climatedepot--2020-12-03--No evidence for dramatic loss of Great Barrier Reef corals

No evidence for dramatic loss of Great Barrier Reef coralsThe Global Warming Policy Forum ( GWPF ) / by bennypeiser / 2d “ We were expecting to see widespread mortality , and we just didn ’ t see it … which is a really amazing thing.
” A 2020 study of the Great Barrier Reef that set alarm bells ringing in the mainstream media is based on faulty evidence , according to Australian scientist and leading coral reef authority , Professor Peter Ridd .
The study claims that between 1995 and 2017 the reef lost half its corals , especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warming – but Ridd says the claims are false .
The breathtakingly beautiful Great Barrier Reef , labeled by CNN as one of the seven natural wonders of the world , is the planet ’ s largest living structure .
Visible from outer space and 2,300 km ( 1,400 miles ) long , the reef hugs the northeastern coast of Australia .
A healthy portion of the reef is shown in the image below .
But corals are susceptible to overheating and undergo bleaching when the water gets too hot , losing their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Niño of 2016-17 , higher temperatures caused mass bleaching that damaged portions of the northern and central regions of the Great Barrier Reef .
Ridd ’ s fellow reef scientists contended at the time that as much as 30 % to 95 % of the reef ’ s corals died .
However , Ridd disagreed , estimating that only 8 % of the Great Barrier Reef suffered ; much of the southern end of the reef wasn ’ t affected at all .
Likewise , Ridd finds no evidence for the 50 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the recent study .
He says the most reliable data on coral extent comes from AIMS ( the Australian Institute of Marine Science ) , who have been measuring over 100 reefs every year since 1986 .
As the following figure illustrates , AIMS data shows that coral cover fluctuates dramatically with time but there is approximately the same amount of Great Barrier Reef coral today as in 1995 .
Adds Ridd : There was a huge reduction in coral cover in 2011 which was caused by two major cyclones that halved coral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ major cause of temporary coral loss on the Reef .
It can be seen that the coral cover averages only about 20 % in the years since 1986 , when AIMS measurements began .
But a 2019 research paper reported that the first reef expedition back in 1928-29 discovered very similar coverage : on a reef island known as Low Isles , the coral cover ranged from 8 % to 42 % in different parts of the island .
So essentially no coral has disappeared over a period of 90 years that encompasses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paper ’ s authors did find that the coral colonies on Low Isles were 30 % smaller in 2019 than in 1928-29 , and that coral “ richness ” had declined .
Apart from its faulty conclusion about coral loss , the 2020 study also found smaller colony sizes throughout the reef , even though the relative abundance of large colonies was unchanged .
Nevertheless , the most recent AIMS reportrecords small gains in the cover of hard corals in the central and southern Great Barrier Reef , following another mass bleaching event @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the primary reef-building corals ; soft corals don ’ t form reefs .
Even more encouraging news for coral reef health comes from a just-reported survey of coral reefs on the opposite side of the country – the Rowley Shoals , a chain of three coral atolls 300 km ( 190 miles ) off the coast of northwest Western Australia .
Following an extensive marine heat wave in December 2019 , an April 2020 survey found that up to 60 % of the Rowley Shoals corals had become a pallid white ( left @ @ @ @ @ @ @ survey just six months later revealed that much of the bleached coral had already recovered ( right image ) and that perhaps only 10 % of the reef had been killed.Credit : Western Australia DBCA Tom Holmes , the marine monitoring coordinator at Western Australia ’ s DBCA ( Department of Biodiversity , Conservation and Attractions ) , said “ We were expecting to see widespread mortality , and we just didn ’ t see it … which is a really amazing thing.
” Holmes explained that , while high ocean temperatures cause @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well known is that bleached corals don ’ t die immediately .
Bleaching is initially just a sign of stress , but if the stress continues for a long time , it does lead to mortality .
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climatedepot--2020-12-03--Roger Pielke Jr: The unstoppable momentum of outdated science – ‘Implausible scenarios’ of the futur

Roger Pielke Jr: The unstoppable momentum of outdated science – ‘Implausible scenarios’ of the future’ have already diverged from the real world and thus offer a poor basis for projecting policy-relevant variables’

A 2015 literature review found almost 900 peer-reviewed studies published on breast cancer using a cell line derived from a breast cancer patient in Texas in 1976 .
But in 2007 it was confirmed that the cell line that had long been the focus of this research was actually not a breast cancer line , but was instead a skin cancer line .
Whoops .
Even worse , from 2008 to 2014 — after the mistaken cell line was conclusively identified — the review identified 247 peer-reviewed articles putatively on breast cancer that were published using the misidentified skin cancer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Google Scholar indicates that studies continue to be published in 2020 mistakenly using the skin cell line in breast cancer research .
The lesson from this experience is that science has momentum , and that momentum can be hard to change , even when obvious and significant flaws are identified .
This is particularly the case when the flaws exist in databases that underlie research across an entire discipline .
In 2020 , climate research finds itself in a similar situation to that of breast cancer research in 2007 .
Evidence indicates the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are at the focus of much of climate research have already diverged from the real world and thus offer a poor basis for projecting policy-relevant variables like economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions .
A course-correction is needed .
In a new paper of ours just out in Environmental Research Letters we perform the most rigorous evaluation to date of how key variables in climate scenarios compare with data from the real world ( specifically , we look at population , economic growth , energy intensity of economic growth and carbon intensity of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at how these variables might evolve in the near-term to 2040 .
We find that the most commonly-used scenarios in climate research have already diverged significantly from the real world , and that divergence is going to only get larger in coming decades .

Thank you for being patient. We are doing some work on the site and will be back shortly.


climatedepot--2020-12-03--No, It Was Not A Record Hurricane Season. Here Are The Facts

No , It Was Not A Record Hurricane Season .
Here Are The FactsClimate Change Dispatch / 5h Inevitably the busy hurricane season this year is getting blamed on global warming : But first of all , let ’ s get one thing clear – there was not a record number of hurricanes this year in the Atlantic .
There were 13 hurricanes , compared to 15 in 2005 : It is true that there were more named storms , which include tropical storms as well as hurricanes , this season than in any other year , but this is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reporting practices have drastically changed , so that more storms are spotted and named now .
Existing records of past Atlantic tropical storm numbers ( 1878 to present ) in fact do show a pronounced upward trend , correlated with rising SSTs ( see Figs .
1 and 9 of Vecchi and Knutson 2008 ) .
However , the density of reporting ship traffic over the Atlantic was relatively sparse during the early decades of this record , such that if storms from the modern era ( post-1965 ) had hypothetically occurred during @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would likely not have been directly observed by the ship-based “ observing network of opportunity.
” We find that , after adjusting for such an estimated number of missing storms , there is a small , nominally positive upward trend in tropical storm occurrence from 1878-2006 .
But statistical tests reveal that this trend is so small , relative to the variability in the series , that it is not significantly distinguishable from zero ( Figure 2 ) .
Thus the historical tropical storm count record does not provide compelling evidence for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if one explores the tropical cyclone database for the Atlantic ( HURDAT ) more carefully , as was described by Landsea et al ( 2009 ) , one notices that there has been a very substantial increase in the number of short-duration tropical storms ( storms lasting less than two days ) , while those storms whose duration exceeds two days have not shown a statistically significant increase since the late-19th Century ( particularly if they are adjusted for likely missing storms ) – see Figure 1 above .
We are unaware of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in an increase of only the shortest duration storms , while such an increase is qualitatively consistent with what one would expect from improvements with observational practices .
Thus , we interpret the increase of short duration storms as further evidence for a spurious increase in Atlantic tropical storm counts since the late-19th Century .
All of this applies to hurricanes just as much as storms .
We now spot short-lived hurricanes , which in the past would have been counted as just storms .
Dr. Neil Frank , who was Director of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to 1987 goes further , maintaining that many of the storms now named would not have been in his day .
He makes two particular complaints about current methods : 1 ) Many named storms are actually winter storms , not tropical storms .
He states that the first six tropical storms this year would not have been counted in his time .
2 ) Nowadays the NHC rushes to name a storm , simply based on wind speeds .
His team would have waited until the central pressure dropped to confirm that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not just a thunderstorm .
This often explains why named storms are often so short-lasting now .
When we compare this year ’ s hurricane tracks with some other busy years , such as 1961 and 1969 , the absence of mid-ocean storms in the latter years is immediately clear : This year , there have been seventeen tropical storms – that is between 39 and 74 mph .
Yet in 1961 there were just three and in 1969 six .
Yet 1969 saw twelve hurricanes , only one less than this year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is absurd to suppose that all storms were recorded in the 1960s .
When we look at major hurricanes , those of Cat 3 and over , a totally different picture emerges : his year , there have been six such hurricanes , below the record of eight seen in 1950 and seven in 1961 .
This data clearly implies that hurricanes are getting less intense on average .
But is that right , given that global warming theory says the opposite ?
Or is it just that we spot many more smaller @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hurricanes really were becoming more frequent because of climate change , we would see it in the global trends .
In reality , we only have reliable data on Atlantic hurricanes since the satellite era began in the 1970s .
But the 1970s and 80s also coincided with the cold phase of the AMO .
Making comparisons now both misleading and meaningless .
What is absolutely clear from the data , however , is that since the AMO warm phase began in 1995 , there has been little or no trend in hurricane @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lot Of People Know That The post No , It Was Not A Record Hurricane Season .
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climatedepot--2020-12-03--‘Climate Hustle 2’: Kevin Sorbo says global warming is a fear tactic similar to COVID

Hollywood actor Kevin Sorbo , who is the narrator and host of the new installment of “ Climate Hustle , ” believes fear is behind the hysteria surrounding global warming .
“ Fear ’ s an amazing weapon in people ’ s lives and they ’ re using fear to control our lives as well , ” Sorbo told The Christian Post of those who argue that the world will come to an end soon because of global warming .
According to the film ’ s description , part two examines popular scientific claims and showcases Hollywood hypocrisy , financial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and political correctness .
“ Climate Hustle 2 : The Rise of the Climate Monarchy ” features leading scientists , politicians and policy experts .
Marc Morano , the creator of “ Climate Hustle ” and Climate Hustle 2 , ” said that activists try to keep him from speaking out but his films speak loud and clear .
The filmmaker and founder of ClimateDepot.com argues that politicians use fear of global warming to gain power .
The following is an edited transcript of The Christian Post ’ s interview with Sorbo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such a highly debated subject .
Christian Post : Can you share about “ Climate Hustle 2 ” ?
Sorbo : It ’ s just another look at the other side of the issue .
We always tend to have the mainstream media [ and ] everything in Hollywood seems to push one narrative .
They never want to show the opposing views .
This shows the opposing views .
I ’ m the guy in there that sort of introduces different people that they ’ ve talked to , different people they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even part of it , I came on as sort of the narrator guy , but also [ as the ] on-camera guy .
It ’ s just a wonderful way to say , “ Hey , let ’ s get educated on both sides of the issue ” and then decide for yourself what you want to believe .
CP : What would you say “ Climate Hustle ” means ?
Sorbo : It ’ s just this whole hustle , this whole idea that we have to look at the end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all these temperatures are going up .
The reality is , when they sit there and say the polar ice caps are melting , the polar ice caps are doing fine .
Polar bears are doing fine .
But we love to keep everybody in fear .
Look at what COVID is doing right now .
Fear ’ s an amazing weapon in people ’ s lives and they ’ re using fear to control our lives as well .
Instead of getting more educated on both sides of the issue , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a chance for people to get a chance to look at the other side .
I learned a lot from this , it was incredible for me to hear things .
You look at the last president , [ Barack ] Obama and what he did , pushing and pushing this narrative and spending billions of our tax dollars on it .
You ’ re going , “ Wait a minute , you just bought a $ 12 million mansion on the ocean .
So obviously you don ’ t care too @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world that are supposedly going on.
” I ’ m all for the green of the world .
Yeah , sure , why not .
Electric cars ?
Sure .
I have no problem with that .
But don ’ t sit there and tell me there ’ s only one side of the issue .
There ’ s actually three sides , right ?
Yours , mine , and the cold hard truth .
Check it out and make up your own mind .
CP : How do people get away with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientific proof of global warming as you said ?
Sorbo : It ’ s almost cultish with these people .
It ’ s like watching , if you ’ re a sports fan for a particular team , and you ’ re watching them play football or basketball , and then they get a call from the officials that you start screaming about , “ That wasn ’ t holding , ” and the other half are going to go , “ Yes , it was holding.
” No matter what you say @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s always a 50/50 split down the middle of they ’ re going to agree with you , and those people are going to come after you and disagree with you .
Once again , I would look at “ Climate Hustle ” and “ Climate Hustle 2 ” for those of you out there that are totally in for the whole that the world ’ s coming to an end with global warming and check it out and just really look at what these other people have to say .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we bring people in that are experts .
I kind of play the antagonist a little bit with it as well .
So please check that out and make up your own mind .
CP : Why do you think it is important to show that science proves Christianity ?
Sorbo : The one-word answer is what the left usually seems to have when people don ’ t want to believe in God or believe in the Bible ( they say it ’ s science ) .
There ’ s the one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ Because there ’ s gravity , it proves that there is no God.
” I ’ m going , “ Well , who created gravity ?
” My biggest statement always for people that don ’ t have any faith is , “ You can not get something from nothing.
” Somebody started all this , the stars , the planets , the multiple galaxies out there .
Somebody started this .
It wasn ’ t you , It wasn ’ t me .
You can not get something from nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I have all the answers ?
No , but I ’ m not going to say I just have faith .
There has to be an intelligent designer , there has to be somebody that started this .
We ’ ll understand it when our time comes but to me you can ’ t sit there and say science proves there ’ s no God because it doesn ’ t , it doesn ’ t prove it .
“ Climate Hustle 2 ” is now available on DVD , Blu-ray and streaming .
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climatedepot--2020-12-03--New Archaeological Finds Shows Earth Is Typically Warmer than Today

New Archaeological Finds Shows Earth Is Typically Warmer than TodayClimate Realism / by H. Sterling Burnett / Archaeologists have published a new paper in New Scientist that confirms what previous research has shown : numerous periods during recent history have been as warm as or warmer than the present .
The paper , “ Climate change has revealed a huge haul of ancient arrows in Norway , ” discusses the findings of researchers from the Universities of Cambridge , Oslo , and Bergen .
The researchers discovered a “ treasure trove ” of arrows , arrowheads , clothing , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ receding ice in a mountainous region of southern Norway .
The oldest arrows and artifacts date from around 4100 BC .
The youngest artifacts date from approximately AD 1300 , at the end of the Medieval Warm Period .
Because present temperatures are only now exposing some of the artifacts were deposited when no ice covered the ground , temperatures were clearly warmer during the many periods when artifacts were deposited .
Along with the arrows and other artifacts , the researchers found nearly 300 specimens of reindeer antler and bone exposed by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the area , the archaeologists say they are confident the area has served as an important hunting ground , off and on , for millennia .
The fact that artifacts were found from several different periods separated by hundreds and thousands of years in time indicates the ice and snow in the region has expanded and receded several times over the current interglacial period .
Elsewhere in Norway , scientists also recently uncovered what they have labeled a “ Viking highway , ” a route the ancient peoples inhabiting the region used to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ approximately 2,000 years been covered by snow and ice that expanded as the region ’ s climate shifted from a relatively warm period , comparable to present temperatures , to a colder period during which “ permanent ” thick snow and ice cover formed .
This erected the equivalent of a “ highway closed ” sign .
More evidence for relative warm periods in recent history has recently been found half a world away in frozen Antarctica , where scientists report they have discovered perfectly preserved , 800-year-old penguin remains exposed by a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coast .
In an article published in the peer-reviewed journal Geology , scientists reported discovering what appeared to be the fresh remains of Adelie penguins in a region currently uninhabitable by penguins .
Carbon dating showed the penguin remains were approximately 800 years old , implying the remains had only recently been exposed by thawing ice .
Further analysis of the site showed penguins colonized and abandoned the site multiple times between 800 and 5,000 years ago .
Penguins are currently unable to inhabit the area where the frozen corpse was found because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ extends from the Antarctic shore many miles out into the ocean ) prevents them from accessing the ocean for food .
During the Medieval Warm Period , the absence of fast ice allowed penguins to colonize and nest in the area for hundreds of years .
Numerous other frozen and near-perfectly preserved human and animal corpses have been discovered in Arctic and glacial alpine regions in recent decades as the Earth has modestly warmed .
The most famous of these , perhaps , is the frozen human mummy scientists call Otzi , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thawed area of the northern Italian Alps .
Analysis of the mummy ’ s clothing , body , stomach contents , and the plants found frozen around it indicate Otzi died , was nearly flash-frozen in place , and then covered over by and ice- and snow-driven glacial expansion more than 5,300 years ago .
This fact suggests the Earth was just as warm , and the snow and ice extent just as low , 5,300 years ago as it is today .
Also , in the December 3 , 2019 edition ofGeophysical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lakes on the Svalbard archipelago jutting into the Arctic Ocean found evidence that from 11,700 through 8,200 years BP , temperatures in the region often exceeded both currently recorded temperatures and those projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to occur even under its worst-case scenarios .
Such ancient warmth existed for hundreds of years at a time .
According to Svalbard evidence , peak warmth occurred approximately 10,000 years before the present , at which time temperatures in the region were estimated to be 7 degrees Celsius warmer than today .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ middens , and pollen trapped in peat , fossilized remains , and oral and written historical records all show not only that global temperatures have been as warm as or warmer than today , but also that all of these warm periods have been a boon for life , including the expansion of human communities .
Indeed , history shows these warmer periods contributed to the rise of agricultural societies , human civilizations with large permanent settlements ( which have recently morphed into megalopolises ) , and modern nation-states .
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climatedepot--2020-12-03--Forced COVID testing in Australia coming to USA?

And the 700,000 people it has killed worldwide are less than half the number who have died or traffic accidents @ @ @ @ @ year , less than 2 % of all deaths .
There has never been anything @ @ @ @ @ not because of the virus .


climatedepot--2020-12-03--Feminist Icon Naomi Wolf on lockdowns: ‘This is not epidemiology, this is psychological torture on a

Feminist Icon Naomi Wolf on lockdowns: ‘This is not epidemiology, this is psychological torture on a grand scale’

2/with someone you do n't LIVE WITH ?
You ca n't meet a potential date INDOORS OR OUTDOORS ?
Or a new friend ?
You ca n't meet your grandma OUTDOORS ?
Am I reading this correctly ?
England , this is not epidemiology , this is psychological torture on a grand scale .
Feminist Icon Naomi Wolf : ‘ If I ’ d known Biden was open to ‘ lockdowns ’ …which is something historically unprecedented… & a terrifying practice , one that won ’ t ever end because elites love it , I would never have voted for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has given those in power the tool needed to finish the job , which is why it ’ s very important to understand that lockdown is not a quarantine…So we are here at step ten .
Let ’ s look now at a massive euphemism that is allowing for the various power grabs we will explore , that the COVID-19 pandemic facilitates .
… National leaders are using the term “ quarantine ” to refer to acts of closing down economic activity in entire states and even nations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ travel to and from entire states lines or across borders to countries .
This “ quarantine ” has in turn shut down engines of economic activity .
The “ lockdown ” — mislabeled a “ quarantine ” — as we are experiencing it now , has actually happened before on this planet : just not in open societies or in the contemporary West .
Totalitarian and fascist societies have indeed often used mass restrictions of movement , curfews , and other ways of restricting the free association and free movement of citizens…But large-scale @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the state are new to the postwar democratic West and unheard-of in actual open societies ; even past pandemics past have not been excuses in such societies to venture into this drastic territory .


climatedepot--2020-12-03--World Economic Forum Encourages Drinking ‘Reclaimed’ Sewage & Eating Weeds – ‘Weeds can be nutritiou

World Economic Forum Encourages Drinking ‘Reclaimed’ Sewage & Eating Weeds – ‘Weeds can be nutritious & tasty’

World Economic Forum : “ Weeds can be nutritious and tasty ” ( also see : 2014 : Are Weeds the Future of Food ?
seen as ‘ part of the solution to boosting harvests in a warming world ’ ) A separate article also published on the WEF website investigates how people can be conditioned to enjoy consuming ‘ food ’ which on the surface sounds disgusting .
“ Responses involving culturally conditioned ideas of what is “ natural ” may be modified over time , ” states the piece , before asking why there is a revulsion against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with ingredients reclaimed from sewage.
” The author concludes that “ desensitization ( repeated exposures ) ” may be effective in “ reducing disgust ( versus fear ) ” among the “ general population.
” World Economic Forum article on desensitization : `` More than a decade ago the residents of a drought-stricken Australian town voted against recycling sewage for drinking water .
Now the residents of an Australian city accept recycled sewage being pumped back into the city ’ s groundwater .
Given time , circumstance and a little nudging , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may well involve ordering a plate of insects . ''
The World Economic Forum published two articles on its website which explored how people could be conditioned to get used to the idea of eating weeds , bugs and drinking sewage water in order to reduce CO2 emissions .
“ Finding new plant-based foods is becoming increasingly urgent with the world ’ s population forecast to grow by two billion in the next 30 years , ” states an article authored by Douglas Broom published on the official WEF website “ While farming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ total global greenhouse emissions , weeds capture carbon from the atmosphere and can therefore help to control climate change.
” According to Broom , “ Weeds can be nutritious and tasty ” and are easy to grow .
The article fails to explain why weeds such as dandelion leaves , given that they are so ubiquitous , haven ’ t been made a staple of western diets already .
“ The next time a panhandler approaches your car at a stoplight , point to the tasty and nutritious weeds sprouting up through cracks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Bon appétit !
” writes Dave Blount .
A separate article also published on the WEF website investigates how people can be conditioned to enjoy consuming ‘ food ’ which on the surface sounds disgusting .
“ Responses involving culturally conditioned ideas of what is “ natural ” may be modified over time , ” states the piece , before asking why there is a revulsion against “ insect-based foods ” and “ drinks with ingredients reclaimed from sewage.
” The author concludes that “ desensitisation ( repeated exposures ) ” may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ versus fear ) ” among the “ general population.
” Maybe the WEF will be satisfied when we ’ re all forced to eat tree bark and roots , food sources that starving peasants in Stalinist Ukraine were reduced to consuming during the Holodomor .
The ‘ Great Reset ’ is about enacting a drastic reduction in living standards for the plebs which will force them to put bugs , weeds and sewage on the menu while the Davos elites continue to feast on the finest cuisine in their ivory towers .


climatedepot--2020-12-03--La Mayor just solved COVID?! JUST IN: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti: ‘It’s time to cancel everythi

La Mayor just solved COVID?! JUST IN: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti: ‘It’s time to cancel everything’

Mayor Garcetti : `` It 's time to hunker down .
It 's time to cancel everything .
And if it is n't essential , do n't do it . ''
Mayor Garcetti : “ It ’ s time to hunker down .
It ’ s time to cancel everything .
And if it isn ’ t essential , don ’ t do it.
” LA residents are ordered to stay in their homes : Mayor Garcetti tells 4million citizens to remain indoors , restricts travel , closes non-essential businesses and says it ’ s ‘ time to cancel everything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti ordered the city ’ s 4 million residents to stay at home Wednesday night • The mayor told the public to ‘ cancel everything ’ and banned all travel , including walking and bicycling • Non-essential businesses were ordered to close and officials threatened to arrest those breaking the rules • During a press conference , Garcetti said Los Angeles County saw increase of 5,987 new cases on Wednesday • ‘ If we stay on this case trajectory , LA ’ s projected to reach 574,644 cases by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Garcetti said • Forty new deaths were reported , bringing county ’ s toll to 7,740 , which could hit 11,130 by end of the year • According to Garcetti , 2,572 Angelenos were hospitalized as of Wednesday ; there are only 479 beds left across county and at current rate , health officials are predicting county will run out of beds in next 2-4 weeks Watch “ ” We need to not gather with people not in our immediate household , ” says L.A. health director ”


climatedepot--2020-12-03--U.S. Billionaires ‘Thriving’ – Gained $1 Trillion (Up 34%) Since The COVID Lockdowns Started

There are 650 billionaires on the list , out of which 47 are new arrivals with 11 dropping out due @ @ @ @ @ .
There were numerous impressive financial gains among notable billionaires on the list with Jeff @ @ @ @ @ $ 69.4 billion between March 17 and November 24 .
The Amazon boss and richest @ @ @ @ @ now worth $ 182.4 billion .
The most impressive gain on the list was recorded @ @ @ @ @ Elon Musk who has seen his fortune experience a meteoric rise .
In the above @ @ @ @ @ a whopping 414 percent , climbing from “ just ” $ 24.6 billion to $ @ @ @ @ @ the world ’ s second richest man after Bezos .
Illustrating the gulf in financial @ @ @ @ @ , the analysis states that U.S. billionaires own $ 4 trillion , 3.5 percent of @ @ @ @ @ the country .
Billionaire wealth is now twice the amount of wealth held by the @ @ @ @ @ American households combined , approximately 160 million people .


climatedepot--2020-12-04--Trump appoints NOAA climate skeptic to panel selecting National Medal of Science winners

The White House is appointing David Legates , a top administration official with a history of questioning humans ’ influence on global warming , to the committee responsible for selecting the National Medal of Science winners .
Legates joined the administration in September and now serves as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration deputy assistant secretary of commerce for observation and prediction .
Previously an academic at the University of Delaware , Legates has a long history of questioning humans ’ influence on global warming .
null “ Seems to be a travesty to me , ” said Andrew Rosenberg @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Why have someone so far out of mainstream science deciding on those deserving of such an honor that should go to those that make major contributions to the science he derides , ” he added .
The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment.null Legates ’ s appointment to the committee is one of the first actions the Trump administration during the president ’ s term with regard to the award .
The administration has not conferred any National Medals of Science since President Trump trump took office .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ who have made important contributions in their field .
Legates ’ s appointment will extend into the Biden administration .
National Medal of Science winners are selected by a 12-member presidential committee , who serve two-year terms .
In Senate testimony in 2014 , he argued that the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was wrong in its assertion the humans are a main driver behind climate change.null He is also a regular writer for the Heartland Institute , which describes its climate work as “ debunking the alarmist climate propaganda.
” His @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s website was in April of this year .


climatedepot--2020-12-04--Biden Treasury Pick Janet Yellen Promises to Use Department to Address Race, Gender and the ‘Climate

Biden Treasury Pick Janet Yellen Promises to Use Department to Address Race, Gender and the ‘Climate Crisis’

Here Is What Treasury Pick Janet Yellen Promises to Use the Department to Address Joe Biden has picked former Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen to head the Department of the Treasury for his administration .
During her introduction on Tuesday , Yellen promised to use the Treasury Department to address racial inequality , “ gender disparities , ” and “ the climate crisis.
” Yellen said during the announcement in Wilmington , Del .
that the COVID-19 pandemic , and the ensuing lockdowns , made problems worse for less fortunate Americans .
“ So many people struggling to put food @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rent .
It ’ s an American tragedy .
And it ’ s essential that we move with urgency .
Inaction will produce a self-reinforcing downturn causing yet more devastation .
And we miss — we risk missing the obligation to address deeper structural problems .
Inequality , stagnant wages , especially for workers who lack a college education .
Communities that have seen industry disappear with no good jobs replacing lost ones , ” Yellen said .
“ Racial disparities in pay , job opportunities , housing , food security , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to communities of color .
Gender disparities to keep women out of the workforce and keep our economy from running at full force .
It ’ s a convergence of tragedies that is not only economically unsustainable but one that betrays our commitment to giving every American an equal chance to get ahead.
” The identity obsessed left is focused almost entirely on Yellen ’ s gender : https : //platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html ?
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climatedepot--2020-12-04--2020 Atlantic hurricane season ranked 15th of 121 years in normalized losses

Note via PNAS : “ The loss record must be ‘ normalized ’ in order to make past events comparable @ @ @ @ @ and Landsea ( 13 ) pioneered the use of ‘ loss normalization ’ on hurricane @ @ @ @ @ the trend in damage disappears after normalization and concluded that the apparent rising losses were @ @ @ @ @ society.
” No , It Was Not A Record Hurricane Season .
Here Are The @ @ @ @ @ Journal ‘ Nature ’ Plagued By ‘ Massive Error ’ , Expert Says .
Cyclones @ @ @ @ @ 2020 Was Likely Not a Record Hurricane Season


climatedepot--2020-12-04--Lancet’s Heat-Related Deaths Con Trick: ‘Lancet conveniently forget to mention that cold kills far m

Lancet’s Heat-Related Deaths Con Trick: ‘Lancet conveniently forget to mention that cold kills far more people than warmth does’

The new Lancet report on climate change is now out : The number of older people dying from heat-related causes has doubled in under 20 years , a report revealed yesterday .
Britain suffered an estimated 8,500 heat deaths among the over-65s in 2018 – more than twice the average for the years 2000 to 2004 .
Researchers blamed heatwaves and said healthcare is ‘ at risk of being overwhelmed in the future ’ unless drastic action is taken to halt climate change .
The Lancet Countdown report said rising temperatures will increasingly threaten health , but cutting red meat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It stressed that heatwaves are one of the major health impacts of climate change and over-65s are the most vulnerable .
The research also revealed the UK was hit by 5.6million hours of lost work in 2019 due to heatwaves .
The climate crisis made 2019 a year of record temperatures , with a highest ever in the UK – 38.7C ( 101.66F ) – in Cambridge .
Figures show heat-related deaths of vulnerable people across the world have increased by 54 per cent in the past two decades , claiming 296,000 lives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the usual junk science which I have repeatedly disproved every year .
Rubbish like extreme weather , diseases , food security and reduced labour productivity .
However , this year they have added a new section on heat mortality : Although the report does not specifically give numbers for the UK , it is claimed that Britain suffered 8500 heat deaths amongst the over 65s in 2018 , double the rate between 2000-2004 .
This claim clearly comes from the Lancet , as it has been plastered all over the media this week @ @ @ @ @ @ @ am sure the German government will be delighted to learn that its neglect of the elderly population has led to 20,200 heat deaths !
But , of course , nobody has died with “ heat related ” written on their death certificates .
As usual , with climate science , it is all based on computer models , which operate on a Garbage In , Garbage Out basis , otherwise known as GIGO .
This model is programmed with the assumption that the hotter it is , the more likely old people are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Lancet conveniently forget to mention that cold kills far more people than warmth does .
Worldwide , scientists have worked out that cold weather is 20 times as deadly as hot weather , even in hot countries such as India .
Since this study was actually published by the Lancet in 2015 , you might have thought they included it in their new findings !
In Britain , of course , there are tens of thousands of excess deaths in winter .
In contrast , summer months always record the lowest number @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As far as the UK is concerned , at least , there is no need for the Lancet to employ their shonky models .
We have the actual mortality data , as supplied by the ONS .
We can not directly compare the summer of 2018 , with that of 2004 , because the total number of deaths occurring during the year as a whole has been steadily rising since around 2009 .
Currently annual death tolls are about 30,000 higher than in 2004 : This is not because we all less healthy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ getting larger and older .
For example , there are now many more over 80s than there was two decades ago due to the fact that we are all living longer on average ; and as that is when most people die , the number of deaths has also started to rise again .
That is why the ONS look at Age-Standardised Mortality rates when comparing trends .
And when we look age-standardised mortality in July and August for over 75s , we find that even in 2018 it was much lower than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ began in July 2020 , so there are no figures for June ) : And from the weekly registrations of deaths , we can also chart the summer deaths for over 65s : The heatwave summer of 2018 actually recorded the second lowest number of deaths in the five-year period .
Clearly that heatwave had no measurable effect on death tolls amongst the elderly at all .
All of this should have been very evident to the Lancet ’ s “ experts ” , and very easily accessible .
We also know from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ EU countries have similarly rigorous data available for mortality rates .
So why did they choose to ignore all of this real world data , and instead use phony results from dodgy computer models ?


climatedepot--2020-12-04--Sorry, Google, Middle East Crops Are a Success Story, Not a Climate Crisis

Google News is hyping a story published by Agrinews , which promotes a month-old World Bank report claiming water scarcity in the Middle East – caused by climate change – threatens crop production .
The World Bank report , “ Water in the Balance , ” is old news , made up of model-driven speculation , instead of data .
Real-world crop data , by contrast , tell a story of stunning crop success in the Middle East and throughout the world .
Climate Realism discredited the World Bank report in early November .
Data show that despite considerable political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the naturally arid Middle East has seen its crop production grow as the earth has modestly warmed .
Since media outlets are still reporting the World Bank ’ s fiction as fact , Climate Realism ’ s refutation bears repeating .
The World Bank ’ s study says , “ [ w ] hile information about water scarcity at present and in the future is available there is little knowledge of what this increasing scarcity means for Middle Eastern … food security .
Agriculture will suffer because of climate change and water @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Policy Makers , the World Bank asserts water scarcity caused by climate change will reduce farm production in Iran , Iraq , Jordan , Lebanon , Syria , and Turkey .
The available evidence strongly suggests that will not happen .
Real-world data concerning crop production across the Middle East shows crop yields and overall production have increased dramatically .
More food is being produced even as thousands of acres of agricultural lands have been abandoned during regional conflicts .
Data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization show during the period @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cereal crop production in Iraq increased 91 percent , even as the acreage being harvested fell 5 percent .
• Cereal crop production in Iran increased 187 percent , while the acreage harvested increased by just 2.6 percent .
• Cereal Crop production in Jordan increased 15 percent , even as the acreage harvested declined 30 percent .
• Cereal Crop production in Syria increased 22 percent , even as acreage harvested declined 66 percent .
• Cereal Crop production in Turkey increased 46 percent , even though acreage harvested declined 19 percent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crop production even as many of them have been embroiled in internal political strife , outright civil warfare , and external conflicts , is clearly good news—not a climate crisis .
Global warming lengthens growing seasons , reduces frost events , and makes more land suitable for crop production .
Also , carbon dioxide is an aerial fertilizer for plant life .
In addition , crops use water more efficiently under conditions of higher carbon dioxide , losing less water through transpiration .
The latter fact should have allayed the World Bank ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leading to crop failure .
The benefits of more atmospheric carbon dioxide and a modestly warming world have resulted in 17 percent more food being available per person today than was the case 30 years ago , even as the number of people has grown by billions .
Indeed , United Nations data show the last 20 years have seen the largest decline in hunger , malnutrition , and starvation in human history .
Rather than regurgitating the World Bank ’ s flawed report as fact , Agrinews should have done some honest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ done so , it would have found crop production in the Middle East , as is true for most of the rest of the world , is booming during the period of purported catastrophic warming .
Sorry , Google , Agrinews , and the World Bank , increased crop production and yields are the very opposite of a climate crisis .


climatedepot--2020-12-04--Get Ready For Nationwide Blackouts Under Biden

The power disaster unfolding in California will soon occur across the country , if Joe Biden gets his way .
The Golden State has been sweeping away the forms of energy that have provided reliable electricity for decades , under the same agenda the former Vice-President is planning for America as a whole .
Power outages are now commonplace in California .
Last summer , the state suffered its first rolling blackouts in nearly 20 years .
Imagine if this happened in Chicago in the middle of winter .
California ’ s trouble is explained by officials who now openly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ solar power .
The governor said there was not enough wind to keep the turbines going , while cloud cover and nightfall restricted solar power .
The Los Angeles Times recognized the root of the problem : “ … gas-burning power plants that can fire up when the sun isn ’ t shining or the wind isn ’ t blowing have been shutting down in recent years , and California has largely failed to replace them … ” Consequently , the state has fallen thousands of megawatts behind its needs .
Governor Gavin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ predict and plan for these shortages ” and took ( nominal ) responsibility for the rolling blackouts .
Now he wants everyone to conserve power , while the state looks for new sources of energy , most likely fossil fuel-generated power from neighboring states .
All this is happening while California continues its intention to transition to 60 % renewable energy by 2030 and 100 % “ climate-friendly energy ” by 2045 , as required by state law .
Indeed , in their October 6 open letter to Newsom , the heads of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Independent System Operator and Public Utilities Commission wrote : “ We are unwavering in our commitment to meeting California ’ s clean energy and climate goals.
” Team Biden plans to go even further , committing to making the entire nation 100 % renewable within 15 years .
The United States would fall tens of millions of megawatts behind on its electricity needs .
Like the California government , the incoming Biden-Harris administration is acting entirely under the unfounded belief that climate change is a manmade calamity that can be stopped by eliminating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unaware of the Climate Change Reconsidered series of reports of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change ( NIPCC ) .
These documents summarize thousands of studies from peer-reviewed scientific journals that either refute or cast serious doubt on the climate scare .
They conclude that we are not causing a climate crisis .
Yet , in their October 6 report , Preliminary Root Cause Analysis – Mid-August 2020 Heat Storm , the same heads of California ’ s Energy Commission , Independent System Operator and Public Utilities Commission highlighted the “ climate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States ” as the first cause of the blackout .
In their view , apparently , shutting down coal , gas and nuclear power plants in California and in states from which California imports electricity played only minor roles .
California ’ s determination to shift to so-called “ green ” energy – which is actually anything but clean , green , renewable and sustainable – is being echoed by politicians across the nation .
The result , especially in states that don ’ t enjoy California ’ s mostly benign weather @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the poorest neighborhoods and those on fixed incomes may be forced to choose between heating and eating .
It also means people trying to run their homes , offices , factories , hospitals and schools on intermittent , weather-dependent , much more expensive wind and solar power will have to get used to never knowing when or for how long their electricity will be on or off .
Now in California ; soon in the entire USA .
Coherent energy systems are designed with the understanding that portions of the system will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Power companies compensate for this with reserve power at the ready .
However , California has closed its margin for error in response to anti-nuclear and anti-fossil fuel sentiments and climate change concerns .
Team Biden intends to do this for the entire United States .
Power outages can not always be avoided and are more common than one may think .
For example , between 2008 and 2017 , Illinois had 871 outages , the tenth most by state .
Texas had nearly twice as many , giving it the dubious distinction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But these pale in comparison to California which has the least reliable electrical power system in the nation .
It leads in power outages every year .
Between 2008 and 2017 , it had 4,297 power outages !
The origin of the problem is partly California ’ s Senate Bill 1368 , which in 2006 established the state ’ s emission standards to reduce greenhouse gases from power plants .
Following that year , eleven coal-fired power plants were closed and three were converted to biomass .
Only one coal-fired plant remains @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reliance on energy from out of state coal plants .
Yielding to anti-nuclear activists , the state also closed all but one nuclear plant , Diablo Canyon .
That plant generates about 18,000 Gigawatt-hours of reliable electricity every year , fully 8.6 % of California ’ s total generation .
But Diablo Canyon will soon be closed too .
Not surprisingly , during its construction and operation , anti-nuclear protests were common ; nearly two thousand people were arrested for civil disobedience during a two-week period in 1981 .
In response , in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ approved a Pacific Gas & Electric Joint Proposal to phase out the state ’ s remaining nuclear power .
That means the operating licenses for Diablo Canyon ’ s two units will not be renewed when they expire in 2024 and 2025 .
Ironically , the Commission did not approve Pacific Gas & Electric ’ s proposal for resources to replace the station ’ s output .
It does not appear to matter that nuclear reactors produce no greenhouse gas emissions during operation .
They are hated by the enviro-radicals who drive California @ @ @ @ @ @ @ putting the state even further behind the 8-ball .
It gets worse .
California now requires that all new homes be nearly entirely electric .
It wants citizens to switch their natural gas stoves to electric , as part of their global warming initiatives .
More than 30 cities have already enacted bans on gas appliances , including San Francisco .
The state also hopes to eliminate all gasoline and diesel cars in favor of plug-in electric automobiles .
This means demand for reliable , affordable electricity will rise by leaps and bounds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and partially replaced by expensive , intermittent , weather-dependent power .
Just as Mr. Biden promises for the nation as a whole , California is sacrificing reliable electrical power as part of its impossible crusade to “ stop climate change.
” Of course , this will have no impact on our planet ’ s climate , because ( a ) climate change is mostly natural and not driven by carbon dioxide , and ( b ) all those wind turbines , solar panels and backup batteries will be manufactured overseas , mostly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ simply moving the source of ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions .
However , it will certainly spur sales of candles , flashlights , propane heaters , and natural gas , gasoline and diesel generators .
So , welcome to America ’ s future under a Biden-Harris-Kerry- AOC Administration .
America , the blackouts are coming .
*Ohio-based Dr. Jay Lehr is Senior Policy Advisor to the Ottawa , Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition ( ICSC ) .
Tom Harris is Executive Director of ICSC .


climatedepot--2020-12-04--Watch: AUSSIE SEN. MALCOLM ROBERTS DISCUSS BIDEN POLICIES & THE GLOBAL RESET

What will a Biden Presidency bring in terms of climate change policy and the Global Reset ?
We catch up @ @ @ @ @ One Nation and what he tells us will surprise you .
Malcolm Roberts was elected @ @ @ @ @ as a Queensland Senator in 2016 and again in 2019 , representing Pauline Hanson ’ @ @ @ @ @ in his career , Malcolm worked and travelled widely across America and Canada and in @ @ @ @ @ management ranks to take leadership roles in coal processing plants and the operational development of @ @ @ @ @ most complex underground coal project .


climatedepot--2020-12-04--Watch: Morano on Asia Pacific Today TV show: The COVID Climate Connection – ‘If you love the COVID l

Watch: Morano on Asia Pacific Today TV show: The COVID Climate Connection – ‘If you love the COVID lockdowns, you’re going to love the coming climate lockdowns’

Marc Morano of CFACT talks to Mike Ryan about his new movie – Climate Hustle 2 , further exposing the great scam surrounding Global Warming , a new Climate Monarchy and the dreaded Global Reset .
Marc Morano , the award-winning producer , writer and host of Climate Hustle and Executive Producer of recently released Climate Hustle 2 , is one of the highest profile voices of climate realism .
He is the author of 2018 best-selling book , The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change .
Marc currently serves as Director of Communications for the Committee For A Constructive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an alternative voice on issues of environment and development .
Marc , who has spent years researching climate change , environmental , and energy issues , held both White House and Capitol Hill Press credentials and was a member of the Society of Professional Journalists .
During his tenure as senior advisor , speechwriter , and climate researcher for U.S .
Senator James Inhofe ( R-OK ) , he managed the communication operations of the GOP side of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works .
From 1992 to 1996 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nationally syndicated “ Rush Limbaugh , the Television Show.
” He next served as an investigative reporter for Cybercast News Service and as a reporter and producer for the nationally syndicated television newsmagazine “ American Investigator.
” In 2000 , his investigative television documentary “ Amazon Rainforest : Clear-Cutting the Myths ” created an international firestorm .
Marc is the publisher of the award-winning ClimateDepot.com , a global warming and eco-news center founded in 2009 .
Morano was named one of only five “ criminals against humanity , against planet Earth itself ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( The other five criminals were Bjorn Lomborg , Richard Lindzen , Sen. James Inhofe and former President George W .
Bush . )
Newsweek declared Morano “ is quickly becoming King of the skeptics !
” in December 2009 .
Newsweek called Climate Depot the “ most popular denial site.
” Tina Brown ’ s Daily Beast also recognized Morano as one of the “ The Right ’ s Top 25 Journalists ” who serves as a “ bombastic foe of the Greens.
” The Daily Beast described Climate Depot as “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
”


climatedepot--2020-12-04--You have been warned: ‘A merging of the COVID climate issue’ is underway

Morano : `` All the same solutions to COVID-19 were what the climate activists wanted : Destroying industrial activities , lowering emissions , destroying airline industry , stopping people from traveling , & essentially doing planned recessions through lockdowns . ''
https : //onenewsnow.com/science-tech/2020/12/04/covids-left-climate-activists-feeling-forgotten `` There is going to be a merging of the COVID climate issue .
The UN is on record , John Kerry is on record claiming because we 're not taking care of nature that we 're getting new viruses from the animal world & we have to prevent more viruses by fighting climate change .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the former president of Socialist International , is not about the science and or the environment .
`` He is about his political agenda and his own ideology , which is imposing this sort of central planning on the world using an ecological scare . ''
“ Humanity is waging war on nature , ” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an address at Columbia University in New York .
“ This is suicidal .
Nature always strikes back — and it is already doing so with growing force and fury.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new , as people have long warned that mankind ’ s use of fossil fuels is causing warmer weather and bigger , more powerful storms .
“ We are facing a devastating pandemic , new heights of global heating , new lows of ecological degradation , and new setbacks in our work towards global goals for more equitable , inclusive , and sustainable development , ” Guterres said .
“ To put it simply , the state of the planet is broken.
” In response , Marc Morano of Climate Depot tells One @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate activists who devoted decades to fighting climate change only to have COVID-19 come along and do what activists have been seeking .
“ All the same solutions to COVID-19 were what the climate activists wanted : Destroying industrial activities , lowering emissions , destroying the airline industry , stopping people from traveling , and essentially doing planned recessions through lockdowns , ” notes Morano .
As a result , he thinks climate activists are trying to get attention again .
“ They ’ re declaring that we have a suicidal war on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Secondly , there is going to be a merging of the COVID climate issue , because what ’ s happening here .
The UN is on record , John Kerry is on record claiming that because we ’ re not taking care of nature and we ’ re encroaching on it , that we ’ re getting new viruses from the animal world … and we have to prevent more viruses by fighting climate change.
” Morano adds that UN Secretary General Guterres , the former president of Socialist International , is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ He is about his political agenda and his own ideology , which is imposing this sort of central planning on the world using an ecological scare , ” the Climate Depot spokesman concludes .
John Kerry on coronavirus & climate change : ‘ The parallels are screaming at us ’ – ‘ Cost of climate inaction will match — if not exceed — our current expenditures ’ – “ Climate change is a threat multiplier for pandemic diseases , and zoonotic diseases — 70 percent of all human infections — are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on animal migration and habitats.
” UN Picks former president of Socialist International As New Secretary-General The ‘ Great Reset ’ : Rule by Unelected ‘ Experts ’ – COVID-Climate Technocracy has arrived – ‘ The danger of letting lab coats run the world ’ – Special Report & ‘ Fantastic ’ for the climate : Activists See Coronavirus Lockdowns As Dress Rehearsal for ‘ Climate Emergency ’ – Special Report


climatedepot--2020-12-05--Lomborg’s 2020 study: ‘Data shows trend towards ‘smaller area’ in drought’ – Also floods, hurricanes

Lomborg’s 2020 study: ‘Data shows trend towards ‘smaller area’ in drought’ – Also floods, hurricanes, wildfires and sea-level rise are not following climate activist claims

Sea level : Globally , over the past 30 years , rising sea levels have not resulted in more land underwater .
Adding up all the coastal land lost and reclaimed , it turns out that the total coastal area has increased by more than 13,000 km² ( Donchyts et al.
, 2016 ) .
This is perhaps most visibly the world 's largest coast reclamation of the 80 km² of Palm Island and adjacent islands along the coast of Dubai , but across the world , many countries have shaped and extended their coastlines by land reclamation .
Bangladesh @ @ @ @ @ @ @ added about 480 km² of land in the face of sea level rise .
Hurricanes : The IPCC concludes that we can not confidently attribute hurricanes to human influence : “ There is low confidence in attribution of changes in tropical cyclone activity to human influence ” ( IPCC 2013a , 871 ) .
Indeed , globally , hurricanes are not getting more frequent : “ current data sets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century ” ( Wildfires : While deforestation has reduced the amount @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fires in forests have declined even in percentage of the remaining forest areas across the past century .
Floods : The USGCRP summarizes the IPCC to say they “ did not attribute changes in flooding to anthropogenic influence nor report detectable changes in flooding magnitude , duration , or frequency ” ( USGCRP 2017 , 240 ) .
Bjorn Lomborg : Droughts : For drought , the IPCC concludes “ there is low confidence in attributing changes in drought over global land areas since the mid-20th century to human influence ” ( IPCC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it concludes “ there is low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought ” with drought having “ likely increased in the Mediterranean and West Africa and likely decreased in central North America and northwest Australia since 1950 ” ( IPCC 2013a , 50 ) .
The IPCC repudiated previous findings from 2007 , saying our “ conclusions regarding global increasing trends in droughts since the 1970s are no longer supported ” ( IPCC 2013a , 44 ) .
This was because new data showed no increased global drought ( Sheffield et @ @ @ @ @ @ @ et al .
2013 ) , and one study even showed a persistent decline since 1982 ( Hao et al.
, 2014 ) , while the number of consecutive dry days has been declining for the last 90 years ( Donat et al.
, 2013 , 2112 ) .
It is instructive to look at a few , concrete impacts of the most visible issues that are associated with the portrayal of climate change devastation .
President Obama repeatedly emphasized climate change means that we both are seeing and will see “ more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and hurricanes ” ( Obama 2013 ) .
The UN Secretary-General similarly claims that “ climate disruption is happening now , and it is happening to all of us .
… Every week brings new climate-related devastation .
Floods .
Drought .
Heat waves .
Wildfires .
Superstorms ” ( Guterres 2019 ) .
In a recent survey , it was found that such extreme events are what make most people change their minds on climate ( EPI and AP-NORC 2019 ) .
Yet , the data doesn ’ t support or only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there are almost invariably more effective policies to reduce net impacts .
For drought , the IPCC concludes “ there is low confidence in attributing changes in drought over global land areas since the mid-20th century to human influence ” ( IPCC 2013a , 871 ) .
Moreover , it concludes “ there is low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought ” with drought having “ likely increased in the Mediterranean and West Africa and likely decreased in central North America and northwest Australia since 1950 ” ( IPCC 2013a , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ findings from 2007 , saying our “ conclusions regarding global increasing trends in droughts since the 1970s are no longer supported ” ( IPCC 2013a , 44 ) .
This was because new data showed no increased global drought ( Sheffield et al.
, 2012 ; van der Schrier et al .
2013 ) , and one study even showed a persistent decline since 1982 ( Hao et al.
, 2014 ) , while the number of consecutive dry days has been declining for the last 90 years ( Donat et al.
, @ @ @ @ @ @ @ IPCC 1.5°C report concurs , but adds that there is medium confidence that greenhouse gas warming has contributed to increased drying in the Mediterranean region ( IPCC 2018 , 196 ) .
The World Meteorological Organization has through the Lincoln Declaration on Drought Indices recommended that “ the Standardized Precipitation Index ( SPI ) be used to characterize the meteorological droughts around the world ” ( Hayes et al.
, 2010 ) .
Fig .
9 shows the global area under severe meteorological drought for 1901–2017 , showing no increase over the last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Climate Assessment reaffirmed the IPCC finding and stated unequivocally that “ drought has decreased over much of the continental United States in association with long-term increases in precipitation ” ( USGCRP 2017 , 49–50 , 231 ) .
Both IPCC and USGCRP find that there is currently no attribution possible for drought ( IPCC 2013a , 913 ; USGCRP 2017 , 236 ) .
Thus , it is incorrect to say that currently we are seeing the climate impact of drought , either globally or in the US .
However , the IPCC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emission scenarios ( RCP8.5 ) , it is likely that drought risk could increase in currently dry regions towards the end of the century ( IPCC 2013a , 1032 ) .
Similarly , the USGCRP finds that “ under higher scenarios and assuming no change to current water-resources management , chronic , long-duration hydrological drought is increasingly possible by the end of this century ” ( USGCRP 2017 , 240 ) .
Thus , it is possible to argue that climate change can make drought worse , but it is important to point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scenarios and towards the end of the century .
Moreover , the USGCRP makes it clear that this potential worsening requires an assumption of no change to water-management .
In reality , such change is not only likely but also much more efficient .
A recent study for California showed that during droughts , reservoir operation can reduce the drought deficit by about 50 % , whereas extensive water usage ( mostly irrigation ) can almost double drought duration and deficit ( He et al.
, 2017 ) ––both actions that can be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2.7 .
Becoming more resilient : wealth and human ingenuity When looking to the future , it is easy to foresee problems but harder to envisage solutions .
We started this section looking at coastal flooding with and without adaptation ( Section 2.2 ) .
As sea levels rise , it is easy to think more people and structures will be flooded .
The reality is that humanity is ingenious .
Richer people will have more options to be resilient , protecting land , valuables , and people , resulting in fewer people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GDP .
We will see this globally documented below , resulting in fewer climate-related deaths and a lower weather-related fraction of GDP costs .
But here , it is worth noticing how this resilience is already playing out in a myriad of local and global settings .
Globally , over the past 30 years , rising sea levels have not resulted in more land underwater .
Adding up all the coastal land lost and reclaimed , it turns out that the total coastal area has increased by more than 13,000 km² ( Donchyts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is perhaps most visibly the world ’ s largest coast reclamation of the 80 km² of Palm Island and adjacent islands along the coast of Dubai , but across the world , many countries have shaped and extended their coastlines by land reclamation .
Bangladesh , despite popular understanding , has net added about 480 km² of land in the face of sea level rise .
Locally , we see this adaptation most clearly where catastrophes have made sea level rise much faster .
The small Ubay island at the center of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sand bank , at high risk of flooding ( Esteban et al.
, 2019 ) .
After a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in 2013 , it experienced land subsidence probably in excess of 1 m , so that it is now completely submerged during the highest tides of the year .
Despite attempts to relocate the impoverished community to the mainland , residents have remained , adopting century-old adaptation strategies of elevating the floors of their houses using coral stones , or placing their houses on stilts .
At the same time , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and use elevated pathways that traverse the island , so they are still mobile during high tides , collecting rainwater in water tanks .
They have also adapted their evacuation strategies from being evacuated only in strong typhoons to evacuating to the mainland in weaker storms .
One meter of sea level rise leaves communities on low-lying islands worse off , but even if they are very poor , they can adapt and essentially ward off most of the negative impacts .
Resilient adaptation is even achievable for richer but still developing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , home to more than 12 million people , has for decades seen land subsidence from groundwater extraction and the load of buildings and constructions compressing the soil ( Abidin et al.
, 2011 ) .
Since 1925 , the coastal half of the city has subsided by 2–4 m ( Andreas et al.
, 2018 ; Fig .
2 ) .
Coastal GPS indicate subsidence rates of about 10 cm per year ( Abidin et al.
, 2011 , 1765 ) .
The huge coastal development area of Pantai Mutiara has subsided @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years , now having a mean elevation of 31 cm below sea level ( Park et al.
, 2016 ) .
Yet , Jakarta has largely tackled this through building dikes and elevating port wharfs , along with elevating new construction areas , while reclaiming land with new luxury projects ( Esteban et al.
, 2019 ) .
( Of course , ending groundwater extraction would by far be the most effective way to stop Jakarta from sinking further . )
Stepping back , Jakarta is dealing with a relative sea level rise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decades , much more than worst-case global projections for the next eight decades .
It is doing so with ingenuity and technological capability supported by more financial resources .
A case from a rich country comes from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami , which not only devastated Japan but also caused a substantial sinking , lowering the northeastern part of Japan by 78 cm ( Esteban et al.
, 2019 ) .
This caused much of the coastline to be barely above sea level and large parts to be flooded at high @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a massive program of public works , raising some areas by up to 8 m and whole cities by 3 m , ensuring that no ground was lost to the sea ( Esteban et al.
, 2015 ; Esteban et al.
, 2019 ) .
Of course , rich world wealth makes such an effort possible , but the fact that 200 km of coastline can be raised in a matter of years shows that it is possible and feasible to see adaptation to lower effective sea level rises happen over a century @ @ @ @ @ @ @ impact of a catastrophe , maybe the single most important human measure is the death toll or , more technically , the excess death rate ( Ó Gráda 2010 , 86–87 ) .
Unlike most other measures like “ people affected ” it is not subject to shifts in social constructs .
Nonetheless , evidence shows that demographic calculations typically lead to lower estimations of excess deaths than those provided by journalists and other contemporary observers ( WPF 2019 ) .
Reaching back in history , more of the estimates are provided by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which possibly gives earlier data an upward bias .
On the other hand , it is also likely that going back in time , the historical record leaves out more catastrophes , and that earlier events are also less likely to be recognized or recorded as catastrophes , conceivably causing a downward bias ( Hasell and Roser 2017 ) .
The leading database for all catastrophes is the International Disaster Database , commonly known as the Emergency Events Database ( EM-DAT 2019 ) .
From 1900 to 2019 it lists 38.6 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are labeled biological ( viruses and bacteria ) and what they call “ complex ” but is almost entirely the politically enforced 1932 starvation in the Soviet Union ( the Holomodor ) .
The other 23.4 million deaths fall into four main categories : 50 % droughts , 30 % floods , 11 % earthquakes , and 6 % storms , with 3 % from all other causes ( such as avalanches , heat waves , mudslides , etc. )
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Take these disaster deaths and split them into deaths that could either @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , weather disasters that could be affected by the changing climate ) and not affected by climate , and take the averages of deaths across decades ( given the high year-on-year variance ) and we get the graphs shown in Fig .
17 .
Fig .
17 .
Climate and non-climate-related deaths and death risks from disasters 1920–2018 , averaged over decades .
Data comes from EM-DAT ( 2019 ) , using floods , droughts , storms , wildfire , and extreme temperatures for climate-related deaths , and earthquakes , tsunamis , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decade 1920–29 , 1930–39 up to 2010–2018 , with data plotted at midpoint ( 1924.5 , 1934.5 , with last incomplete decade at 2014 ) .
For instance , the 2004 tsunami , which killed 227,000 people , shows up as 22,700 people each year for 2000–2009 .
However , the tsunami “ only ” contributed about half of all deaths from non-climate-related deaths in the 2000s at 454,000 , making the annual non-climate-related deaths for the 2000s 45,400 .
Population data from ( OurWorldInData 2019 ) .7 In the right panel , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a single person from both climate-related and non-climate-related deaths has declined , indicating a lower social vulnerability .
However , climate-related risks have declined much more : over the past century , the non-climate risk has declined by 85 % but the climate risk has declined by an astounding 99 % .
Had a person lived her entire 70-year life at the climate-related risk in the 1920s , she would have had 1.7 % chance of dying from a climate-related catastrophe.6 Living at the risk of the 2010s , the life risk for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In total numbers , the decline is smaller ( as the global population has quadrupled ) , but still impressive at reducing global deaths from climate-related disaster from almost half a million people each year to less than 20,000 per year in the 2010s––a reduction of 96 % .
For non-climate-related deaths , the reduction is about 50 % from the 1920s to the 2010s , but the trendline is almost flat .
It is to be expected that it is much harder to avoid death from non-climate-related disasters , since these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ predict .
Hence , only better building standards can help .
However , the large reduction in climate-related deaths from disasters shows a dramatic increase in climate resilience , likely mostly brought about by higher living standards , a reduction in poverty , improvement in warning systems , and an increase in global trade , making especially droughts less likely to turn into widespread famines .
The same declining trend for climate-related mortality rates is found across individual hazards from flood , flash flood , and coastal flood , over heat and cold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Formetta and Feyen 2019 ) .
A 10-year moving average from 1980 to 2016 shows a 6.5-fold reduction in the mortality rate ( ranging from a twofold reduction in floods to a 16-fold reduction in flash floods ) .
We often forget how much of the world was devastated by famines in previous centuries .
Although famine outside of wartime disappeared from the developed world after the mid-nineteenth century ( Ó Gráda 2010 , 8 ) , large famines continued in poorer countries , with the late 1870s killing more than 7 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( Ó Gráda 2010 , 21 ) .
Even the 1928–30 drought was described by the Committee of the China Famine Relief Fund as “ one of the most wide-spread and severe famines in many decades , ” spreading inland to the upper reaches of the Yellow River , Inner Mongolia , Gansu , and Shaanxi , where “ three successive harvest…failed to materialize , ” leaving more than 50 million people in total ‘ “ severely affected ” ( Fuller 2015 , 157–58 ) .
In total , the Famine Trends Dataset @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) , with EM-DAT conservatively counting 3 million deaths .
Fig .
17 shows that we are now much less vulnerable to climate impacts than at any time in the last 100 years .
It is possible that climate change has made impacts worse over the last century ( although the discussion on floods , droughts , wildfire , and hurricanes suggests this is not the case ) , but resiliency from higher living standards has entirely swamped any potential climate impact .
The second-most important impact measure after deaths is the total @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such measurement of costs from climate impacts is the heavily promoted “ Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters ” ( NCEI 2019 ) .
This time series shows how the number of disasters costing an inflation-adjusted billion dollars or more has increased from about three in the early 1980s to about 15 in the late 2010s , and is commonly referenced to show how increasing temperatures cause more climate damage .
In early 2019 , a Washington Post article was distributed across the US with the telling headline : “ More billion-dollar US disasters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mooney 2019 ) .
In strong language , the journalists outline how the “ number of billion-dollar weather disasters in the United States has more than doubled in recent years , as devastating hurricanes and ferocious wildfires that experts suspect are fueled in part by climate change have ravaged swaths of the country , ” citing an “ alarming trend ” which is “ fueled , at least in part , by the warming climate.
” In an economic commentary , Zagorsky , 2017 critiques the NCEI billion-dollar disaster statistic : Even with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we have more costly disasters is simply that the economy is much bigger today than it was in the 1980s .
When the economy was smaller , disasters caused less economic damage .
There were fewer homes , factories , and office buildings to destroy , so it was harder for a natural disaster to cause a billion dollars ’ of damage .
Since 1980 , the U.S. economy has more than doubled .
… In other words , a storm happening today will cause more damage than an identical one occurring decades @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroy .
He suggests a simple adjustment , setting a threshold each year that is equivalent to the fraction of the entire GDP of an inflation-adjusted billion-dollar destruction in 1980 .
That means that a billion-dollar disaster in 1980 would have caused $ 2.3 billion in costs in 2010 , in a 2.3-times-bigger US economy .
Thus , we should only count the number of disasters with a disaster cost higher than $ 2.3 billion This reduces the number of 1980-billion-dollar disasters in recent years dramatically .
While Zagorsky does not present any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ replicate his data , and his adjustment shows that the highly significant increase in billion-dollar disasters disappears .
From a linear regression showing a highly significant extra billion-dollar disaster every four years , and an R2 of 0.54 , we get an insignificant , slight upwards slope of one billion-dollar disaster more every 25 years , and an R2 of 0.06 .
Moreover , as shown above with the increasing bull ’ s-eye effect , GDP is sometimes likely to provide an insufficient adjustment , and at times this will be spectacularly insufficient @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the US increased 8.5 times from 1900 to 20168 and population increased 4.25 times , we would expect about 36 times as much damage ( 8.5 × 4.25 ) from more people and more expensive stuff .
However , when Florida ’ s coastal population increased more than 64 times , we should expect 544 times more damage from hurricanes in Florida .
Using GDP will under-adjust by 15 times .
Thus , for the US , it is a better option to use the existing and specific data available with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shows no significant signs of adjusted increase for hurricanes , floods , and droughts .
However , GDP adjustment is the only option for effectively comparing disaster costs across the world ( Pielke 2019 ) .
Moreover , it is also how all the UN member nations have decided to measure progress on making cities and human settlements safe and resilient in Goal 11.5 : “ decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disaster ” ( SDGs 2015 ) , and in its indicators for reducing vulnerability @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 1.5.2 ) .
Since data before mid-1990s are not complete ( Pielke 2019 , 2 ) , we start the analysis in 1990 , although that may bias the analysis towards showing escalating disasters over time .
However , the analysis , shown in Fig .
18 , clearly demonstrates that global weather-related costs over the past 28 years have not increased .
It has most likely declined from 0.26 % of global GDP in 1990 to 0.19 % in 2018 .
The other global disaster estimate , from Aon Benfield , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2019 ) .
While it is generally a third higher than Munich Re , the data is closely matched ( R2=0.90 ) and if backcasting with Munich Re data to recover the data from 1990–99 , it has an only slightly faster decline , from 0.34 % to 0.27 % .
Fig .
18 .
Global weather-related disaster cost share of global GDP 1990–2018 .
Costs from 1990–2017 from Munich Re in ( Pielke 2019 ) , 2018 costs from ( MunichRe 2019 ) , global GDP from ( Worldbank 2019 ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Prospects GDP from January 2019 to estimate global GDP for 2017 and 2018 .
Linear best estimate , decline is not statistically significant .
The same declining trend for climate-related loss in percent of exposed GDP is found across individual hazards using Munich Re data .
A 10-year moving average from 1980 to 2016 shows a 4.5-fold reduction averaged across all hazards mortality rate ( Formetta and Feyen 2019 , Table B2 ) .
Thus , on the resiliency indicator as agreed by all nations in the SDGs , the cost of weather-related @ @ @ @ @ @ @ increased , and likely decreased .
Again , this does not indicate that there are no relative increases in weather disasters ( although the above discussions on droughts , floods , wildfires , and hurricanes also showed little or no increase globally ) , but only that resiliency has outpaced any such increase .


climatedepot--2020-12-05--Many Epidemiologists Want Social Distancing and Masks Forever—Even After the Vaccine – Masks & socia

Many Epidemiologists Want Social Distancing and Masks Forever—Even After the Vaccine – Masks & social distancing—will feel ‘normal’ in time

`` I expect that wearing a mask will become part of my daily life , moving forward , even after a vaccine is deployed , '' Amy Hobbs , a research associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , told The Times .
Michael Webster-Clark of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said he expected `` further relaxation of most precautions by mid-to-late summer 2021 '' following widespread availability of the vaccine .
Marilyn Tseng , an assistant professor at California Polytechnic State University , said life would never revert to the way it was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and social distancing—will feel `` normal '' in time .
Similarly , Vasily Vlassov , a professor at HSE University in Moscow , said life was perfectly normal now because this is the new normal .
Reason 's ROBBY SOAVE : `` Everyone has a right to dissent from the epidemiologists ' contentment with the way things are now ... Epidemiologists are free to take whatever precautions they deem necessary in their own lives , of course—as are the rest of us .
But for too long , their pessimistic dictates have provided @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make people 's lives miserable . ''
The New York Times asked 700 epidemiologists to describe their COVID-19 habits , how their thinking has changed since the pandemic began , and when they think it will be safe for normal life to resume .
Dismayingly , several answered that last question with a resounding never .
“ I expect that wearing a mask will become part of my daily life , moving forward , even after a vaccine is deployed , ” Amy Hobbs , a research associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Times .
Marilyn Tseng , an assistant professor at California Polytechnic State University , said life would never revert to the way it was , though the preventative measures currently practiced—masks and social distancing—will feel “ normal ” in time .
Similarly , Vasily Vlassov , a professor at HSE University in Moscow , said life was perfectly normal now because this is the new normal .
Others disagreed .
Michael Webster-Clark of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said he expected “ further relaxation of most precautions by mid-to-late summer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine .
Some epidemiologists said their own risk aversion would decrease after they were vaccinated , but many said they would remain just as cautious until “ 80 percent or more ” of the entire population had received the vaccine .
On the whole , the epidemiologists were less wary of touching surfaces than they were at the start of the pandemic , and some thought young children could go back to school .
But just 26 percent said they either had or would have allowed their children to return to the classroom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ date with friends .
Only 29 percent were willing to get a haircut , even though the most infamous case involving two hairstylists who had COVID-19 resulted in not a single infection among their 139 clients .
A mere 11 percent were willing to ride the subway .
Epidemiologists are free to take whatever precautions they deem necessary in their own lives , of course—as are the rest of us .
But for too long , their pessimistic dictates have provided cover for politicians and government employees to make people ’ s lives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obvious example , schools are still closed in many major cities , even as new scientific information has generally found that resuming in-person education would be perfectly fine .
Teachers unions have echoed the choruses of the most alarmed public health experts , scrawling not until it ’ s safe on their school reopening protest signs .
One of the blessings of liberty is that everybody shouldn ’ t have to follow the same script .
If a person has reasons to be extra cautious , or even just prefers the feeling of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to reduce his own risk of catching the disease to as close to zero as possible , then he is free to live in accordance with that goal .
Other people may decide their own circumstances don ’ t require the same level of zealotry , or that their extremely low chance of having a negative health outcome justifies a greater degree of flexibility .
Others may say they are fine with certain precautions—masks , avoiding large events—but need to resume small in-person social gatherings for the sake of their mental and emotional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ risks but test themselves frequently and quarantine aggressively before traveling or visiting the elderly .
The circumstances on the ground matter tremendously ; a person ’ s willingness to relax his social distancing habits should track with the rate of infection in the community , which will necessarily be different in different areas of the country .
But these choices need to devolve to individuals to the greatest extent possible , especially in the coming months , as the population becomes vaccinated and we move past the crisis point of the pandemic .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ respecting people ’ s preferences .
If a convenience store doesn ’ t want customers to enter unless they ’ ve been vaccinated , the store owner ’ s wishes should be respected just as if the matter were shoelessness or shirtlessness .
If a restaurant decides it really needs full capacity dining in order to stay in business , the government shouldn ’ t deploy the police to stop them .
We all have to work it out for ourselves , and everyone who wishes to recapture the old normal is within @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ contentment with the way things are now .


climatedepot--2020-12-06--UN Chief: ‘Humanity Is Waging War on Nature’

From global warming to climate change to climate emergency , the charged rhetoric from climate alarmists is , like the climate itself , always changing .
In a speech at New York ’ s Columbia University , the socialist United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres upped the rhetorical ante yet again by referring to humanity ’ s relationship with the planet ’ s climate as a “ war on nature.
” “ Humanity is waging war on nature , ” said Guterres .
“ This is suicidal .
Nature always strikes back- and it is already doing so with growing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Guterres ’ mind at least , it ’ s no longer a matter of what humans are doing to the planet with our greedy use of fossil fuels to power our lives — it ’ s more of a combat situation with we humans having struck first and the Earth having the ability to fight back .
Guterres doubled down on the suicide and “ war on nature ” symbolism in an interview with CBS This Morning on Wednesday .
CBS set the table for Guterres with an apocalyptic opening to the segment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ familiar planet increasingly gone , burned and battered , melting in ways we never experienced before , nearly 200 countries struck a deal to at least begin to address the problem of global warming.
” Guterres responded : “ There is a growing conscience that the way we are moving is a suicide [ unintelligible ] to the future and our future generations.
” “ It ’ s time for the war between humankind and nature to end , ” Guterres said .
How could we ever get nature to agree to such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is that CBS is now touting its relationship with the climate alarmist organization Covering Climate Now , an amalgamation of news outlets with a commitment to “ more and better coverage of the defining story of our time , ” aka climate change .
Some of the group ’ s more than 400 partners currently includes CBS News , NBC News , MSNBC , PBS and Al Jazeera .
According to a report by the UN ’ s World Meteorological Organization , among the ways the Earth has fought back against us in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ice in the Arctic , “ heavy rains and extensive flooding over large parts of Africa and Asia , ” an active Atlantic Ocean hurricane season and severe drought in portions of South America .
And according to Guterres , even the Chinese virus is a way that nature is fighting back against us .
“ We are facing devastating pandemic , new heights of global heating , new lows of ecological degradation , and new setbacks in our work toward global goals for more equitable , inclusive and sustainable development.
” That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ buzz words and phrases to fit into one sentence .
Guterres continued : “ To put it simply , the state of the planet is broken.
” Marc Morano of Climate Depot , a climate contrarian website , believes that the “ war on nature ” rhetoric is evidence that climate zealots are envious of the attention that the COVID-19 pandemic has received in 2020 and could be a harbinger that the movement intends to piggyback on the coronavirus response in order to attain their own goals .
“ All the same solutions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wanted : Destroying industrial activities , lowering emissions , destroying the airline industry , stopping people from traveling , and essentially doing planned recessions through lockdowns , ” Morano told One News Now .
“ They ’ re declaring that we have a suicidal war on nature , ” Morano said .
“ Secondly , there is going to be a merging of the COVID climate issue , because what ’ s happening here [ is ] the UN is on record , John Kerry is on record claiming that because we ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we ’ re encroaching on it , that we ’ re getting new viruses from the animal world … and we have to prevent more viruses by fighting climate change.
” Guterres ’ s “ war on nature ” metaphor is , to say the least , problematic .
If there ’ s a war between the Earth and mankind , hasn ’ t the Earth been waging that war for a lot longer than we humans have ?
Until the last 150 years or so , we haven ’ t had the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war .
We weren ’ t technologically advanced enough to harm the planet as we are allegedly now doing .
Yet , nature , through destructive weather , earthquakes , tsunamis and volcanoes has been dropping bombs on us since the beginning of recorded time .


climatedepot--2020-12-06--Watch: Morano on Sky News Australia talking climate ‘child abuse’, Climate Hustle 2, COVID/Climate l

Watch: Morano on Sky News Australia talking climate ‘child abuse’, Climate Hustle 2, COVID/Climate lockdowns, funding

Morano says the focus on children by climate activists is “ child abuse ” and they are going after children because they know it will work .
“ Climate seems to only scare children and that ’ s why they focus on children.
” Former Republican political aide Marc Morano has slammed climate change activists for “ indoctrination of children ” in his new movie dissecting the agenda around climate activism .
“ They are told they have no future , they are facing psychological problems , ” he told Sky News .
“ They are led by Greta Thunberg @ @ @ @ @ @ @ skip school , unless they act , unless they join lawsuits against governments around the world , they will have no future .
” Mr. Morano compared climate change to COVID as there is “ the same intimidation ” for dissenting COVID scientists as there is for dissenting climate scientists .
He says the focus on children by climate activists is “ child abuse ” and they are going after children because they know it will work .
“ Climate seems to only scare children and that ’ s why they focus on @ @ @


climatedepot--2020-12-07--Biden calls climate change an ’emergency.’ Now he’s under pressure to officially declare it one – Ur

Biden calls climate change an ’emergency.’ Now he’s under pressure to officially declare it one – Urged to ‘invoke the National Emergencies Act’

“ The reason to do it is not symbolic , ” said Brett Hartl , government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity , one of the green groups making the push .
“ It actually gives the president more power.
” An emergency declaration could give Biden more tools , especially if Republicans keep Senate control .
Using emergency authority , Biden may be able to funnel military money to the construction of renewable energy projects , reinstate a ban on exporting oil and lob trade penalties on countries such as Brazil for permitting the destruction of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ become an obstacle to broad action on climate change .
Republicans retain control of the Senate if they win either one of the two runoff elections in Georgia next month .
Even if Democrats win both , Vice President Kamala D. Harris would be the tie-breaking vote in a 50-50 chamber .
So far , the Biden transition team isn ’ t promising anything .
This week , the Center for Biological Diversity sent the Biden transition team a report urging the president-elect to invoke the National Emergencies Act to address both the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of species to extinction .
Greenpeace , 350.org and Oil Change U.S. are among other left-leaning environmental groups that have endorsed the idea .
“ President-elect Biden has called the existential threat of climate change one of the four crises facing our nation , and is taking action now to implement his bold agenda beginning on day one , ” he said .
A national climate emergency may be another flashpoint between the Democratic Party ’ s left and moderate wings .
Josh Freed , head of the climate and energy program at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said there is plenty the incoming Biden administration can get done issuing regulations and investing in clean energy infrastructure without an emergency declaration .
“ The actions that need to be done on climate change can be done without declaring a national emergency , ” he said .
“ Declaring a national emergency needs to be take very seriously.
” But the bar may have been lowered when President Trump used emergency powers to tap the military budget to fund a wall along the southern border .
Last year , the Supreme Court @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that plan .
It could come at a political cost for Biden .
“ The Biden administration has to act immediately on climate , ” Salazar said , “ and this is one of the first and simplest things he can do.
” Agreed !
“ Let 's call this emergency what it is . ''
If Biden proclaims global warming a national emergency , it gives him more power to take executive actions to tackle it .
# ClimateEmergencyhttps : //t.co/vlSf1cpEsO You were warned : COVID lockdowns morph to Climate Lockdowns ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate emergency ’ – ‘ Could give Biden the authority to circumvent Congress ’ Bloomberg News : Invoking a climate emergency could give Biden the authority to circumvent Congress and fund clean energy projects , shut down crude oil exports , suspend offshore drilling and curtail the movement of fossil fuels on pipelines , trains , and ships , according to a research note by consulting firm ClearView Energy Partners .
“ The president ’ s powers to address climate change through an emergency are very , very large , ” said Kassie @ @ @ @ @ @ @ group Center for Biological Diversity , which is lobbying Biden ’ s team to act .
“ This is No .
1 on the list of things the Biden administration should do.
” … “ Declaring a climate emergency will radicalize climate protection , alienating the very moderate Senators needed to pass infrastructure and other bills with carbon-reducing provisions , ” said Paul Bledsoe , a former climate official in the Clinton White House , now with the Progressive Policy Institute .
…Greenpeace , along with the Center for Biological Diversity and groups @ @ @ @ @ @ @ among 500 organizations that called for the next president to declare a national climate emergency last December .
Two candidates who sought the Democratic presidential nomination , Bernie Sanders and Tom Steyer , vowed on the campaign trail to declare climate change a national emergency .
‘ Fantastic ’ for the climate : Activists See Coronavirus Lockdowns As A Dress Rehearsal for ‘ Climate Emergency ’ Climate Depot ’ s Marc Morano : “ If you like living under the coronavirus fears and government-mandated lockdowns , then you ’ ll love living your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
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