With the completion of the latest report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we can now see that this narrative is mostly wrong. The first installment of the IPCC report showed that there is indeed a climate problem – emissions of greenhouse gases, especially CO₂, lead to higher temperatures, which will eventually become a net problem for the world. This result was highly publicized.
But the report also showed that global warming has dramatically slowed or entirely stopped in the last decade and a half. Almost all climate models are running far too hot, meaning that the real challenge of global warming has been exaggerated. Germany and other governments called for the reference to the slowdown to be deleted.
The second IPCC installment showed that the temperature rise that we are expected to see sometime around 2055-2080 will create a net cost of 0.2-2% of GDP – the equivalent of less than one year of recession. So, while the IPCC clearly establishes that global warming is a problem, the cost is obviously much less than that of the twentieth century’s two world wars and the Great Depression.
Again, not surprisingly, politicians tried to have this finding deleted.
The ones doing all this yammering about this so called Climate Change and Global are the ones who live in big mansions have their own private airport(John Travolta,Al Gore etc)and have their vast fleets on gas guzzling 7 mpg Limos and travel about in their Gulf Stream and Lear Jets and have big time utlitie bills(Al Gore)and are Liberal demacrats
“We live in a world where one in six deaths are caused by easily curable infectious diseases; one in eight deaths stem from air pollution, mostly from cooking indoors with dung and twigs; and billions of people live in abject poverty, with no electricity and little food. We ought never to have entertained the notion that the world’s greatest challenge could be to reduce temperature rises in our generation by a fraction of a degree.”
Agreed, but it’s easier to be seen as a hero battling fantasies than doing the hard work to efficiently manage a Country’s economic health.
I’m going to send this article to my MP, who’s on his way to Hawaii right now, but whose eyes glaze over at the mention of global warming NOT being an emergency.Probably gets his News from CBC.
Please, Björn, facts have no place in religion.
Good ol’ Bjorn, always being all Truthy and confusing the issue with facts.
I wonder what it will take for Bjorn to admit the whole thing is a put up job and denounce the authors as thieves and liars? He’s still trying to pretend they’re only wrong, he hasn’t taken the logical step to accept the evidence that’s screaming they’re actively crooked.
He’s already mostly there. As the principal organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus, he’s already of the view that global warming is the least important of a host of international health and safety issues.
Why doesn’t he just admit it, CAGW is Eugenics resurfacing.
Kill the unfit, the poor brown persons are obviously unfit.for they are poor..
For scratch any member of the Cult of Calamitous Climate and you will find a smug individual who is certain there are more humans alive than this planet can feed.
And those much needed population reductions will never apply to them and theirs.
Ditto the “needed” reduction in resource usage.
Actually I came across a great deprogramming concept.
Lock your true believer in CAGW in a small room with a large tank of water.
No amount of twitching the thermostat will provide the instant gratification they desire.
On a planet 70% covered by water, they obsess over plant food and air temperature.
We need a decarbonizing additive to the cool aid, watch the dizzy eco-nasties dissolve.
Like in the movie LOGANS RUN where people are not allowed to live over the age of 30 people live ina vast underground city they dont know about parents or aging and those who live over 30 are terminated by SANDMEN OR GO THROUGH THIS RITUAL in which their terminated and beleive their being renewed. Or in the movie ROBOTS where robots with broken or malfuntioning parts are scrapped
the temperature rise by 2055 will be preceded by a 1.5 degree drop by 2030. it is most unfortunate that there are so many stupid people on the planet. stupid never works out real well for humanity.
Poor Al Gore still awaiting his prophecy, we’re all gonna fry. In the meantime he answers no questions, so typical of a person who knows nothing of what he speaks.
Just wondering, what’s with Preston Manning apologizing for encouraging Wild Rose people to join the PC’s? Perhaps Presto should think a little longer before he speaks……or go quietly into the sunset of politics.
Theres a couple of 50’s sci fi movies THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE and THE DAY THE EARTH FROZE involving nucular testing cuasing the earth to be thrown out of orbit but in the movie version of the 60’s classic Sci Fi TV series VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA a form of Global Warming is cuased by a freak meteor shower igniting the Van Alien Radiation belt around the earth and its stopped using a Nucular Missle from a Nucular Submarine