Climate The Movie - Brings New Hope for Curing Climate Alarm

Until the excesses of Net Zero brought more widespread insight into the destructive foolishness of policies conceived in panic because of climate alarmism, there seemed no end in sight to the spread of this madness.  Now there is more positive grounds for hope in the very accessible form of 'Climate - The Movie'.

You can see it here, hopefully safe from being banned by the likes of YouTube:   https://seed132.bitchute.com/BOEebK0ezEwv/QyKpcVilVceu.mp4

I first saw it thanks to this post on the invaluable blog Not a Lot of People KnowThat , introduced there with this neat summary: 

'This film exposes the climate alarm as an invented scare without any basis in science. It shows that mainstream studies and official data do not support the claim that we are witnessing an increase in extreme weather events – hurricanes, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires and all the rest. It emphatically counters the claim that current temperatures and levels of atmospheric CO2 are unusually and worryingly high. On the contrary, it is very clearly the case, as can be seen in all mainstream studies, that, compared to the last half billion years of earth’s history, both current temperatures and CO2 levels are extremely and unusually low. We are currently in an ice age. It also shows that there is no evidence that changing levels of CO2 (it has changed many times) has ever ‘driven’ climate change in the past.'

The movie is free to watch, and has been very well received on climate blogs such as WUWT, NetZeroWatch, and Jo Nova's.  Jo writes this commentary on it:

'Martin Durkin’s work will be studied one day like Thucydides as a record of a bizarre moment in human history. It is so quintessentially British. I thought I’d seen it all in the climate debate, but this is so well done, perfect for a curious, matter-of-fact mind. It pulls you along, with timeless nostalgic footage in a classic English delivery, calmly unravelling mythology. It will resonate with people who remember cities, cars and great documentaries of long ago.

Because it’s not angry or activist it’s a gift you can send to friends who are science nerds, or history buffs, or who remember the sixties. Send it to people with teenagers who have no idea the curriculum hides a half a billion years of history. Send it to green friends, who have no idea a third of the food made in Africa rots before it can be eaten without fossil fuels and plastic to preserve and transport it.

Imagine the effect if this was shown at schools.'

She is on the ball there!  This movie is easy to watch, featuring excellent scientists and an outstanding statistician, as well as highly informed observers of the climate alarm fiasco over these past decades.  There is such a need for this to help reduce, or begin to remove, the awful anxieties about our future that waves of propaganda in the mass media, and in schools have planted in so many people's minds.

Here's hoping!!

Note added 29Mar2024.  Andy May has published in WUWT, a handy bibliography of references associated with Climate the Movie:   https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/26/annotated-bibliography-for-climate-the-movie/

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.