Climate Change

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Climate Emergency Not Supported by Data, Say Four Leading Italian Scientists

BY CHRIS MORRISON 14 SEPTEMBER 2022 6:02 PM

Four leading Italian scientists have undertaken a major review of historical climate trends and concluded that declaring a ‘climate emergency’ is not supported by the data. Reviewing data from a wide range of weather phenomena, they say a ‘climate crisis’ of the kind people are becoming alarmed about “is not evident yet”. The scientists suggest that rather than burdening our children with anxiety about climate change, we should encourage them to think about issues like energy, food and health, and the challenges in each area, with a more “objective and constructive spirit” and not waste limited resources on “costly and ineffective solutions”.

During the course of their work, the scientists found that rainfall intensity and frequency is stationary in many parts of the world. Tropical hurricanes and cyclones show little change over the long term, and the same is true of U.S. tornadoes. Other meteorological categories including natural disasters, floods, droughts and ecosystem productivity show no “clear positive trend of extreme events”. Regarding ecosystems, the scientists note a considerable “greening” of global plant biomass in recent decades caused by higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Satellite data show “greening” trends over most of the planet, increasing food yields and pushing back deserts.

The four scientists are all highly qualified and include physics adjunct professor Gianluca Alimonti, agrometeorologist Luigi Mariani and physics professors Franco Prodi and Renato Angelo Ricci. The last two are signatories to the rapidly growing ‘World Climate Declaration’. This petition states that there is no climate emergency and calls for climate science to be more scientific. It also calls for liberation from the “naïve belief in immature climate models”. In future, it says, “climate research must give significantly more emphasis to empirical science”.

‘Extreme’ weather events attributed by climate models – somehow – to anthropogenic global warming are now the main staple of the climate alarmist industry. As the Daily Sceptic reported on Monday, Sir David Attenborough used a U.K. Met Office model forecast in the first episode of Frozen Planet II to claim that summer Arctic sea ice could be gone within 12 years. But the likelihood of hardy swimming galas over the North Pole by 2035 seems somewhat remote, not least because Arctic sea ice has been growing in many summers since 2012. According to a recent report from the U.S.-based National Snow and Ice Data Center, at the end of August “sea ice extent is likely to remain higher than in recent years”.

Hurricane and cyclones are favourite subjects for green alarmists. It is unsurprising why they focus on these storms, since the Italian scientists note that historically around 60% of all economic damage caused by global disasters is the consequence of U.S. hurricanes. On May 27th, the Met Office predicted that the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June to November, would “most likely” be above average, with a “likelihood” of 18 named tropical storms including nine hurricanes and four major hurricanes. In fact, the current Atlantic hurricane season has had its slowest start for 30 years. At the end of August there have been no hurricanes, and only three named storms, none of which produced winds of 74mph or higher.

There is plenty of evidence that hurricane and cyclone frequency and intensity has changed little over the recent historical record. “To date, global observations do not show any significant trends in both the number and the energy accumulated by hurricanes,” note the Italian scientists. The two graphs below demonstrate this.




The IPCC has reported that hurricanes have increased in frequency in the North Atlantic since 1878, but the scientists note that observations were relatively low during the first decades of the 20th century. After adjusting for lack of observational capacities in the past, there is a nominal upward trend. This trend, they explain, “is not significantly distinguishable from zero”.

The scientists accept that there has been a recent increase in heatwaves, which they attribute to the 1°C rise in global temperatures, although they note global heatwave intensity trends “are not significant”. They also point out that only a limited number of weather stations have observed an increase in global rainfall. Corresponding evidence for increases in flooding remains elusive, they say, “and a long list of studies shows little or no evidence of increased flood magnitudes, with some studies finding more evidence of decreases than increases”. So far as drought is concerned, the scientists note the AR5 finding of the IPCC that “conclusions regarding global drought trends increasing since the 1970s are no longer supported”. Several studies are said to show no increase in the main indices regarding global droughts.

In fact, a slightly warmer and wetter planet and a little extra CO2 seem to have done wonders for global crop yields. For the period 1961-2019, maize, rice, soyabean and wheat global average yields are reported to have grown every year by 3.3%, 2.4%, 2.6% and 3.8% respectively.

Well-researched, fact-driven, credible scientific papers such as this are crucial in the battle to stop green activists and rentiers having a free run to catastrophise every bad weather event in the interest of promoting a command-and-control Net Zero agenda. Attempting to attribute single weather events to humans burning fossil fuels is the product of feverish imaginations and ‘garbage in, garbage out’ climate models. Rational, evidence-based science should be promoted at every opportunity.

Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.

At this point, it's safe to state that ANY form of alarmist news that catches onto society is manufactured and exaggerated. 

We saw this in CLEAR DETAIL with the Coronavirus pandemic. 

People lost their minds, over reacted on every front and in the end it did what it was going to do regardless. 

Yes, millions died, but the draconian measures didn't change the outcome much but did a LOT of irreparable damage to society and people, meanwhile those responsible for the damage have moved on to destroying other lives. 

Those millions that died WERE SACRIFICED because those with agendas SUPPRESSED news and information that could have saved millions of lives. The suppression was purely for political and monetary gain. 

They argued the ends justified the means. 

The ends DIDN'T justify the means. 

Now they're backtracking on every front because it was mostly lies but those that have their money have already taken it to the bank and because they're the most powerful people in the world, justice won't be served like it is if you and I break the law. 

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The reason that any form of alarmist folds in on itself is the motivator is always profit. 

The motivator for many if not most of the mistakes in the pandemic was driven by profit. People were injected with drugs that didn't work half as well as expected and now they've doubled and tripled dosages to compensate for it's lack of efficacy.

Like, how effing STUPID do you have to be to justify that 6 shots a year is fine but not see that something might be wrong? 

That drive for the money causes everything to tilt TOWARDS CORRUPTION. 

It doesn't mean everything is corrupt. 

It means that it tilts towards corruption and overshoots the boundaries of effective action because the profit is always > the solution. 


And so it's the same for Global Warming. Sure man might have SOME effect on climate but every single forecast, prediction, solution - EVERY SINGLE JAB IN THE ARM they've tried to sell on climate change hasn't had the efficacy they wanted it to have and the consequences aren't as dire as they predicted - JUST LIKE THE PANDEMIC. 


But they keep moving the target and keep selling you the merchandise. 

If you haven't 'woken' up yet, you never will but it's basically a given at this point that those that call themselves 'woke' are asleep.  

The dolt keeps sayin the same thing 'show me evidence not opinions'- no matter how many times I do that.  Its like talkin to a bot.

OUCH