{"id":329537,"date":"2024-05-21T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=329537"},"modified":"2024-05-21T18:30:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:30:22","slug":"twelve-reasons-why-i-dont-believe-theres-a-climate-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=329537","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Reasons Why I Don\u2019t Believe There\u2019s a Climate Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0RUSSELL DAVID<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not a scientist. But I have reasons why I don\u2019t fully trust the \u2018climate emergency\u2019 narrative. Here they are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Looking back through history, there have always been doomsday prophets, folk who say the world is coming to an end. Are modern-day activists not just the current version of this?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. I look at some of the facts \u2013 CO2<\/sub>\u00a0is 0.04% of the atmosphere; humans are responsible for just 3% of CO2<\/sub>; Britain is responsible for just 1% of the world\u2019s CO2<\/sub>\u00a0output \u2013\u00a0and I think \u201creally<\/em>\u201c? Will us de-carbonising really make a difference to the Earth\u2019s climate?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. I have listened to some\u00a0top scientists who say<\/a>\u00a0CO2<\/sub>\u00a0does not drive global warming; that CO2<\/sub>\u00a0in the atmosphere is a good or vital thing; that many other things, like the Sun and the clouds and the oceans, are more responsible for the Earth\u2019s temperature.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. I note that most of the loudest climate activists are socialists and on the Left. Are they not just using this movement to push their dreams of a deindustrialised socialist utopia? And I also note the crossover between green activists and BLM ones, gender ones, pro-Hamas ones, none of whom I like or agree with.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. As an amateur psychologist, I know that humans are susceptible to manias. I also know that humans tend to focus on tiny slivers of time and on tiny slivers of geographical place when forming ideas and opinions. We are also extremely malleable and easily fooled, as was demonstrated in 2020 and 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. I have looked into the\u00a0implications of Net Zero<\/a>. It is incredibly expensive. It will vastly reduce living standards and hinder economic growth. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a good thing. I know that economic growth has led to higher living standards, which has made people both safer and more environmentally aware.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Net Zero will also lead to significant diminishment of personal freedom, and it even\u00a0threatens democracy<\/a>, as people are told they\u00a0must<\/em>\u00a0do certain things and they must not do other things, and they may\u00a0even be restricted<\/a>\u00a0in speaking out on climate matters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. What will be the worst things that will happen if the doomsayers are correct? A rise in temperature? Where? Siberia? Singapore? Stockholm? What is the ideal temperature? For how long? Will this utopia be forever maintained? I\u2019m suspicious of utopias; the communists sought utopias.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. If one consequence of climate change is rising sea levels, would it not be better to spend money building more sea defences to protect our land? Like the Dutch did.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. It\u2019s a narrative heavily pushed by the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>. I dislike the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>. I believe it\u2019s been wrong on most issues through my life \u2013\u00a0socialism, immigration, race, the EU, gender, lockdowns and so on. Probably it\u2019s wrong about climate issues too?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. I am suspicious of the amount of money that green activists and subsidised green industries make. And 40 years ago the greenies were saying the Earth was going to get too cold. Much of what they said would happen by now has not happened. Also, I trust \u2018experts\u2019 much less now, after they lied about the efficacy of lockdowns, masks and the \u2018vaccines\u2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. I like sunshine. I prefer being warm to being cold. It makes me feel better. It\u2019s more fun. It saves on heating bills. It saves on clothes. It makes people happier. Far few people die of the heat than they do the cold.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Russell David writes the <\/em>Mad World <\/a>blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    I like sunshine. I prefer being warm to being cold. It makes me feel better. It\u2019s more fun. It saves on heating bills. It saves on clothes. 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