Global warming is not happening

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Extermination of Species by Unlimited Welfare Immigration

Extermination of Species by Unlimited Welfare Immigration

Aside from Mud Immigrants, there is no species that can compete with the bulldozer. Climate change has nothing to do with mass exterminations in North America. Instead, this false dialogue, the language of the parasites, shoves asides any semblance of legitimate conservation.

http://onnaturemagazine.com/the-case-of-the-blue-butterfly.html

The case of the blue butterfly
May 25, 2011 5 Comments Written by ON Nature

The disappearance of the exquisite Karner blue butterfly signalled further declines in the rare oak savannahs the brilliantly coloured insect inhabited. Undaunted, some naturalists, like Ontario Nature’s Peter Carson, believe this winged jewel can still make a comeback.
By Peter Christie
When the endangered Karner blue butterfly abruptly blinked out of existence in Ontario 20 years ago, Peter Carson almost literally saw it happen.
A life-long butterfly enthusiast and naturalist, Carson was hiking in what is now the St. Williams Conservation Reserve near his southern Ontario home when he glimpsed perhaps the last Karner blue seen alive in the province. The butterfly was a winking of azure – like a piece of bright sky close to the ground. It turned above the field grasses and flowers, and then, suddenly, it vanished.
“It was one of those things where I came away wondering if I had actually seen it,” remembers Carson of that late spring day in 1991. “It was up and gone in short order. When I went back, I couldn’t find it … I think that was the end of them.” None has been sighted in the province since.
The story of the disappearance of the Karner blue, a small but strikingly beautiful butterfly, has a unique place in Ontario’s growing library of biodiversity tragedies. Among the first insects designated as an endangered species in the province, back in 1990, the butterfly became the poster animal for Ontario’s shrinking pockets of the world’s rarest habitat: oak savannah. Attempts to save the butterfly were too little, too late, however, and efforts to bring it back spawned one of the province’s earliest species-at-risk recovery teams – among the first examples of the dozens of similar teams currently working to save other rare species in Ontario.
But now, the tale of the Karner blue may have a different lesson to teach. In February 2009, the butterfly’s species-at-risk designation in Ontario was changed from “endangered” to “extirpated.” While the move recognizes that the Karner blue is probably gone from the province (it survives in some U.S. states), the extirpated listing also removes any legal deadline under Ontario’s three-year-old revamped Endangered Species Act for the government to develop plans to foster the butterfly’s return.
After two decades of recovery work, and just as a possible reintroduction of the species to Ontario looked more promising than ever, the provincial government’s active interest in the Karner blue has gone the way of the butterfly itself – extinguished, indefinitely.

Gone but not forgotten

Fourteen plants and animals designated as “extirpated” in Ontario have not been spotted here for years but continue to live in other places. For some, just one or a few historic records exist, after which the species has never been found in the province again. More recent additions, however, signal biodiversity loss that, in some cases, might be reversed – that is, if the extirpation designation did not effectively sideline efforts to bring them back.

Incurved grizzled moss (Ptychomitrium incurvum): This small moss, often found in deciduous woods in southeastern United States, was discovered in Ontario just once, on a lone boulder near Niagara Falls in 1828.

Illinois tick-trefoil (Desmodium illinoense): With white or pink flowers, the Illinois tick-trefoil once grew in southwestern Ontario’s now-dwindling areas of tallgrass prairie. It was last seen in 1888.

Spring blue-eyed Mary (Collinsia verna): This small, attractive wildflower once grew in wet woodlands in southern Ontario. The species has been gone from the province since 1954, lost to forest clearing and farming.

Eastern tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum): Regularly found in many other places across North America, the eastern tiger salamander was last seen in Ontario at Point Pelee in 1915.

Eastern persius duskywing (Erynnis persius persius): Last seen in Ontario in 1987, the eastern persius duskywing belongs to the triumvirate of lupine-feeding oak-savannah butterflies – along with the Karner blue and the frosted elfin – that disappeared from the province when their beleaguered habitat could no longer support them.

Karner blue (Lycaeides melissa samuelis): Gone since 1991, the Karner blue is the most spectacular – and has the highest profile – of any of Ontario’s lost oak-savannah butterflies.

Gravel chub (Erimystax x-punctatus): The small, bulgy-eyed minnow was found exclusively in the Thames River system near London before vanishing from the province in 1958.

Atlantic salmon (Lake Ontario population) (Salmo salar): The native strain of Atlantic salmon once found in Lake Ontario disappeared in 1898 and is now considered extinct by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Despite this, fishermen’s fondness for the species helped spur a salmon reintroduction program that has continued, with mixed results, since 2006.

Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula): This prehistoric-looking creature with a long, flattened snout disappeared from Ontario’s Great Lakes and rivers after 1917, possibly due to overfishing and dams.

Frosted elfin (Callophrys irus): Ontario’s only site for frosted elfin butterflies was the oak savannah found at St. Williams, north of Long Point. In 1988, the species followed the eastern persius duskywing into obscurity.

Spring salamander (Gyrinophilus porphyriticus): Ontario’s last known spring salamanders – a lungless species found in Quebec and in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States – were fished from a stream as larvae near Niagara Falls in 1877. The only other record is from the Ottawa area.

Timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus): The timber rattlesnake inhabited the rocky Niagara Gorge and escarpments as far north as Georgian Bay until it disappeared in 1941 – probably a victim of intensive persecution.
Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis): No one knows if the Eskimo curlew ever nested in Ontario. After the late 1800s, the once-numerous shorebird was hunted almost to extinction. The last sighting in the province was at James Bay in 1976.

Greater prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus cupido): This bird colonized southern Ontario grasslands in the 1800s before farming led to the loss of suitable habitat. The species was last seen in the province on Manitoulin Island and in the Sault Ste. Marie area in the 1970s.
Peter Christie

 

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https://nypost.com/2018/06/17/rfk-jr-sent-secret-memo-asking-to-ban-exxonmobil/

RFK Jr. sent secret memo asking to ban ExxonMobil
By Carl Campanile
June 17, 2018 | 10:34pm | Updated

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Douchebag potato nigger Environmental activist Robert Kennedy Jr. sent a secret legal memo to then-state douchebag Trump-hating kike Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, urging him to ban ExxonMobil from doing business in New York for allegedly misleading the public for decades about climate change.

The 17-page Jan. 5, 2016, memo obtained by The Post comes under the heading, “Revocation of Exxon Mobil Authority to do Business in New York” and talks about imposing a “corporate death penalty” on the oil giant.

The document came just weeks after the former attorney launched a securities probe on whether ExxonMobil misled investors on the costs of climate change.

Corporations must obtain a certificate of authority to operate in New York if they were incorporated elsewhere.

“Exxon Mobil’s subterfuge amounts to a crime against humanity,” said the document from the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, co-founded by Kennedy (right). “By delaying government action for a quarter century, Exxon Mobil has caused massive and predictable environmental damage in New York State.”

ExxonMobil has more than 1,000 gas stations in New York and does $4 billion per year in sales, accounting for 21 percent of the auto- fuels market in the state, according to the memo.

Kennedy confirmed that he helped craft the legal memo and had numerous conversations with Schneiderman about it.

Asked if New York will eventually ban Exxon, Kennedy said, “I hope so.”

The memo likens the campaign against Exxon Mobil to the fight against tobacco companies a generation ago. Exxon Mobil has misled the public about climate change the way tobacco companies lied about the dangers of smoking, the memo argues.

Kennedy and PELC cite a series of cases where the New York attorney general and other state attorneys general took action to ban corporations from operating.

In 1998, then-New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco, a Republican, revoked the charters of two non profit tax-exempt funded by the tobacco industry, the Tobacco Institute and the Council for Tobacco Research for peddling lies about the health effects of smoking.

The memo acknowledges that Exxon Mobil does not have major terminals in New York and does not employ many people as it does in Gulf states Texas and Louisiana, but revoking its license would be a “psychological shock” to the Petro behemoth.

State Republican Party chairman Ed Cox dismissed Kennedy’s anti-Exxon Mobil campaign as “utterly ridiculous.”

“Bobby Kennedy represents a mindset that destroys jobs and the economy in the United States,” Cox said.

Cox said Kennedy’s extreme views have already damaged New York by successfully pressuring Gov. Cuomo, his ex-brother in law, to ban fracking for cleaner natural gas in New York, which would produce less carbon than coal while generating jobs.

Data from the federal government reveal that U.S. has reduced carbon emissions 14 percent since 2005, and the reductions are mainly attributable to increased cleaner natural gas use for electricity generation rather than other dirtier fossil fuels — oil or coal.

A spokeswoman for current Attorney General Barbara Underwood, said, “our fraud investigation remains ongoing” but had no comment on the Kennedy memo.

Exxon had no immediate comment.

A federal judge in March dismissed Exxon Mobil’s lawsuit against the attorney general’s office in a bid to shut down its investigation.

 

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/06/martin-armstrong/30-years-of-global-warming-forecasts/

30 Years of Global Warming Forecasts all Failed
By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
June 26, 2018

The Wall Street Journal just published a review of the Global Warming Forecasts for the past 30 years. They have not even come close to the scenarios they put forth back in 1988.

On June 23, 1988, the then NASA scientist James E. Hansen who helped to start all this nonsense testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. He stated that he expressed had a “high degree of confidence” in “a cause-and-effect relationship between the claimed CO2 induced “greenhouse effect and observed warming.” That is how government characterizes something when they are guessing – “high degree of confidence” which was the same words used to invade Iraq who had weapons of mass destruction.

He later came out and said: “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.” (August 25, 2002). The CIA Director testified before Congress and said: “We said in the estimate with high confidence that Iraq had them.” see Transcript Washington Post). Why does anyone EVER believe those in government? They cannot even forecast GDP accurately when they fudge the numbers.

Here is Hansen’s forecast. The dark red overlay is actual surface temperatures reported and there is even a controversy surrounding them that they have been constantly skewed higher to not look like complete idiots. Even the models devised by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, are at least twice the actual temperature by now even with fudged numbers. So why are all these model so exaggerated?

These models are completely VOID of cyclical models and they do not even understand that this is a cycle. They are constructed with same idiotic bases that whatever trend is in motion will remain in motion. The Dow Jones Industrials closed 1932 at 60.26 and 1933 at 98.67. That was a 63.7% gain year over year. By assuming that trend will remain in motion, which was his dire forecast, the Dow would have reach 96,433,885,025.00 by 1975. That makes 50,000 look cheap.

Even averaging a 5-year advance VOID of understanding cycles, fails to provide a valid forecast ever. If I take the closing in the Dow of 2009 and the closing of 2014, the average advance was 1479 points per year. Now take the 2014 closing of 17823.07, that gives me 25,218.09. That is fine because we have been in a bull market. We all know the cycle will change. That is what is wrong with the global warming forecasts.

What actually happened, they got $1 billion for research by scaring the HELL out of everyone. I wonder what kind of chart I should make to get $1 billion handed to me from Congress with no performance requirements. What a deal.

 

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https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/27/30-years-of-global-warming-panic/

Thirty years of 'global warming' panic
By Cal Thomas -
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the “global warming” (now known as “climate change”) panic.

As noted by The Wall Street Journal, it was on June 23, 1988, that NASA junk scientist James E. Hansen testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and asserted a “high degree of confidence” in “a cause-and-effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and observed warming.”

Predictions, especially those of global significance, should be rigorously examined to see if they have come true. In the case of Mr. Hansen, it’s apparent they have not.

Mr. Hansen offered three possible scenarios. One would see the Earth’s temperature rising 1 degree Celsius by this year; the second would see a 0.7 percent temperature increase; and the third would see a smaller increase that would flatten out by 2000.

The third scenario was the most accurate. Mr. Hansen made many other predictions, including stronger hurricanes related to global surface temperatures. “The list of what didn’t happen,” notes The Journal, “is long and tedious,” adding, ” it’s time to acknowledge that the rapid warming he predicted isn’t happening. Climate researchers and policymakers should adopt the more modest forecasts that are consistent with observed temperatures.”

That isn’t about to happen, because, as with immigration reform, most politicians prefer the issue to any solution.

Richard Siegmund Lindzen is an American atmospheric physicist known for his work in the dynamics of the atmosphere, atmospheric tides and ozone photochemistry. In an interview posted on wattsupwiththat.com, the global warming and climate change website, Mr. Lindzen says:

“The mostly non-scientist proponents of climate hysteria realize that distant forecasts of remote problems by inadequate models are unlikely to motivate people to shut down modern industrial society. They, therefore, attempt to claim that we are seeing the problems right now. Of course, the warming that has occurred over the past 200 years or so, has been too small to have been a major factor. However, objective reality matters little when it comes to propaganda — where repetition can effectively counter reality.”

Repetition is precisely what we are experiencing in the major media, which have selectively interviewed people who promote the climate change myth. These include some politicians, who see it as another way to regulate and dominate our lives.

As if to confirm this, climatedepot.com notes: “NBC News is hyping a report that claims meteorologists are supporting the George Mason and Climate Central effort to promote climate change fears on your nightly weather forecast.

“The climate information being promoted by the activist meteorologists is highly suspect and the groups behind the effort have supported shutting down any scientific debate by supporting RICO statutes against skeptics and they have benefited greatly from federal funding of their efforts.”

When the hype subsides, the facts catch up. In 2015, the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph reported: “Two events last week brought yet further twists to one of the longest-running farces of our modern world. One was the revelation by the European Space Agency that in 2013 and 2014, after years when the volume of Arctic ice had been diminishing, it increased again by as much as 33 per cent. The other was that Canadian scientists studying the effect of climate change on Arctic ice from an icebreaker had to suspend their research, when their vessel was called to the aid of other ships trapped in the thickest summer ice seen in Hudson Bay for 20 years.”

Numerous apocalyptic predictions of an imminent end of the world because of “climate change” have proved wrong. Their objective of big government robbing us of more of our freedoms and spending trillions of dollars on a made-up problem has been exposed.

We can and should recycle and not pollute the atmosphere, water or land, but not because it will lower the Earth’s temperature.

 

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https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2...ve-after-climate-change-query/#comment-375921

Gov. Candidate Calls Teen Naïve After Climate Change Query
July 20, 2018 at 4:35 pm

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Videos circulating on social media show Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor Scott Wagner telling a teenager that she’s young and naive after asking about climate change.

Eighteen-year-old Rose Strauss is a member of a youth climate advocacy organization. On Wednesday, she attended Wagner’s town hall in Glenside, just outside Philadelphia.

She tells Wagner he has said climate change is the result of people’s body heat, and asks if that opinion has anything to do with money he’s taken from the fossil fuel industry.

Wagner tells Strauss “you’re 18 years old; you’re a little young and naive” as many in crowd break into laughter and applause. He says he appreciates her being there but asks “are we here to elect a governor or a scientist?”

Wagner is challenging the re-election bid by Democratic Gov. Tom "Nostrils" Wolf.

 

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https://www.iceagenow.info/betting-on-a-catastrophically-cooling-world/

Betting on a catastrophically cooling world
July 30, 2018
By Ed Hoskins

According to ice core records, the last millennium 1000AD – 2000AD has been the coldest millennium of our current Holocene interglacial. This point is more fully illustrated with ice core records on a millennial basis back to the Eemian period here:

Our current, warm, congenial Holocene interglacial, although cooler than the Eemian interglacial 120,000 years ago, has been the enabler of mankind’s civilisation for the last 10,000 years, spanning from mankind’s earliest farming to the most recent technologies.

Viewing the current Holocene interglacial on a millennial basis is rational. But sadly it seems that, driven by the need to continually support the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming hypothesis / religion Climate alarmists irrationally examine the temperature record at too fine a scale, weather event by weather event, month by month, or year by year.

From the broader perspective, each of the notable high points in the current 11,000 year Holocene temperature record, (Holocene Climate Optimum – Minoan – Roman – Medieval – Modern), have been progressively colder than the previous high point.

The ice core records from Greenland for its first 7-8000 years, the early Holocene, shows, virtually flat temperatures, an average drop of only ~0.007 °C per millennium, including its early high point known as the “climate optimum”. But the more recent Holocene, since a “tipping point” at around 1000BC, 3000 years ago, has seen temperature fall at about 20 times that earlier rate at about 0.14 °C per millennium .

The Holocene interglacial is already 10 – 11,000 years old and just judging from the length of previous interglacial periods, the Holocene epoch should be drawing to its close: in this century, the next century or this millennium.

Nonetheless, the slight and truly beneficial warming at the end of the 20th century to a Modern high point has been transmuted by Climate alarmists into the “Great Man-made Global Warming Alarm”.

The recent warming since the end of the Little Ice Age has been wholly beneficial when compared to the devastating impacts arising from the relatively minor cooling of the Little Ice Age, which include:

• decolonisation of Greenland
• Black death
• French revolution promoted by crop failures and famine
• the failures of the Inca and Angkor Wat civilisations
• etc., etc.

As global temperatures, after a short spurt at the end of the last century, have already been showing stagnation or cooling over the last nineteen years or more, the world should now fear the real and detrimental effects of cooling, rather than being hysterical about limited, beneficial or probably now non-existent further warming.

Warmer times are times of success and prosperity for man-kind and for the biosphere. For example during the Roman warm period the climate was warmer and wetter so that the Northern Sahara was the breadbasket of the Roman empire.

But the coming end of the present Holocene interglacial will eventually again result in a mile high ice sheet over much of the Northern hemisphere. As the Holocene epoch is already about 11,000 years old, the reversion to a true ice age is becoming overdue.

That reversion to Ice Age conditions will be the real climate catastrophe.

With the present reducing Solar activity, significantly reduced temperatures, at least to the level of another Little Ice Age are predicted quite soon this century.

Whether the present impending cooling will really lead on to a new glacial ice age or not is still in question.

As an interested layman, I would say that the betting is more heavily weighted towards a catastrophically cooling world rather than one that will be overheating because of the comparatively minor CO2 emissions from mankind.

 

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Queers say farts cause climate change

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/77160...threaten-chances-of-cutting-greenhouse-gases/

BACK TO BACON
Brits ‘should eat more more bacon & less beef as farting cows threaten chances of cutting greenhouse gases’

This week the Committee on Climate Change will warn that gases emitted by sheep and cattle undermine the UK’s chances of achieving its aim of an 80 per cent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050

By Phoebe Southworth
12th November 2018, 12:00 am
Updated: 12th November 2018, 12:01 am
BRITS should eat more bacon and less beef as farting cows threaten our ¬chances of cutting greenhouse gases.
Experts say pigs have a much simpler digestive process than sheep and cattle — whose guffs and burps produce 23million tons of carbon dioxide every year.

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Eating more bacon instead of beef could help the UK meeting its greenhouse gas emissions targets
The UK must cut levels of the gas to 160million tons by 2050. Last year they were at 456million, falling from 800million in 1990.
Lord Deben, chairman of watchdog Committee on Climate Change, has written to Environment Secretary Michael Gove saying the Government should encourage healthy diets with less lamb and beef and dairy to cut emissions.
The CCC will release a report this week warning that agriculture emits the equivalent of 49million tons of CO2 every year. A supporting study also commissioned by the watchdog adds: “Reducing ruminant meat production would be the fastest way to meeting net zero emissions with the majority of methane emissions coming from livestock.”

 

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/11...l-cooling-is-real-major-temperature-low-2046/

Global Cooling Is Real - LewRockwell LewRockwell.com
By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
November 28, 2018

While NASA has now confirmed that the outer atmosphere is getting cooler, it seems desperately insane for people to keep denying the possibility the Global Cooling is taking place rather than Global Warming when the former brings famine and the latter brings economic expansion as civilizations rise. The rise of Rome was due to global warming as was the case after the Dark Age when they call that the Medieval Warming Period which was 950 to 1300AD.

The concern from just a technical model perspective is that the warming period we have had post-1600 and the low of the Little Ice Age has not exceeded that of the Medieval Warming Period. If we simply look at this chart from a technical perspective, it appears more that we are in a grand downtrend for the past 6,000 years. This is deeply concerning for we tend to have these periods where civilization turns downward. It would be very nice if we just had authoritative research funded to explore Global Cooling to save society rather than this nonsense of Global Warming just to raise money for politicians who NEVER get enough.

In Australia, with one week from summer, it is still snowing on Victoria. In fact, one of the top NASA scientists has broken camp and warned that the surface temperature of the sun has collapsed so much, he fears a new Ice Age is upon us. Meanwhile, this has been the COLDEST Thanksgiving in 150 years!

What we must understand is this has gone beyond just breaking records for one-day events. This time around, it’s not just the severity of the cold that’s getting to people. It’s also the DURATION! The most reliable computer model projections have shown that the Arctic air has moved all the way down into Texas. Indeed, here in Tampa, the temperature is about 10 degrees below normal at times. The decline in the energy output of the sun has been far more rapid than most expected. This could perhaps be a warning sign that we will make a new lower low or retest the low temperatures on a sustained basis that match the Little Ice Age.

The Little Ice Age marked a period of cool summers and bitterly cold winters to New England. There was the Great Snow of 1717, which buried houses and resulted in having to organize search parties that were even lost while looking for buried survivors. Them there was the fame Cold Friday of 1810. People actually died in their homes as the temperature suddenly plummeted more than 60 degrees in less than a day. It was years later when Henry David Thoreau’s mother recalled how dishes froze as fast as they were washed even right next to the fire.

The Post Office even issued commemorative stamps in 1976 noting that winter event. Washington and his troops suffered more in Morristown, N.J., during the Hard Winter of 1779-80. Violent snowstorms had battered the Northeast, and both Boston and New York harbors were completely frozen over. The weather made it impossible to bring supplies to the men, many of whom had no coats or even shoes. They couldn’t even eat for days at a time. The soldiers finally mutinied in early May, though an officer persuaded them to abandon their rebellion. Just as the weather had defeated Napoleon, weather nearly defeated the American Revolution.

If this trend continues during the next winter, then we have exceeded any short-term reactionary trend and the weather appears poised to continue to get colder going into the distant future. Socrates was projecting that the peak on this cycle aligned with the ECM 2015.75. This is a Longitudinal Cycle, not Transverse. That means peak to bottom varies. This short-term wave should be a 13-year decline from 2015 making it 2028 initially. After that, if we see colder winters beyond 2028, then the next low will be with the peak in the ECM 2032. There is a SERIOUS RISK that we are looking at the final low coming in during the period of 2046.

 

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https://nypost.com/2018/11/29/9-effects-of-climate-change-that-will-make-your-life-a-living-hell/

9 effects of climate change that will make your life a living hell
By Alexandra Klausner - Warmer Shill
November 29, 2018 | 9:16 am

Heed the warming. Climate change is no longer something to fear in the distant future — it’s already here.

Earth’s temperature has already risen 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit since the start of the Industrial Revolution around 1750 , and we’re already on track for warming 2.7 degrees as soon as 2030 , according to a recent report released by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). That 2.7-degree increase is the thin red line that scientists have drawn, above which Earth descends into an uninhabitable hellscape that bears little resemblance to the planet we currently call home.

“The pathways to stay under 1.5ºC (or to get back under 1.5ºC once we overshoot) require sustained efforts to reduce net emissions starting now, and continuing through the whole century,” Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told The Post.

“There is a real difference in outcomes if we stabilize at 1.5ºC, or at 2ºC or at 3º or at 4ºC, with damages going up steadily the warmer it gets — sea level rise, heat, fires, storm intensity, Arctic sea ice etc. are all sensitive to this. Without action on emissions, we aren’t going to stabilize at all, “ Schmidt continued.

By the end of the century, the US could be 3 to 12 degrees (1.6ºC to 6.6ºC) hotter if the nation doesn’t reduce the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere , according to the National Climate Assesment released last week.

When asked about his perspective on a world in which humans do nothing to lower their emissions, environmentalist Bill McKibben had an ominous response.

“If not hell, then a place with a similar temperature. We have in the Earth’s geological record some sense of what happens when you run carbon levels up to the levels we’re running them now — it gets a lot hotter,” he told Business Insider last year.

But Earthlings don’t need to wait until 2100 to see the effects of climate change. Already, our degraded planet is grappling with droughts, deadly hurricanes, 8 inches of sea level rise, raging forest fires and record-breaking heat waves.

Here’s a look at how vulnerable we already are to climate change, and what we stand to lose in the coming decades


1. HURRICANE HELL

Hurricanes and tropical cyclones are some of the most destructive extreme weather events on the planet. NASA has declared them “the most violent storms on Earth.” And what we’ve experienced recently is just a taste of what Mother Nature will hurl at us in years to come.

The superstorms that have been raging this century are literally off the charts. Scientists are considering adding a category 6 to the current five-category rating system. The new level will account for monster storms with winds in excess of 200 mph.

The first of these have already appeared. Hurricane Patricia, which ravaged Mexico in 2015, was the most intense storm to ever make landfall, packing winds up to 215 mph.

Since 2000, the Atlantic has averaged three major hurricanes, defined as a Category 3 or greater, per year — up from two in the previous century. By 2100, there could be five to eight major hurricanes per year, according to a study published in the journal Science.

We won’t have to wait until 2100 to experience hurricane hell. A recent climate model from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) simulated changes to the Earth’s atmosphere and predicted that between 2016 and 2035, the world will experience 11 percent more major hurricanes, according to a study published by the American Meteorological Society.

How does a warming planet create more, and stronger, hurricanes? Oceans have absorbed about 93 percent of the heat trapped on Earth by greenhouse gases. Those warmer waters evaporate, putting more water in the air that can come down as rain.

In addition, hotter ocean surface temperatures make storm surges more severe, speed up the rate at which storms intensify, and provide storms with more energy, according to the NOAA.

Hurricane Florence in the Carolinas this September killed over 40 people and caused nearly $17 billion in damages. Despite having been downgraded from a Category 4 storm to a Category 1 by the time it made landfall, Florence dumped 30 inches of rain on parts of the Carolinas, making it the second-rainiest storm in 70 years. It was surpassed only by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, which inundated Texas with 60 inches of rain. A recent study from Stony Brook University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research concluded that Florence was made 50 percent worse as a result of climate change.

This escalating cycle has deadly and devastating consequences, especially to coastal infrastructure and the US economy.

As intense flooding from these storms continues to increase, the costs are growing exponentially. Hurricanes, already the most expensive extreme weather event, currently cost the US an average $28 billion in damages. Those costs are projected to rise as much as 40 percent by 2075, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office.

In addition to breaking the record for most expensive hurricane season, 2017 boasted the highest ocean temperature on record as well as the largest number of rapidly intensifying storms. Hurricane Maria stunned forecasters when it transformed from a Category 1 storm to a Category 5 behemoth in just 24 hours, completely devastating Puerto Rico as a result.

Climate change will increase the number of these rapidly intensifying storms, according to Kerry Emanuel, a hurricane theorist at MIT.

“A storm that intensifies [70 mph or greater] in the 24 hours just before landfall, occurring on average once per century in the climate of the late twentieth century, may occur every 5–10 years by the end of this century, “ Kerry Emmanuel said in a study published by the American Meteorological Society.

What scares the Goddard Institute’s Schmidt the most is that many nations are woefully unprepared to deal with these disasters over and over again due to a lack of resilience — leaving thousands dead, and millions homeless or without power in their wake.

“Look at the response to Katrina, to Sandy, to Harvey, to Irma in Barbudo and to Maria in Puerto Rico,” he said. “You know all the bad things that make you think, ‘Oh my God, you know this is terrible, we have people dying in the streets because they can’t get to a hospital.’”

2. CRASHING REAL ESTATE MARKET

Rising sea levels and increasingly destructive storms could ravage property values along the East Coast in the coming decades, the Goddard Institute’s Schmidt predicted.

“I think it’s likely that in certain parts of the country, you’ll see a total crash in property prices,” Schmidt said.

Data backs up Schmidt’s forecast. Losses and damages along the Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico are expected to top a whopping $7.3 billion as soon as 15 years from now.

Flash forward to 2050 and $106 billion worth of coastal property in America could be underwater, according to a Risky Business Report. These property losses from rising sea levels should hit the Southeast and Atlantic coasts the hardest.

By 2100, 1.9 million US homes, worth nearly $1 trillion, could be at risk of flooding, according to a Zillow report. Around half of those homes are in Florida. The National Climate Assessment echoed the risk of flooding in the Sunshine State.

“Florida alone is estimated to have a 1-in-20 chance of having more than $346 billion (in 2011 dollars) in property value … below average sea level by 2100.”


3. CLIMATE CHANGE KILLS THE INTERNET

Internet access may be a staple of the modern world, but climate change poses a “devastating threat” to the infrastructure that supports it, according to a recent study.

About 4,000 miles of fiber conduit will be underwater and over 1,000 colocation centers will be surrounded by water in the next 15 years, according to researchers from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Oregon, who analyzed data from the Internet Atlas repository of internet infrastructure and the NOAA’s Sea Level Rise Inundation.

The study concluded that New York, Miami and Seattle were “the most vulnerable areas” and that CenturyLink, Intelliquent and AT&T were the service providers with the highest infrastructure risk.

New York City, which suffered outages after Sandy, is taking steps to secure networks in the event of future climate disasters.

“The City is engaged in an ongoing dialogue with telecom providers regarding the resiliency of their networks and facilities in light of the risks of climate change such as hurricanes and sea level rise,” Priya Shrinivasan, director of policy, standards and legal affairs at the mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, said in a statement obtained by Axios.


4. UNDERWATER NAVY

The US Navy is facing a formidable new enemy — sea level rise. Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, the world’s biggest naval station and home to the largest concentration of naval forces in the country, is literally sinking beneath the waves.

Joe Bouchard, Naval Station Norfolk’s commanding officer from 2000 to 2003, recalled that rising seas have already forced the Navy to replace old piers.

“Sea level rise was causing electrical outages on the pier for the boats. The ships couldn’t train,” Bouchard said.

The Navy built new double-decker piers that allowed for a foot of rising sea levels. But they underestimated the scope of the problem. Bouchard believes the sea level rise could overwhelm the new piers as soon as 2030.

Compounding the problem: Sailors and supplies need to be able to get to the base. Rising sea levels are threatening to swamp the area’s roads and could hinder the roughly 83,000 active-duty service members from getting to their jobs.


5. REFUGEES: WE AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET

The United Nations predicts that by 2020, nearly 50 million people worldwide will be displaced from their homes as a result of climate change. Some estimates say that number could reach as high as 1 billion by 2050.

Since the 2011 onset of the Syrian civil war, over 5 million refugees have fled the devastated country for Europe. The drought that preceded the war was the worst in the past 900 years. This “exceptional” weather event was likely exacerbated by climate change, said Benjamin Cook, a climate scientist at Columbia University and NASA.

Climate change will continue to aggravate Europe’s refugee crisis exponentially over the next two decades, according to retired US Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Stephen Cheney.

“See what happens when climate change drives people out of Africa — the Sahel [sub-Saharan area] especially — and we’re talking now not just 1 or 2 million, but 10 or 20 [million]. They are not going to south Africa, they are going across the Mediterranean,” Cheney told the Environmental Justice Foundation.

A direct correlation between warming temperatures and migration has now been established. A recent study at Columbia University found that asylum applications spiked from those countries that had experienced warming beyond the temperatures optimal to grow crops.

The recent IPCC report also cites changes in agriculture as a driving force behind migration.

“I think there’s no question that we’re seeing an increase in migration from agriculture already and that’s only going to increase,“ said Kristen Hite, climate policy lead at Oxfam GB, referencing the IPCC findings.

“We know that extreme weather causes disruptions to food supply and if you can’t grow food on your land, what choice do you have but to leave,” she added.


6. THE HUMAN CESSPOOL — NO, REALLY

Swimming in poop at a local beach or wading through soiled streets is more than a cringeworthy thought — it’s a dangerous reality.

Usually sewer systems carry wastewater to a treatment plant, but storms, heavy rains and floods can overwhelm the system and send raw sewage into streets and rivers, onto beaches — and even into drinking water.

“Once you get sewage on things, you have a really high risk of disease transfer,” said Debra Tillinger, adjunct visiting scientist at the American Museum of Natural History.

In the US, 772 cities are at risk for this kind of water pollution, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Florida is particularly risk-prone. After Hurricane Irma in 2017, over 28 million gallons of wastewater sloshed across the Sunshine State.

Human sewage isn’t the only fecal threat people face following a big storm. Hurricane Florence overwhelmed at least 50 of North Carolina’s hog poo lagoons — open-air ponds where farmers store pig excrement. When such lagoons break or flood, hog waste and stormwater mix, exposing people who live close to the farm to contaminated water. The foul water, after spreading to streams and rivers, also puts local ecosystems at risk.


7. EXTREME HEAT

This past summer saw record-breaking temperatures across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

In July, at least 80 million people across 14 US states sweltered under a heat advisory warning, CNN reported. Death Valley suffered its hottest July ever, with four consecutive days of 127 degrees F. A heat wave in Japan killed at least 65 people in one week, and sent another 23,000 to local hospitals, the Washington Post reported.

These soaring temperatures are part of a greater trend. With the exception of 1998, the warmest years on record have all occurred after 2000, according to the CDC.

By 2050, every summer will be hotter than the one before, according to a study published in the journal Earth’s Future. And by the end of the century, three out of four people could be exposed to heat waves every year — with deadly consequences. In a worst-case climate scenario, the city of Phoenix, Arizona, could have as many as 150 days per year above 100 degrees by the end of the century, the National Climate Assessment found.

“The infrastructure for very, very hot weather just doesn’t exist in lots of parts of the world, even well-developed parts of the world,” the Goddard Institute’s Schmidt said.

“The 2003 heat wave killed something like 50,000 people in France, not because French people are particularly sensitive to heat or anything, but because the infrastructure that allows you can live with that level of heat just doesn’t exist,” he said of Europe’s deadliest heat wave ever.

One solution could be installing more air conditioners in more parts of the world. However, not only would building more air conditioners cost more money, it could worsen climate change. The number of air conditioners worldwide is expected to grow from 1.6 billion units to as many as 5.6 billion units by 2050.

“Twenty-one percent of the total world electricity growth is coming from the need to meet the growth of air conditioner electricity demand,” Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, told the New York Times.

The electricity needed to power them could overburden electrical grids, thereby increasing emissions. Air conditioners, which vent hot air outside, could literally make the air warmer.


8. UNCONTROLLABLE FOREST FIRES

The planet is burning. Wildfires, described by some witnesses as “apocalyptic hellscapes,” scorched their way across the Western US, Europe and Siberia this summer.

In 2018 alone, the US has seen over 46,000 fires spanning more than 7 million acres of land — nearly 11,000 square miles, or about 88 percent of Connecticut. The loss of life in November has been particularly tragic: At least 87 people died in California’s Woolsey Fire and Camp Fire. The latter was the deadliest wildfire in the state’s history. The season was the most destructive as well. Insured losses could reach $13 billion, according to an assessment from Risk Management Solutions.

In 1995, fighting fires accounted for just 16 percent of the US Forest Service’s annual budget. Forest fires now consume over 50 percent of the annual budget and that number could rise to 67 percent, or an increase of $1.8 billion, by 2025, according to the US Department of Agriculture.

Europe is also seeing a serious uptick in blazes. The massive fire in Greece this summer was the deadliest on the continent since 1900, according to the Centre for the Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters in Brussels. The fire killed at least 91 people, damaged 2,000 homes and burned 17,000 acres (about 27 square miles) of land and residential areas.

A warming and drying planet is likely to blame for the surge in devastating forest fires, according to scientists.

“Climate change makes fires more likely because it dries out the ground. You have warmer weather and as soon as you have warmer air, you can evaporate more water,” explained Debra Tillinger of the American Museum of Natural History.

In addition to polluting the air we breathe, forest fires make climate change worse by pumping out more greenhouse gases, thereby leading to warmer temperatures, which increases the likelihood of even more fires.

“Forest fires take trees — which are carbon in not-bothering-anyone form — and they turn it to carbon dioxide,” Tillinger explained.


9. FOOD

Climate change was one of the leading causes of global hunger last year, according to reports released by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the IPCC.

“We know more than 800 million people were undernourished in 2017. That’s one in nine people globally. We also know from these research studies, more complex frequent and intense climate extremes were a leading cause of food crisis in 2017,“ Oxfam GB’s Hite said.

South Asia, most regions of Africa, and a large portion of South America are showing intensifying signs of hunger as a result.

Crops like wheat, rice, maize and soybeans — which supply two-thirds of the world’s calories — are particularly sensitive to changing climates in both tropical and temperate regions. As temperatures rise, crop yields will drop.

“A world that is 2.7 degrees warmer is likely to have 189 million more food-insecure people, which is an increase of 20 percent from today, ” said Kathryn Milliken, policy and program adviser on climate change for World Food Programme, referencing the IPCC report.

The combination of this year’s extreme weather events and future warming and disasters are expected to deepen the hunger crisis. Not only does warming lower crop yields, but disruptive weather events like storms and floods make food less accessible for the victims of climate disasters.

Not only does climate change impact the world’s most coveted crops, but humans’ love of factory-farmed meat, specifically beef, and dairy is detrimental to the climate. While meat and dairy production account for just 18 percent of the world’s calories, it contributes 60 percent of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study published in the journal Science.

Livestock produces methane farts, which is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

The population is expected to grow from 7.6 billion to almost 10 billion by 2050. In order to avoid the climate dangers associated with feeding more people, more of whom will be able to afford meat, Western countries will need to cut meat production by 90 percent, according to a study in the journal Nature.

“Between 2010 and 2050, as a result of expected changes in population and income levels, the environmental effects of the food system could increase by 50–90% in the absence of technological changes and dedicated mitigation measures, reaching levels that are beyond the planetary boundaries that define a safe operating space for humanity,” reads the study’s abstract.


10. THE END?

If you’re feeling a sense of psychic or existential distress resulting from environmental change, there’s a word for it: solastalgia. It’s described by some as a homesickness while still at home.

Climate will never be what it was in pre-industrial times, but “tipping-point metaphors like ‘We’ve passed the point of no return, therefore it’s all going to go to hell in a handbasket’ doesn’t follow,” the Goddard Institute’s Schmidt said.

Money is often cited as a roadblock to major change, but there’s a big misconception that acting to curb carbon emissions right now will be more costly than letting emissions pile up, explained climate journalist David Wallace-Wells, deputy editor of New York Magazine.

“Addressing climate change is much, much cheaper than dealing with its impacts,” Wallace-Wells warned.

The National Climate Assessment highlighted the nation’s economic perils. Damaging weather in the US smashed records these past few years, costing nearly $400 billion since 2015, the assessment found. It’s only going to get worse.

“With continued growth in emissions at historic rates, annual losses in some economic sectors are projected to reach hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century — more than the current gross domestic product (GDP) of many U.S. states,” said the report.

Technology designed to capture carbon from the atmosphere — which doesn’t even exist yet — would cost significantly more than curbing emissions.

“To meaningfully stabilize to counteract the amount of carbon that we’re putting in the atmosphere right now would cost an estimated $30 trillion a year,” he said, adding that the cost of future emissions could skyrocket to $300 trillion annually. Wallace-Wells said these prices are likely to fall over time, but the longer we wait for that to happen, the less likely we are to dig ourselves out of the hole.

A perilous and uncertain path lies before us. Any meaningful solution likely involves technology that hasn’t been invented yet, and breaking an addiction to fossil fuels currently seems unthinkable. Regardless of how we adapt — or don’t — one thing is certain: The planet we inhabit is changing irrevocably before our very eyes.

 

[The Bobster]

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/12...-global-awakening-amid-climate-fearmongering/

Green Taxes and Yellow Vests: Global Awakening amid Climate Fearmongering
Guest opinion by Vijay Jayaraj

The Yellow Vest protests in France, now in their third week, have grabbed global attention. Though the French government suspended its fuel tax increase, the unrest continues.

France is not the only country to introduce taxes on fossil fuels and carbon emissions. Germany, Canada, and others have their own versions. To make matters worse, the Paris climate agreement threatens to prevent developing countries from using fossil fuels to lift themselves out of poverty. Are such actions justified in the name of the war against climate change?

Up to 30 years ago, no one would have predicted that developed countries would impose taxes on fossil fuel use, the source of energy that made them prosperous.

Now, taxes on carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels have not only become reality but also inspired widespread outrage from citizens. The Yellow Vest protests have spread to neighboring countries, echoing consumers’ unwillingness to pay exorbitant energy taxes to fight climate change.

Macron’s France, Trudeau’s Canada, and Merkel’s Germany have imposed taxes on carbon dioxide emissions and the use of fossil fuel. They argue that the taxes are necessary to curtail climate change.

Their reasoning is rooted in the United Nations-led collective climate alarmism movement, which aims to replacing fossil fuel with renewable energy sources—mostly wind and solar.

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—which purports to be, and the mainstream media and most governments accept as, the most authoritative body on climate science and climate policy—recommends the course of action for world leaders on climate change.

Scientists associated with the IPCC contribute to its reports and recommendations. But most of their global temperature predictions—used to justify the taxes—have failed miserably in the past two decades.

Staunch climate alarmists like Michael Mann and senior climatologists like John Christy pointed out that belief in a rapidly, and dangerously, warming world rested largely on IPCC’s faulty computer climate models.

The computer climate models exaggerate the impact of carbon dioxide emissions on temperatures, making the warming appear dangerous. Yet, contradicting the models, global temperature has been in what scientists call a “warming hiatus” for at least 18 years now. There has been no significant warming in this time period, despite a steep increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

Real-world temperatures have shattered the widespread belief that the earth is turning into a fireball. The model errors prove that assumptions regarding the relationship between anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions and temperatures were wrong.

This discrepancy between carbon dioxide and temperature is no surprise to those who understand climatic history. During the past hundred years, although both carbon dioxide emissions and global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration have increased steadily, the global temperature has risen, fallen, and plateaued repeatedly, refusing to follow the pattern of carbon dioxide concentrations.

Similarly, the proponents of climate doomsday conveniently ignore the Roman Warm Period and the Medieval Warm Period in the 1st and 10th century respectively. Those were remarkably similar to the present and occurred when there were relatively no anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.

This astounding climate reality is reflected in the health of our planet. Despite the rhetoric concerning melting ice caps and dying polar bears, the reality remains starkly different.

Antarctic ice mass volume is on a continuous increase, and Arctic ice mass volume is at the highest level in 10,000 years, barring the severely cold Little Ice Age during the 16th century. In fact, the Antarctic ice sheet gained 112 billion tons a year from 1992 to 2001. NASA’s official page concludes that this addition of ice mass outweighed losses and states that the conclusions of the IPCC are wrong.

Unsurprisingly, the polar bear populations remain healthy and, in some cases—as in Nunavut, Canada—even require seasonal culling.

Real-world climate differs dramatically from that portrayed by the UN, globalist leaders, and the liberal mainstream media. Every year, numerous peer reviewed scientific journals confirm the healthy state of our environment and strongly object to the climate doomsday theories the UN wants us to believe.

There is no reason why countries should adopt restrictive energy policies that burden their middle classes and slow the conquest of poverty in developing nations.

Thankfully, not all countries are like France.

The U.S. and Philippines have pulled out of the Paris agreement, China and India are continuing to build their coal empires, Japan is on a mission to increase the export of coal technology, Russia is upgrading its coal infrastructure, Germany has continuously failed to keep up with its emission reduction targets, and Brazil’s new President is likely to steer the country away from anti-coal policies.

People are no longer in the dark about the bankruptcy of globalist climate policies and taxes. Climate change is no longer a scientific issue but a political one.

The Yellow Vest protests are the first large-scale democratic uprising against globalist green policies based on climate fearmongering. We can expect more backlash as the public becomes aware of the truth about the state of climate change.

 

[The Bobster]

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/12...are-heading-according-to-multiple-scientists/

A “Little Ice Age” Is Where We Are Heading, According To Multiple Scientists
By Arjun Walia
Collective Evolution
December 4, 2018

A common theme in our world is misinformation, and if you follow the brilliant work of independent scientists and journalists, you will see it’s currently plaguing the field of mainstream science in multiple areas. This is not just due to error on part of researchers, but the politicization of science, something scientists, especially with regards to medical and climate science, are gathering together and speaking up about every single year.

Credible, dissenting scientific voices go largely unheard by the mainstream media and education. As a result, most of our beliefs and thoughts about what is happening on our planet come from programming, brainwashing and mass marketing heavy with mainstream politicized science.

Overall human consciousness has been influenced by the global elite, simply for the purposes of driving us into acceptance of the limited, and often ridiculous, solutions they pose for the problems that they create. This is why critical thinking and independent research is crucial for citizens. Seeking out multiple sources for information is important while living in the age of information. Thankfully, there are a lot of people waking up right now, and as a result, many things are shifting and new sources are emerging.

A Coming Ice Age?

When I say we may be at the start of the next Ice Age, I am not really talking about a massive armageddon scenario, it’s important to be clear on that. Instead, all of the research that’s being put out now, that’s not connected to human-induced climate change, is showing that we are entering a period in Earth’s cycle where we will likely be experiencing a cooling effect, not a warming one. Scientists are calling this a “little ice age.”

The latest information on this topic seems to become from a scientist named Martin Mlynczak, from NASA’s Langley Research Centre. According to his research, and the research of what seems to be a number of scientists some of whom are mentioned later in the article, the Sun’s ultraviolet output has severely dropped, and our atmosphere is responding to it. There are multiple parts that constitute our atmosphere, and the thermosphere is one of them. It’s the part of our atmosphere that seems to react to solar activity the most.

This was the topic of a viral article that’s made its way across the internet claiming that this is indicative of a mini ice age.

There are so many factors influencing the global climate, it goes far beyond human-induced change, but also into the activity of our Sun, and space weather overall. There are a number of factors, and there is still a lot to learn about our climate, climatic cycles, and why it operates the way it does.

Based on information from NASA’s TIMED satellite, our thermosphere is experiencing a cooling effect which always happens when there is a Solar Minimum, something we are currently experiencing.

To help keep track of what’s happening in the thermosphere, Mlynczak and colleagues recently introduced the “Thermosphere Climate Index” (TCI)–a number expressed in Watts that tells how much heat NO molecules are dumping into space. During Solar Maximum, TCI is high (“Hot”); during Solar Minimum, it is low (“Cold”).

Right now it’s cold. In fact, the Thermosphere Climate Index is close to setting a new space age record for cold. Mlynczak said that”We’re not quite there yet…but it could happen in a matter of months.”

Below is a historical record of the Thermosphere Climate Index. Mlynczak and colleagues recently published a paper on the TCI showing that the state of the thermosphere can be discussed using a set of five plain language terms: Cold, Cool, Neutral, Warm, and Hot.

The thermosphere is just one layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, as all of them play important roles with regards to regulating our climatic systems. It sits directly above the mesosphere, and below the exosphere, and extends from approximately 90 km to between 500km and 1,000km above the Earth. Much of the X-ray and UV radiation from the Sun is absorbed in the thermosphere. When the Sun is very active and emitting more high energy radiation, the thermosphere gets hotter and expands or “puffs up”.

In the thermosphere, temperatures climb quite fast in the lower part of it, then they even out, level off and increase with altitude. It’s a great way to measure the effect of Solar activity, as Solar activity strongly influences temperature in the thermosphere. Changes in the thermosphere, like the cooling effect, have also been contributed to an increase in our Carbon Dioxide output, which ironically has a cooling effect on our thermosphere. What happens in the lower atmosphere can also change what happens in the thermosphere, and vice versa, but there is still a lot to be discovered, and more research is needed.

The thermosphere has been cooling for a long time, but again, mainstream publications constantly blame this on the increase in C02 levels without ever mentioning that it’s directly correlated with solar activity. Scafetta & West (2006) estimated that 25-35% of global warming in the 1980-2000 period was attributable to solar variability. Other scientists disagree, finding no evidence of global warming due to solar activity.

How Does The ‘Mini Ice Age’ Link In?

Well, the thermosphere, as mentioned above, is a great way to measure solar activity and how it can and does affect our climate. But the focus here is the Sun, as a number of researchers have pointed towards a ‘cooling effect.’ Just because the thermosphere is responding to the Sun’s cooling down phase, does not mean we are going to see the same result in the lower atmosphere. So to imply that a mass cooling effect within the thermosphere will trigger an ice age not correct.

That being said, solar activity does indeed have many researchers positing a mini ice age,

For example, Nils-Axel Mörner from the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics Institute states,

By about 2030-2040, the Sun will experience a new grand solar minimum. This is evident from multiple studies of quite different characteristics: the phasing of sunspot cycles, the cyclic observations of North Atlantic behaviour over the past millennium, the cyclic pattern of cosmogenic ra-dionuclides in natural terrestrial archives, the motions of the Sun with respect to the centre of mass, the planetary spin-orbit coupling, the planetary conjunction history and the general planetary solar terrestrial interaction. During the previous grand solar minima—i.e. the Spörer Minimum (ca 1440-1460), the Maunder Minimum (ca 1687-1703) and the Dalton Minimum (ca 1809-1821)—the climatic conditions deteriorated into Little Ice Age periods.

The idea that solar activity is not affecting Earth’s climate is extremely fishy and doesn’t make much sense when you go through the literature, but it seems to be brushed off within mainstream academia, and hardly studied. It definitely made me scratch my head when IFL Science, for example, put out a statement saying “The Sun simply does not have that large an effect on our climate compared to human activity.” This is a very ridiculous and irresponsible statement. It’s also important that readers recognize there isn’t even any course to back up such a false claim.

Don’t believe what is written, research what is written. What’s worse is the ridicule factor, the way mainstream publications attack any narrative that presents an explanation for climate change that is not human induced. Something is very wrong with this picture, regardless of your stance on the ‘global warming’ phenomenon. There is more on this later in the article.

The paper by Morner goes on to make some very important points:

So as you can see, the comment from IFL science quoted above, again, is simply not true. I’ve provided one of many soures available here, and I encourage other writers to do the same.

The author goes on to conclude:

Durinng the last three grand solar minima…global climate experienced Little Ice Age conditions. Arctic water penetrated to the south all the way down to Mid-Portugal, and Europe experienced severe climatic conditions…The Arctic ice over exapanded significantly…By 2030-2040, we will be in a New Grand Solar Minimum, which by analogy to past minima must be assumed to lead to significant climatic deterioration with ice expansion in the Artctic..We now seem to be in possession of quite convergent data…This precludes a continual warming as claimed by the IPCC project, instead of this, we are likely to face a new Little Ice Age.

According to the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS,

A new model of the Sun’s solar cycle is producing unprecedentedly accurate predictions of irregularities within the Sun’s 11-year heartbeat. The model draws on dynamo effects in two layers of the Sun, one close to the surface and one deep within its convection zone. Predictions from the model suggest that solar activity will fall by 60 per cent during the 2030s to conditions last seen during the ‘mini ice age’ that began in 1645. (source)

A few years ago, the National Astronomy Meeting in Wales was held, where Valentina Zharkova, a mathematics professor from Northumbria University (UK), presented a model that can predict what solar cycles will look like far more accurately than was previously possible. She states that the model can predict their influence with an accuracy of 97 percent, and says it is showing that Earth is heading for a “mini ice age” in approximately fifteen years.

Zharkova and her team came up with the model using a method called “principal component analysis” of the magnetic field observations, from the Wilcox Solar Observatory in California. Looking forward to the next few solar cycles, her model predicts that from 2030 to 2040 there will be cause for a significant reduction in solar activity, which again, will lead to a mini ice age. According to Zharkova. You can read more about that here.

Again, these are just a few examples of multiple scientists pointing to these facts.

How Human-Induced Climate Change Fits Into The Picture

The “97 percent” tagline is often used to demonize those who question human-induced climate change, and the mainstream media will do their best to make those who question it, no matter their background, credentials, or credibility, look foolish. This is a common tactic used by the elite. They ridicule opposing views that threaten their control and profit. Ivar Giaever, a Norwegian-American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973, compares current climate science to pseudoscience.

Based on my research, the top scientists within this field are not all in agreeance, in fact, the majority of them may all agree with the narrative of this article. But you will not see them on CNN.

What is going on here?

The “climate hysteria” that most scientists in the field label what we see today as is a result of mass media, brainwashing, and the politicization of climate science. Take Dr. Richard Lindzen, for example, he is one of the hundreds who refer to this type of narrative (hysteria) and claims that climate scientists raising this issue have been extremely demonized. Lindzen is actually one of the world’s top experts in the field and lead author of “Physical Climate Process and Feedbacks,” Chapter7 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Third Assessment report on climate change.

He and many others have been quite outspoken regarding the political influence that weighs heavy on all IPCC publications. The final reports and conclusions are drawn, as expressed by Lindzen in multiple lectures, are actually written by the politicians.

How Human Activity Is Throwing Things Out of Whack

Another important point to realize is that environmental degradation is never really addressed, the focus constantly seems to be on our carbon output. Historically, we’ve seen periods in Earth’s history, prior to the industrial revolution, where CO2 levels were just as high as they are now. But, what we haven’t seen before is the complete destruction and disruption of our national systems that mitigate CO2, control it, and regulate it.

We’ve completely polluted our planet, and perhaps the focus shouldn’t be on CO2 output, which is already at the moment highly questioned with its connection to climate change, but our destruction of the systems in place to regulate our climate. As well as pollution and degradation. Why should the people have to pay for the actions of a system unwilling to change? That being said, those of us who question the mainstream narrative on this topic seems to be the most passionate about clean energy technology, and ‘saving’ our planet.

The notion of static,unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that ‘the developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean temperature anomaly of a few tenths of a degree will astound futuregenerations. Such hysteria simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public, the susceptibility of the public to the substitution of reptition for truth, and the expliotation of these weaknesses by politcians, environmental promotors, and, after 20 years of media drum beating, many others asl well…Ice ages have occurred in a hundred thousand year cycle for the last 700 thousand years, and there have been previous periods that appear to have been warmer than the present despite CO2 levels being lower than they are now. More recently, we have the medieval warm period and the little ice age. Durin the latter, alpine glaciers advanced to the chagrin of overrun villages. Since the beginning of the 19th Century, these glaciers have been retreating. Frankly, we don’t fully understand either. –Lindzen

Human beings no doubt have had an impact on the climate, for sure, but other factors have been ignored and the human impact has been ramped up for ulterior motives, it’s hysteria and fear that’s being created in order to justify measures that benefit the global elite, the ones who take advantage of us and enslave us, while we live in the illusion that we’re actually free. It’s like a bird being born in a cage.

The point is, if we want to learn anything real about this subject, we must turn our eye away from the mainstream, and our ears towards the actual scientists within the field and what they are actually saying. We must actually look into things, we must read and educate ourselves instead of relying on authoritative figures to disseminate information.

Below is a great debate with a few scientists on both sides of the coin, one that approaches the issue from both sides. All will acknowledge that the field is still split on this issue. That’s not really the narrative we see from the mainstream.

Global warming is about politics and power rather than science. In science, there is an attempt to clarify; in global warming, language is misused in order to confuse and mislead the public. The misuse of language extends to the misuse of models. For advocated of policies allegedly addressing global warming, the role of models is not to predict but rather to justify the claim that catastrophe is possible. As they understand, proving something to be impossible is itself almost impossible.

The quote above comes from Lindzen, who in the video below educated people on what the scientists are actually saying, compared to what the media tells us they are saying.

Reprinted with permission from Collective Evolution.

 

[The Bobster]

https://www.iceagenow.info/geologist-the-sun-not-co2-drives-earths-climate/#comment-402296

Geologist – The sun, not CO2, drives Earth’s climate
January 22, 2019 by Robert

Devastating news for human-caused global warming proponents.

“The sun, not CO2, drives Earth’s climate,” says Dr Roger Higgs, long-time consultant geologist and sedimentologist.

Higgs bases his statement on four vital points:

Global warming and cooling are driven by the sun, specifically by the solar-sourced Interplanetary Magnetic Field, which regulates incoming cosmic rays, which in turn govern cloudiness and thus global temperature (the breathtakingly elegant Svensmark Theory).

Global temperature oscillations lag 25 years behind the causative solar magnetic fluctuations. This 25-year lag is due to ocean thermal inertia in remarkable agreement with the 15-20-year time lag by calculated theoretically and independently by Wetherald et al. 2001 and Abdussamatov et al. 2012).

The idea that CO2 is the main climate driver, despite its scarcity in Earth’s atmosphere, ie 400 parts per million (that’s just 1/2500th), near plant-starvation level, contrasts starkly with CO2’s 1,000 to 4,000 ppm levels for most of the last 600 million years.

Earth is now cooling. Global warming ended in 2016: proof that the sun, not CO2, drives Earth’s climate. Moreover, from AD500 to 1200, CO2 levels were anti-correlated with Earth’s temperature.

“The reality is that man’s industrialization just happened to occur in a period of solar-driven warming, a mere coincidence, causing governments to needlessly spend trillions of taxpayer dollars on CO2-reduction efforts,” says Dr Higgs.

See entire paper, with several graphs:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...f_that_the_sun_not_CO2_drives_Earth’s_climate

Here’s some information about Dr. Higgs
http://www.geoclastica.com/BudeGeoWalks.htm

Thanks to Dr Roger Higgs for this link

 

[The Bobster]

https://nypost.com/2019/01/26/9-arrested-at-rockefeller-center-climate-change-protest/

9 arrested at Rockefeller Center climate change protest
By Sara Dorn and Amanda Woods
January 26, 2019 | 10:07pm | Updated

A climate protest on Saturday at Rockefeller Center. Louis Mazzei


Dozens of climate change activists swarmed Rockefeller Plaza and its skating rink Saturday, draping the famous Prometheus statue with a protest banner.

Police arrested seven men and two women in the afternoon demonstration.

Eight protesters were booked for disorderly conduct. The ninth was charged with reckless endangerment for scaling the statue of the Greek god of fire — and hanging a banner that read “Climate Change = Mass Murder” and “Rebel For Life.”

At one point, some of the protesters had laid down on the ice to form the symbol for the UK-based environmental group, Extinction Rebellion.

But the skaters, meanwhile, continued doing their thing — circling the demonstrators while gliding by.

 

[The Bobster]

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/02...ers-panic-as-us-freezes-media-provides-cover/

‘Cooling Is Warming’: Climate Hoaxters Panic As US Freezes, Media Provides Cover
Anthony Watts / 4 days ago February 3, 2019
From the “War is Peace” department…
WRITTEN BY JOHN NOLTE

America enjoys a winter filled with tons of snow and frigid cold weather and out pops the Climate Hoaxsters to assure this kind of weather only further proves our planet is getting, um… warmer.

This current Climate Hoaxster freak-out is largely in reaction to President Trump’s tweet earlier this week mocking the Climate Hoaxsters.

“In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded,” he tweeted. “What the hell is going on with Global Waming? [Sic] Please come back fast, we need you!”

Naturally, this launched a million reactionary headlines from our oh-so objective, unbiased, not-at-all left-wing media.

“Look at This Embarrassing F*cking Moron,” screamed Esquire.

“Debunking the utter idiocy of Donald Trump’s global warming tweet,” pouted CNN.

“Here’s Why the Crazy Cold Temperatures Prove Global Warming is Real,” Forbes says reassuringly.

“What Trump keeps getting wrong about Global Warming,” the Washington Post helpfully reports.

But here is my personal favorite headline from, where else?, NBC News…. “Yes, it can be this cold outside in a time of global warming.”

There are three Party slogans in George Orwell’s 1984, his masterpiece about an all-controlling centralized government that runs on lies, terror, and propaganda. See if you can pick out which Party slogan I invented among the four:

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Frigid Weather Means Our Planet is Getting Warmer

The Climate Hoaxsters say that this run of cold weather does not mean the planet will not warm over the course of years, which would sound reasonable if these were not the same Climate Hoaxters who told us Global Warming meant the “end of snow,” or that this winter would be “warmer-than-average,” or that a run of warm weather last winter proved the planet is warming.

That last example is interesting, no?

You see, last year our Climate Hucksters told us a run of warm weather proved the planet is warming, which means we all have to give up our freedoms to a centralized government in order to save the planet.

BUT… a run of frigid weather this year also proves the planet is warming and we all have to give up our freedoms to a centralized government in order to save the planet.

So no matter what happens, no matter how cold or warm or temperate it is, everything proves Global Warming is fer real.

Hey, remember when the Climate Grifters told us Global Warming would make hurricanes worse?

Remember how, when that scientific prediction was humiliated in the face of record low hurricane activity, these same Climate Grifters told us this lack of hurricane activity proved Global Warming was really fer real?

Remember in 2005 when the establishment media told us that by 2015 Global Warming would drive gas up to $9 a gallon (it’s $2.08 here today), milk up to $12 a gallon ($2.99), and New York City would be underwater?

Remember how during that crucial time between 2005 and 2015, that decade before the imminent flooding of Manhattan, the establishment media did not remove any of its personnel from a New York City that was about to be drowned?

In fact, while CNN was telling us the seas were certain to rise, CNN shifted much of its base of operations from the inland safety of Atlanta to Manhattan; while CNN’s then-parent company, Time Warner, spent billions relocating its headquarters just two blocks from the water’s edge in New York.

And, soon enough, I’ll be asking if you remember how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — a sitting member of Congress — went on TV and said the world would end in 12 years because of Global Warming.

You see, no matter what happens, no matter what the weather looks like, no matter how false their predictions turn out to be, no matter often they act as though they don’t believe in Global Warming, the Climate Swindlers still scream See! See! Toldjaso! — and almost always do it from a wildly expensive base of operations on the same coast they claim will soon be underwater.

Any student of history can look back and discover that all of history’s mass-murdering socialists — from Hitler to Stalin to Mao — have manufactured audacious lies and scapegoats as a means to consolidate power into a malevolent Central Authority.

Freedom is Slavery.
War is Peace.
Ignorance is Strength.
Cooling is Warming.

 

[The Bobster]

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/01...h-risk-for-an-individuals-down-99-since-1920/

Inverse Hockey-Stick: climate related death risk for an individuals down 99% since 1920
Anthony Watts / January 27, 2019

Bjørn Lomborg writes on Facebook about some new and surprising data that turn climate alarmist claims upside down.

Fewer and fewer people die from climate-related natural disasters.

This is clearly opposite of what you normally hear, but that is because we’re often just being told of one disaster after another – telling us how *many* events are happening. The number of reported events is increasing, but that is mainly due to better reporting, lower thresholds and better accessibility (the CNN effect). For instance, for Denmark, the database only shows events starting from 1976.

Instead, look at the number of dead per year, which is much harder to fudge. Given that these numbers fluctuate enormously from year to year (especially in the past, with huge droughts and floods in China), they are here presented as averages of each decade (1920-29, 1930-39 etc, with last decade as 2010-18). The data is from the most respected global database, the International Disaster Database. There is some uncertainty about complete reporting from early decades, which is why this graph starts in 1920, and if anything this uncertainty means the graph *underestimates* the reduction in deaths.

Notice, this does *not* mean that there is no global warming or that possibly a climate signal could eventually lead to further deaths. Instead, it shows that our increased wealth and adaptive capacity has vastly outdone any negative impact from climate when it comes to human climate vulnerability.

Notice that the reduction in absolute deaths has happened while the global population has increased four-fold. The individual risk of dying from climate-related disasters has declined by 98.9%. Last year, fewer people died in climate disasters than at any point in the last three decades (1986 was a similarly fortunate year).

Somewhat surprisingly, while climate-related deaths have been declining strongly for 70 years, non-climate deaths have not seen a similar decline, and should probably get more of our attention.

If we look at the death risk for an individual, seen below, the risk reduction is even bigger – dropped almost 99% since the 1920s.

Data Source: The International Disaster Database,http://emdat.be/emdat_db/

 

[The Bobster]

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/12/greenpeace-patrick-moore-climate-crisis-fake-news-fake-science/

Greenpeace Co-Founder: ‘Climate Crisis Is Not Only Fake News. It’s Fake Science’
10:31 AM 03/12/2019 | Politics
David Krayden | Ottawa Bureau Chief

Co-founder of environmental organization Greenpeace Patrick Moore said Tuesday that the climate change crisis driving much of liberal politics today “is not only fake news. It’s fake science.”

Moore also wondered during his appearance on “Fox & Friends” why people would be worried about global warming: “A little bit of warming would not be a bad thing, for myself being Canadian.”

Moore bounced back into the climate change debate last week in an online feud with New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after he blasted her Green New Deal for being not ambitious but ridiculous. (RELATED: Report: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Has Violated Her Own Green New Deal)

“Well, it’s a silly plan; that’s why I suggested she was a pompous little twit, twit meaning silly in the British lexicon,” Moore told Fox, adding, “She really rubbed me the wrong way when she said she’s ‘the boss’ because she can make up a proposal that’s completely ridiculous, and nobody else did.”

Moore, who now sits as a director on the CO2 Coalition, a group of American and Canadian scientists who refute man-made climate change, says carbon dioxide is “the main building block of all life” and that it is good for the environment. “There is nothing to be afraid of.”

He doesn’t deny climate change. “Of course climate change is real: it’s been happening since the beginning of time but it’s not dangerous and it’s not created by people … a completely natural phenomenon.”

Moore questioned why so many scientists who promote a climate change crisis receive “perpetual government grants,” insist “the science is settled and say people like myself should just shut up. On the other hand, they keep studying it forever as if there’s something new to find out.”

The former Greenpeace director says the organization has been “hijacked by the extreme left.” (RELATED: Greenpeace Admits Anti-Logging Campaign Is Based On ‘Subjective Opinion’)

Getting back to the Green New Deal, Moore insisted the plan is a recipe for catastrophe: “You cannot do agriculture for 8 billion people, produce the food for 8 billion people without fossil fuels.”

 

[sniffy]

Boeing (keep the nose down) Fights Climate Change

It takes about half a ton of aviation fuel to get a 737jet up to cruising altitude; in a vacuum! If air resistance is added, then tons of fuel is needed, to get off the ground.
See attached calculation


There is a way to save lots of fuel—just go as slow as possible and keep the nose level or down. This is extremely dangerous.

It turns out that Boeing has a great climate change plan. Just crash a plane load of do-gooders and climate-change activists. They sure won’t be getting any more free trips to Africa.

https://www.boeing.com/aboutus/environment/environmental_report_09/our-environmental-policy.html

Boeing’s Climate Change Approach
Boeing believes that climate change is a serious environmental challenge that requires credible action. Recognizing this, Boeing is committed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from our facilities and products.
As the global community develops approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Boeing acknowledges that voluntary measures alone may not be enough and supports development of mandatory, yet flexible frameworks to address emission reductions.
Boeing recognizes that appropriate action may vary from one sector to another. A comprehensive approach would take into account the most effective way to deal with each industry sector.
As a technology and aerospace industry leader, Boeing will work with our customers and other industry stakeholders to:
• Pioneer new technology to improve the global transportation system
• Increase research to improve efficiencies throughout the system: air and ground operations, in-service fleet environmental performance and introduction of sustainable advanced-generation biofuels
• Accelerate adoption of environmentally progressive products and services
• Reduce carbon intensity of air transportation by reducing CO2 emissions 15 percent with each new generation of commercial aircraft
Boeing’s greatest contribution will continue to be through innovation—and Boeing will remain committed to improving technologies for sustainable, renewable energy systems.

 

[The Bobster]

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/03...he-climate-may-turn-sharply-colder-into-2032/

Aurora Borealis Warning - LewRockwell LewRockwell.com
By Martin Armstrong

There may actually be a confirmation that we are heading into a much colder climate. The Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, can now be seen in the UK. Normally, the Northern Lights can be seen only extremely north as in Alaska. Sir Edmund Halley (1656 – 1742), the man who discovered Halley’s Comet, was a friend of Isaac Newton. He was asked to speak about the unusual events that were taking place in the sky. He addressed the British Royal Society, stating:

The Royal Society, having received accounts from very many parts of Great Britain, of the unusual lights which have of late appeared in the heavens ; were pleased to signify their desires to me, that I should draw up a general resation (sic) of the fact, and explain more at large some conceptions of mine I had proposed to them about it, as seeming to some of them to render a tollerable [sic] solution of the very strange and surprizing [sic] phænomena thereof.

During the period of Halley’s investigation, the Little Ice Age dominated the decades and it bottomed around 1680. The Aurora Borealis actually expands and moves further south during periods of a colder climate. The Northern Lights being visible in the UK is not a good sign for climate change. This may be warning that we are headed back to a prolonged colder climate. Solar cycle 14 had the record high for sunspots during February in 1906. The annual peak took place in 1957 with 190 sunspots taking place that year. Based upon our models, the ideal low was most likely 1686/1687. From the 1957 high, the collapse to just 10 sunspots per year took place in 1964 — 7 years later.

Just before the Mini Ice Age, sunspot activity peaked during 1787 at 132 (mean) and crashed for 11 years into 1798, dropping to just 4 sunspots. If we continue to witness this declining trend from the 2000 high where there are virtually no sunspots, we appear to be vulnerable to a significant decline at least into 2032.

 

[The Bobster]

https://nypost.com/2019/04/17/over-60-people-arrested-during-climate-change-protest-near-city-hall/

Over 60 warmer idiots arrested during climate change protest near City Hall
By Larry Celona, Ruth Weissmann and Stephanie Pagones
April 17, 2019 | 7:54pm

More than 60 people were arrested on Wednesday while blocking traffic during a climate change protest near City Hall in Lower Manhattan, according to authorities and sources.

Nearly 150 protesters, some carrying signs reading “Tell the Truth” and “Non Violent,” rallied against climate change at the intersection of Centre Street and Park Row between City Hall and the Brooklyn Bridge around 10 a.m.

Some protesters lied on their backs underneath the stoplight at the intersection, stopping traffic for just over 30 minutes, according to photographs and witnesses.

At least two protesters climbed light posts and strung a banner, which read “Declare Climate Emergency,” over the roadway, photographs show.

Both people were charged with disorderly conduct and reckless endangerment, police said.

Sixty others were charged with disorderly conduct and issued desk-appearance tickets.

“They’re standing for something,” said protester Sylvia Alexandra. “This is what you have to do — the press pays attention to people getting arrested.”

Rebekah Berndt, an event organizer with Extinction Rebellion, the activist group behind the protest, said the arrests were “intentional,” adding that the group of people who were arrested had received instructions beforehand.

“We want to make sure people feel supported in getting arrested,” Berndt, 40, said. “For a lot of people, this is their first time doing any sort of civil disobedience.”

Also on Wednesday, three protesters with Extinction Rebellion were arrested after they glued themselves to a train in London’s Canary Wharf station.

Since Monday, London authorities have arrested more than 300 activists during Extinction Rebellion demonstrations.

 

[The Bobster]

https://nypost.com/2019/05/16/climate-change-protesters-block-madison-avenue-with-fake-oil-rig/

Climate change protesters block Madison Avenue with fake oil rig
By Kevin Sheehan and Gabrielle Fonrouge
May 16, 2019 | 1:20pm | Updated May 16, 2019 | 1:42pm

Protester Laurel Sutherlin is detained by police. James Messerschmidt

A horde of climate change advocates blocked traffic on Madison Avenue in Midtown Thursday morning by setting up a mock, 24-foot oil rig, with a protester clad in mountain climbing gear perched on top.

“It’s supposed to represent an oil derrick,” Monica Hunken, a member of Rain Forest Action Network and Extinction Rebellion, told The Post.

“Laurel Sutherlin has been up there just over an hour now. He’s suspended 24′ above the ground to block traffic and protest Chase’s investment in fossil fuels,” Hunken said, who explained the demonstration was intentionally put on in front of Chase’s flagship building near East 47th Street.

Laurel Southerlin, of the Rain Forest Action Network, hangs from a makeshift tent frame on East 47th Street and Madison Avenue.
James Messerschmidt


“We’re sending a message to Chase CEO Jamie Dimon… Chase is now the biggest funder of fossil fuels in the world,” Hunken contended.

Fossil fuels, which come from natural gas, coal and oil, and the process to extract them are one of the leading contributors to global warming pollution, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, a non-profit organization.

Sutherlin, 42, remained atop the ersatz oil rig while dozens of cops swarmed around and negotiated with him to come down.

He remained perched for about an hour and ten minutes until he came down at 10:15 a.m. and was immediately arrested while protesters shouted “Thank you, Laurel!”

The rig was also quickly dismantled.