Scaremongering doesn't stop
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We read that, due to global warming, rising sea levels will destroy our civilisation. We are told that the Philippines' super-typhoon was due to manmade global warming. In both cases we are urged to act to save the planet. However, this rings rather hollo
The UK Met Office recently released data showing there has been no statistically significant global warming for almost 16 years. During this period, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, carbon-dioxide concentrations rose by nearly 9 per cent to now constitute 0.039 per cent of the atmosphere. Global warming has not occurred, cannot cause sea levels to rise, and cannot have caused the extreme weather of the past few years. If, when and how atmospheric warming will resume is unknown. The science is unclear. Some scientists point out that near-term natural cooling, linked to variations in solar output, is also a distinct possibility.
The science states that weather shocks would be worse if the world cooled than if it warmed. The climate changes naturally all the time, sometimes dramatically. The hypothesis that our emissions of CO2 have caused, or will cause, dangerous warming is not supported by the evidence.
The incidence and severity of extreme weather has not increased. There is little evidence that dangerous weather-related events will occur more often in the future. The UN’s own Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change said in its “Special Report on Extreme Weather” this year that there was “an absence of an attributable climate change signal” in trends in extreme weather losses to date.
Thomas Turk
Phuket
