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

Another climate propaganda video. Antarctic ice sheet mass loss is about 90 Gt/yr (Otosaka et al, 2023). It's total mass is 24 million Gt, so it loses less than 0.0004% of its mass annually. It contributes 0.36mm to sea-level rise per year (that's pitiful). At the current rate it will take well over ¼ million years to melt, but we are due for two more glacial periods in that time. The ice is here to stay.
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This is nonsense. It was hotter in the recent and distant past. There is no satellite data before 1979, and there was no real network of temperature stations outside Europe and America before the 1950s, so "hottest ever" is not very long! It was much hotter in America in the 1930s, and the Vikings grew barley on Greenland, which is impossible today. This is bull meant to scare people into giving up their prosperity. Satellite data shows the Earth is continuing to warm steadily at around one-tenth of a degree Celsius per decade. If we didn't have thermometers we couldn't even notice it.
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Climate change saved 555,103 lives in England and Wales between 2001 and 2020 (ONS, 2022). Go Climate Change!
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He's wearing clothes and hair gel made from petrochemicals. Shouldn't he be in a hair-shirt, or covered in wool. With his global travel his carbon footprint will be larger than 99% of the population. He's a hypocrite. Extinction rates (1500-2009) peaked around 1900 at 50 per decade. Extinction rates have declined dramatically to around 4 to per decade in the 2000s. So the extinction rate is very low: 900 known lost species for 2.1 million known species in 500 years (IUCN), so from observations there are an average of slightly less than 2 species lost every year. Out of a known species total of over 2 million. That gives an annual percentage loss of less than 0.0001%. That's background extinction. At that frequency it will take over 930,000 years to reach 80% extinction of species experienced at the K-T boundary that saw the extinction of the dinosaurs. Of course, extinction is a natural part of the evolution of life on this planet with the average lifespan of a species thought to be about 1 million years (cf 930,000). It is estimated that 99.9% of all plant and animal species that have existed have gone extinct. It should also be noted that no families or genera have become extinct in the last 500 years. In fact marine diversity at the taxonomic level of families is the highest it has ever been in the Earth's long history (see Sepkoski Curve). In a review of 16,009 species, most populations (85%) did not show significant trends in abundance, and those that did were balanced between winners (8%) and losers (7%) (Dornelas et al, 2019). There have been only 9 species of continental birds and mammals confirmed extinct since 1500 (Loehle, 2011). No global marine animals have become extinct in the past 50 years (McCauley et, 2015 using IUCN data).
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Another climate propaganda video. Antarctic ice sheet mass loss is about 90 Gt/yr (Otosaka et al, 2023). It's total mass is 24 million Gt, so it loses less than 0.0004% of its mass annually. It contributes 0.36mm to sea-level rise per year (that's pitiful). At the current rate it will take well over ¼ million years to melt, but we are due for two more glacial periods in that time. The ice is here to stay.
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No warming since this was made. There is no climate emergency. The Earth was warmer in the recent and distant past. It also warmed faster in the past.
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This is a terrible piece of climate propaganda. Notice how the scale used on both the graph and the bar charts are distorted to make the deaths from heat look bigger when in fact they are far smaller. Atrocious. Climate change actually saved 555,103 lives in England and Wales between 2001 and 2020 (ONS, 2022)! There are over 5 million excess deaths per annum globally due to abnormal temperatures from the 2000-2019 study led Prof. Guo of Monash University. It found that over 90% of excess deaths were caused by excess COLD rather than excess heat. This applied globally including in the hottest continent, Africa. So, in a world with increasingly mild temperatures, there will be less excess death. Warming is good not bad.
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June 2023 was a long way from being the hottest. It ranks only 5th, behind 1676, 1822, 1826 and 1846
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Five days after this bull, Europe is in a cold wave with a negative temperature anomalies. Frosts are forecast for southern Germany, and people will need to put their heating on in August. Cool, damp and dull for the foreseeable future.
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Total insanity. If we stopped using fossil fuels civilization would collapse. We'd be thrown back into the Stone Age.
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Don't prevent it! Embrace it! Climate change saved 555,103 lives in England and Wales between 2001 and 2020 (ONS, 2022). Go Climate Change!
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Net zero means no steel, no concrete, no plastic, no fertiliser and no food. We've got 3 coal fired power stations, China has over 1100 with 300 on the way. Starving ourselves and living in poverty isn't going to save the world. Fools.
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Since 1900 the global temperature has increased by 1.3°C. Despite that humanity has flourished. Life expectancy has more than doubled from 32 to 73 years. Literacy has quadrupled from 21% to 86%. Humans are seven times more productive ($2,241 to $15,212 GDP per capita, per annum). People are better fed, having ⅓ more calories every day (2,192kcal to 2,928kcal). Global extreme poverty rates have tumbled from 70% to less than 10% (<$1 a day). And death from weather events have collapsed by a factor 50 from 241 million down to 5 million even while the global population has increased by a factor of 5. In a world that's 3°C warmer by the end of the century, it has been estimated that incomes will be between 1.9% (Tol, 2024) and 3.1% lower (Nordhaus) than that would otherwise have been. However the UN estimates that total incomes will have increased by 450% by 2100. If the effects of climate are included we will only be 440% or 435% richer! Oh my God, it's the end of the world! There is no climate crisis. There is no evidence of a climate crisis. Even if there is radical climate change (and that is a very, very big 'if') with the manifestation of numerous tipping points (including permafrost thaw, ocean hydrates dissociation, Arctic sea ice loss, rainforest dieback, polar ice sheet loss, AMOC slowdown, and Indian monsoon variability) the disruption to economic growth and well-being will be minimal. The world's economy will continue to grow making everyone much richer. By 2050 world mean consumption per capita should be $29,100 with tipping points or $29,300 without tipping points. Barely noticeable. Apart from it being approximately double what it is now. By 2100 world mean consumption per capita should be $71,000 with or without tipping points (Dietz et al, 2021). This is the most fortunate time to be alive in the whole of history.
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I think it's pronounced "vezzer".
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Who cares? There is no objective observational evidence that we are living in a global climate crisis. The UN's IPCC AR6, chapter 12 "Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessment", section 12.5.2, table 12.12 confirms there is a lack of evidence or no signal that the following have changed: Air Pollution Weather (temperature inversions), Aridity, Avalanche (snow), Average precipitation, Average Wind Speed, Coastal Flood, Agricultural drought, Hydrological drought, Erosion of Coastlines, Fire Weather (hot and windy), Flooding From Heavy Rain (pluvial floods), Frost, Hail, Heavy Rain, Heavy Snowfall and Ice Storms, Landslides, Marine Heatwaves, Ocean Acidity, Radiation at the Earth’s Surface, River/Lake Floods, Sand and Dust Storms, Sea Level, Severe Wind Storms, Snow, Glacier, and Ice Sheets, Tropical Cyclones. There is no objective observational evidence that we are living through a global climate crisis. None.
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Weather events are not climate. The severity of individual weather events cannot be attributed to factors implicated in man-made climate change. One cannot prove that changes in the climate are man-made, but here it is presented as a fact. To provide proof of this one would need to observe another Earth-like planet to which no GHGs are added. This is obviously impossible. It is untestable. It is unverifiable. It is not a fact. It is not Science.
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There is no climate emergency. The Earth was warmer in the recent and distant past. It also warmed faster in the past.
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There is no climate crisis. There is nothing in global trends that could lead to this conclusion. It is a lie. These people want money and power.
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@Ra Ra The current warming began around 1700 prior to any large scale combustion of fossil fuels. Also the warming has been small (1°C) and appears to have been largely beneficial. It has not been smooth, for example there was a period of cooling during the 50s, 60s and 70s (NOAA). When many scientists believed the next ice age had begun. Current warming is smaller than predicted by all models (actual is 0.13°C per decade since 1979, UAH v6) so around ½°C for the past 40 years but no overall warming over the past 8. This will result in a further 1° of warming by 2100 which can be adapted to, as with the previous 1°.
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@RaRa-eu9mw There is no "global" warming. The northerly latitudes are warming, but the southerly latitudes are cooling with little change in trend around the Equator (NOAA-STARv5 TLT & TMT 1979-2023). Overall the Earth appears to be warming at around 0.13°C/decade (UAHv6, NOAA-STARv5, radiosondes - 28 million weather balloons, and climate reanalyses concur on this). NOAA-STARv5 TLT may even appear to show a reduction in the rate of warming. 1981-2023: +0.129°C/decade, 1981-2001: +0.130°C/decade, 2002-2014: +0.008°C/decade, 2015-2023: -0.060°C/decade.
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Two weeks after this bull, Europe is in a cold wave with a negative temperature anomalies. Frosts are forecast for southern Germany, and people will need to put their heating on in August. Cool, damp and dull for the foreseeable future.
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The UN's IPCC AR6, chapter 12 "Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessment", section 12.5.2, table 12.12 confirms there is a lack of evidence or no signal that the following have changed: Air Pollution Weather (temperature inversions), Aridity, Avalanche (snow), Average precipitation, Average Wind Speed, Coastal Flood, Agricultural drought, Hydrological drought, Erosion of Coastlines, Fire Weather (hot and windy), Flooding From Heavy Rain (pluvial floods), Frost, Hail, Heavy Rain, Heavy Snowfall and Ice Storms, Landslides, Marine Heatwaves, Ocean Acidity, Radiation at the Earth’s Surface, River/Lake Floods, Sand and Dust Storms, Sea Level, Severe Wind Storms, Snow, Glacier, and Ice Sheets, Tropical Cyclones. There is no objective observational evidence that we are living through a global climate crisis. None.
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That's global warming! In action! Maybe there is no climate crisis. Maybe the Earth was warmer in the recent and distant past.
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@xaiano794 That sounds like weather to me.
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There is no climate crisis. The Earth was warmer in the recent and distant past. It also warmed faster in the past.
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Communism is the answer to a nonexistent climate crisis. There is no climate crisis. The Earth was warmer in the recent and distant past.
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Extinction rates (1500-2009) peaked around 1900 at 50 per decade. Extinction rates have declined dramatically to around 4 to per decade in the 2000s. So extinction the rate is very low: 900 known lost species for 2.1 million known species in 500 years (IUCN), so from observations there are an average of slightly less than 2 species lost every year. Out of a known species total of over 2 million. That gives an annual percentage loss of less than 0.0001%. That's background extinction. At that frequency it will take over 930,000 years to reach 80% extinction of species experienced at the K-T boundary that saw the extinction of the dinosaurs. Of course, extinction is a natural part of the evolution of life on this planet with the average lifespan of a species thought to be about 1 million years (cf 930,000). It is estimated that 99.9% of all plant and animal species that have existed have gone extinct. It should also be noted that no families or genera have become extinct in the last 500 years. In fact marine diversity at the taxonomic level of families is the highest it has ever been in the Earth's long history (see Sepkoski Curve).
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Dig up the coal. It is a valuable resource.
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@ImproveYourMagic Earth’s automatic reaction appears to be rather positive. Life thrives in a warmer world with extra CO2 to fertilise plants.
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@ImproveYourMagic There's no empirical evidence that any of this is going to happen. The ECS derived empirically is about 1.8°C (maybe less), and that's if we double the ppm for CO2, and that's not going to happen for a long time, if at all. Besides all that we're living on an "icehouse" Earth, and this Ice Age is the coldest the Earth has been in 450 million years. For the vast majority of the Earth’s history it was much warmer than today, and plants thrived in the extra warmth.
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This is all based on the false premise that humans have altered the climate. Laughable. The Earth was warmer in the recent and distant past. The Earth warmed faster in the past.
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Always remember to virtue signal. The Great Barrier Reef's coral cover has reached the greatest extent ever recorded. If we look at the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) data (which isn't ideal for various reasons) the WIO (West Indian Ocean) shows 26% hard coral cover in 1985 upto 30% in 2020. South Asia reefs shows a decline around 2000 to below 25% then a regrowth to around 40% (2010) and a decline to 25% (2020). The Red Sea shows no change at around 25% (1995-2020). So the pattern in these three areas show no relationship to each other or to a changing climate. GCRMN data for the most important coral bioregion, the East Asia Seas, with 30% of the world’s coral reefs, and containing the most diverse coral of the ‘Coral Triangle’, show no statistically significant net coral loss since records began. The East Asia region has the biggest human population living in close proximity to reefs, and is located in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool – the hottest major water mass on earth.
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@liestricks The problem for doomsters is Antarctica and the Southern Hemisphere are getting colder. The whole of East and West Antarctica is cooling, and has been for 40 years. East Antarctica has cooled by an impressive 0.7°C per decade. Resulting in an overall substantial and statistically significant decline of 2.8°C since 1980. So much for "Global" warming. I am referring to a paper by Zhu et al (2021) that looked at the reanalysed ERA5 satellite dataset. Check out table 4.
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@liestricks Arctic Was Much Warmer 6000 Years Ago… 90% Of Glaciers, Ice Caps Smaller Than Present Or Absent. From Larocca et al, 2022.
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There is no objective observational evidence that we are living in a global climate crisis.
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There is no objective observational evidence that we are living in a global climate crisis. The UN's IPCC AR6, chapter 12 "Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessment", section 12.5.2, table 12.12 confirms there is a lack of evidence or no signal that the following have changed: Air Pollution Weather (temperature inversions), Aridity, Avalanche (snow), Average precipitation, Average Wind Speed, Coastal Flood, Agricultural drought, Hydrological drought, Erosion of Coastlines, Fire Weather (hot and windy), Flooding From Heavy Rain (pluvial floods), Frost, Hail, Heavy Rain, Heavy Snowfall and Ice Storms, Landslides, Marine Heatwaves, Ocean Acidity, Radiation at the Earth’s Surface, River/Lake Floods, Sand and Dust Storms, Sea Level, Severe Wind Storms, Snow, Glacier, and Ice Sheets, Tropical Cyclones. There is no objective observational evidence that we are living through a global climate crisis. None.
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@ImproveYourMagic Well that's taught me. Your unsupported assertion trumps data every time. Thanks for the clarification with such witty use of English.
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2023 was not the hottest year on large parts of the globe. Asia, Europe, U.S., Oceania, East N. Pacific Region, Hawaiian Region, Arctic, and the Antarctic all enjoyed their highest regional average temperature anomaly in previous years according to data released by NOAA.
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Waste of bloody time. Global temperatures maxed out in 2016 and have been lower ever since (UAH v6 global satellite data). 500 billion tonnes of emissions in that time (14% of all man-made CO2) and no warming. There is no climate crisis.
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The 40°C record was set on the hot tarmac of an RAF airbase as three typhoon jets landed. 😂 "Hot dry summers". Have they looked outside today? What this is saying is don't believe your eyes. The world may be warming now but it was cooling in the 60s and 70s. It was much hotter in the Medieval, Roman and Minoan Warm Periods. And it was certainly hotter during the Holocene Climatic Optimum during the current interglacial. If we do go into a glacial period (and thats a certainty) everyone will be praying for a little warmth as ice several miles thick smothers the country.
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That's very lovely of his majesty, but this and the traffic management schemes are based upon absurdities because there is no climate crisis. The Earth was warmer in the recent and distant past. It also warmed faster in the past.
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