Links tagged “war”
- Claim: ‘U.S. military is biggest polluter on planet so decreasing our military spending will go a long way toward saving the planet’
- Long-time warmist David Titley throws in the towel, says his twitter account is going to focus on fossil fuel-guzzling RV travel etc.
- Climate War? EU Could Use Carbon Border Tax Against Brexit Britain, Warns MEP
- The ‘climate emergency’ is a threat to democracy – Governments must ‘protect us from the enemy…but the enemy happens to be us’
"This is the idea that so imminent and ‘existential’ is the threat of climate change that world leaders need to act as if they are at war. They need to declare a state of emergency. There’s no time for deliberation or debate anymore, because, well, ‘our house is on fire’. In this state of emergency, all civil liberties and democratic freedoms can be suspended. All dissent and debate silenced. Only then will the authorities, using all force necessary, be able to do what needs to be done to protect us from the enemy. It just so happens that this enemy happens to be us, and our all-consuming passions."
- Pentagon predicted climate-change catastrophe by 2020
- Danish Academic: UN Might Use Military Force to Pursue Climate Agenda: ‘This is your emission target, it’s not negotiable, we can actually take military measures if you don’t fulfill it’
In an interview with ABC News in Australia, Professor Wæver cautions that what he sees as “climate inaction” might draw the U.N. into considering other means to ensure its goals are met, even if that leads to global armed conflict.
This urgency, he says, could lead to more abrupt – and essentially undemocratic – action at an international level. “If there was something that was decided internationally by some more centralised procedure and every country was told ‘this is your emission target, it’s not negotiable, we can actually take military measures if you don’t fulfil it’, then you would basically have to get that down the throat of your population, whether they like it or not,” he says.“A bit like what we saw in southern Europe with countries like Greece and the debt crisis and so on. There were decisions that were made for them and then they just had to have a more or less technocratic government and get it through.” - Watch: Morano on Fox & Friends on John Kerry’s ‘World War Zero’ climate effort – Kerry joined by other ‘mansion owning millionaires’
- Time Mag’s ‘Hero of the Environment’ Michael Shellenberger: ‘Why Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong’ – Rips ‘exaggerations by activists, journalists, & scientists’
Michael Shellenberger: "Climate change is an issue I care passionately about and have dedicated a significant portion of my life to addressing. I have been politically active on the issue for over 20 years and have researched and written about it for 17 years...I also care about getting the facts and science right and have in recent months corrected inaccurate and apocalyptic news media coverage of fires in the Amazon and fires in California, both of which have been improperly presented as resulting primarily from climate change. Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public. There is good evidence that the catastrophist framing of climate change is self-defeating because it alienates and polarizes many people. And exaggerating climate change risks distracting us from other important issues including ones we might have more near-term control over." ...
First, no credible scientific body has ever said climate change threatens the collapse of civilization much less the extinction of the human species. “‘Our children are going to die in the next 10 to 20 years.’ What’s the scientific basis for these claims?” BBC’s Andrew Neil asked a visibly uncomfortable XR spokesperson last month. ...
It’s not like climate doesn’t matter. It’s that climate change is outweighed by other factors. Earlier this year, researchers found that climate “has affected organized armed conflict within countries. However, other drivers, such as low socioeconomic development and low capabilities of the state, are judged to be substantially more influential.” ...
That last part may be true, but it’s also true that economic development has made us less vulnerable, which is why there was a 99.7% decline in the death toll from natural disasters since its peak in 1931. In 1931, 3.7 million people died from natural disasters. In 2018, just 11,000 did. And that decline occurred over a period when the global population quadrupled...
What about claims of crop failure, famine, and mass death? That’s science fiction, not science. Humans today produce enough food for 10 billion people, or 25% more than we need, and scientific bodies predict increases in that share, not declines. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) forecasts crop yields increasing 30% by 2050. And the poorest parts of the world, like sub-Saharan Africa, are expected to see increases of 80 to 90%....Wheat yields increased 100 to 300% around the world since the 1960s, while a study of 30 models found that yields would decline by 6% for every one degree Celsius increase in temperature...
All of this helps explain why IPCC anticipates climate change will have a modest impact on economic growth. By 2100, IPCC projects the global economy will be 300 to 500% larger than it is today. Both IPCC and the Nobel-winning Yale economist, William Nordhaus, predict that warming of 2.5°C and 4°C would reduce gross domestic product (GDP) by 2% and 5% over that same period.
- Al Gore compares climate crisis to 9/11, praises Green New Deal – It’s ‘the life and death struggle of people alive today’ – Kicks off his 24 hour climate talkathon
- 2019 Pentagon Climate Report Grants Earth Another 20 Year Reprieve – Previous Pentagon Report Warned of Climate Doom by 2020
2019 Pentagon Report:
2004 Pentagon Report:
65 years after the CIA said global cooling was going to kill us.
