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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Leo vs. science: vanishing evidence for climate change
In the runup to the Sept. 23 UN Climate Summit in New York, Leonardo
DiCaprio is releasing a series of films about the “climate crisis.”
The first is “Carbon,” which tells us the world is threatened by a “
carbon monster.” Coal, oil, natural gas and other carbon-based forms of
energy are causing dangerous climate change and must be turned off as soon
as possible, DiCaprio says.
But he has identified the wrong monster. It is the climate scare itself that
is the real threat to civilization.
DiCaprio is an actor, not a scientist; it’s no real surprise that his film
is sensationalistic and error-riddled. Other climate-change fantasists, who
do have a scientific background, have far less excuse.
Science is never settled, but the current state of “climate change”
science is quite clear: There is essentially zero evidence that carbon
dioxide from human activities is causing catastrophic climate change.
Yes, the “executive summary” of reports from the UN’s International Panel
on Climate Change continues to sound the alarm — but the summary is
written by the politicians. The scientific bulk of the report, while still
tinged with improper advocacy, has all but thrown in the towel.
And the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change lists
thousands of scientific papers that either debunk or cast serious doubt on
the supposed “consensus” model.
Oregon-based physicist Gordon Fulks sums it up well: “CO2 is said to be
responsible for global warming that is not occurring, for accelerated sea-
level rise that is not occurring, for net glacial and sea ice melt that is
not occurring . . . and for increasing extreme weather that is not occurring
.”
Consider:
According to NASA satellites and all ground-based temperature
measurements, global warming ceased in the late 1990s. This when CO2 levels
have risen almost 10 percent since 1997. The post-1997 CO2 emissions
represent an astonishing 30 percent of all human-related emissions since the
Industrial Revolution began. That we’ve seen no warming contradicts all
CO2-based climate models upon which global-warming concerns are founded.
Rates of sea-level rise remain small and are even slowing, over recent
decades averaging about 1 millimeter per year as measured by tide gauges and
2 to 3 mm/year as inferred from “adjusted” satellite data. Again, this is
far less than what the alarmists suggested.
Satellites also show that a greater area of Antarctic sea ice
exists now than any time since space-based measurements began in 1979. In
other words, the ice caps aren’t melting.
A 2012 IPCC report concluded that there has been no significant
increase in either the frequency or intensity of extreme weather events in
the modern era. The NIPCC 2013 report concluded the same. Yes, Hurricane
Sandy was devastating — but it’s not part of any new trend.
The climate scare, Fulks sighs, has “become a sort of societal pathogen
that virulently spreads misinformation in tiny packages like a virus.” He’
s right — and DiCaprio’s film is just another vector for spreading the
virus.
The costs of feeding the climate-change “monster” are staggering.
According to the Congressional Research Service, from 2001 to 2014 the US
government spent $131 billion on projects meant to combat human-caused
climate change, plus $176 billion for breaks for anti-CO2 energy initiatives.
Federal anti-climate-change spending is now running at $11 billion a year,
plus tax breaks of $20 billion a year. That adds up to more than double the
$14.4 billion worth of wheat produced in the United States in 2013.
Dr. Bjørn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center,
calculates that the European Union’s goal of a 20 percent reduction in CO2
emissions below 1990 levels by 2020, currently the most severe target in the
world, will cost almost $100 billion a year by 2020, or more than $7
trillion over the course of this century.
Lomborg, a supporter of the UN’s climate science, notes that this would buy
imperceptible improvement: “After spending all that money, we would not
even be able to tell the difference.”
Al Gore was right in one respect: Climate change is a moral issue — but
that’s because there is nothing quite so immoral as well-fed, well-housed
Westerners assuaging their consciences by wasting huge amounts of money on
futile anti-global-warming policies, using money that could instead go to
improve living standards in developing countries.
That is where the moral outrage should lie. Perhaps DiCaprio would like to
make a film about it?
Tom Harris is executive director of the Ottawa-based International Climate
Science Coalition. Bob Carter is former professor and head of the School of
Earth Sciences at James Cook University in Australia. | g********r
发帖数: 4248 | 2 学术界来骗钱的
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: Leo vs. science: vanishing evidence for climate change
: In the runup to the Sept. 23 UN Climate Summit in New York, Leonardo
: DiCaprio is releasing a series of films about the “climate crisis.”
: The first is “Carbon,” which tells us the world is threatened by a “
: carbon monster.” Coal, oil, natural gas and other carbon-based forms of
: energy are causing dangerous climate change and must be turned off as soon
: as possible, DiCaprio says.
: But he has identified the wrong monster. It is the climate scare itself that
: is the real threat to civilization.
: DiCaprio is an actor, not a scientist; it’s no real surprise that his film
| t***h
发帖数: 2924 | 3 是政客用来标榜自己政绩的工具。 要提震经济不容易， 提升就业不容易，
可是吹捧自己多么环保， 多么致力于combat全球变暖就很容易吸引选票。
另外， 也是发达国家收割全球的有利工具。 碳税是
多好的一个 新税种。 坐地收钱。
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发帖数: 3656 | 4 迪卡普里奥放弃奥斯卡，进军诺贝尔和平奖了？
that
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: Leo vs. science: vanishing evidence for climate change
: In the runup to the Sept. 23 UN Climate Summit in New York, Leonardo
: DiCaprio is releasing a series of films about the “climate crisis.”
: The first is “Carbon,” which tells us the world is threatened by a “
: carbon monster.” Coal, oil, natural gas and other carbon-based forms of
: energy are causing dangerous climate change and must be turned off as soon
: as possible, DiCaprio says.
: But he has identified the wrong monster. It is the climate scare itself that
: is the real threat to civilization.
: DiCaprio is an actor, not a scientist; it’s no real surprise that his film
| T*********I
发帖数: 10729 | 5 拍摄《泰坦尼克号》中曾经亲眼目睹了道具冰山后，他成为了杰出的气候学家
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: 迪卡普里奥放弃奥斯卡，进军诺贝尔和平奖了？
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