Laughable scaremongering

Vincent J. Curtis

31 Oct 23

RE: “Earth likely to hit climate threshold by early 2029, new study suggests.” AP story by Seth Borenstein.  The Hamilton Spectator 31 Oct 23.

In the spirit of Halloween, the Spectator published another scaremongering piece on the weather by AP’s resident climate ghoul, Seth Borenstein.  There’s the usual end-of-the-world nonsense, now threatened to arrive in 2029.  The authors Borenstein reports on are named, “The Study.” (The names of “the 6 goombas” are listed below.)

But there are problems: nobody really knows what the global average temperature was in 1850; so, what “pre-industrial” actually is, is unknown.  The figure 1.5℃ above this unknown was just picked out of the air; there’s no scientific or historical basis for it.  The earth was much warmer than now in the past.  No one has said why this climate is the best possible when life flourished in warmer climates. (What’s the big diff between 13.8℃ and 15.3℃.  The IPCC thinks it’s 16℃ currently.  The fearmonging rise is lost in the error of estimation!)

What you won’t hear AP report is that it is a hard, scientific calculation that a doubling of CO2 from 400 to 800 ppm will result in an increase of global temperature of 0.72℃; that’s all, less than a degree.  You won’t see observed that where there’s a trough, there will be pigs; and if you pay scientists good money to find a popular disaster ahead, they will report what you want.

An enormous, pre-planned publicity campaign was organized for the release of this paper.

Dr. John Clauser, the 2022 Nobel Laurate in Physics, said it concisely, “there is no climate crisis, and climate change does not cause extreme weather events.”

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Authors: Robin D. Lamboll, Zebedee R.J. Nicholls, Christopher J. Smith, Jama S. Kikstra, Edward Byers, and Joeri Rogeli.  (the 6 goombas) Perhaps their mothers have heard of them; perhaps not.  Their paper was evidently the subject of a massive pre-planned publicity campaign, and is all over the international, English language, MSM. This is a political campaign, not a serious scientific work.