{"id":329294,"date":"2024-05-17T08:53:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T06:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=329294"},"modified":"2024-05-17T08:53:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T06:53:21","slug":"fanatics-call-for-climate-deniers-to-be-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=329294","title":{"rendered":"Fanatics Call for Climate \u2018Deniers\u2019 to Be Jailed"},"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

Comedy environmentalist Jim Dale <\/a>and Dale Vince<\/a> have both suggested that climate \u2018denial\u2019 should be a criminal offence. It gets them clicks and attention on cable and mainstream news, and it plays into a wider push by green billionaire-funded lawfare outfits using the courts to enforce Net Zero industrial shutdown. But it begs the question: what are the climate \u2018deniers\u2019 actually denying? Dale is a climate campaigner who points to bad weather as evidence that the climate is collapsing before our very eyes. But the evidence suggests no such thing. Data since 2000 show that there has been no increase in extreme weather, no increase in loss of life and no increase in economic costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) is a U.S. Government-supported tracker of mass disasters as well as health and economic impacts. It lists 26,000 disasters worldwide from 1900 to the present day. Dr. Matthew Wielicki, a former Geology Professor, has compiled data from this source and they\u00a0provide no evidence<\/a>\u00a0to support the claim that \u2018extreme\u2019 weather is on the rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Wielicki suggests that the recent decrease in perceived climate urgency and importance among the American public, especially young adults, as shown by the recent Monmouth University poll<\/a> \u201cmay be influenced by an observable lack of escalation in the direct impacts of climate change\u201d. Such data can lead to scepticism or reduced concern, he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems that the lack of evidence drives the alarmists further and further away from scientific reality in their desperation to promote Net Zero. Last week\u2019s absurd survey<\/a> of 380 \u201ctop scientists\u201d by the Guardian<\/em> found climate modeller Ruth Cerezo-Mota wailing that it was almost impossible not to feel \u201chopeless and broken\u201d after all the flooding, fires and droughts of the last three years. Biologist Camille Parmesan was so fearful she almost gave up what she called climate science 15 years ago to become a nightclub singer. Now she says all the scientists she works with are at the end of their rope \u201casking what the fuck do we have to do to get through to people how bad this really is\u201d. Engineering Professor Jonathan Cullen states the climate emergency is already here because just 1\u00b0C of heating has \u201csupercharged the planet\u2019s extreme weather\u201d. Millions of people have \u201cvery likely\u201d died early as a result, he claimed. Lorraine Whitmarsh is an \u2018environmental psychologist\u2019 at the University of Bath, and worries about the future her children are inheriting since climate change is an \u201cexistential threat\u201d to humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian <\/em>article was written by Damian Carrington, one of the green billionaire-funded lobby group Covering Climate Now\u2019s three journalists of the year<\/a> in 2023. This operation pumps out ready-to-publish climate catastrophe copy to media outlets worldwide. Carrington polled over 800 lead authors or review editors of all reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2018. He received replies from 380 authors, but as with all IPCC (and Guardian<\/em>) reports, the definition of \u2018climate scientists\u2019 is very broad. Carrington describes Professor Lisa Schipper as an \u201cexpert on climate vulnerability\u201d. Schipper notes<\/a> that she is \u201cparticularly interested in socio-cultural dimensions of vulnerability including gender, culture and religion, as well as structural issues related to power, justice and equity\u201d. Ralph Sims of Massey University says extreme weather events will escalate and there will be environmental refugees by the millions. Sims\u2019s first job in academia was as a lecturer in agricultural machinery<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, back to the science, and the problem \u2013 the giant elephant in the room no less \u2013 is that the IPCC gives almost no credence to talk of a climate crisis based on observable bad weather patterns in the past and looking forward to the end of this century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The above table published in the latest IPCC assessment report reveals this clearly. It shows there is little or no evidence that the following have been, or will be by 2100, affected by human-caused climate change: river floods, heavy rain and pluvial flooding, landslides, droughts (all types), fire \u2018weather\u2019, severe wind storms, tropical cyclones, sand and dust storms, heavy snowfall and ice storms, hail, snow avalanche, coastal flooding and erosion, and maritime heatwaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Far from living in a time of climate collapse, we appear to be enjoying a benign spell in an interglacial period. A little extra carbon dioxide, rescuing the Earth from possibly dangerous denudation, and a gentle rise of 1\u00b0C in temperature from the Little Ice Age, has boosted plant growth around the world. Evidence continues to be produced<\/a> showing substantial CO2<\/sub> greening of the planet including desert areas. A recent paper Chen et al. <\/em>2024<\/a> found that CO2 <\/sub>greening had actually accelerated over the last two decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people spinning the tale of climate collapse \u2013 some of them advocating jail time for dissenters \u2013 are hysterical, but deadly serious. Ask Gianluca Alimonti, an Italian Physics Professor, whose paper stating a climate emergency was not supported by the available data, was recently retracted<\/a> by Springer Nature<\/em> after a year-long campaign by activist scientists and journalists, including Graham Readfearn of the Guardian<\/em>. The Alimonti paper, which also included the work of two other physics professors, found that rainfall intensity and frequency was stationary in many parts of the world, and the same was true of U.S. tornadoes. Other meteorological categories including natural disasters, floods, droughts and ecosystem productivity showed \u201cno clear positive trend of extreme events\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only a fool would consider arguing that climate contrarian scientists should be sent to jail, as Dale did with Andrew Doyle last Sunday on GB News\u2019s Free Speech Nation<\/em><\/a>. Alas, the transcript of Dale\u2019s comments does little to clarify his argument \u2013 it\u2019s just word salad gibberish for the most part. But his intention is clear. Time for \u2018deniers\u2019, whatever they are supposed to be denying, to be marched off to jail. The sad thing is that he is not alone \u2013 Dale says it is \u201ccommon sense\u201d, which, as Doyle observed, is the refrain of every tyrant in history who\u2019s wanted to jail his opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the<\/em>\u00a0Daily Sceptic\u2019s\u00a0Environment Editor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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