money on the American people being smart enough to see through the media propaganda .


climatedepot--2020-06-12--Europe’s Green Deal May Get Watered Down As Poorer Nations Lobby For Fossil Fuel Power

At the end of May 2020 , eight EU countries ( Lithuania , Poland , Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary , Romania , Bulgaria and Greece ) started lobbying to retain EU funds for natural gas projects .
They say that without natural gas , coal can ’ t be phased out in time to meet short and middle term climate targets .
From this , environmental groups are worried that Europe ’ s Green Deal is being watered down .
In earlier communications on the proposal , the European Commission called to phase out support for fossil fuels @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : natural gas continues to play a key role in replacing coal .
Climate activists like Marcus Trilling from Climate Action Network want a block on any funding for natural gas from EU coronavirus recovery funds .
“ We see the lobbying of the fossil fuel industry as well on the highest level in the commission , which still until today was not able to clearly say we don ’ t provide fossil fuel subsidies from the EU sources anymore , ” says Trilling .
These are “ investment decisions which are shaping @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decades to come .
If I am now investing in fossil gas , then I am locking in emissions in those decades to come , ” he went on .
Romanian Liberal Member of the European Parliament Dragoș Tudorache says investing in natural gas infrastructure is not a waste of money .
“ Moving straight away from coal to something that is completely fossil fuel independent is impossible if you don ’ t transit through something .
And that transition , unless other technology becomes available , is natural gas .
Of course @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be made sustainable in terms of our green goals .
And there are technologies right now where hydrogen is expected to replace gradually natural gas and of course that has to be part of the projects that we are developing , ” the MEP said .
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climatedepot--2020-06-12--Green NGO Deletes David Attenborough Video Amid Racism Claims – Showed ‘images of Asian and white pe

Green NGO Deletes David Attenborough Video Amid Racism Claims – Showed ‘images of Asian and white people are used in calling for lower population growth’

A conservation charity has apologised and deleted a video message by Sir David Attenborough in which images of Asian and white people are used in calling for lower population growth .
The video showed Asian people bathing in a river and then showed bigger crowds of white people .
In his voiceover , Sir David says we should “ stabilise the human population as low as we fairly can ” to save the planet .
Other versions of the same video with the same message are still available online but they show only white people when Sir David talks of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ video on Twitter on Friday , which was World Environment Day .
It deleted it hours later and posted a message saying : “ Earlier today we shared a video that could appear to support a narrative that people of colour are responsible for the pressures of a growing world population .
This is not our intent at all .
We have deleted the video and apologise — we will do better.
” see also GWPF coverage of Eco-Imperialism The post Green NGO Deletes David Attenborough Video Amid Racism Claimsappeared first on The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .


climatedepot--2020-06-12--New Study: Islands Across the World Could Adapt To Rising Sea Levels

Coral reef islands across the world could naturally adapt to survive the impact of rising sea levels , according to new research .
The increased flooding caused by the changing global climate has been predicted to render such communities – where sandy or gravel islands sit on top of coral reef platforms – uninhabitable within decades .
However , an international study led by the University of Plymouth ( UK ) suggests that perceived fate is far from a foregone conclusion .
The research , published in Science Advances , for the first time uses numerical modelling of island morphology @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reef islands – which provide the only habitable land in atoll nations – can respond when sea levels rise .
The results show that islands composed of gravel material can evolve in the face of overtopping waves , with sediment from the beach face being transferred to the island ’ s surface .
This means the island ’ s crest is being raised as sea level rises , with scientists saying such natural adaptation may provide an alternative future that can potentially support near-term habitability , albeit with additional management challenges , possibly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flood-proof housing .
The research was led by Gerd Masselink , Professor of Coastal Geomorphology in Plymouth , working with colleagues at the University of Auckland ( New Zealand ) and Simon Fraser University ( Canada ) .
In the face of climate change and sea level rise , coral reef islands are among the most vulnerable coastal environments on the planet .
Previous research into the future habitability of these islands typically considers them inert structures unable to adjust to rising sea level .
Invariably , these studies predict significantly increased risk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the concept of ‘ island loss ’ has become entrenched in discourses regarding the future of coral reef island communities .
In turn , this has led to attention being focused on either building structural coastal defences or the exodus of island communities , with limited consideration of alternative adaptation strategies .
It is important to realise that these coral reef islands have developed over hundreds to thousands of years as a result of energetic wave conditions removing material from the reef structure and depositing the material towards the back of reef @ @ @ @ @ @ @ height of their surface is actually determined by the most energetic wave conditions , therefore overtopping , flooding and island inundation are necessary , albeit inconvenient and sometime hazardous , processes required for island maintenance.
” Co-author Professor Paul Kench , currently Dean of Science at Simon Fraser University , Canada , said : The model provides a step-change in our ability to simulate future island responses to sea level rise and better resolve what the on-ground transformations will look like for island communities .
Importantly , our results suggest that island drowning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ universally inevitable .
Understanding how islands will physically change due to sea level rise provides alternative options for island communities to deal with the consequences of climate change .
It is important to stress there is no one-size-fits-all strategy that will be viable for all island communities – but neither are all islands doomed.
” For the research , scientists created a scale model of Fatato Island , part of the Funafuti Atoll in Tuvalu , and placed it in the Coastal Ocean and Sediment Transport ( COAST ) Lab at the University @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a series of experiments designed to simulate predicted sea level rises with the results showing that the island ’ s crest rose with the rising sea level , while retreating inland , as a result of water overwashing the island and depositing sediment on the island ’ s surface .
see also Rising Sea Levels May Build , Rather Than Destroy , Coral Reef Islands The post New Study : Islands Across the World Could Adapt To Rising Sea Levels appeared first on The Global Warming Policy Forum ( GWPF ) .


climatedepot--2020-06-12--False Alarm: Earth’s Magnetic Field Not On Verge Of Flip

There has been much discussion recently about the Earth ’ s changing magnetic field and not a few dramatic headlines portending dire consequences for humanity .
A series of space probes called Swarm built by the European Space Agency ( ESA ) has found that in an area stretching from Africa to South America the Earth ’ s magnetic field is gradually reducing in strength .
An ESA press release said that this strange behaviour has geophysicists puzzled and is causing technical disturbances in satellites as they pass through an area called the ‘ South Atlantic Anomaly.
’ The South @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weaker than normal magnetic field that has caused satellites problems ever since we started putting them into orbit .
But there have been more satellite problems in that area than before .
Broadly speaking our Earth is two different planets , one of them nestling inside the other .
The outer section is made of rock and is an excellent insulator .
Inside our rocky exterior is a world of solid and liquid metal .
The inner core is solid iron surrounded by the molten outer core .
The motions in the outer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ field via a dynamo effect .
This magnetic shield protects us from the harshness of the cosmos .
Life on our planet could not have survived without it.The weak region called the South Atlantic Anomaly .
Our magnetic field is not behaving in an unusual way .
In fact , it is stronger than it has been on average over the past million years or so , more than twice as strong .
Looking at the strength of the Earth ’ s magnetic field over the past 10,000 years shows it to have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BC when in less than a thousand years it greatly increased in strength , at which it has stayed ever since .
It has declined a little in the past few hundred years , but that decline is consistent with the up and down variations seen over the past few thousand years .
This suggests that the Earth ’ s magnetic field is not doing anything dramatic at present , despite what the headlines say from time to time .
Our magnetic field does change dramatically from time to time .
It weakens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dipole configuration fragments allowing solar particles to strike the Earth ’ s atmosphere at all latitudes instead of polar ones causing aurorae all over the planet instead at just the poles .
It last happened about 800,000 years ago .
When the magnetic field grows again it does so with the opposite magnetic polarity .
There are some indications that our magnetic field can also change rather dramatically in shorter periods .
About 41,400 years ago , give or take 2,000 years during the last Ice Age something happened to the earth ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very , very swift .
Observations of the magnetic properties of sediments laid down in the Black Sea , and beryllium and carbon isotopes in Greenland ice cores , indicate that a geomagnetic reversal took place with astonishing rapidity .
In 250 years the earth ’ s magnetic field declined by 95 % , flipped for 440 years when the north magnetic pole was at the south and vice versa with a rather weak strength prepared to its pre-flip level , and then over another period of 250 years or so things reverted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ event after the Laschamp lava at Claremont Ferrand in the Masssif Central in France .
So whilst scientists are always monitoring the strength of the Earth ’ s magnetic field and chase the exact position of the magnetic poles which wander die to turbulent motions in the outer core , there is no indication of anything unusual at the moment .
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