Posted on 11/01/2021 6:56:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As the COP26 climate summit gets under way in the Scottish city of Glasgow amid projections of an apocalyptic future if drastic changes are not made, climate change sceptics still make statements like “global warming is caused by the sun" and “there is no scientific consensus”. FRANCE 24 spoke to climatologist Hervé Le Treut, who deconstructed these falsehoods.
True or false? “The climate has changed before so it’s not a big deal”
We’ve had a stable climate for 10,000 years. So we’re specifically trying to protect the climatic conditions that have allowed humanity to develop during this period. The question is whether or not we want to continue with the climate that has allowed human civilisation to emerge.
True or false? “The sun causes global warming”
This idea has been repeatedly shown to be untrue. The sun’s radiation does indeed fluctuate, with sunspots varying in their levels of activity. But these changes in the sun’s radiation can’t account for the increase in temperatures we’ve seen over the past decades. The notion is impossible to defend scientifically.
True or false? “The situation isn’t all that serious; the IPCC is far too alarmist”
The IPCC report was produced by the unanimous agreement of every country signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. That’s a lot of countries [197, to be precise].
So there’s very strong unanimity, which makes it difficult to accuse the IPCC of saying anything incorrect.
True or false? “People, animals and plants will be able to just adapt’
There’s a lot of documentation pointing to how so much biodiversity is disappearing – often related to environmentally unfriendly forms of agriculture in addition to greenhouse gas emissions.
So it’s quite clear from the evidence we’re seeing today that the adaptation of species is not happening.
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First it was THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT in which the sun rays changed their wavelength when it pass ed through the atmosphere. With a different wavelength the heat could not escape at night. The blame was on POLLUTION!
Then in the 1970s it was THE COMING ICE AGE caused by a loss of sunlight coming in due to POLLUTION!
In the 1990s it was GLOBAL WARMING caused by CO2 POLLUTION
Both Obama and Biden have beach houses that sit 3 feet above sea level at high tide. If they are not worried, why should we be worried.
From POPULAR SCIENCE, Feb 1980..
PS/What’s News ....
page 73
Changing the weather intentionally or otherwise weather modification..(Earth cooling vs Greenhouse effect)
“Do you suppose we can learn enough, soon enough, to pull off a balancing act with the CO2 blanket saving us from another ice age?”
We’re already in a ice age or glaciation period, its called the Quaternary. The Quaternary is defined as a period of cyclic continental glaiciations. What you have enjoyd for say the last 10,000-20,000 years or so is a warming lull. Civilization happened Yay !! Someeday (maybe soon !) the lull will end and the ice sheets will advance again. It’s just a matter of when. Humans didn’t cause it. Humans can’t stop it. It is coming !
Excellent fuzzylogic. Your logic is not at all “fuzzy”.
So, what caused the globe to experience climate changes before this stability set in? How unstable was the climate before that stability set in? Were there wild fluctuations in that unstable period before stability was realized? How does the current instability compare to the previous period of instability?
This idea has been repeatedly shown to be untrue. The sun’s radiation does indeed fluctuate, with sunspots varying in their levels of activity. But these changes in the sun’s radiation can’t account for the increase in temperatures we’ve seen over the past decades. The notion is impossible to defend scientifically.
If the sun plays no part in warming, then what caused warming or cooling for the previous unstable climate to realize the 10,000 year stable climate period, and what allowed the stable period climate to remain stable?
Or Rudyard Kipling’s “Gods of the Copybook Headings”.
Until a scientific discovery is made, the consensus is it doesn’t exist.
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