{"id":326316,"date":"2024-05-05T07:32:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T05:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=326316"},"modified":"2024-05-05T07:32:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T05:32:15","slug":"chris-packham-packs-on-the-pseudoscience-to-promote-climate-collapse-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=326316","title":{"rendered":"Chris Packham Packs on the Pseudoscience to Promote Climate Collapse \u201cTerror\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0CHRIS MORRISON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By the final programme<\/a> of his five-part Earth<\/em> series, broadcast last year by the BBC, Chris Packham had perfected the art of taking imprecise proxy data from the geological record and comparing it to more accurate modern measurements to draw dubious conclusions about imminent climate collapse. One sudden spike in temperatures about 56 million years ago over \u201cjust a few thousand years\u201d is said to be \u201cincredible but sobering\u201d. Scientists, he says, regard this as \u201canalogous\u201d to what is happening today. Some might, but a lot of others are more circumspect about relying on geological data that has a resolution of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years, and comparing it with today\u2019s measurements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Packham draws conclusions from events in the PETM, or Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a warming period that began sometime around 56.3 million to 55.9 million years ago. Briefly, it appears global temperatures shot up to around 25 or 26\u00b0C, compared with about 14.5\u00b0C today. In a published essay<\/a>, science writer Andy May studied the evidence around the PETM and noted the proxy temperature measurements with lengthy resolutions \u201care not comparable to today\u2019s monthly averages\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this lack of temporal precision does not stop Packham waxing lyrically about the PETM. \u201cViolent storms ravaged the planet with flash floods and protracted drought,\u201d he says. \u201cWhat is scary is how it happened \u2013 each event triggering the next until it pushed the Earth past some serious tipping points,\u201d he claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u2018tipping point\u2019 trope is the go-to climate-modelled message for today\u2019s Armageddonists. Alas, there doesn\u2019t appear to have been time in the programme to state what these ancient tipping points were, but in case the viewer doesn\u2019t pick up on this current fashionable scare, Packham claims \u201cand that is our nightmare\u201d. Towards the end of the programme, he doubles down on his own claimed scientific precision and states: \u201cToday, climate is changing faster than at any time in the last 66 million years.\u201d This might what Packham understands \u2018the science\u2019 to say, but there is no way that anyone can know this, let alone prove it. He later told the Guardian<\/em> that he hoped the \u201cterror factor\u201d generated by the series would \u201cspur us to do something about the environment crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what caused this spike in temperatures in the PETM? Since this is a propaganda film aimed at persuading the viewer that burning hydrocarbons and releasing \u2018greenhouse\u2019 gases like carbon dioxide into the air is potentially catastrophic, the answer Packham provides is simple. In this case methane, which he says started venting from deep within the Atlantic ocean. Again, the lack of precision around dates is a problem when it comes to attributing a rise in temperature over an imprecise period to a gas that has warming properties but stays in the atmosphere as briefly as 84 months. Marine geophysicist Professor Tim Minshull is less sure that methane release was the main cause of the global warming at this time. In a study published in 2016, he suggested methane release was slower and more modest<\/a> than some researchers have hypothesised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 40 million years ago, \u2018hothouse\u2019 Earth, when alligators basked under palm trees in the Arctic, started to cool, a process that Packham attributes to falling levels of CO2<\/sub>. The rocks in newly-formed mountain ranges started to weather and react with the air to remove the gas from the atmosphere \u2013 or something. There are a number of problems with this hypothesis, not least the fact that CO2<\/sub>\u00a0levels had already been falling steadily for 150 million years from the end of the Jurassic, while temperatures remained as high as they had ever been in the geological record going back 600 million years. As the graph below shows, temperatures remained high, while CO2<\/sub>\u00a0levels began their long descent to the low, near denudation, levels seen today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, scientists dispute the notion that rock weathering only acts as a carbon sink, suggesting that the process also releases amounts of CO2<\/sub> to rival volcanoes. In a paper published last year<\/a>, a group of Oxford University scientists led by Dr. Jesse Zondervan said their work on the carbon release had important implications for modelling climate scenarios. At the moment, the CO2<\/sub> released from rock weathering is not included in the modelled work. Neither it seems are such inconvenient findings included in the Net Zero promotional work of Chris Packham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Earth<\/em> presenter is a green activist and naturalist who holds the view that eight billion humans are wrecking the natural world in their attempts to sustain life on a difficult, dangerous planet. Some of his efforts to draw attention to the fragility of natural habitats are laudable. But as we have seen, he uses something called \u2018the Science\u2019 to promote the view that humans should stop industrial progress and return to a mythical natural state. The fact that the unexploited natural world could not sustain anything like eight billion souls is just one of the many reasons why his fantasies will never be adopted. His science starts with a pre-determined narrative, unlike the scientific process which draws conclusions after a ruthless examination of all the available evidence. Mainstream media such as the BBC have largely given up on the scientific process when it comes to climate change, and simply promote political messaging around the Net Zero project. In doing so, they ignore large swaths of scientific knowledge that are likely to trouble the \u2018settled\u2019 opinion. But then, this knowledge lacks the \u201cterror factor\u201d so beloved by Packham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the<\/em> Daily Sceptic\u2019s Environment Editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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