Christmas Greetings in 2021, and the future of this blog, Climate Lessons.

 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.

 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.

 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: 

Key conclusions:

Dr. Happer: "The rationale for the crusade against co2, it's almost a religious thing people believe in." .. "What are the facts? Is climate change a problem? The answer is NO, it's not a problem at all and CO2 is not a problem at all."

(hat-tip: Climate Depot)

Christmas Greetings

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:

Best wishes to all who come this way.  For Christmas and for the New Year!  May the tide of climate lunacy turn soon.  

The Winter of our Discontent about Climate Alarmism

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.  

That is a source of discontent 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 added to the observed warming, the impact of more CO2 is expected to be even weaker.  

So here is a pleasant diversion for Christmas: the enchanting music that Holst wrote to go with lyrics by Rossetti:

 

The performance is by a group called '2002'.  More details here:

https://2002music.com/christmas-dreams

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.