INDEX March 20, 2023
The madness of climatologists
A tremendous fuss is being made about a mysterious 1.5 degree C target ground surface mean temperatures must not exceed. Don't get me wrong, I am not at all in favour of temperatures going above 1.5 degrees C. I think it is a very bad idea.

That said this target is a bit of a mystery. In the 1990s, IPCC subscribed to a number of computer models predicting an increase of between 4 and 6 degrees C. Those models were so well thought of that the modellers recently got Nobels.

The cutting from the Guardian just ten years ago was predicting 4 degrees C. Now it's perfectly possible there could be 1.5 degrees warming by say 2030 and 4 degrees by 2100. However, when much higher temperatures were being predicted, 1.5 degrees didn't seem to be so much of an issue as it has become.

The climatologists favoured method of reducing the increase in temperatures is the imaginatively named Conference of the Parties. This is basically a giant jamboree for which people fly in from all over the world, pack the best hotels and drink the bars dry. So far we have had an incredible 27 of them, the 28th is to be held in Dubai this year presided over by an oil sheikh. I kid you not. This process is supposed to reduce CO2 emissions and therefore slow global warming.

Despite all the promises, all the scientific papers, all the bargaining and politicking, the attached graph shows what has been achieved: Zilch, nil, nothing, rien, a rubber duck. Atmospheric CO2 keeps on increasing remorselessly.

So if it has suddenly become vital to keep ground surface mean temperatures to no more than 1.5 degrees higher than a century or so ago, how do they propose to do it?

One definition of insanity is to keep on doing the same things yet expect a different result. It's a mad, mad world.

Just ten years ago the Guardian was speculating about 4 degrees warming! Click for more vintage climate claims.

Scripps featuring data from Mauna Loa Observatory. Click to go to source.
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Jonathan Brind
March 20, 2023