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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The world of climate science is in a terrible state. Riven with political activists claiming to be scientists, funded by green billionaires and state actors interested only in the Net Zero agenda, reported by blockhead mainstream journalists who believe science can be \u2018settled\u2019 \u2013 and increasingly being questioned by bored populations fed up with listening to year-after-year, decade-after-decade \u2018Jim\u2019 Dale-style<\/a> claims of boiling and collapsing climates. That is why the recent paper<\/a> published in Nature<\/em> by Cambridge Professor Ulf Buntgen has sent shock waves through a heavily-corrupted climate scientific community. At one point, Buntgen referred to the \u201congoing pseudo-scientific chase for record-breaking heatwaves and associated hydroclimatic extremes\u201d. He argued that quasi-religious belief in, rather than the understanding of the complex causes and consequences of climate and environmental changes, \u201cundermines academic principles\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Buntgen is not a sceptic of the idea that humans control the climate by burning hydrocarbons. It is unlikely he would be published in a major journal like Nature<\/em> if he was. But he is worried about climate scientists becoming activists by failing to work from actual observations. He is also worried about activists who pretend to be scientists. An excellent example of this can be found in the recent Guardian<\/em> report that portrayed some of the hysterical claims<\/a> of 380 \u201ctop scientists\u201d. Billed as the views of writers of recent International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, a suitable response might have been \u2018spot the scientist\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cambridge geography professor observes that there is a thin line between the use and misuse of scientific certainty and uncertainty, \u201cand there is evidence for strategic and selective communication of scientific information for climate action\u201d. Where to start on this one? There is overwhelming evidence that almost any scientific finding that casts doubt on humans controlling the climate thermostat will be ignored, and if that is unsuccessful, traduced or erased from mainstream view. In extreme cases, and certainly if the findings get any publicity, it might be necessary to put a billionaire-funded \u2018fact\u2019 checker on the case. A Guardian<\/em> journalist helped get a science paper, Alimonti et al<\/em>, retracted from a major journal because it cast observational doubt<\/a> on claims of a climate emergency. Google has banned its ads from a page showing accurate satellite temperature<\/a> on the grounds of \u201cunreliable and harmful claims\u201d of global readings. Less than curiously, the readings from this source happen to be generally lower than those produced by heat-corrupted surface readings. The state-influenced BBC has refused to discuss any sceptical view of the anthropogenic science opinion since at least 2018. Meanwhile, a UN communications official states that the world body \u201cowns\u201d climate science, and the world should know it.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protected by the political and media class, the well-funded arrogance is off the scale. Buntgen notes that activists often adopt scientific arguments as a source of \u201cmoral legitimisation\u201d for their movements, which can be radical and destructive, rather than rational and constructive. \u201cUnrestricted faith in scientific knowledge is, however, problematic because science is neither entitled to absolute truth nor ethical authority\u201d, he says. The notion of science to be explanatory rather than exploratory \u201cis a na\u00efve overestimation that can fuel the complex field of global climate to become a dogmatic ersatz <\/em>religion for the wider public\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One well known activist who frequently claims \u2018the science\u2019 to shut down sceptical debate is the BBC broadcaster Chris Packham. Last year, he presented a number of Earth<\/em> programmes<\/a> that attempted to link past increases in carbon dioxide to rapid rises in temperature \u2013 all in the \u201cterror\u201d cause of drawing links with current and upcoming climate collapse. Alas, the \u2018science\u2019 shows that over 600 million years there is little or no link between rising CO2<\/sub> and temperature. But Packham perfected the art of taking imprecise proxy data from the geological record \u2013 imprecise as in a margin of error of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years \u2013 and comparing it to accurate modern measurements. You can do that of course, but the BBC should surely be under an obligation to provide space for others to dispute the suggestions. No such obligation is evident, needless to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buntgen finds it \u201cmisleading\u201d when even prominent organisations, such as the IPCC, tend to overstate scientific understanding of the rate of recent anthropogenic warming relative to the range of past natural temperature variability over 2,000 and even 125,000 years. \u201cThe quality and quantity of available climate proxy records are merely too low to allow for a robust comparison of the observed annual temperature extremes in the 21st Century against reconstructed long-term climate means of the Holocene and before\u201d, he observes. Happily, it didn\u2019t stop Packham working back no less than 55 million years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Matthew Wielicki was a highly-regarded geoscientist at the University of Alabama but he left academia last year noting that American universities, \u201care no longer places that embrace the freedom of exchanging ideas\u201d. He said they would \u201cpunish\u201d those who go against the narrative. Contributing to this, he noted, was the earth science communities silence on the false \u2018climate emergency\u2019 narrative. \u201cMembers of the community routinely discuss the mental health effects of climate catastrophism but dare not speak out<\/a>\u201d, he disclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For his part, Buntgen suggests that the ever-growing commingling of climate science, climate activism, climate communication and climate policy, whereby scientific insights are adopted to promote pre-determined positions, not only \u201ccreates confusion\u201d among politicians, stakeholders and the wide public, but also \u201cdiminishes academic credibility\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next time you see dopey crinklies attempting to smash the Magna Carta (avid listeners of BBC Radio 4, no doubt), consider that the ubiquitous \u2018Daleification\u2019 of climate catastrophe promotion might have gone just a bit too far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the\u00a0<\/em>Daily Sceptic\u2019s\u00a0Environment Editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Riven with political activists claiming to be scientists, funded by green billionaires and state actors interested only in the Net Zero agenda, reported by blockhead mainstream journalists who believe science can be \u2018settled\u2019 \u2013 and increasingly being questioned by bored populations fed up with listening to year-after-year, decade-after-decade\u00a0\u2018Jim\u2019 Dale-style\u00a0claims of boiling and collapsing climates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":329684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691828734,691819134,691819140,691819262,691818154],"class_list":{"0":"post-329682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-cambridge-professor-ulf-buntgen","9":"tag-climate-alarmism","10":"tag-climate-science","11":"tag-green-agenda","12":"tag-net-zero","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0methode_times_prod_web_bin_a17486a3-b915-4a61-a876-c3200ab58a2f-1.jpg?fit=1118%2C629&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1nLs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":292902,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=292902","url_meta":{"origin":329682,"position":0},"title":"BBC \u2018Disinformation\u2019 Reporter Plans Six-Month Sabbatical to go on Climate Course Funded by Green Billionaires","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"12\/29\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Marco Silva is taking time out from his role as a senior reporter for BBC Verify specialising in \u2018climate disinformation\u2019 to enrol on a six-month course at the\u00a0Oxford Climate Journalism Network\u00a0(OCJN), a green activist operation funded by billionaire foundations promoting the collectivist Net Zero project.","rel":"","context":"In \"BBC Verify\"","block_context":{"text":"BBC Verify","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=bbc-verify"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-28-at-00.47.15.png?fit=1200%2C670&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-28-at-00.47.15.png?fit=1200%2C670&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-28-at-00.47.15.png?fit=1200%2C670&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-28-at-00.47.15.png?fit=1200%2C670&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0Screenshot-2023-12-28-at-00.47.15.png?fit=1200%2C670&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":293433,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=293433","url_meta":{"origin":329682,"position":1},"title":"Speaker on BBC Verify Correspondent\u2019s Six Month Sabbatical Course Has Called for Jailing Climate Contrarians","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/02\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Further and better particulars have emerged about the\u00a0green billionaire-funded course\u00a0run by the Oxford Climate Journalism Network (OCJN), which has to date attracted over 400 participants from around the world. 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