By Jack Dini ——Bio and Archives--September 24, 2023
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International scientists have jointly signed a declaration dismissing the existence of a climate crisis and insisting that carbon dioxide is beneficial to Earth. A total of 1,609 scientists and professionals from around the world have signed the declaration, including 321 from the United States.
"There is no climate emergency," the Global Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) said in its Would Climate Declaration made public in August. "Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures." (1)
The coalition pointed out that Earth climate has varied as long as it has existed, with the planet experiencing several cold and warm phases. The Little Ice Age only ended as recently as 1850 they said. Therefore it is no surprise that we are now experiencing a period of warming the declaration added.
Warming is happening 'far slower' than predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools, the coalition said. It added that these models 'exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gases' and ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial. (1)
Dr. Mototaka Nakamura received a Doctorate of Science from MIT, and for nearly 25 years specialized in abnormal weather and climate change at prestigious institutions that included MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,, JAMSTEC and Duke University. In his book, The Global Warming Hypothesis is an Unproven Hypothesis, Dr. Nakamura explains why the data foundation underpinning global warming science is 'untrustworthy' and cannot be relied on. (2)
“Global mean temperatures before 1980 are based on untrustworthy data," writes Nakamura. "Before full planet observation by satellite began in 1980, only a small part of the Earth had been observed for temperatures with only a certain amount of accuracy and frequency. Across the globe, only North America and Western Europe have trustworthy temperature data dating back to the 19th century.”
Today's global warming science is akin to an upside down pyramid which is built on the work of a few climate modelers. These pioneers claim to have demonstrated human derived CO2 emissions as the cause of recently rising temperatures and have then simply projected that warming forward. Every climate researcher thereafter has taken the results of these original models as a given, and we're even at the stage now where merely testing their validity is regarded as heresy. (2)
Nakamura writes, "The global surface mean temperature change data no longer have any scientific value and are nothing except a propaganda tool to the public.
Nobel Prize winning physicist John Clauser is taking on some dubious climate change models he feels are filled with 'sloppy work. In fact, he doesn't believe there is an emergency at all.
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"I read all of the various IPCC reports, National Academy reports on this," Clauser said. "As a physicist, I'd worked at some excellent institutions--Caltech, Columbia, Cal Berkeley--where very careful science needed to be done. And reading these reports, I was appalled at how sloppy the work was. And in particular, it was very obvious, even in the earliest reports, and all carried on through to the present, that clouds were not at all understood. It's just simply bad science." (3)
Neil Winton, a 32 year veteran who reported for Reuters, said, "When I first started writing about human induced climate change, I turned to a subject I knew from headlines rather than research."
"But I had expectations. After all, even the BBC was reporting as fact global warming was upon us. It was all our fault and we'd all die soon if we didn't listen to those that know best and act. Imagine my amazement when I started talking to the world's top climate scientists and found a completely different study. The science wasn't even close to being proven and I had great difficulty finding anyone to say the link between excessive human made carbon dioxide and a changing climate was clear. There were many assumptions, but no proof. Yet the BBC and the mainstream media constantly reported a proven doom scenario." (4)
Recently, four leading Italian scientists undertook a major review of historical climate trends and concluded that declaring a climate emergency was not supported by the data. (5)
A poll conducted by the Associated Press and the University of Chicago, published on June 1, shows less than half of Americans (49 percent) believe humans are the primary cause of any recent climate change. That is a decline of 11 percentage points since the Associated Press/University of Chicago asked the same question in 2018. Moreover, an Ipsos poll published on May 4 of this year found the exact same result, with only 49 percent of Americans saying humans are the primary cause of recent climate changes. (6)
The Associated Press poll dug deeper into the issue and provided additional encouraging results. Only 38 percent of Americans are willing to pay even as little as $1 per month in higher energy costs to combat climate change. That is down 14 percentage points from 2018.
This is consistent with other polls by groups as disparate as the Washington Post and Competitive Enterprise Institute, which also reported that people are not so concerned about climate change they are willing to crack open their wallets for it. Conclusion: Although folks say they are worried about climate change, most clearly aren't worried enough to put money on it, or make personal sacrifices for the cause. (7)
A huge international survey measuring public concern about the threat of climate change appears to indicate growing skepticism across the globe. The Gallup Risk Poll, which questioned 125,000 people in 121 countries reported that less than half of those surveyed saw anthropogenic climate change as a very serious threat. (8)
Despite billions spent annually on outreach, education, and outright propaganda, a recent Gallup poll shows Americans still don't think climate change is the most significant environmental concern facing the world. In fact, global warming or climate change ranked dead last among seven environmental issues. (9)
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Jack Dini is author of Challenging Environmental Mythology. He has also written for American Council on Science and Health, Environment & Climate News, and Hawaii Reporter.