Prominent physicist Freeman Dyson: ‘It would be crazy to try to reduce CO2’ – ‘Earth is growing greener as a result of carbon dioxide’
Scientist Freeman Dyson says about carbon dioxide and climate change:
3:20: “First of all there is man-made climate change …it’s a question of how much and is it good or bad..we don’t understand the details. It’s probably much less than is generally claimed. The most important thing is that there are huge non-climate effects of carbon dioxide which are overwhelmingly favorable which are not taken into account. To me that’s the main issue–the Earth is actually growing greener..it’s increasingly agricultural yields, it’s increasing forests, it’s increasing all kinds of growth… That’s more important and more certain than the effects on climate.
5:20: CO2 is “enormously beneficial both to food production and also to biodiversity, preservation of species and everything else that’s good. The remarkable thing is that these effects which have nothing to do with climate…are so much easier to measure than the effects on climate and so much more certain”
9:15: [On warmists] “There certainly is an enormous religion in which there are lots of true believers who think that climate change is evil and that we’re going to run into big catastrophes if we don’t do something drastic. That’s a sort of belief system which exists…I don’t understand it and I don’t pretend to understand their motives.”
11:00: “The real world is far more complicated than the models…I don’t think any of these models can ever be predictive”
13:45 On sun’s effect on climate: “The correlation is certainly there. Exactly how the activity of the sun influences the climate is not completely clear. Something to do with cosmic rays…probably an effect on clouds”
15:15 “CO2 is so beneficial in other ways, it would be crazy to try to reduce it”
16:40: “Average temperature of the Earth..is a very poorly defined thing anyway”
18:50: “Carbon dioxide will increase. We will continue to burn oil and coal; probably it does us good. The Earth will get greener as a result”
19:30: “[People from Asia] don’t feel pessimistic at all…This sort of mood of doom and gloom…only is particularly in the academic communities, particularly in the western societies…The media have gone alone with it, but I think the general public has a lot more common sense.”
20:20: Dyson brought along Lomborg’s book “Cool It”. Dyson says “I think it’s the best general summary I’ve seen, in a way…I think he’s very …
VIDEO: UN CLIMATE CHANGE OFFICIAL SAYS ‘WE SHOULD MAKE EVERY EFFORT’ TO DEPOPULATE THE PLANET
…Global Warming ‘Pause’ Continues — Temperature Standstill Lengthens to 18 years 4 months
El Niño or ñot, the Pause lengthens again
Global temperature update: no warming for 18 years 4 months
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
Since December 1996 there has been no global warming at all (Fig. 1). This month’s RSS temperature – so far unaffected by the most persistent el Niño conditions of the present rather attenuated cycle – shows a new record length for the ever-Greater Pause: 18 years 4 months – and counting.
This result rather surprises me. I’d expected even a weak el Niño to have more effect that this, but it is always possible that the temperature increase that usually accompanies an el Niño will come through after a lag of four or five months. On the other hand, Roy Spencer, at his always-to-the-point blog (drroyspencer.com), says: “We are probably past the point of reaching a new peak temperature anomaly from the current El Niño, suggesting it was rather weak.” I shall defer to the expert, with pleasure. For if la Niña conditions begin to cool the oceans in time, there could be quite some lengthening of the Pause just in time for the Paris world-government summit in December.
Figure 1. The least-squares linear-regression trend on the RSS satellite monthly global mean surface temperature anomaly dataset shows no global warming for 18 years 4 months since December 1996.
The hiatus period of 18 years 4 months, or 220 months, is the farthest back one can go in the RSS satellite temperature record and still show a sub-zero trend.
Given that the Paris summit is approaching and most “world leaders” are not being told the truth about the Pause, it would be a great help if readers were to do their best to let their national negotiators and politicians know that unexciting reality continues to diverge ever more spectacularly from the bizarre “settled-science” predictions on which Thermageddon was built.
The divergence between the models’ predictions in 1990 (Fig. 2) and 2005 (Fig. 3), on the one hand, and the observed outturn, on the other, also continues to widen, and is now becoming a real embarrassment to the profiteers of doom – or would be, if the mainstream news media were actually to report the data rather than merely repeating the failed predictions of catastrophe.
Figure 2. Near-term projections of warming at a rate equivalent to 2.8 [1.9, 4.2] K/century, made with “substantial confidence” in IPCC (1990), for …
Global Satellite Temperatures Fall Again In March
…New paper demonstrates there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about the current state of earth’s warmth
@hockeyschtick1: New paper demonstrates there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about the current state of earth’s warmth http://www.co2science.org/articles/V18/mar/a30.php
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