Photos of weather in the United Kingdom in March 2018. There have been times when it was warm enough to grow grapes and make wine. Other times when their rivers were frozen. Some claim that any weather change is due to use of fossil fuels. Those people may end up with poor energy planning by getting rid of fossil fuels and nuclear.
Christopher Monckton: “Generation Atomic” is yet another NGO, this time comprising boffins keen on nuclear power and even keener on pretending there is a “climate emergency” so that they can promote their favorite method of generating electricity as the golden path to crippling Western Civilization through “decarbonisation”. The photo below shows a huge boulder sitting on the top of a cliff on the beautiful Cornwall coast of England with the Atlantic Ocean in the background. It was transported there during an ice age. No scientist who questions the magnitude of global warming from use of fossil fuels denies climate change. In the past, the climate has repeatedly been hostile cold with Europe and North America covered by thousands of feet of ice that transported this huge boulder from many miles away. Calling anyone a CLIMATE DENIER is an insult of tremendous magnitude and a disgrace to those promoting nuclear energy.
Matt Ridley is one of the world’s foremost science writers. His books have sold over a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. Here is the link to the original document:
http://www.thegwpf.org/matt-ridley-the-climate-wars-and-the-damage-to-science/
Matt Ridley is one of the world’s foremost science writers. His books have sold over a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. Here is the link to the original document:
http://www.thegwpf.org/matt-ridley-the-climate-wars-and-the-damage-to-science/
Euan Mearns, geologist: He takes a close look at the data on temperatures, carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4) found in the Vostok Ice Core of Antarctica. He focuses on the Eemian warm period between 130,000 and 115,000 years ago. This warm period was the last warm period before the current warm period, the Holocene. In her 2008 graphs showing the relationship between CO2 and temperatures from the Vostok Ice Core covering the entire record, Jo Nova stated the average lag was about 800 years, with temperatures rising (falling) about 800 years before CO2 rising (falling). This lag indicates that CO2 could not be the cause of rise or fall of temperatures.
Germany’s utopian dream of transforming itself into the world’s green powerhouse is collapsing as its political and media establishment is mugged by reality. The country’s climate obsession has turned into one of the country’s biggest political and economic handicaps, making Germany almost ungovernable.
Before climate science became politicised, warm periods were referred to by scientists as “climate optima” because, for almost all species on Earth, warmer is better than colder. The most dramatic advances in civilization took place during the last four warm periods—including our own. The advancement of science, technology and the arts have been directly linked to warmer weather.
James Lovelock: So should we be trying to save the world? “Don’t try and save the world, its pure hubris. We might be able to save Dorset. I think it’s easier to save Dorset than the planet. “There’s one thing to keep in mind here. We don’t need to save the planet, it’s looked after itself for four billion years. It’s always been habitable and things have lived on it, so why worry.” At the end of the day, “It pays to be cheerful,” he says.
Had it not been so exceptionally calm in the run up to this autumn equinox, one could call the energy crisis a perfect storm. Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing.
Yet this crisis is a mere harbinger of the candle-lit future that awaits us if we do not change course.
James Lovelock, PhD in Medicine, Chemist, Independent Scientist, Environmentalist. The whole universe is in a constant state of change. This article describes how James Lovelock has changed his thinking about man-made global warming. There are many people sounding the alarm about this topic who are never going to change. What is going to happen to the world?
Euan Mearns, geologist: It is important to recall that well over $1,700,000,000,000 ($1.7 trillion) has been spent on installing wind and solar devices in recent years with the sole objective of reducing global CO2 emissions. It transpires that since 1995 low carbon energy sources (nuclear, hydro and other renewables) share of global energy consumption has not changed at all. New renewables have not even replaced lost nuclear generating capacity since 1999. ZERO CO2 has been abated and the world has done zilch to prepare itself for the expected declines (escalating costs) of fossil fuels in the decades ahead. If this is not total policy failure, what is?
At the National Astronomy meeting in Wales, 2015, Northumbria University professor Valentina Zharkova said fluctuations in an 11-year cycle of solar activity could cause global cooling starting in 2030: A decade long ice age is predicted as sun 'hibernates.' Scientists claim we may be in for a decade-long freeze as the sun slows down solar activity by up to 60 per cent. Can't imagine what that much less energy from the sun would mean for life on Earth. The wind turbines generating electricity would be iced up and stop turning or break. The solar panels would be covered in snow.
Global Warming Policy Forum, GWPF, Christopher Booker, British newspaper columnist, Irving Janis, psychologist: The bizarre issue of climate catastrophism has been around sufficiently long that it has become possible to trace its history in detail. This new report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) shows that both the science and policy of the climate debate are shaped and driven by an almost flawless example of classical Groupthink. This is invariably what happens when human beings get carried along by the crowd, simply because they have lost the urge or ability to think for themselves.”
BBC News, Matt McGrath: Researchers believe we could soon cross a threshold leading to boiling hot temperatures and towering seas in the centuries to come. Even if countries succeed in meeting their CO2 targets, we could still lurch on to this "irreversible pathway". Their study shows it could happen if global temperatures rise by 2C. NOTE: A search of the Internet documents that there have been many very large urban and wildfires throughout history, before the large scale use of fossil fuels.
The Spectator - All European producers face much higher costs than Chinese steelmakers thanks to the EU Emissions Trading System. But Britain imposes its own green taxes on top of this in the form of the Carbon Price Floor and the Renewables Obligation — an epic act of self-harm. If manufacturing simply transfers abroad, that won’t do a thing to reduce global carbon emissions. It is pure industrial suicide.
James Lovelock, Environmentalists, Chemist, Earth Scientist and John Shanahan, Civil Engineer and President of EFN-USA: This article presents ideas and quotes from one of the world's most respected environmentalists, James Lovelock, a funny, short video about HydroCarbon Man, and thoughts for the future by John Shanahan, Civil Engineer and President of Environmentalists for Nuclear - USA. We will have a much better future by staying with realists with moderate, middle of the road, sound leadership with broad consensus rather than radical extremists on the left or right.
James Lovelock, PhD in Medicine, Chemist, Independent Scientist, Environmentalist. This renowned scientist, famous environmentalist and patron of Britain's SONE, Supporters of Nuclear Energy, is certain that catastrophic man-made global warming, climate disruption, sea-level rise is going to manifest itself in a few decades. Only the Pope is supposedly infallible and only when he speaks from the Pope's chair, "ex cathedra." Even then, some think the Pope can make mistakes in speaking. Scientists make mistakes all the times. But at least many of them are really searching for the truth.
Matt Ridley: The policies being proposed to combat climate change, far from being a modest insurance policy, are proving ineffective, expensive, harmful to poor people and actually bad for the environment: we are tearing down rainforests to grow biofuels and ripping up peat bogs to install windmills that still need fossil-fuel back-up.