By Paul Homewood
h/t Charles Turner
Good talk from Ian Plimer
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May 17, 2023 at 09:45AM
Month: May 2023
Barack Obama is upset the press no longer universally pushes the lies he has been promoting for the past fifteen years. Obama: I’m Most Worried About ‘Divided Media,’ We Have Different Realities
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May 17, 2023 at 09:32AM
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
What a farce!
COP28, the climate change conference taking place in Dubai this year, is asking brands for millions of pounds to sponsor the event, promising that they will "benefit from access and unrivalled networking opportunities with governments and global business leaders".
The most expensive sponsorship package on offer costs £6.5m and provides the paying company with a "speaking opportunity in the COP28 UAE presidency events" and "partner recognition on the trophy wall" among other benefits, according to documents seen by Sky News.
In total, the climate conference is asking for in excess of £25m from companies to take advantage of its sponsorship packages, the documents show.
A senior corporate executive told Sky News: "A COP isn’t an event to make money. We are here to save the planet and minimise climate change, not to milk sponsorship opportunities.
"It belittles the entire event and people lose trust in the entire process."
Sponsorship prices have almost tripled since COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh last year, according to the executive, who has direct knowledge of the rates, reflecting the increasing commercialisation of the United Nations summit.
Hosted by the United Arab Emirates, this year’s event is already embroiled in controversy after reportedly hiring a former Boris Johnson aide who opposed an oil and gas tax, selecting senior oil industry executive Sultan al Jaber as its president, and inviting Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad, who is accused of crimes against humanity.
Image: Bashar al Assad has been invited to COP28
Every year, almost 200 countries meet to discuss how to jointly tackle the climate crisis and its impacts. Thousands of observers, civil society groups and media attend too.
COP stands for Conference of the Parties, referring to governments that have signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Sponsors at last year’s event included Microsoft and Coca-Cola, the company named the world’s largest plastics polluter in the 2022 Break Free From Plastic’s global brand audit.
Sky sponsored COP26 in Glasgow in 2021.
Executives given chance to mingle with government officials
A petition calling on the organisers of the climate summit to stop seeking corporate sponsorship received nearly a quarter of a million signatures.
Brands which spent more than £3m on sponsorship at this year’s event will also receive accreditation for their executives to attend the talks and mingle with government officials.
The so-called Industry Partner package, which offers companies "an unparalleled opportunity to become a vital part of this important event for leading names in respective industries" and costs £3.2m, comes with five passes to the event.
Meanwhile, the Principal Partner package, which costs more than £6m, offers 25 UN-accredited passes for company executives to attend the talks.
The organisers of COP28 promise that the event’s principal sponsor will receive "privileged access" to the Blue Zone, the area reserved for world leaders, country negotiators, and NGOs (non-governmental organisations).
Also on offer is the chance to host a reception and an event, a perk not available to any of the lower tier sponsors.
Brands which partner with the event will also have the opportunity to display "presentations and activities featuring accomplishments across all areas of business" while "participants will be inspired to act on environmental issues that are increasingly impacting us today".
They will also "receive an array of benefits that showcase their market presence,” according to the documents.
When contacted by Sky News, the UN said sponsorship for COP28 was handled by the host country and directed press questions to the UAE.
Sky News has approached the UAE for comment.
I don’t know whether to laugh or laugh!
Clearly the climate scam is a great business opportunity. But I cannot wait to see what contribution Bashar al Assad makes!
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May 17, 2023 at 08:50AM
By Paul Homewood
Prof Mark Maslin featured heavily in this moan about critics of his being allowed on Twitter. We have come across this guy before.
Two years ago, he published his new book, How To Save Our Planet. According to Maslin:
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The climate crisis is no longer a looming threat – people are now living with the consequences of centuries of greenhouse gas emissions. But there is still everything to fight for. How the world chooses to respond in the coming years will have massive repercussions for generations yet to be born.
In my book How to Save Our Planet, I imagine two different visions of the future. One in which we do very little to address climate change, and one in which we do everything possible.
This is what the science suggests those very different realities could look like.
Year 2100: the nightmare scenario
The 21st century draws to a close without action having been taken to prevent climate change. Global temperatures have risen by over 4°C. In many countries, summer temperatures persistently stay above 40°C. Heatwaves with temperatures as high as 50°C have become common in tropical countries.
Every summer, wildfires rage across every continent except Antarctica, creating plumes of acrid smoke that make breathing outdoors unbearable, causing an annual health crisis.
Ocean temperatures have risen dramatically. After repeated bleaching events, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has been officially declared dead.
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-how-bad-could-the-future-be-if-we-do-nothing-159665
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Maslin and his fellow climate scientists would like you to think that all of their science is black and white, so how dare we sceptics argue that 2+2 don’t = 4!
But this absurd claim of his has nothing to do with science. It is simply unsubstantiated scaremongering. Worse still, he says that we are now living with the consequences of “centuries of greenhouse gas emissions”. Does he seriously believe we are worse off than our ancestors a couple of hundred years ago? Or for that matter, is the world’s climate any worse?
Quite clearly, Mark Maslin is not somebody who should be treated seriously.
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It was also Maslin who, in 2019, co-authored a paper claiming that the Little Ice Age was due to European colonisation. According to the BBC:
Colonisation of the Americas at the end of the 15th Century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth’s climate.
That’s the conclusion of scientists from University College London, UK.
The team says the disruption that followed European settlement led to a huge swathe of abandoned agricultural land being reclaimed by fast-growing trees and other vegetation.
This pulled down enough carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere to eventually chill the planet.
It’s a cooling period often referred to in the history books as the "Little Ice Age" – a time when winters in Europe would see the Thames in London regularly freeze over.
"The Great Dying of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas led to the abandonment of enough cleared land that the resulting terrestrial carbon uptake had a detectable impact on both atmospheric CO₂ and global surface air temperatures," Alexander Koch and colleagues write in their paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47063973
As I wrote at the time:
For a start, the Little Ice Age did not start in the late 16thC, as the paper implies.
HH Lamb, along with many other climate historians, is quite clear that temperatures began to decline from the High Middle Ages as early as the 13thC. This cooling trend began in the Arctic, but soon spread elsewhere in the 14thC.
Where you demarcate the end of the MWP and the beginning of the LIA is of course academic. But the decline in global temperatures was an ongoing process from the 13thC to the late 17thC, when temperatures appear to have bottomed out. (Following a small amount of warming, temperatures again dropped to low levels in the mid 19thC).
Whatever caused this long term trend of declining temperatures, it certainly was not colonisation that started 300 years later!
This global cooling would be enough to explain the drop in atmospheric CO2 concentrations, without the need for any man-made involvement.
In any event, the authors reckon that this great dying reduced CO2 by a tiny 7 to 10 ppm. This, even by IPCC standards, would be fat too small to have a measurable effect on global temperatures.
According to the paper, their theory only accounts for a cooling of 0.03 to 0.08C during the 1500s and early 1600s, which would not be enough to account for the climatic changes observed during that time.
Lamb reckoned that English temperatures were 1.5C less than the early 20thC during the coldest phase in the 1690s. And the abundant evidence of massive glacial expansion throughout the world indicates that this was not just a local phenomenon.
And in 2017, Maslin co-authored another study, “Changing climate shifts timing of European floods”. It claimed that:
“The biggest changes are seen along the western edge of Europe, from Portugal up to Southern England. Half the stations recorded floods at least 15 days earlier than previously. A quarter of the stations saw flooding more than 36 days earlier than in 1960.
In these regions, the issue isn’t snow melt – it’s more about saturated soils. Maximum rainfall tends to occur in the autumn and gets stored in the soils. Heavier and earlier rain means that the groundwater reaches capacity earlier.
In southern England, it has been raining more, longer and more intensely than in the past. This has created a rising groundwater table and higher soil moisture than usual and combined with intense rainfall this produces earlier river floods.”
In effect therefore, they are claiming that autumns are now wetter in southern England. But what do the facts say?
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/datasets/Rainfall/date/England_S.txt
Whatever Mr Maslin’s models might say, the actual data shows that there has been no long term change in autumn rainfall trends, merely the usual ups and downs we always see from year to year with English weather.
Why Mr Maslin thinks he should be able to get away with junk science like this, and not be challenged about tells us a lot about the state of climate science.
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