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Douglas Brodie's avatar

Some of us have known for many years that the reports put out by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) are works of politicised fiction. The political skulduggery of painting man-made global warming to be a major problem when it is nothing of the sort is comprehensively debunked in a recently released 40 minute lecture, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqWv26PXqz0.

This lecture by Dr Roger Sheahen covers the work of two leading scientists, Professor William Happer and Dr William van Wijngaarden and is surprisingly easy to understand. Although entitled “Methane, the irrelevant greenhouse gas”, it covers the entire spectrum of greenhouse gases, not just methane, and very helpfully explains the fundamental errors in the UN IPCC’s modelling of greenhouse gases.

Unlike UN IPCC climate models which have always exaggerated global warming, the calculations of these scientists show stunning agreement with actual satellite measurements over hugely different areas of the earth’s surface (see 15:00). Their calculations show that a CO2 atmospheric concentration level of just 50ppm (parts per million) achieves almost the same greenhouse gas warming effect as the current level of about 420ppm and that a doubling from the current level would make negligible difference. This is due to the well-known saturation effect (explained at 9:00 and the following slide).

This explains why the Earth did not turn into a hot, waterless planet like Venus 750 million years ago when atmospheric CO2 levels were at 7000ppm.

Their calculations also show clearly that the greenhouse gas warming effects of atmospheric methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are negligible.

Dr Sheahen concludes “There is no climate emergency” and says that it is pointless trying to “decarbonise” the world economy to get rid of man-made carbon dioxide emissions, or to stop eating meat to avoid methane emissions from cattle, or to stop using fertiliser to avoid nitrous oxide emissions.

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David Bishop's avatar

Douglas, Thank you for the link to Dr Sheahan's presentation. While not understanding all of the fine detail of the science, the overall message is absolutely clear. It therefore baffles me that the alarmism seems to get worse and worse as the years go by, and I've been following this since the nineties.

As Jaime mentions in her comment, the groupthink is effectively a cult, with a massive overlay of WEFism riding the wave, to the detriment of us all. No amount of fact, logic or reason seems to get through the carapace. It is akin to the other CM nonsenses that Douglas Murray and Jordan Peterson battle against so eloquently.

I'm retired, but I fear for my grandchildren given the noxious state of 'thinking' these days and the dire pressures to conform.

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Douglas Brodie's avatar

I’ve been campaigning against the climate change scam for many years. My most recent effort sent out originally as an email is posted on Joel Smalley’s substack here: https://metatron.substack.com/p/the-other-big-con-net-zero-climate.

As with my campaigning against the Covid scam, I seem to be getting nowhere, even with family and friends. Both scams are related in that both are about controlling the populace with the aim of imprisoning them in a digital straightjacket similar to a Covid vaccine passport. They (the globalist powers that be) are terrified that we, the people, will rise up against them when the scale of the utter mess they have made of everything becomes obvious. To most people who rely only on the mainstream media that is a mad conspiracy theory.

I’m suffering from writer’s block at the moment as I’m at a loss as to how to proceed, a bit like this doctor: https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2022/10/25/covid19-vaccination/.

A glimmer of an idea is an essay which somehow PROVES that they have been lying for years on climate change, which they put on the back-burner in favour of quick-fire Covid, also based on lies, then back to climate change, then the war in Ukraine. The problem I have is how to keep it shorter and snappier.

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Jaime Jessop's avatar

The problem is, it's now become a religion. You cannot question 'The Science' with science, facts and data. They won't allow it. They 'own' The Science and they believe that they have the exclusive rights to disseminate it to society. People like Happer and the many other actual scientists who present evidence which contradicts the dogma are just dismissed as deniers and cancelled if they are affiliated to institutions.

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Douglas Brodie's avatar

We can still try to show the general public that it’s a pseudoscientific scam. They engineered an energy crisis by deliberately goading Putin in Ukraine and imposing sanctions supposedly against Russia but in reality against their own people in pursuit of their Great Reset agenda. This has the unintended consequence of damaging their own climate change agenda as it shows how Western economies have barely scratched the surface in reducing their dependence on fossil fuels.

Sad to say, I’m hoping for a winter like 2010 of freezing cold, no wind for weeks on end and hardly any sun to emphasise the point, knowing the hardships it will cause.

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Gary Sharpe's avatar

Everything seems to designed to remove love and companionship from our lives - makes sense that they will attack pets. Anti-life indeed. Seems that some animals need to be protected, but others are to be removed from the planet... the domesticated ones because these have been tainted by the humans.

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Jaime Jessop's avatar

Getting to an 'equitable and just' net zero apparently involves slaughtering livestock herds and decimating pet populations by feeding them bugs and generally making it as socially unacceptable to have a cat or a dog as it is to own a car which runs on petrol or diesel. Meanwhile, these fixated climate zealots and net zero enthusiasts, in their obsession to 'save the planet' from man-made Thermageddon, don't even care about those animal species genuinely being driven to the point of extinction by human exploitation.

https://climatecontrarian.wordpress.com/2021/01/29/the-johnson-regimes-travel-ban-will-devastate-endangered-african-wildlife/

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