Climate Hysteria - Part 2

In the previous post I talked about the U.N. doomsday proclamation from 1989.  Last August The UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) published Climate Change 2021 their sixth periodic assessment of climate change (it is no longer called global warming). 

Code Red For Humanity
I downloaded the 1800+ page report and read the 41 page 'summary'. The document clearly states that it should not be cited, quoted or distributed so I am going to cite, quote and distribute.

The document itself is written by “scientists” but is based largely on computer simulations and “scientific” speculation of what the temperature has been over the past 800,000 years. 

Since the document is largely speculation almost every paragraph states it is “likely” or “very likely” or “medium confidence”.  In other words, the authors are giving themselves an escape hatch in the “very likely” event that the report is spectacularly incorrect like all the previous reports.

After reading the summary, I came to the conclusion that the next 50 years won't be so bad after all.

You can get the document by clicking on the image.

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The UN Secretary-General’s statement, however, expresses no such hope or doubts. It is the same shrill prophesy of impending doom the UN (globalists) have been pushing for the past 50+ years.  

• “Today’s IPCC Working Group 1 Report is a code red for humanity.  The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable:”
• “This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.” 
• “Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production”

But Wait!!!  As always there's still time to save Terra if we give astounding sums of money to the UN for the next 80 years.

• “If we combine forces now, we can avert climate catastrophe.  … there is no time for delay and no room for excuses.”

Though I’m not a scientist I am very familiar with the scientific process.  The following sections will explain why the IPCC report is not credible.
 
Cherry Picking the Data
Here is a quote from the IPCC report:  “the likely range of total human caused temperature increase from 1850 to 2019 is 0.8 C to 1.3 C…”.   Note that 1853 is generally regarded as the end of the Little Ice Age that caused wide spread famine and much human suffering.  Only someone who is utterly and totally dishonest would pick the end of an ICE AGE as the baseline for determining if the world is getting warmer.  Of course it’s getting warmer and that is a damn good thing.
 
Using Unsupported Data
Another quote: “Global surface temperature has increased faster since 1970 than in any other 50-year period over at least the last 2000 years (high confidence).” The thermometer wasn’t invented until 1714 so there are absolutely no historical records of temperature in the Roman Empire. 

Any statement about temperatures 2000 years ago is NOT “high confidence”.  Unless they discovered some clay tablets (or papyrus scrolls) showing how much antiperspirant Julius Caesar bought…. Or perhaps they found Cleopatra’s air conditioning bill.
 
Disregard Science That Doesn’t Fit the Agenda
They mention that temps have increased faster over the past 50 years but they completely ignore the fact that the last 50 years have also experienced the highest sunspot activity in the last 400 years.  They don’t even consider that the Sun might be a factor.

I will write more about Solar Cycles in the next post.
 
Claim That Good Is Bad
They even claim that a beneficial effect is actually BAD.

Here ya’ go:  “Changes in the land biosphere since 1970 are consistent with global warming: climate zones have shifted poleward in both hemispheres, and the growing season has on average lengthened by up to two days per decade since the 1950s in the Northern Hemisphere … (high confidence).”
 
In short, they have high confidence that the growing season in the Northern Hemisphere has increased by almost two weeks since the 1950’s.  YAY!  We can grow more food to feed our ever-expanding global population.  
 
Ignore Political Reality
The Secretary-General of the UN states that ‘we’ can save Earth if we immediately stop building any new coal-fired power plants and utterly phase out fossil fuel in 20 years.   But the Paris Climate Accord allows China to keep building coal-fired power plants until 2035 and India is racing to keep up. 
 
Is the Secretary-General living in a fantasy world or is this just another UN fund-raiser at America’s expense?
 
China is already responsible for 29% of global CO2 emissions which is more than double the United States at about 14%.  Let’s put this in perspective… under the  Paris Accord,  by 2035 China and India will be responsible for at least 60-70% of global CO2 and America will be responsible for much less than 10%.  We are NOT the bad guys destroying planet Earth.  https://e360.yale.edu/features/despite-pledges-to-cut-emissions-china-goes-on-a-coal-spree

Move the Goalposts
In 1989 a previous UN Secretary General claimed that temps would rise by 7 degrees and sea level would increase by 3 feet by the year 2019.  In fact, temps have increased less than 1 degree and sea level has increased by 3-5 inches.  Since the UN can longer make super-scary predictions about the next 30-50 years they have extended their computer simulation to the year 2300 and beyond.  “Over the next 2000 years, global mean sea level will rise by about 2 to 3 meters”
 
WOW! In 2000 years (yes thousand) Miami and Los Angeles might be under water.  CODE RED Better Start Packing!  PANIC!  PANIC!

Conclusion
The UN continues to promote Climate Hysteria. They assume that the world's youth are too young to remember all of their failed predictions.  "Watch me pull a crisis out of my hat.  This time for sure"