tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55231876300067911662024-03-19T04:55:08.370+00:00Climate LessonsJShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.comBlogger411125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-46312900079606794482021-12-04T12:42:00.000+00:002021-12-04T12:42:19.283+00:00Christmas Greetings in 2021, and the future of this blog, Climate Lessons.<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> The awful ongoing spread of panic over CO2 casts a shadow over us all, and is perhaps one of the greatest intellectual disgraces of our time. It has led to political, moral, and educational disgraces that are bringing widespread harm. This blog has sought to draw attention to the harm being done to children in schools by the propaganda designed to produce alarm in young minds. But this propaganda has been overwhelmingly successful - children are now widely reported in large numbers as being terrified about the future. Ill-informed agitators like Greta Thunberg have been idolised by campaigners, and ruthlessly exploited by them to promote fear. She, and the children she has helped to alarm, all need a great deal of help to get back to a happier, more balanced, and better informed state of mind.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> I plan to leave this blog up and running, with occasional additions as I can find time for, in the hope that some of the material here will help others who want to help people like Greta calm down and feel better about the world. I also plan to launch another blog early next year. This new blog will concentrate on one relatively narrow area - our knowledge of the Greenland icecap. This icecap has been used to scare people about climate. I would like to create an easy to access depository of relevant studies as a contribution to reducing the risks of misinformation in this area. I hope it may be more successful than Climate Lessons seems to have been to date.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Here is a recent talk given by Professor Will Happer, one of the physicists who has kept calm and analytical, rather than hot-headed and political like some others have been, about CO2 and climate. The talk is aimed at a general audience and should, I imagine, be followed readily by non-specialists: </span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PblYr-KjOVY" width="320" youtube-src-id="PblYr-KjOVY"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p>Key conclusions:</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Happer: "The r<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ationale for the crusade against co2, i</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">t's almost a religious t</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hing people believe in." .. "W</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hat are the facts? I</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">s climate change a problem? The answer </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is NO, it's not a problem at all and CO2 </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is not a problem at all."</span></span></strong></p><div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hat-tip</span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">: <a href="https://www.climatedepot.com/2021/12/03/princeton-physicist-dr-will-happer-is-climate-change-a-problem-the-answer-is-no-its-not-a-problem-at-all-co2-is-not-a-problem-at-all/">Climate Depot</a>)</span></span></div><div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Christmas Greetings</b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I usually manage a post to mark this generally happier time of year, so here are the melodies of 5 carols, played on a nyckelharpa by Dick Glasgow:</span></span></span></div><div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aqo1fpPzpXw" width="320" youtube-src-id="aqo1fpPzpXw"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Best wishes to all who come this way. For Christmas and for the New Year! May the tide of climate lunacy turn soon. </span></span></span></div><div><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></strong></div>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-13011360984364855992020-12-13T12:00:00.007+00:002020-12-14T12:37:35.886+00:00The Winter of our Discontent about Climate Alarmism<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">While the climate system continues to behave as if the additional CO2 is having a negligible effect, the climate alarm campaigners remain deeply entrenched in many important areas, not least in politics and education. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">That is a source of </span><a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/12/where-is-the-outrage-over-climate-and-energy-policy/" style="text-align: left;">discontent</a><span style="text-align: left;"> for those of us who have not been convinced by the arguments made in favour of panic and alarm. We can believe that a gentle, beneficial warming has taken place over the past 150 years or so, and we can see the beneficial impact of increased CO2 on crop production, and in 'greening' the planet generally. We note that while CO2 may well have </span><span style="text-align: left;">added to the observed warming, the impact of more CO2 is expected to be </span><a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/29/slight-beneficial-warming-from-more-carbon-dioxide/" style="text-align: left;">even weaker.</a><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So here is a pleasant diversion for Christmas: the enchanting music that Holst wrote to go with lyrics by Rossetti:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="481" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WyiTtlNW-iw" width="578" youtube-src-id="WyiTtlNW-iw"></iframe><p></p><div>The performance is by a group called '2002'. More details here:</div><div><a href="https://2002music.com/christmas-dreams">https://2002music.com/christmas-dreams</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Merry Christmas to all who visit here!! Let good cheer abound, and here's hoping for a New Year that will be better for climate policies, and for climate-scared children and adults, than it looks like being from here.</div><div><br /></div>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-54658657571166117962020-07-27T17:06:00.000+01:002020-07-27T17:06:18.414+01:00Climate Change Science Overview for Parents, Teachers, and Senior Pupils - calm appraisals by genuine experts<div align="left" style="background-color: white; font-family: TimesNewRoman, "Times New Roman", Times, Baskerville, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">
<b>Here is a long extract from the July 25 issue of the invaluable <a href="http://www.sepp.org/the-week-that-was.cfm">'The Week That Was' newsletter</a> from the Science & Environmental Project. It shares recent insights from very distinguished experts, namely Richard Lindzen, William van Wijingaarden, William Happer, and Mototaka Nakamura, in separate publications. Key points include: CO2 plays a relatively modest roles in the climate system, doubling CO2 levels has 1.5C as a credible upper-bound impact on mean temperature (and mean temperature is a poor measure of climate variation), and that the computer models of climate are utterly unsuited and incompetent for forecasting climate change. At the very least, these insights undermine the current widespread confidence that a climate crisis is underway. </b></div>
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<strong><span style="color: red;">THIS WEEK:</span></strong><br /><em><strong><span style="color: red;">By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)</span></strong></em><br /><br /><strong>July Summary Part III; Models and Observations:</strong> Two weeks ago TWTW reviewed Richard Lindzen’s new paper summarizing what we know with reasonable certainty, what we suspect, and what we know is incorrect about climate change, the greenhouse effect, temperature trends, climate modeling, ocean chemistry, and sea level rise. Key parts included:<br /><br />1) The climate system is never in equilibrium.<br /><br />2) The core of the system consists of two turbulent fluids interacting with each other and unevenly heated by the sun, which results in transport of heat from the equator towards the poles (meridional) creating ocean cycles that may take 1,000 years to complete.<br /><br />3) The two most important substances in the greenhouse effect are water vapor and clouds, which are not fully understood and are not stable.<br /><br />4) A vital component of the atmosphere is water in its liquid, solid, and vapor phases and the changes in phases have immense dynamic consequences.<br /><br />5) Doubling carbon dioxide, (CO2), creates a 2% disturbance to the normal flow of energy into the system and out of the system, which is similar to the disturbance created by changes in clouds and other natural features.<br /><br />6) Temperatures in the tropics have been extremely stable. It is the temperature differences between the tropics and polar regions that is extremely important. Calculations such as global average temperature largely ignore this important difference.<br /><br />Last week, TWTW used the work of William van Wijngaarden and William Happer (W & H) to summarize what we know with reasonable certainty, what we suspect, and what we know is incorrect about the greenhouse effect. Both the gentlemen are experts in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical physics (AMO), which is far from simple physics, but is necessary to understand how greenhouse gases interfere (delay) the radiation of energy from the surface into space – how the earth loses its heat every day, mainly at night.<br /><br />1) There is no general understanding sufficient to develop elegant equations.<br /><br />2) The optical depth or optical thickness of the atmosphere (transparency) changes as altitude changes. The depth is measured in terms of a natural logarithm and, in this instance, relates to distance a photon of a particular frequency can travel before it is absorbed by an appropriate molecule (one that absorbs and re-emits photons of that frequency).<br /><br />3) Unlike other natural greenhouse gases, water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, is not well distributed in the atmosphere, its irregular. <em>[SEPP Comment: It is variability during the daytime, the formation of clouds from H2O, etc., all combine to make it impossible to do theoretical computational "climate" dynamics with any value at all. Because H2O is known to be “all over the map" the Charney Report recognized a decent calculation was impossible. So, it went down the erroneous path of ignoring H2O and assumed a CO2 value; and then coming back in later with a "feedback" argument to try to account for H2O. It didn’t work then, now, or into the future.]</em><br /><br />4) There is a logarithmic relationship between greenhouse gases and temperature.<br /><br />5) “Saturation” means that adding more molecules causes little change in Earth’s radiation to space. The very narrow range in which Methane (CH4) can absorb and emit photons is already saturated by water vapor (H2O), the dominant greenhouse gas, below the tropopause, where the atmosphere is thick. Thus, adding methane has little effect on temperatures because its influence is mostly where the atmosphere is thin, transparent.<br /><br />6) Their (W & H) calculations show that a doubling of CO2 will increase temperatures by no more than 1.5 ⁰ C.</div>
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<strong>Problems with Models:</strong> In September 2019, established Japanese climate modeler Mototaka Nakamura, wrote a book that is available on Kindle, which contains an English summary. Nakamura is the author of about 20 published papers on fluid dynamics, one of the complex subjects in climate change. Interestingly, Richard Lindzen was one of Nakamura’s thesis advisors at MIT. Nakamura mentions this in his discussion of ocean currents, namely the Thermohaline circulation. This circulation includes the Gulf Stream, which keeps Western Europe far warmer than it would be otherwise. [The late Bill Gray, who was a pioneer in forecasting hurricanes, was a strong advocate of the importance of the Thermohaline circulation.]<br /><br />Based on Nakamura’s discussion, he is a stronger advocate of the Thermohaline circulation than Lindzen, particularly in the cold southward flowing water on the bottom of the Atlantic. In his discussion on this phenomena, Nakamura states Professor Lindzen may disagree, asking how do you know?<br /><br />As presented in the September 28, 2019, TWTW, Australian reporter Tony Thomas, who has followed the climate issue for years, reviews the book, emphasizing that the certainty claimed by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its followers is hollow.<br /><br />Among other important changing phenomena, the climate system is largely made up of two fluids in dynamic motion, the ocean, and the atmosphere, and we simply do not know enough about fluid dynamics to make long-term predictions about the interactions of these fluids. According to Nakamura the climate models are useful tools for academic purposes, but useless for prediction. As quoted by Thomas, Nakamura writes:<br /><br /><em>“These models completely lack some critically important climate processes and feedbacks and represent some other critically important climate processes and feedbacks in grossly distorted manners to the extent that makes these models totally useless for any meaningful climate prediction.</em><br /><br /><em>“I myself used to use climate simulation models for scientific studies, not for predictions, and learned about their problems and limitations in the process.”</em><br /><br />Nakamura and his colleagues tried to repair the errors:<br /><br /><em>“…so, I know the workings of these models very well. For better or worse I have more or less lost interest in the climate science and am not thrilled to spend so much of my time and energy in this kind of writing beyond the point that satisfies my own sense of obligation to the US and Japanese taxpayers who financially supported my higher education and spontaneous and free research activity. So please expect this to be the only writing of this sort coming from me.</em><br /><br /><em>“I am confident that some honest and courageous, true climate scientists will continue to publicly point out the fraudulent claims made by the mainstream climate science community in English. I regret to say this, but I am also confident that docile and/or incompetent Japanese climate researchers will remain silent until the ’mainstream climate science community’ changes its tone, if ever.”</em><br /><br />Thomas writes some of the gross model simplifications are:<br /><br />• <em>Ignorance about large and small-scale ocean dynamics.</em><br />• <em>A complete lack of meaningful representations of aerosol changes that generate clouds.</em><br />• <em>Lack of understanding of drivers of ice-albedo (reflectivity) feedbacks: “Without a reasonably accurate representation, it is impossible to make any meaningful predictions of climate variations and changes in the middle and high latitudes and thus the entire planet.”</em><br />• <em>Inability to deal with water vapor elements.</em><br />• <em>Arbitrary “tunings” (fudges) of key parameters that are not understood.</em><br /><br />As Richard Lindzen has stated for years, the models fail to capture changes in clouds including changing cloud area and that the sizes of clouds are too small for grid scale modeling.<br /><br />Nakamura’s work reinforces what many, including Lindzen, have stated. But it is refreshing to see that a modeler who spent years trying to model the climate system recognizes how unsuccessful this 40 plus year effort has been.<br /><br />To the above, one can quote from the beginning of the English appendix of Nakamura’s book:<br /><br /><em>“Before pointing out a few of the serious flaws in climate simulation models, in defense of those climate researchers who use climate simulation models for various meaningful scientific projects, I want to emphasize here that climate simulation models are fine tools to study the climate system, so long as the users are aware of the limitations of the models and exercise caution in designing experiments and interpreting their output. In this sense, experiments to study the response of simplified climate systems, such as those generated by the ‘state-of-the-art’ climate simulation models, to major increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases are also interesting and meaningful academic projects that are certainly worth pursuing. So long as the results of such projects are presented with disclaimers that unambiguously state the extent to which the results can be compared with the real world, I would not have any problem with such projects. The models just become useless pieces of junk or worse (worse, in a sense that they can produce gravely misleading output) only when they are used for climate forecasting.</em><br /><br /><em>“All climate simulation models have many details that become fatal flaws when they are used as climate forecasting tools, especially for mid- to long-term (several years and longer) climate variations and changes. These models completely lack some of critically important climate processes and feedbacks, and represent some other critically important climate processes and feedbacks in grossly distorted manners to the extent that makes these models totally useless for any meaningful climate prediction. It means that they are also completely useless for assessing the effects of the past atmospheric carbon dioxide increase on the climate. I myself used to use climate simulation models for scientific studies, not for predictions, and learned about their problems and limitations in the process. I, with help of some of my former colleagues, even modified some details of these models in attempts to improve them by making some of grossly simplified expressions of physical processes in the models less grossly simplified, based on physical theories. So, I know the internal workings of these models very well. I find it rather bewildering that so many climate researchers, many of whom are only ‘so-called climate researchers’ in my not-so-humble opinion, appear to firmly believe in the validity of using these models for climate forecasting. I have observed that many of those climate researchers who firmly believe in the global warming hypothesis view the climate system in a grotesquely simplified fashion: many of them view the climate system as a horizontally homogeneous (no variations in the north-south and east-west directions) or zonally homogeneous (no variations in the east-west direction) system whose dynamics are dominated by the radiative-chemical-convective processes, smooth vertical-north-south motions in the atmosphere, and stationary oceans, and completely neglect the geophysical fluid dynamics, an extremely important and strong factor in the maintenance of the climate and generation of climate variations and changes. So, in their view, those climate simulation models that have ostensible 3 D flows in the atmosphere and oceans may be more than good enough for making climate predictions.<strong> They are not good enough.</strong> Incidentally, I never liked the term, ‘model validation’, often used by most climate researchers to refer to the action of assessing the extent to which the model output resembles the reality. They should use a more honest term such as ‘model assessment’ rather than the disingenuous term, ‘model validation’, and evaluate the model performance in an objective and scientific manner rather than trying to construct narratives that justify the use of these models for climate predictions.</em> [Boldface in original]<br /><br /><em>“The most obvious and egregious problem is the treatment of incoming solar energy — it is treated as a constant, that is, as a ‘never changing quantity’. It should not require an expert to explain how absurd this is if ‘climate forecasting’ is the aim of the model use. It has been only several decades since we acquired an ability to accurately monitor the incoming solar energy. In these several decades only, it has varied by 1 to 2 Watts per square meters. Is it reasonable to assume that it will not vary any more than that in the next hundred years or longer for forecasting purposes? I would say ‘No’.</em><br /><br /><em>“One can stop here and proclaim that we can never predict climate changes because of our inability to predict changes in the incoming solar energy. Nevertheless, for the sake of providing some useful pieces of information that can help countervail rampantly bold and absurd claims such as ‘We can correctly predict climate changes that are attributable only to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide to assess the human impact on the climate’, I will describe two problematic aspects of climate simulation models below. I also hear somewhat less bold claims such as ‘These models can correctly predict at least the sense or direction of climate changes that are attributable only to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.’ <strong>I want to point out a simple fact that it is impossible to correctly predict even the sense or direction of the change of a system when the prediction tool lacks and/ or grossly distorts important nonlinear processes, feedbacks in particular, that are present in the actual system.”</strong></em> [Boldface added.]</div>
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<b>The full newsletter is available as a <a href="http://www.sepp.org/twtwfiles/2020/TWTW%207-25-20-New.pdf">pdf here</a>.</b></div>
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-61365079210896639772020-07-11T14:27:00.001+01:002020-07-11T14:29:14.025+01:00Your Children should not be Pessimistic about the Environment, and you can help them learn whyIt is possible to believe, as Matt Ridley does, that climate change is man-made, and still be pleased about the industrial and agricultural development of recent decades, and to be optimistic about the future. Here are three extracts from an article he published earlier this month in <a href="https://www.perc.org/about-us/">PERC</a>:<br />
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<a href="https://www.perc.org/2020/07/06/against-environmental-pessimism/">Against Environmental Pessimism</a></h1>
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(1) '<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #504f4f; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;">Far from starving, the seven billion people who now inhabit the planet are far better fed than the four billion of 1980. Famine has pretty much gone extinct in recent decades. In the 1960s, about two million people died of famine; in the decade that just ended, tens of thousands died—and those were in countries run by callous tyrants. Paul Ehrlich, the ecologist and best-selling author who declared in 1968 that “[t]he battle to feed all of humanity is over” and forecast that “hundreds of millions of people will starve to death”—and was given a genius award for it—proved to be </span><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/paul-ehrlich-still-pushing-ecological-doomsday-wesley-j-smith/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #82b04e; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.4s ease 0s;" target="_blank">very badly wrong</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #504f4f; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Remarkably, this feeding of seven billion people has happened without taking much new land under the plow and the cow. Instead, in many places farmland has reverted to wilderness. In 2009, Jesse Ausubel of Rockefeller University </span><a href="https://www.popcouncil.org/uploads/pdfs/councilarticles/pdr/PDR38supplAusubel.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #82b04e; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.4s ease 0s;" target="_blank">calculated</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> that thanks to more farmers getting access to better fertilizers, pesticides, and biotechnology, the area of land needed to produce a given quantity of food—averaged for all crops—was 65 percent less than in 1961. As a result, an area the size of India will be freed up by mid-century. That is an enormous boost for wildlife. National parks and other protected areas have expanded steadily as well.'</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">(2) '</span>Here’s a question I put to school children when I get the chance: Why is the wolf population increasing, the lion decreasing, and the tiger now holding its own? The answer is simple: Wolves live in rich countries, lions in poor countries, and tigers in middle-income countries. It turns out that we conservationists were wrong to fear economic development in the 1980s. Prosperity is the best thing that can happen to a country’s wildlife. As people get richer, they can afford to buy electricity rather than cut wood, buy chicken rather than hunt bushmeat, or get a job in a town rather than try to scratch a living from a patch of land. They can also stop worrying that their children will starve and start to care about the environment. In country after country, first in Asia, then in Latin America, and now increasingly in Africa, that process of development leading to environmental gains has swiftly delivered a turning point in the fortunes of wild ecosystems. </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">One way of measuring such progress is to look at forests. Forests are still being cut down in poor countries, but they are expanding in rich ones. It turns out that when a country reaches a certain level of income, </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5238442/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #82b04e; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.4s ease 0s;" target="_blank">around $5,000 per person per year</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, it starts reforesting. This is because people become wealthy enough to stop relying on wood fires for cooking and to use electricity or gas instead. Bangladesh, for example, was desperately poor in 1980 but is now rich enough to be significantly increasing its forest cover today.'</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">(3) '</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">What else might we achieve by the year 2060, when I shall be 102? Even though there will then be more than nine billion people, it is almost certain there will be larger forests, more wildlife, cleaner rivers, and richer seas, because that is what is currently happening. Most people who deny this, and insist things are getting worse, are simply wrong. The latest example is the “insect apocalypse,” a </span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/insect-apocalypse-really-upon-us/583018/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #82b04e; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.4s ease 0s;" target="_blank">scare</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> that has been widely reported by the media but is based on inadequate data and ridiculous exaggerations from one or two small-scale studies of dubious value.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">There is, however, one thing that worries me, and it is this: Some environmentalists, as steeped in pessimism today as I was 40 years ago, are determined to push policies that actually harm the environment. They want us to farm organically, even though that uses more land and does more harm to the soil than farming with chemicals and biotechnology. They want us to get all of the energy we need from the sun or the wind, even if it means covering the landscape in industrial structures to try to extract energy from extremely low-density sources. They want us to turn crops into fuel, via ethanol from corn or diesel from palm oil, even though this means pinching land from wildlife. They want us to reject biotechnology and nuclear power, two practices that reduce humans’ environmental footprint. They want us to recycle plastic, rather than incinerate it, which has resulted in an industry of exporting plastic to Asia where much of it ends up dumped in the ocean. In short, their policies are in many cases actually worse for the environment.'</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">See the <a href="https://www.perc.org/2020/07/06/against-environmental-pessimism/">PERC article</a> to read the rest. Hat-tip:<a href="https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/07/10/matt-ridley-the-planets-future-has-never-looked-brighter/"> Climate Depot</a>.</span></div>
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-64903599819294832152020-07-08T18:16:00.001+01:002020-07-09T12:39:58.563+01:00Teaching Children About Climate Change: do you promote horrible imaginings or wonderful reality?There seems to be quite a few of these articles agonising about how to teach children about climate change without scaring them witless. None of them consider the best way of all: stick to reality, stick to good science, and teach that the alarmism is really, really, really overblown.<br />
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Teach them that the climate system is quite robust on any timescale of concern to us, and that CO2 has never been a big player in the past, and does not seem to be a big player now. Teach them that rising CO2 has helped green the planet, and increase food production, and at the same time the climate system is behaving just as it might if the additional CO2 had only a very minor effect. Teach them that the gentle warming we have seen is good for life in general, and humans in particular. Teach them that so much has been getting better in the environment and in human welfare that this is probably the<i> </i>best time ever to be young since the potential is there for continued improvement. Teach them that affordable energy is a liberator, and that abundant relatively affordable energy is available through fossil fuels and nuclear.<br />
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Teach them that things have been getting dramatically better over the past 50 years and that this can easily continue. Teach them to not take eco-scare stories at face value ever again. Teach them how wrong these stories have all been.<br />
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Here is the article that led to this little post: <a href="https://menafn.com/1100448023/Homeschooling-during-coronavirus-five-ways-to-teach-children-about-climate-change">https://menafn.com/1100448023/Homeschooling-during-coronavirus-five-ways-to-teach-children-about-climate-change</a><br />
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See for yourself that it is defeatist - it has conceded the argument to the climate alarmists, and is more about coping with the imagined mess that these people believe in and promote.JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-86689250848519402122020-06-29T13:06:00.002+01:002020-06-30T17:46:58.827+01:00The Penny Drops at last for One Climate Alarmist: here is his apologyOne climate alarmist has changed his mind, but goodness knows how many to go before the climate scaremongering comes to an end, and children everywhere can begin to recover from all the fatuous shocks and terrors pushed at them from kindergarten onwards.<br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">'<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "cambria" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem. </span></span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">I may seem like a strange person to be saying all of this. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30. </span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">But as an energy expert asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony, and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to serve as Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report, I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public.'</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Michael Shellenberger, 28th June, 2020.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b>Source: </b></i><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2020/06/28/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/#5bb2dacf1fa8" style="background-color: transparent;">https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2020/06/28/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/#5bb2dacf1fa8</a><br />
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<b><i>(Note added later</i></b>: Many thanks to the commenter below who alerted me to that link no longer working. His cache link doesn't seem to work either, but I did find <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200629001029/https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2020/06/28/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/#16d9336c5dc3">this on the WayBackMachine</a>, and I hope it will continue to work .)</div>
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See the link to read his heartfelt testimony backing up this apology. I'll reproduce one more extract here since it is most relevant to this blog:</div>
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<b><i>'<span style="font-size: 18px;">But then, last year, things spiraled out of control. </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a aria-label="said" class="color-link" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/">said</a> “The world is going to end in twelve years if we don’t address climate change.” Britain’s most <a aria-label="high-profile environmental group" class="color-link" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/12/04/why-climate-alarmism-hurts-us-all/#2f5c614d36d8" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/12/04/why-climate-alarmism-hurts-us-all/#2f5c614d36d8" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self" title="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/12/04/why-climate-alarmism-hurts-us-all/#2f5c614d36d8">high-profile environmental group</a> claimed “Climate Change Kills Children.” </i></b></div>
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<b><i>The world’s most influential green journalist, Bill McKibben, <a aria-label="called" class="color-link" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/713829853/climate-change-is-greatest-challenge-humans-have-ever-faced-author-says" href="https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/713829853/climate-change-is-greatest-challenge-humans-have-ever-faced-author-says" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/713829853/climate-change-is-greatest-challenge-humans-have-ever-faced-author-says">called </a>climate change the “greatest challenge humans have ever faced” and said it would “wipe out civilizations.” </i></b></div>
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<b><i>Mainstream journalists reported, repeatedly, that the Amazon was “the lungs of the world,” and that deforestation was like a nuclear bomb going off.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>As a result, <a aria-label="half of the people" class="color-link" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://yougov.co.uk/topics/science/articles-reports/2019/09/15/international-poll-most-expect-feel-impact-climate" href="https://yougov.co.uk/topics/science/articles-reports/2019/09/15/international-poll-most-expect-feel-impact-climate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="https://yougov.co.uk/topics/science/articles-reports/2019/09/15/international-poll-most-expect-feel-impact-climate"><span data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://yougov.co.uk/topics/science/articles-reports/2019/09/15/international-poll-most-expect-feel-impact-climate" style="box-sizing: border-box;">half of the people</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> surveyed around the world last year said they thought climate change would make humanity extinct</span>. And in January, <a aria-label="one out of five" class="color-link" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-children/one-in-five-uk-children-report-nightmares-about-climate-change-idUSL1N2AV1FF" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-children/one-in-five-uk-children-report-nightmares-about-climate-change-idUSL1N2AV1FF" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-children/one-in-five-uk-children-report-nightmares-about-climate-change-idUSL1N2AV1FF">one out of five</a> British children told pollsters they were having nightmares about climate change.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Whether or not you have children you must see how wrong this is. I admit I may be sensitive because I have a teenage daughter. After we talked about the science she was reassured. But her friends are deeply misinformed and thus, understandably, frightened. '</i></b></div>
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Shellenberger has written a book in support of his new position, and it certainly looks like one well worth buying. Sadly, copies are unlikely to be pushed by government on to schools in the UK in the way that Gore's misleading melodrama 'An Inconvenient Truth' was.</div>
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The book is due to be published in the UK on the 23rd of July. You can pre-order a copy on <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1UPZLQFI1YYW9&dchild=1&keywords=apocalypse+never&qid=1593432180&sprefix=apocalypse+never%2Caps%2C177&sr=8-1">Amazon</a>.</div>
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<b><i>1.</i></b> <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/30/delingpole-forbes-cancels-environmentalist-who-wrote-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/">James Delingpole</a> has reported that Forbes Magazine caved in to green pressure when it pulled the article, and notes that Shellenberger himself says that Forbes censored it. Shellenberger has reproduced his article <a href="http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2020/6/29/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare">here</a>.</div>
<i style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">2. </i><span style="font-size: 18px;">Not all commenters accept Shellenberger's apology on behalf of 'environmentalists everywhere' (a little immodest perhaps!). One such is Allan MacRae: </span><b><i>'<span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: "pt serif" , serif;">Michael, your apology is NOT accepted. Here, in part, is why:'</span></i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 16.28px;">: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 16.28px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-family: "PT Serif", serif;"><b><i>HYPOTHESIS: RADICAL GREENS ARE THE GREAT KILLERS OF OUR AGE</i></b></span><br />
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-48923660672858485142020-06-17T17:38:00.001+01:002020-06-17T20:06:30.027+01:00Greta Thunberg is a poor role model for children on climate and on politicsA disturbed youngster, a school drop-out, a low-information climate pundit, misled by climate misinformation fed to her by a teacher, and who wishes to wreck advanced societies and cripple the prospects of developing ones. She needs help from compassionate people, and the exploitation of her by climate zealots should cease immediately to give her a better chance of a calmer life.<br />
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In Australia, though, someone posted a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8419457/How-teenage-eco-warrior-Greta-Thunberg-teaching-Australian-kids-young-eight.html">fake curriculum item</a> calling for pupils to emulate her. This was in New South Wales, where they have some previous in agitprop for children:<br />
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<i>Thousands of school children truanted school to take part in the Climate Strike street protests.</i></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;"><i>One father pulled his son out of a state primary school in Bilambil, northern NSW, at the time after he was asked to 'dress like a hippy' by his teacher.</i></span></div>
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<i>Matt Karlos, 38, took his 10-year-old son Max out, saying the teachers were making the kids terrified for the future and scaring them with climate change.</i></div>
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<i>'The ideologies were in his face all the time,' Mr Karlos said.</i></div>
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<i>In September, Alan Jones accused teachers of brainwashing vulnerable children. </i></div>
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<i>The former 2GB radio host pointed to a report which claimed children under the age of 10 were experiencing anxiety from the climate change debate.</i></div>
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<i>'Young people are going to be concerned, they believe their teachers, they actually think that they're at school and what they're being told is true,' he said. </i></div>
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<i>'The notion of using children in all of this is scandalous and the politics of climate change has become poisonous.'</i></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;">One small mercy here is that the NSW Education Department has taken down the offending material</span></div>
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<i>'<span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;">A spokesman from the NSW Education Department said they would investigate how the Thunberg lesson plans made it onto the official website.</span></i></div>
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<i>'This web page was published without approval. We will have the web page taken down and reviewed,' he said. '</i><br />
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<b style="font-style: italic;">Note added later on 17 June </b><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/16/delingpole-australia-invites-high-school-dropout-greta-thunberg-into-the-classroom/">James Delingpole </a>has spotted an interesting thing about the NSW Education Department's response:<br />
'<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: normal;">However, the NSW Education Department clearly wasn’t </span><em style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that </em><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: normal;">concerned about feeding primary school children naked green propaganda, for the lesson plans were up on its website for nine months. It only took them down after concerns were raised by the newspaper.'</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: normal;">That newspaper is the Australian <a href="https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/greta-thunberg-has-been-immediately-mainstreamed-into-the-classroom/video/1b1da59e218514c0da7d740105295398">'Daily Telegraph'</a></span><br />
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-12784399190764967652020-06-09T18:48:00.002+01:002020-06-09T18:48:49.567+01:00What we are up against in schools: a GCSE study guide on climate is brainwashing propaganda<i style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"><b>'The whole chapter reads as little more than a propaganda sheet, filled with inaccuracies, half truths, emotive slogans, subliminal messages and a total lack of historical perspective.'</b></i><br />
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<a href="https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/06/08/school-children-brainwashed-about-climate-change/">Paul Homewood has just reviewed a GCSE Study Guide </a>used in Wales at least for the period 2010 to 2015. He is not impressed by the section on climate change - see the above quote. Extract:<br />
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1) They mention the retreat of glaciers over the last 150 years, yet there is no mention at all of the Little Ice Age, or the fact that the very same glaciers expanded massively during that era.</div>
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Ironically, the chapter unwittingly contradicts itself on the final page, when it shows graphs for global temperatures and CO2 – note how CO2 levels began increasing from 1860, yet temperatures only began rising after 1900. Also the rise from then until 1940 was comparable to recent decades, despite the rise in CO2 being much smaller then. This of course suggests that simply blaming warming on CO2 is over simplistic.</div>
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2) They claim that <em>extreme weather events are becoming more frequent. </em>There is zero evidence to support this claim, as even the IPCC accept. In particular, the reference to increase in tropical storms is without foundation.</div>
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3) The claim that the UK has experienced some of the <em>wettest, windiest and driest weather</em> is also contradicted by the data. Indeed, as far as the last two are concerned the opposite is the case.</div>
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4) They claim that <em>CO2 levels have never been as high as they are now. </em>This is quite an astonishing claim, given that they have been much higher than now for most of the Earth’s history.</div>
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5) The next section called “What are the alternative futures”, is nothing more than an indulgence in scaremongering, with little basis in fact. Encouraging kids to imagine apocalyptic futures is not education.</div>
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6) Then we come to the case study in sea levels. Notice how they have gone from the previous claim of “<em>up to 1 metre</em>” to a map drawn at 5 metres above sea level.</div>
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7) If that lot was not bad enough, we finish with the spider diagram, specifically intended to get children to imagine the likely impacts of global warming.</div>
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Earthquakes, tsunamis, mass extinctions, plague, Greenland melting, nuclear war, refugees. Note also the subliminal messaging – Stern Report and Act Now.</div>
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Whoever has written this guide clearly has little knowledge about the subject, and has simply picked up a few talking points and applied a large dose of alarmism.'</div>
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As Paul notes at the end of his post, this sort of material can be used to brainwash young minds. As he says, <b>'<i style="background-color: transparent;">It is little wonder that the younger generation have become so paranoid about climate change.'</i></b></div>
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We must hope that one day, a great many parents will be able to refute such materials as and when they come across them, and be able to reassure their children that there are no grounds for alarm. And that they may go on to request that their children's school drop such materials forthwith. </div>
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-57673473319797627232020-06-08T11:01:00.001+01:002020-06-08T12:54:25.146+01:00Get prepared to deprogram your kids from climate scare ideology every day after school<i><b>'<span style="background-color: white; color: #45444a; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 21.25px;">Be prepared to budget some extra time in your already busy day to deprogram your kids when they come home from school, unless you spend a lot of money for private education and home schooling.'</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #45444a;">The State Board of Education adopted the new guidelines on Wednesday --<a href="https://www.nj.gov/education/cccs/2020/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">which outline what will be taught</a> to New Jersey's 1.4 million students.</span></div>
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It's the first state to include climate change education in it's K-12 learning standards, <a href="https://nj.gov/governor/news/news/562020/approved/20200603b.shtml" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">officials said in a statement</a>.</div>
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New Jersey's first lady Tammy Murphy pushed for the new standards and met with 130 educators statewide.'</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Marc Morano has a </span><a href="https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/06/04/cnn-new-jersey-is-the-first-state-to-include-climate-change-education-in-its-k-12-learning-standards/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">special report</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> on this sorry development at his blog Climate Depot. This includes a succinct reaction from Tom Nelson:</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2022; font-family: "helvetica" , "roboto" , "segoe ui" , "calibri" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crazy bullshit: "New Jersey's first lady Tammy Murphy pushed for the new standards". </span></b></i></div>
<i><b><br style="background-color: white; color: #1c2022; font-family: Helvetica, Roboto, "Segoe UI", Calibri, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2022; font-family: "helvetica" , "roboto" , "segoe ui" , "calibri" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">She says kids need to "understand the climate crisis", which is completely imaginary.'</span></b></i><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tammy Murphy gets to feel good, the kids get to feel bad. Not a good deal. Parents everywhere should take heed, and get prepared to protect their children from the fatuous, ideologically-driven eco-scaremongering that others want to impose on them.</span></div>
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-18352384911278908052020-04-28T11:16:00.002+01:002020-05-03T11:47:33.727+01:00Relentlessly misleading the young: CO2 Scare campaigners send propaganda to parents during lockdownPaul Homewood's blog <a href="https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/04/27/climate-change-propaganda-for-7-year-olds/">'Notalotofpeopleknowthat'</a> has exposed some shocking materials sent to a parent in England for use in homeschooling their children on Earth Day. This may well be a glimpse into the kind of junk being fed to our children week after week when they attend their schools. The lockdown has helped bring this out for adult review, and it does not look good.<br />
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<b>'Global warming isn't good for our Earth' </b> Since when has that been true during the Holocene? Warmer periods have generally been far preferable to cooler ones, and not just for people. Most forms of life thrive in warmer rather than cooler conditions, and more warmth means more moisture can be carried in the air. The gentle warming of the last 150 years or so has taken us out of the Little Ice Age, and closer to the more congenial temperatures of the Medieval Warm Period, and the Roman Climate Optimum. Here is a 2018 post which provides some background on this: <a href="https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/the-holocene-climate-optimum/">https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/the-holocene-climate-optimum/</a><br />
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<b>'It means that ice is starting to melt in the Antarctic and this could cause floods in other parts of the world.' </b>Just starting to melt is it? What kind of a misleading impression does that sentence make on a 7-year old (the apparent target age group)? Here is an overview reflecting some of the complexities of climate and ice accumulation in that continent: <a href="http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/antarctic-ice-sheet-surface-mass-balance/">http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/antarctic-ice-sheet-surface-mass-balance/</a> , and how it was warmer there in the Medieval Warm Period: <a href="https://notrickszone.com/2019/07/06/medieval-climate-anomaly-now-confirmed-in-southern-hemisphere-on-all-four-continents/">https://notrickszone.com/2019/07/06/medieval-climate-anomaly-now-confirmed-in-southern-hemisphere-on-all-four-continents/</a>. And with examples of <i> '</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "pt serif" , serif; font-size: 17.49px;"><i>Unfortunately, the media would rather scare the public to promote a climate crisis, than honestly educate them about the causes of natural climate variability.'</i>: </span><a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/02/09/medias-horribly-dishonest-antarctica-propaganda/">https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/02/09/medias-horribly-dishonest-antarctica-propaganda/</a> [taken from this <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/?s=antarctica">archive at WUWT</a>]<br />
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The stuff on turtles and the so-called 'Fact' about developing countries are left as exercises for the reader to pursue.<br />
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<b>Read the Blog Post for more details</b><br />
See the blog post at: <a href="https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/04/27/climate-change-propaganda-for-7-year-olds/">https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/04/27/climate-change-propaganda-for-7-year-olds/</a><br />
for more extracts from the materials, a link to the entire Powerpoint presentation, and for these concluding words:<br />
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<b>'<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16.25px;">The whole thing is nothing but pure propaganda. It most certainly is not factual, nor does it explain to kids the real implications of the policies proposed by the likes of Greta.</span></b><br />
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<b>They may be seven year olds, but they should be treated with more respect and honesty.</b></div>
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<b>I don’t know who produced this presentation or if it is officially approved. If anyone has any more info, please let me know.'</b></div>
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Please get in touch (send a comment at his blog) with Paul if you have 'more info'. Pushing <b>'nothing but pure propaganda'</b> at young children is a disgraceful thing to do, and the more we know about where it is coming from the better.<br />
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<b><i>Note added 30 April 2020</i></b><br />
See the lively comments at the <a href="https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/04/27/climate-change-propaganda-for-7-year-olds/">blogpost</a>. Commenter <a href="https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/04/27/climate-change-propaganda-for-7-year-olds/#comment-160285">'Joe Public'</a> has tracked the distributor of the above material to a UK outfit called <a href="https://www.twinkl.co.uk/about-us">Twinkl</a>. This seems to be a very successful provider of materials for teachers around the world. It was started at home by one couple in England in 2010 and has grown into a big business, with a subscription service for the materials, and a long list of sponsors or partners. That's an impressive achievement. But such a pity that the example above of their climate materials is so dire and damaging to young minds. Here is a link to this 'Earth Day' propaganda: <a href="https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/earth-day-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity-t2-e-5247">https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/earth-day-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity-t2-e-5247</a> Note that it comes under the heading of 'English Activities'. As Andrew Montford and I <a href="https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2014/04/Education-reducedportrait-5.pdf">noted some years ago</a>, no area of the school curriculum seems safe from such political infiltration.<br />
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Re the Antarctic 'starting to melt', here is another recent post, from 3 days ago, with lots of useful info:<br />
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-22332035582836399022020-04-27T12:07:00.000+01:002020-04-27T20:11:22.495+01:00Poor Old Scotland: compulsory climate propaganda for students is being mooted<h1 class="headline " style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #323132; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The joys of controlling everyone's behaviour during the virus lockdown has gone to their heads:</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">' <span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 17px;">The man behind the idea, RSGS chief executive Mike Robinson, said a number of business leaders have already committed to undertake the course along with the Scottish Government, with further discussions to ensure new university students and MSPs can take part well-underway.'</span></span></b></i><br />
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">What is the 'idea'? Well, nothing less than a mandatory course on climate panic propaganda for every university student who wishes to graduate, and for other people too:</span></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #212529;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;">'</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 17px;">MSPs,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529;">busineess </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 17px;">leaders</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 17px;"> and newly enrolled university students may be asked to take mandatory climate change studies if plans currently under consideration are adopted.</span></span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The studies would help arm them with facts and knowledge to make urgent changes to society as it emerges from COVID-19 lockdown. The Scottish Government has already committed to enrolling at least 100 senior officials to the Climate Solutions course.'</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The RSGS is the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and its leader Mike Robinson seems to be a a kind of grown-up version of Greta Thurnberg. Here he is in 2019:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">We will need to waste less, drive less, fly less, use renewable electricity and heat, use electric cars and trains, buy less tat, eat differently and repair and restore materials more than we do. We will need to remind ourselves of the value of community, society, environment, nature and place, and record more than just GDP. And we will urgently need to start building the future we want – properly creating houses, businesses, infrastructure that we need for a net zero carbon life, and not settling for the cheapest, least imaginative versions which are out of date before they are built and will look ridiculous in 10, 20, or 30 years’ time. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In short, we need to start treating this Climate Emergency like an emergency. And having these targets now in place is a welcome and significant first step.'</span></div>
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(source: <a href="https://www.rsgs.org/blog/taking-a-step-in-the-right-direction">https://www.rsgs.org/blog/taking-a-step-in-the-right-direction</a>)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In other words, a radical who wants to wreck our society. And based on what? The flimsy conjecture that our CO2 emissions are doing what CO2 has never done before and dominating the climate system. Not a plausible claim, and nor is it being supported by observations. The climate system is behaving just as it might if our actions are of minor importance on the global scale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is some consolation that the comments below the Herald article are almost all hostile to the proposal. So far. The legions of the faithful will no doubt be being mobilised to change that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is also a consolation that genuine science research continues to undermine the case for such alarm over our emissions. Readers are urged to check our these recent posts:</span></div>
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<a href="https://notrickszone.com/2020/04/27/new-northern-hemisphere-temperature-reconstructions-are-devoid-of-michael-mann-like-hockey-sticks/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://notrickszone.com/2020/04/27/new-northern-hemisphere-temperature-reconstructions-are-devoid-of-michael-mann-like-hockey-sticks/</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://notrickszone.com/2020/04/26/new-video-by-german-geologist-casts-doubt-over-exclusively-man-made-global-warming/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://notrickszone.com/2020/04/26/new-video-by-german-geologist-casts-doubt-over-exclusively-man-made-global-warming/</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And on the third-rate advice that is so easily cobbled together on climate, and so easily refuted:</span></div>
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<a href="https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/04/24/four-twenty-sevens-error-strewn-report/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/04/24/four-twenty-sevens-error-strewn-report/</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sadly, it seems likely that the Scottish government will continue to support this shameful proposal to undermine what tertiary education should stand for, and furthermore that this kind of authoritarianism will in due course serve to make climate teaching in high schools even worse. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Parents can not rely on schools to give a balanced perspective on climate variation, and to avoid needlessly scaring children and undermining their future. Parents will have to look elsewhere.</span></b></div>
JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-18795943396958762862020-04-22T14:28:00.004+01:002020-04-22T14:54:21.361+01:00Enlighten Your Kids About Earth Day: that virtual monument to panic and irrationalityEarth Day arrives again, with nothing to commend it, no good having come from it, and indeed a lot of harm instead. Harm to children's minds and spirits. Harm to developing countries having to suppress their development. Harm to industrialised counties having to waste resources on the follies of 'renewables'. Harm to all the better things that could have been done with all the conferences, resolutions, and bloated budgets of eco-this that and the other.<br />
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<a href="http://cartoonsbyjosh.com/">Josh</a> sums it all up rather well:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Parents who want to enlighten their older children could start by giving them a copy of Josh's cartoon. And that by itself could trigger lots of useful online research projects to dig deeper. There are more specific ideas for such projects <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/a_science_project_in_celebration_of_the_50th_anniversary_of_earth_day.html">here</a>. And more background on the failure of Earth Day <a href="https://www.thegwpf.com/earth-day-track-record-none-of-the-doomsday-predictions-of-the-last-50-years-have-come-true/">here</a>.</span><br />
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-26731837874744857752020-03-28T17:03:00.002+00:002020-04-18T13:44:54.845+01:00Turn All Your Lights On for Earth Hour 2020 (or just ignore it)The annual ritual of Earth Hour is upon us once again. Turning off lights is indeed an informative gesture because that kind of darkness - avoidable, unnecessary, silly virtue-signalling - will be commonplace if the eco-extremists continue to exert so much influence on governments.<br />
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Anthony Watts, at <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/28/interest-in-earthhour2020-being-beaten-by-caturday-and-wuwt/">WUWT </a>has a stronger suggestion:<br />
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17.49px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CELEBRATE LIGHT, HEALTH AND HAPPINESS</strong>!</div>
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<b style="font-size: 1.1em;">I would add: also read or re-read the classic essay by Ross McKitrick:</b></div>
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-17088502392872362292020-03-20T10:53:00.000+00:002020-03-27T15:41:12.542+00:00Helping Children Cope with the CO2 Scare - a new resourceThe articles I've seen on helping children cope with the CO2 Scaremongering are mostly along the lines of <i>'tell them they are not helpless, get them out on demonstrations, encourage them to walk to school and turn off lights'</i>. In other words, <i>'take the scare seriously, and fuss over it'</i>. I doubt that is going to help, and it may even make things worse for the young victims. Better by far is to help them see that have been duped, and even well-intentioned adults have been duped.<br />
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This will take time, and lots of study and persistence. Many parents and high-schoolers can dig deeper for themselves into alarming claims about climate, and those who do so can help those who have not done or cannot do such work on their own.<br />
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A new website has just started up and it could be a great resource for this:<br />
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Here is the link to it: <a href="http://climaterealism.com/">http://climaterealism.com/</a><br />
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As well as feature articles, there is a reference section currently with the following topics:<br />
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Allergies,
Alpine glaciers, </span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Carbon
tax, Cleaner air, Climate change impacts, </span></span></span></span>
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span style="color: black;">Climate
models, C</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">l</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">imate
record, Consensus, Coral Reefs, Crop nutrition, Crop production, </span></span></span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Disease/Virus,</span></span><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Drought,
</span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span style="color: black;">E</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">conomic
harm, Economics and policy, Emissions by country, Emissions
Impact,Extreme cold, Extreme heat, Extreme Weather, </span></span></span></span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Floods,
</span></span></span></span>
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Great
Lakes, Green New Deal,Greenland ice melt, </span></span></span></span>
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Health
impacts, Heavy Rainfall, Historical CO2 levels, Hottest
Year,Hurricanes, </span></span></span></span>
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Insurance
policy, </span></span></span></span>
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Jobs
created, </span></span></span></span>
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Little
Ice Age, </span></span></span></span>
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Meat
and Agriculture,Medieval Warm Period, Migration, Mortality, </span></span></span></span>
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">National
security, Natural climate change,</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ocean
currents, Oceanic conveyor belt, </span></span></span>
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pine
beetles, Polar bears, Polar ice caps,</span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Renewable
Energy, Republican proposals, </span></span></span>
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sea
level, Snow, Snowpack, Social cost of carbon,</span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Solar
impact, Species Impacts, Subsidies, </span></span></span>
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Terms
of debate, Tipping points, Tornadoes,</span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">U.S.
temperatures, Underlying Science, </span></span></span>
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Vulnerable
populations, </span></span></span>
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<div style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Water
levels, Wildfires, Wine.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-variant: normal;">So that's plenty to be getting on with!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-variant: normal;">(Hat-tip: <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/19/heartland-institute-launches-climaterealism-com/">WUWT</a> )</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><i><b>Note added 21 Mar 2020</b></i>. There's more! An apparently sister-site called Climate at a Glance is also well worth a visit. It has short summaries on a range of topics: </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://climateataglance.com/">https://climateataglance.com/</a></span><br />
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<i>'<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Climate
At A Glance puts frequently argued climate issues into short,
concise, summaries that provide the most important, accurate,
powerful information. The summaries are designed to provide a
library of solid yet simple rebuttals so that legislators, teachers,
students, and laymen can easily refute the exaggerations of the
so-called “climate crisis.”</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></i>
<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Excellent! Just what is needed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">(Hat-tip: <a href="https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/03/21/climate-at-a-glance-factchecks-coral-reefs/">NotALotOfPeopleKnowThat</a> )</span><br />
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-20868481836124939782020-03-05T13:28:00.005+00:002020-03-05T13:38:34.473+00:00A Young Survivor of the Tsunami of CO2 Scare Propaganda: Naomi Seibt, Climate Realist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What a refreshing change from the facile alarmism acquired by Greta Thunberg and her followers. This video has Naomi Seibt speaking while often juxtaposed beside clips of youngsters demonstrating climate alarmism, and my goodness, she comes across as a calm voice in favour of science, and of discussion, and indeed of 'climate realism'. A very impressive young woman. Let us hope she can help a good many of those still floundering in, and no doubt often genuinely upset by, the scaremongering over CO2. And may she, and Greta alike, go on to have careers free from all this unjustified and distracting alarmism some day soon.<br />
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(hat-tip: <a href="https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/03/03/watch-anti-greta-naomi-seibt-climate-skeptic-german-teen-counters-gretas-fear/">Climate Depot</a>)<br />
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<b><i>P.S.</i></b> Further insight into Seibt's views and plans, and some threats she has received because of them, can be found here:<br />
<a href="https://www.thegwpf.com/meet-the-19-year-old-anti-greta-who-warns-thunbergs-alarmism-must-be-stopped/">https://www.thegwpf.com/meet-the-19-year-old-anti-greta-who-warns-thunbergs-alarmism-must-be-stopped/</a>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-85189413432088117742020-03-04T17:16:00.002+00:002020-03-28T10:14:55.410+00:00One in five in a sample of UK children report nightmares about climate change<div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.3em; width: 1100px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>One in
five in a sample of UK children </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>report nightmares about climate
change</b></span></span></div>
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The <a href="https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2020/03/03/one-in-five-uk-children-report-nightmares-about-climate-change.html">Jakarta Times</a> , and others e.g. the <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/04/children-say-nightmares-climate-change-12345613/">London Metro</a>, have published a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-children/one-in-five-uk-children-report-nightmares-about-climate-change-idUSL1N2AV1FF">Reuters piece</a> on the results of a survey of UK children (hat-tip <span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: -webkit-center;"><a href="https://www.thegwpf.com/climate-hysteria-doomsday-cult-is-threatening-the-mental-health-of-children/">GWPF</a> Newsletter 04/03/20</span>). These results, if correct - and they do seem plausible, are a sharp indictment of schools and the mass media for all they have done, and are doing, to scare children about climate without good reason:<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">'<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">One
in five children are having nightmares about climate change,
according to a British survey on Tuesday, as students globally stage
protests over a lack of action to curb global warming. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"></span>About
17 percent of children in Britain said worries about climate change
were disturbing their sleep while 19 percent said these fears were
giving them nightmares. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The survey of 2,000 children aged eight to
16, conducted by pollster Savanta-ComRes for BBC Newsround, also
found that two in five, or 41 percent, did not trust adults to tackle
the climate crisis.'</span></span></span></div>
<br />JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-55748826769988056942020-02-01T12:09:00.001+00:002020-02-01T21:09:40.992+00:00Children, listen to this: Don't Be Afraid of Climate Change!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Writer Melissa Nichols has done children a great favour by writing this little book - <b><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Be-Afraid-Climate-Change/dp/B084B1BLWC">'Don't Be Afraid of Climate Change'</a></b>. It classes 'Climate Change' as a big, bad wolf, and takes the young readers through several of the ways this beast has been trying to scare or mislead them:</div>
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<i><b>'But like all big, bad wolves, Climate Change doesn’t like telling the truth. Let’s look at what he’s been saying, and see if he’s been truthful or if he is just trying to scare you. '</b></i><br />
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She then goes through the topics, one by one and points out how wrong they are. Here is how she handles the first topic:<br />
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<b>'Polar bears are starving, and soon there won’t be any more of them. </b><br />
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<i>Sorry, Climate Change, polar bears are doing just fine. Their numbers were down in the past, but not because of you. They were widely hunted, but thanks to polar bears becoming a protected species, there are more of them running around now than 70 years ago - around 25,000 more! That’s a lot of polar bears.' </i><br />
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Here are the headings for the other topics she covers:<br />
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<b>Get ready to go for a swim. The ice is melting! </b><br />
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<b>The oceans are rising. We’re all going to be underwater. </b><br />
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<b>Hurricanes are getting stronger, and there are more of them.</b><br />
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<b>Drink plenty of water while you can. Droughts are getting worse. </b><br />
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<b>Climate Change used to be called Global Warming. And it’s still getting hotter. </b><br />
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<b>Wind power is just about as good as it gets for helping the environment. </b><br />
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<b>Solar power is a clean energy that everyone should have to use. </b><br />
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<b>Nuclear power is evil. </b><br />
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<b>Pipelines are bad. The more pipelines that are built, the more natural gas people will use. </b><br />
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<b>Cow farts and fossil fuels are producing enough methane to knock us all out. </b><br />
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<b>CO2 levels are going to kill the earth. They must be stopped right now! </b><br />
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<b>Ban fracking. It’s bad. </b><br />
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She concludes (my italics):<br />
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<i>'Climate change is not something to be afraid of. The world has been changing since its beginning. It will always will. This is not a bad thing. You have been changing from your very beginning as well. This earth has been hot, and it has been cold. We have always adapted to its changes and learned to enjoy each day as it comes. '</i><br />
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At the end of the book, she provides a selection of references for further reading on each of the topics. These will help older children and adults to dig a little deeper.<br />
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This is a wonderful book, one that deserves to be in every home, and in every school library. The book is brief, simply-themed, very readable and with attractive illustrations. There is surely scope for a hundred books like this, covering more ground, more topics, and with a range of content-levels. We need books for 5, 10, 15 year-olds, and 20 and 25 and 30 year-olds as well. All have been exposed all their lives to the scaremongering about CO2 and climate variation, and surely most could do with some help to get a calmer, better-balanced view of it. <b>In the meantime, I strongly recommend this book for all age levels. It makes a great start on what will be a big, and kind, and truthful, task: helping victims of the CO2 Scaremongering recover from it.</b><br />
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[Hat-tip: <a href="https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/01/31/new-kids-climate-book-to-counter-gretas-hysteria-dont-be-afraid-of-climate-change/">Climate Depot</a>]<br />
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<br />JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-73438962912451012802020-01-27T13:44:00.001+00:002020-01-27T13:50:55.532+00:00Descent of a Man: famous David Attenborough has helped mislead, and frighten, children about climateThe GWPF has just released an indictment of David Attenborough, the much-admired populariser of wildlife studies. His emotive voice-overs in misleading documentaries have surely been one of the drivers of the current high levels of climate anxiety in young people:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "playfair display" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The video published today by the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) and written by Dr. Susan Crockford, a Canadian wildlife expert, shows that increasing climate angst felt by many young people around the world started with Attenborough’s films that blamed starving polar bears on human-caused global warming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "playfair display" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The parents and teachers of these youngsters trusted Attenborough’s BBC productions to be accurate portrayals of the effects of climate change but that trust has been betrayed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "playfair display" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">David Attenborough’s claims that ‘the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon’ have captured international media attention but it is now apparent he has failed to ensure that the scripts he reads for his Arctic documentaries and the messages they contain are true reflections of the natural world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "playfair display" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">"Attenborough did not verify any facts contained in the scripts he was paid to narrate and passed along misinformation to naïve viewers, including many young children," she added.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "playfair display" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">One of these children was Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg, who said she was shown images of starving polar bears in school when she was 8 or 9 years old. The timing and nature of the material suggests the film she saw was Attenborough’s ‘On Thin Ice’ documentary from the ‘Frozen Planet’ series released in 2011.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "playfair display" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">"David Attenborough bears the brunt of responsibility for the recent epidemic of ‘eco-anxiety’ among children and young adults. Much of their misguidedly negative sense of how Arctic animals are fairing and their bleak outlook on the world come from the heart-wrenching but unverified stories found in Attenborough’s documentaries,| Dr Crockford said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "playfair display" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">It is the responsibility of teachers and parents to reassure these worried youngsters that polar bears and walrus are not suffering because of sea ice loss blamed on climate change. Children need to be told the truth: that whatever scary stories some biologists come up with about what might happen in the future, Arctic species have demonstrated that they are much more resilient to changes in sea ice than Attenborough’s films suggest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "playfair display" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The GWPF is sending copies of this video to all head teachers of UK schools together with a letter, telling them that they are responsible for the mental health of their pupils and that they have a responsibility to provide their pupils with accurate information about the state of wildlife in the Arctic.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 700;">Watch: </span></span><span style="color: #0755f4; font-size: 23px; outline: none;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: firebrick;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thegwpf.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dc920274f2a364603849bbb505%26id%3D84d733b488%26e%3Dcb31b54a71&source=gmail&ust=1580218753439000&usg=AFQjCNFsoQQ0LWZlHcouXiiFlVeZ9CgNxA" fg_scanned="1" href="https://thegwpf.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c920274f2a364603849bbb505&id=84d733b488&e=cb31b54a71" style="color: #0755f4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Attenborough's Arctic Betrayal (13 min)</a>'</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Key points from the letter can be read here, along with links in support of the case made: <a href="https://www.thegwpf.com/content/uploads/2020/01/Headteacher-Attenborough-Letter.pdf?utm_source=CCNet+Newsletter&utm_campaign=60cbb264e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_27_10_54_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe4b2f45ef-60cbb264e4-20161973&mc_cid=60cbb264e4&mc_eid=cb31b54a71">GWPF letter support</a></span><br />
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Well done Susan Crockford for this work, and well done the GWPF for promoting it. </div>
JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-60956990046014066782020-01-20T16:09:00.000+00:002020-01-20T16:09:01.605+00:00Terrifying Children to gain Recruits for the Climate Cult Continues<h2 style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px 0px 4px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">A bout of illness has delayed my next post aimed at helping those who want to protect children from the excesses of the CO2 fanatics, but in the meantime here is some motivation for doing just that - a good piece in the Mail on Sunday:</span></h2>
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DOUGLAS MURRAY: Terrifying our children with doom mongering propaganda on climate change is nothing less than abuse</h2>
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Well worth reading in full here: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7902895/DOUGLAS-MURRAY-Terrifying-children-propaganda-climate-change-abuse.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7902895/DOUGLAS-MURRAY-Terrifying-children-propaganda-climate-change-abuse.html</a> (hat-tip: <a href="http://climatescience.blogspot.com/">Climate Science</a>)</div>
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It is a cynical and dangerous trend. And so the hyping-up of a generation continues, all encouraged by adults.</div>
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Caroline Hickman, a teaching fellow at the University of Bath, recently claimed that eco-anxiety had increased massively in the past year.</div>
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‘We’ve been talking to teachers and head teachers about how to help children and young people,’ she said. Some children have reported waking up with eco-nightmares. Her response? ‘Parents can’t just say, “Everything will be all right” as it won’t be.’</div>
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And there we get a glimpse into the real project here: a new generation is being terrified into agreeing with a specific and fringe eco-lobby. </div>
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This lobby does not care if it damages the mental health of a generation because it seeks to recruit that generation as foot-soldiers.</div>
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It is time we called this what it is: an abuse of children on a massive and unforgivable scale. Something that the generations that will succeed us will look upon with shame.'</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; letter-spacing: normal;">Well, parents, it is perfectly reasonable to assure your children that 'Everything will be all right' because there is no good reason to doubt that it will be as far as CO2 and climate variation are concerned. But what an effort is going to be needed to overcome the decades of scaremongering propaganda!</span></div>
JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-73602924315207262572020-01-01T00:56:00.003+00:002020-01-30T15:54:16.198+00:00New Year Resolution: help adults help children banish fear about CO2 and climate change<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Looking Back</b></span><br />
2019 was remarkable for those of us interested in the extensive, and utterly unjustifiable, panic over climate variation and our impact on it. Two features stand out to me:<br />
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<b>(1) The exploitation of Greta Thunberg</b>, a troubled youngster whose troubles were increased when she was misled by a schoolteacher who told her that polar bears were dying out. Of course, that 'fact' is not at all true - the polar bears have been doing relatively well for decades now, and their numbers have increased quite dramatically. But truth does not really matter much in the CO2 Scare - speculation, naive extrapolation, avoidance of inconvenient facts, and the dominance of emotive catch-phrases are all far more important. Greta was but one of countless victims of decades of propaganda in schools, and elsewhere. She went on to be pushed out front as a figurehead to produce even more such victims. Ben Pile and Jaime Jessop have each written penetrating essays on what has been happening these past 12 months:<br />
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<a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/12/30/2019-the-year-of-peak-green-bullsht/">https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/12/30/2019-the-year-of-peak-green-bullsht/</a><br />
'The only truly new thing that has emerged over the past year or so has been the phenomenon of <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/tag/greta-thunberg/">Greta Thunberg</a> and her school-strike movement. For years, the ‘green blob’ network of campaigning organisations, corporations, academics and UN agencies has fantasised about mobilising the young as a political force. After pumping billions of children full of green propaganda, a climate avatar has arrived in the form of the Swedish truant-cum-activist. There could be no doubting the sincerity of the teen who bore the emotional scars inflicted on her by the movement that she was to lead – she had been <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/09/24/save-greta/">so traumatised</a> by green propaganda that she had not spoken, not eaten and had refused to go to school. Environmentalism is nothing if not a cult of self-harm. <br />
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Political, cultural and religious leaders fell over themselves <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/04/25/stop-scaring-children-witless-about-climate-change/">to be seen being scolded by the child</a>. Unlike Harry and Meghan, Greta refused to fly. Instead of private jets, European royalty, millionaires and superstars loaned her their sailing yachts and Teslas. To keep her own personal carbon footprint down, sailing crews and her entourage had to fly across the Atlantic.<br />
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Politicians and campaigning organisations may have found it useful to hide their political ambitions behind children. But to many people, the emotional manipulation of impressionable minds is unconscionable. It has now emerged that the false stories that many of the children have fallen victim to – such as the claims that charismatic creatures like walruses and polar bears <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/04/16/attenbollocks/">face extinction</a> or that the world’s rainforests face <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/29/emmanuel-macrons-fake-news-about-the-rainforest/">imminent collapse</a> – are distressing young children and <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/09/19/scaring-children-witless/">causing real harm</a>.'<br />
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'2019 – The End of a Decade When Climate Change Alarmism Tipped Abruptly Into Climate Crisis Hysteria<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the final days of 2019, there is much to reflect upon events of the past year and, with the closing of the second decade of the 21st Century, much to reflect upon how climate change alarmism has itself alarmingly morphed into something much more dangerous, visceral, urgent, ideologically driven and immediate as regards public perception and societal impact. A decade during which global warming faded into obscurity (on account of the fact that there wasn’t any from 1998-2013) to be replaced almost universally by the more politically correct term of ‘climate change’, which has itself now been largely displaced in activist circles and the media by the terms ‘climate emergency’ and ‘climate crisis’. Ironically so, because, bereft of an actual climate crisis, alarmist scientists and activists have proceeded to invent one, linguistically, as in the case of the Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/17/why-the-guardian-is-changing-the-language-it-uses-about-the-environment">newly introduced style guide</a> and by co-opting extreme weather events and their impacts into the general narrative.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>(2) An increase in scientific papers, and many excellent blog posts with a scientific focus, that undermine the climate panic</b>, and the dreadful, degrading corruption of schools, universities, media, and governments. Kenneth Richard and Pierre Gosselin have perhaps done more than most to collate and summarise these 'contrarian papers':</span></div>
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Need to make a presentation showing there is no climate alarm? The following findings we reported on in 2019 will put many concerns to rest.</div>
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What follows are some selected top science-based posts we published here at NoTricksZone in 2019. These new findings show there is absolutely no climate alarm.</div>
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Hundreds of new peer-reviewed papers, charts, findings, etc – which the IPCC, activists and media ignore and even conceal. No wonder they’ve gotten so shrill.'</div>
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There is a clear need for calmer voices to be heard, and for a wider appreciation of just how flimsy the case is for alarm over our CO2 and our other impacts on climate. Roughly speaking, more of item (2) above and less of item (1) are needed.<br />
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I am planning a series of posts that will be aimed at adults who want to help themselves and their children develop informed, apolitical, non emotive, fact based perspectives on climate variation that they can call their own thanks to their own efforts to learn more about what all the fuss is about.<br />
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There is plenty of evidence for the harm being done to young people thanks to their accepting 'off-the-shelf' scary opinions as if they were gospel truths. Donna Laframboise has written of a recent example:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'A few days ago, a 20-year-old who resides in the UK sent an e-mail to American climate scientist Judith Curry. This young person <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2019/12/14/the-toxic-rhetoric-of-climate-change/">describes themselves</a> as miserable, fearful, and petrified. Frequently sick to their stomach, unable to eat or sleep, they’re genuinely worried that “climate change is going to kill me and all my family.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>'If you are a young person in distress about the climate, please read one or more of the three books listed below. I promise you, your world will be different by the time you finish any of them. If you read all three, I guarantee you’ll see the universe with completely new eyes.'</i> See the <a href="https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2019/12/16/young-people-distressed-about-climate-change/">link</a> for more details of these excellent books.</span></div>
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It is, of course, no wonder that young people are so distressed. Here is a recent, and abysmal, video produced, believe it or not, to raise votes for a Senate candidate in the USA: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eyJevf-Blg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eyJevf-Blg</a> A disgraceful effort, but it provides insight into the tormented imaginings of climate scare victims and those who wish to exploit them. The same can said of the video contained in this link showing German children trained to treat their grandmothers with contempt for not toeing the line on the CO2 Scare: <a href="https://notrickszone.com/2019/12/29/gretas-generational-supremacists-indoctrinated-german-girls-sing-grandmother-is-an-environmental-scumbag/">https://notrickszone.com/2019/12/29/gretas-generational-supremacists-indoctrinated-german-girls-sing-grandmother-is-an-environmental-scumbag/</a><br />
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And here is a mother, who is herself a victim of the scaremongering, looking at all sorts of probably unhelpful ways to help her own kids: <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-18/climate-change-and-how-to-talk-to-kids-about-it/11686900">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-18/climate-change-and-how-to-talk-to-kids-about-it/11686900</a> This mother needs to fix her own fears first, and I hope my forthcoming posts might prove helpful to people just like her.<br />
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In the meantime, here is a pretty good video to start things off in 2020:<br />
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Source: <a href="https://www.justfactsdaily.com/climate-change-fears-of-teen-activist-are-empirically-baseless/">https://www.justfactsdaily.com/climate-change-fears-of-teen-activist-are-empirically-baseless/</a><br />
(hat-tip: <a href="https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/12/22/gretas-fears-of-climate-change-are-baseless/">https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/12/22/gretas-fears-of-climate-change-are-baseless/</a>)<br />
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY READERS - here's hoping for more progress in the spreading of a calmer, better-informed view of climate variation.<br />
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Predictive skill is the acid test for good science. The CO2 Catastrophists fail it time after time after time. More links on their failures can be found here:<br />
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'A new roundup of scientific papers published in 2019 that do not toe the morally and intellectually bankrupt lines of the CO2 fanatics: <br />
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Three cheers for Kenneth Richard. May he continue to spot and publicise the work of real scientists.<br />
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-77289415986574164332019-12-12T10:19:00.002+00:002019-12-12T16:56:43.258+00:00Christmas Greetings to all who come here<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wonderful hymns are part of the beauty of Christianity. This one, in the video, sings of the beauties of nature, of weather, and of farming. All good in these days of a continued growth in world food production, We can also note and appreciate the dramatic reduction in poverty and starvation over the last 30 years or so. Truly, things have never been better for so many people, and there is no good reason to doubt further great progress is within our reach.<br />
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Here's another video, by an expert in CO2 and its effects. This would make good holiday viewing for any youngster, or indeed adult, badly troubled by all the shameless, mindless scaremongering about CO2 and climate:<br />
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<b>Merry Christmas to one and all, and here's hoping for a calmer perspective on airborne CO2 to keep on spreading round the world in 2020!</b><br />
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<b>PS. More scientists are getting through into the scientific literature with results in conflict with the scaremongers' demented visions: </b><a href="https://notrickszone.com/2019/12/12/the-list-grows-now-100-scientific-papers-assert-co2-has-a-minuscule-effect-on-the-climate/">https://notrickszone.com/2019/12/12/the-list-grows-now-100-scientific-papers-assert-co2-has-a-minuscule-effect-on-the-climate/</a></div>
JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-90775549882675528132019-12-05T12:47:00.002+00:002019-12-05T12:47:47.181+00:00Layers of Climate Incompetence - a quote for the classroom wall<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">'<span style="background-color: white; color: #302226;">It takes layers of incompetence to wind up an atmospheric spectral change into Death To Billions. Mass delusion and catastrophic hyperbole just doesn’t come from nowhere — it’s starts with incompetent scientists who never ask each other hard questions, not even in the tea rooms. They tell journalists ambiguously phrased, cherry picked lines which are then amped up by the media, who also ask no hard questions and go on to misquote and exaggerate. By then it’s a junkyard of science communication, and that’s when attention-seeking zealots get hold of what they thought were scientific pronouncements and turn them into bumper stickers of enviro-biblical jello.'</span></span><br />
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What a neat summary of this dreadful, destructive fiasco. How much longer can it continue? Alarmism science is bankrupt, but the political alarmism forces may yet cause even more massive damage than they have already done before their momentum and their madness is stopped.<br />
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Here is a real scientist dismissing the climate alarmism:<br />
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Good overview by Prof. Happer in Dec 2019:
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(hat-tip: <a href="https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/12/04/watch-fmr-trump-science-adviser-dr-happer-in-madrid-during-un-summit-rips-non-existent-climate-emergency-phoniness-of-this-bizzare-environmental-cult/">Climate Depot</a> )</div>
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Here is a sickly-funny take on the totalitarianism that seems part of humanity's make-up and which has found new succour in the CO2 Scare: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GNDyBlKdxg&feature=emb_logo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GNDyBlKdxg&feature=emb_logo</a>
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(hat-tip: <a href="https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/12/04/panic-at-the-un/">NotaLotofPeopleKnowThat</a> )<br />
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<br />JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-63369006150557251532019-12-04T10:42:00.000+00:002019-12-04T10:42:01.021+00:00PISA Survey finds only 9% of 15-year olds can distinguish fact from opinion when reading<h1 class="_21349 context-article" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: MaisonNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 70px; line-height: 1.05; margin: 15px auto;">
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Those results are both better than the OECD average of 9%, according to <a href="https://www.oecd.org/pisa/publications/pisa-2018-resultshtm.htm" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;">the latest results of PISA</a>, or the Programme for International Student Assessment, an international test of math, science, and reading which is administered by the OECD every three years.'</div>
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-30907219987465171902019-11-30T10:55:00.001+00:002019-11-30T10:58:00.722+00:00For the Climate Classroom Wall, and for Christmas gifts: the Josh 2020 Calendar, and his new bookJosh's calendar for 2020 may be his best yet, and that is saying something. Glorious colours, great wit, and lots of insights, and reminders of stuff and nonsense from afflicted (aka 'anointed') ones of the CO2 Scare.<br />
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You can buy it here: <a href="http://cartoonsbyjosh.co.uk/">http://cartoonsbyjosh.co.uk/</a><br />
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For the classroom wall, or the staff-room wall, or your kitchen wall - several conversation pieces each month - all with charm and even compassion, not least for the afflicted ones and their <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=vision+of+the+anointed">self-anointed</a> leaders.<br />
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It also makes for a good gift, as does Josh's new book:<b> 'All You Need to Know About Climate Change - in cartoons'</b><br />
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Here is Matt Ridley, writing in his foreword to this book:<br />
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<i><b>'Nobody does a better job of exposing with wit the shaky foundations on which these predictions of doom are built than Josh. In these pages are real scientific, economic and political arguments expressed in ingenious cartoons, their background explained in paragraphs of pithy text.'</b></i><br />
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Couldn't have said it better myself.<br />
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A great present for young and old, and it could especially help any teenagers you know at high school who may be deeply troubled thanks to the wicked propaganda they have been subjected to all their days.<br />
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You can buy it here: <a href="http://cartoonsbyjosh.co.uk/books">http://cartoonsbyjosh.co.uk/books</a><br />
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And it is also on Amazon: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/need-about-Climate-Change-cartoons/dp/0955005981">https://www.amazon.co.uk/need-about-Climate-Change-cartoons/dp/0955005981</a>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523187630006791166.post-83897564026976317122019-11-27T18:02:00.002+00:002019-11-29T16:59:23.677+00:00Ideas for High School Projects on Climate Alarmism and the CO2 ScareLots of ideas for high school projects on the CO2 Scare could be plucked from this video by discerning teachers: three penetrating thinkers and analysts on climate variation (and the current alarmism around it) - Ross McKitrick, Steve McIntyre, and Anthony Watts talking good sense, aided and abetted by Mark Steyn, a penetrating thinker and analyst of current affairs - as well as a lively chairman of this discussion:<br />
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See: <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/27/apocalypse-deferred/">https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/27/apocalypse-deferred/</a><br />
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And from the comments on that post, here is a link to a video with more explicitly highlighted ideas here for senior pupils doing projects on climate alarmism:<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUVqZKBMF7o&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUVqZKBMF7o&feature=youtu.be</a><br />
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(hat-tip: CO2 is Life, https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/27/apocalypse-deferred/#comment-2856368)<br />
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And for pupils doing a project on English lit and climate change, or journalism and climate, might well find inspiration here:<br />
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<a href="https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2017/07/Clive-James.pdf">https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2017/07/Clive-James.pdf</a><br />
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And to mark the recent passing of Clive James, here is a relevant poem of his:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700;">Imminent Catastrophe</span><br />
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<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">The imminent catastrophe goes on</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Not showing many signs of happening.</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">The ice at the North Pole that should be gone</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">By now, is awkwardly still lingering,</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">And though sometimes the weather is extreme</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">It seems no more so than when we were young</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Who soon will hear no more of this grim theme</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Reiterated in the special tongue</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Of manufactured fright. Sea Level Rise</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Will be here soon and could do such-and-such,</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Say tenured pundits with unblinking eyes.</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Continuing to not go up by much,</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">The sea supports the sceptics, but they, too,</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Lapse into oratory when they predict</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">The sure collapse of the alarmist view</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Like a house of cards, for they could not have picked</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">A metaphor less suited to their wish.</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">A house of cards subsides with just a sigh</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">And all the cards are still there.</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Feverish Talk of apocalypse might, by and by,</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Die down, but the deep anguish will persist.</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">His death, and not the Earth’s, is the true fear</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">That motivates the doomsday fantasist:</em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">There can be no world if he is not here.</em><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #010101; font-family: "playfair display" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;"> -- Clive James, </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thegwpf.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dc920274f2a364603849bbb505%26id%3De17e0af4e5%26e%3Dcb31b54a71&source=gmail&ust=1574962571780000&usg=AFQjCNHaX6NB7dKlWWlkXwCcEeq_rX36Dg" fg_scanned="1" href="https://thegwpf.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c920274f2a364603849bbb505&id=e17e0af4e5&e=cb31b54a71" style="background-color: white; color: #0755f4; font-family: "playfair display", georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px; outline: none;" target="_blank">The Times, 17 March 2016</a><br />
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[This grand wee poem was also published on this blog in March, 2016:<br />
<a href="https://climatelessons.blogspot.com/p/climate-culture-poetry-and-song-from.html">https://climatelessons.blogspot.com/p/climate-culture-poetry-and-song-from.html</a>]JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08534451304039918947noreply@blogger.com0