Comments by "Old Scientist" (@OldScientist) on "eNCA" channel.

@Brandon Liechti You need to be aware that the problems with plastic have been overstated and the alternatives can be more damaging to the environment. Eriksen et al (2014) discovered 250,000 tons in the ocean. Although that seems a lot, except when you consider the ocean is 135,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. It was 0.1% of annual plastic production. Plus they found 100 times less microplastic than expected. Several groups of scientists (e.g. Ward et al, 2019) have found some plastics e.g. Styrofoam, readily disintegrate in seawater to organic carbon and CO2. The supposedly environmentally friendly alternatives to plastic are not. Banning plastic bags results in more pollution because of the greater amount of energy needed to produce alternatives. Glass bottles consume upto 250% more energy than plastic ones in production, and paper bags would have to be used 43 times to have a smaller impact on the environment. Highly unlikely.
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@Brandon Liechti Humanity doesn't suck. Between 1961 and 2021 cereal production increased 250% and cereal yield increased over 200%. Land used for cereal hardly increased (Data from World Bank, FAO/UN). This is the only time in human history that you are more likely to be overfed rather than underfed. We should be thankful we were borne into an age of such abundance.
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The Earth was warmer in the recent and distant past. The Earth warmed faster in the past. There is no climate crisis.
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There is no climate crisis. 10% decline in natural disasters since 2000. Accumulated cyclone energy shows no increasing trend. Global hurricane landfalls shows no trend. Downward global trend for total hurricaine numbers. NOAA: "We conclude that the historical Atlantic hurricane data at this stage do not provide compelling evidence for a substantial greenhouse warming-induced century-scale increase in: frequency of tropical storms, hurricanes, or major hurricanes, or in the proportion of hurricanes that become major hurricanes." NOAA data 1851-2021 shows no trend in number of hurricaine landfalls with the record high being 1886. The trend for over 7 decades has been downwards in the Pacific as well. Drought appears to be decreasing globally measured by SPI 1901-2017. Global trends show no increasing flooding frequency or severity. For every million people on earth, annual deaths from climate-related causes have declined 98%. Deserts have shrunk considerably since the 1980's. The Sahara shrank by 12,000km² per year 1984-2015. The Earth has greened by 15% or more in a human lifetime. The Great Barrier Reef's coral cover has reached the greatest extent ever recorded. On extinction the rate is very low: 900 known lost species for 2.1 million known species in 500 years, so from observations there are an average of slightly less than 2 species lost every year. Global temperatures maxed out in 2016 and have been lower ever since. There is no climate crisis.
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