{"id":423532,"date":"2026-01-27T21:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=423532"},"modified":"2026-01-28T02:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:00:07","slug":"treasure-climate-comedian-jim-dale-while-you-can-we-may-never-see-his-like-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=423532","title":{"rendered":"Treasure Climate Comedian Jim Dale While You Can: We May Never See His Like Again"},"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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Climate comedy turn Jim Dale continues to tour the Gaiety Halls of broadcast media, delighting audiences with his own word-salad English and his knack for getting most facts wrong. Fans were not disappointed by an extended performance, here, start around 2hr 38 mins<\/a>, last week on Mark Dolan\u2019s TalkTV show when he falsely claimed Costa Rica had reached Net Zero and the polar ozone hole had closed. Readers might be advised not to organise drinking parties around Jim\u2019s much-cherished appearances. If a shot is taken every time the great entertainer gets a climate or Net Zero fact wrong, you\u2019d be Brahms and Liszt quicker than you could say Julia Hartley-Brewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A number of countries are already at Net Zero carbon emissions, claimed Dale, and he gave Costa Rica as an example. Sorry Jim, treble Guaro Sours all round: Costa Rica is nowhere near Net Zero. In fact, the Carbon Action Tracker<\/a> notes that the current government is sending \u201cworrying signals that the full implementation of the climate policies and measures necessary to meet Costa Rica\u2019s own targets could be deferred\u201d. Key electric public transport projects have been paused or downscaled, while the current President has announced his opposition to an oil moratorium, along with an intention to explore Costa Rica\u2019s hydrocarbon reserves. For some time, Costa Rica has presented itself as a poster country for eco-tourism and sustainability, but it was never near Net Zero. There comes a time when all the virtue signalling has to stop. Hard reality seems to have bitten the territory, as it has every other country taking a serious look at the stupidity of the Net Zero fantasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put down the liquor bottle (just for a very short while): our climate clot got it partly right when he said two or three countries had hit Net Zero. One country often mentioned is Bhutan, a landlocked territory the size of Belgium in the eastern Himalayas. Mountains give Bhutan huge hydroelectric power, while 93% of the land is covered in carbon-dioxide-absorbing forest. Meanwhile, about half the population of 800,000 is involved in subsistence farming. As a future model for Net Zero, it leaves a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps Jim could explain on his next much-awaited guest slot why Bhutan, a Net Zero country seemingly perfect in every respect, requires foreign aid of $13.7 billion over the next decade for \u201cmitigation\u201d costs to keep it on the straight and narrow Net Zero path. Sustaining its contribution and ambitions are said in its third Nationally Determined Contribution report to the UN to require \u201ccontinued and predictable<\/a>\u201d international financial support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course it does. Not a bad little earner for a country with an annual GNP of just over $3 billion. The cynical might be forgiven for reading into its words a threat along the lines of: cough up or the trees get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time to refresh our glasses again, as our comedic clown then told Mark Dolan that the South Pole ozone hole had closed or, to put it in Jim\u2019s word-salad English: \u201cThe ozone layer was a perfectly tenable thing that occurred and the hole closed because we got out of aerosols that managed that actually.\u201d Alas, the hole has not closed, despite a 35-year ban on aerosol-using chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) gases. The thinning, rather than a hole, appears to be a largely natural event that changes thickness on an annual, seasonal basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recently published science paper by three New Zealand-based scientists noted that the three years 2020\u20132023 witnessed the re-emergence of large, long-lived holes<\/a> over Antarctica. The scientists observed that in the eight years to 2022, five showed similarly large temporary holes occurring in the spring months. In 2023, the European Space Agency said the hole was one of the biggest ever recorded<\/a>, measuring 26 million sq kms. Perish the thought that banning CFCs didn\u2019t make much difference \u2013 surely all those Nobel science prizes<\/a> were not handed out in vain for a totemic environmental scare that proved such an inspiration for all the subsequent attempts to induce mass climate panic? Except when Jim unwisely brings it up, you don\u2019t hear much about the ozone hole these days, with activists quietly extending its supposed disappearance to around 2060.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your correspondent has a few tips to offer if readers ever need to handle Jim in a public debate. The first task is to stop him constantly interrupting and shouting over you. This is best done by first listening to what he has to say and, at the first sign of trouble, demanding the same courtesy be extended when it is your turn to speak. Last May, I found myself with him on TalkTV with the excellent ringmaster Ian Collins \u2013 here, the entertainment starts at around 35m 30s<\/a>. It worked reasonably well, despite the overwhelming temptation at one point to burst out laughing when Jim claimed the source of his climate information was NASA, \u201cwho send people to the Moon and Mars\u201d. Extra fun can be inserted into the proceedings by noting that Dale is on record as wanting to jail climate \u2018deniers\u2019. At my prompting, Ian Collins asked him if this was true and the ensuing word-salad explanation was a pure delight. Only Jim can explain in his special language that it is not quite like that, while at the same time suggesting that it is precisely like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The market for data-free climate scares is starting to dry up across mainstream media. Gone are the days when the BBC\u2019s Esme Stallard could give us her \u201cclimate change could make\u00a0beer taste worse<\/a>\u201d. No more shall we see Georgina Rannard make the obvious mistake of putting a\u00a0date on impending doom<\/a>\u00a0as she did in 2023 with a \u2018scientists say\u2019 article warning that the Gulf Stream warm currents \u201ccould collapse as early as 2025\u201d. Perish the thought, but soon only Jim Dale might be left to keep the nation amused with his carry-on climate catastrophising routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the<\/em> Daily Sceptic<\/em>\u2019s Environment Editor<\/em>. Follow<\/em> him on X<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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