Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

Then there's a simple question to answer.

Who am I bandwagoning?

I don't agree 100% with whatever the consensus is for flat Earth. I don't agree with you. Or Neal. Or izzy. Or Anointed. Or hightor.

Who am I bandwagoning?You accuse me of following along with stupidity, you'll have to tell me who I'm being stupid and following? But I'm not following anyone. So, who am I bandwagoning?

You'll have to prove I am full of ****. Manually. Get out the probe.

But you don't care about real science, anyway.

So when some glaciers melt, it is cold enough to freeze others. This is a constant event.

The very first statement is a blatant lie regarding earth’s past temperature history. The misleading statement follows … “There is general agreement in the scientific and governmental communities that the earth has warmed to a point higher than in any period in history…”
However, the climate record clearly shows that earth’s primates developed when the earth was 10 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than today — and the earth was ice free. Carbon dating shows that the Roman Warm Period was warmer than today; and as the glaciers melt, new evidence continually comes to light indicating that the Medieval Warm Period was also warmer than today.
The entire “climate change” topic is a scam.

In cotton picking credible.

As you can see from this post, the poster is pro-climate change activism. But he is right. Climate change is about politics, not science.

The scientific, economic and social arguments for aggressive action on climate change are powerful. It is now incumbent on our political leaders to turn the advice we in the scientific community have been providing them into the concrete action the public is demanding. We are at a fork in the road as our governments mull what action to take, and as our children and grandchildren watch on, willing us to take the right path.

In a rare moment of honesty, an IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) official said that climate change policy is an illusion. Ottmar Edenhofer, a former IPCC official, was quoted as saying, “One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.”

Notice the former title. They probably fired him the day he admitted that.

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In a rare moment of honesty, an IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) official said that climate change policy is an illusion. Ottmar Edenhofer, a former IPCC official, was quoted as saying, “One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.”

Even cool periods in the UK are now warmer than they used to be, meteorologists have warned, as an assessment of last year’s weather showed average temperatures higher across the country, in sync with rising heat across the globe.

Britain’s record-breaking heatwave last week, when the mercury topped 40C for the first time on record, has subsided into scattered showers and cooler temperatures across much of the country, but forecasters have warned that smaller heatwaves could return in the next month.

Heatwaves around the world this year are showing clear evidence of the climate crisis, experts have said. There were unprecedented heatwaves at both of the earth’s poles at once in March, followed by heatwaves in South Asia, China, Europe and north America. Wildfires are also raging in many regions, including north America and parts of Europe.

Drought is also a formidable challenge for the UK, with water levels in many rivers and catchment areas at dangerous lows in recent days. This poses a serious threat to wildlife, particularly as many UK river systems are already badly afflicted by pollution, much of it from intensive farming.

Government officials held a drought summit on Tuesday to prepare, as forecasters warned of the driest conditions seen since 1976, when a long hot dry spell led to drastic measures to conserve water. Though no drastic measures were agreed at the meeting, hosepipe bans are under consideration. Farmers may have to restrict irrigation in some areas and water companies are bracing for high demand and low rainfall.

Wouter Buytaert, professor of hydrology and water resources at Imperial College London, said: “We experience drought in the UK when the water stored in our rivers, reservoirs, and groundwater runs exceptionally low. The south-east of the UK is particularly vulnerable, not only because it receives the least rainfall, but it also has the highest demand.”

He said people could make a big difference to the availability of water by reducing their use, but in the longer term the government must act. “We should focus on the reduction of leakage, better use of rainwater in buildings, and water reuse in industrial processes.”

This year’s extremes follow a relatively moderate year in 2021, when winter and spring were “near-normal” in temperature compared with the long-term average, but summer and autumn showed a clear global heating trend, warmer by 1.5C and 1.8C respectively than the benchmark average of 1961-1990.

The maximum temperature recorded in the UK in 2021 was 32.2C, well below last week’s peaks but still markedly above the 31.4C average hottest day per year in the benchmark 1961-1990 period.

Overall, last year was the 18th warmest year on record, based on the UK’s comprehensive temperature series dating back to 1884. But 2021 also saw significant storms and weather damage, including the destructive Storm Arwen that hit last November – which would have been far more damaging had it not occurred at neap tide, when waters are low – as well as Storm Darcy in February, and heavy rain last October.

Mike Kendon, of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre, said last year’s weather had been highly variable, as laid out in the State of the UK Climate report published on Thursday. “It is telling that whereas we consider 2021 as near-average for temperature in the context of the current climate, had this occurred just over three decades ago it would have been one of the UK’s warmest years on record,” he said.

Launched as a centre-right, single-issue party, the Climate party aims to provide Conservative voters with a business-friendly, climate-serious alternative to the Tories, whose leadership candidates have been reticent over the party’s net zero commitments as Britain buckled under 40C heat for the first time on record.

The move to exclude the institutions from state business is part of a growing effort by Republican officials to shut out companies that are backing away from fossil fuels.


West Virginia on Thursday morning announced that five major financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, would be barred from doing business with the state because they have stopped supporting the coal industry.

The announcement, made by West Virginia’s treasurer, Riley Moore, is the first time a state has moved to sever banking relationships with major Wall Street firms over objections to their efforts to reduce dangerous planet-warming emissions.

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Opposition to E.S.G. is mounting in Republican circles. Former Vice President Mike Pence, a potential 2024 Republican presidential contender, recently said he wanted to “rein in” E.S.G.

House and Senate Republicans have recently spoken out against the growing push to integrate climate risk more deeply into the financial system.

And more states are poised to take action against financial institutions that are backing away from fossil fuels.

Republican lawmakers in a dozen other states have advanced bills similar to the one being enforced in West Virginia, and governors in four states, including Texas and Oklahoma, have signed such laws.

On Wednesday, Ron DeSantis, the Governor of Florida, joined the campaign, proposing legislation that would prohibit financial firms that manage the state’s pension funds from considering environmental factors when making investment decisions.

While the coal business is waning, it is still big business in West Virginia. Taxes from coal and fossil fuel industries are the third-largest source of funds for West Virginia, according to the state. In the most recent fiscal year, the state collected some $769 million in severance taxes from coal and other fossil fuel companies, representing 13 percent of the $5.89 billion in funds collected by the state.

Mr. Moore declined to say whether he accepted the scientific consensus that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are leading to catastrophic planetary warming. Instead, he said that even if that were the case, it was his responsibility to protect the livelihoods of West Virginians.

“At what cost to human flourishing are we willing to inflict these types of restrictions as it relates to access to cheap and reliable electricity?” he said. “As West Virginians, our ability to be able to help power the nation with the natural resources that we have is a benefit not just to us, but to the entire country.”