natureoftheclimate: November 2024

The more I dug into

's story, the more I realized that something stinks here. It's no COINCIDENCE that her first appearance was on August 20, 2018, with a sit-in protest in front of the Swedish Parliament, followed COINCIDENTALLY four days later by the release of a book she co-authored with her mother. But that's not all - the PR machine for her was already in full swing on August 20, thanks to a man named Ingmar Rentzhog, who financed and drove the campaign through his company,

@WeDontHaveTime

. And guess what? Rentzhog is also COINCIDENTALLY the chairman of the think tank "Global Challenge" (

@ChallengesFnd

), which is now COINCIDENTALLY fully financed by a billionaire named Kristine Person, a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party and former minister in the government under Stefan Löfven. And if that's not enough, Rentzhog purely COINCIDENTALLY happened to walk by the Swedish Parliament on August 20 and encounter Greta during her sit-in protest, taking a photograph of her. But wait, there's more - Rentzhog and Gretas mother had already met before at a climate conference on May 4, 2018, which is COINCIDENTALLY the exact date when Rentzhog became CEO of the aforementioned think tank. And here's something interesting - both Kristine Person and Stefan Löfven happen to be members of Klaus Schwab's

@WEF

. It's amazing how all these connections seem to come full circle, isn't it? It's clear to me that something fishy is going on behind the scenes here. These people are manipulating the public and abusing their power for their own political gain. We need to be aware of their tactics and warn everybody we know about the Great Reset and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Peter Clack

@PeterDClack

The catastrophic losses from the climate hoax are irreversible. That prosperity is gone & will never return. Trillions down the drain for a colossal scam engineered by the UN. What fools our leaders were to listen to the global warming/boiling oceans BS from Gore & Guterres.

Owen Gregorian

@OwenGregorian

Climatologists Shocked By Nature Op-Ed Arguing Objectivity In Climate Science Is Problematic | Kevin Killough, Climate Change Dispatch "Keeping feelings separate from research is fundamental to the foundational principles of science." Three climate researchers took to the pages of Nature to argue that objectivity in climate science is problematic because it hinders their political advocacy, which they argue is too important to deny. Therefore, the authors argue, the values of objectivity in scientific research should be reconsidered. “The public has watched as national and sub-national governments have declared climate emergencies, all the while continuing to grant new permits for the extraction of fossil fuels, seemingly ignoring increasingly urgent scientific messages that this locks the world into passing 1.5 °C of warming above preindustrial levels by 2030, if not sooner,” the researchers explain. While the researchers equate a refusal to stop the production of fossil fuels with ignoring science, energy experts argue these policies will result in enormous economic problems and widespread poverty. The authors of the Nature op-ed, seemingly unaware or unconcerned with the impacts of such policies, argue that it’s unfair to expect climate researchers not to get emotional when governments don’t adopt these policies. “Scientists who express their feelings and worries about climate change are often not encouraged by their colleagues and are instead expected to carry on without acknowledging or communicating the continued inadequacy of action required to secure a liveable and sustainable future,” the authors state. By just about every measure — including life expectancy, wealth, and de@ths from natural disasters — the human race is doing better than ever. Despite this, the authors believe their fears are based on indisputable facts. Climate advocacy versus straight reporting Dr. Matt Wielicki, former assistant professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama, doubted the authors’ claim that their colleagues object to their climate advocacy. Wielicki left academia in large part because, he says, his views contradicting the climate crisis narrative were met with hostility from the university’s administration. Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry, who also raises doubts about what she calls “climate hysteria,” tells a similar story about her choice to leave academia and pursue a career in the private sector. “I’ve never seen somebody lose a position or have a pile-on online because they’re being active on climate. But I’ve seen that happen to many well-distinguished scientists, where they have just the simplest of questions. I think this is the classic projection,” Wielicki told Just the News. Wielicki said he was shocked when he read the Nature piece. He said it’s okay for researchers to have feelings. It’s a part of being human. But keeping feelings separate from research is fundamental to the foundational principles of science, he said. It’s how research is kept free from bias, and during peer review, bias is one of the things reviewers look for. “The Nature article is essentially telling scientists that the data isn’t important anymore. We know the answer now. It’s now stirring up emotion,” Wielicki said. Conflicts of interest The blurring of the line between climate research and political advocacy is becoming more common and raising concerns among other researchers. The highly influential and prestigious U.S. National Academy of Science recently established a committee to examine and further research “attribution science.” Attribution science is used to determine how much greenhouse gas emissions contribute to specific weather events. Its methodologies were developed to aid lawsuits against large emitters, primarily oil companies. There are dozens of these lawsuits filed by anti-fossil-fuel groups and local governments, which critics argue are aimed at advancing an energy transition through the courts, as opposed to legislatures where policymakers would have to contend with voters. The NAS committee’s sponsors include the Bezos Earth Fund and Robert Litterman, who is on the board of Climate Central, a climate advocacy group that founded the World Weather Attribution (WWA). The WWA’s purpose is to connect climate change to individual weather events in support of climate lawsuits. Both the WWA and committee are funded by the Bezos Earth Fund. At “The Honest Broker” Substack, Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr., a retired professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder points out that the committee’s membership also includes Delta Merner, who leads The USC Science Hub for Climate Litigation at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Its mission is also to help advance climate litigation. Pielke writes that the judicial system has a pressing need for expertise, and there’s nothing wrong with advocacy groups organizing experts or creating scientific research in support of litigation. However, he argues, it’s not appropriate for such legal advocates to serve on a NAS study committee that evaluates and legitimizes the information they produce in support of the litigation that these advocates are involved with. “The failures of scientific integrity here are profound, obvious, and completely out in public,” Pielke writes. Losing trust The scientists defending their emotional research appear to think there’s no legitimate dispute of their fears, but other scientists disagree. The authors of the Nature op-ed told The Guardian that they were “mocked and gaslighted” for speaking up about their fears. They claimed “some scientists” ridiculed them for participating in a Guardian survey of climate scientists talking about their mental health issues such as depression, which they blame on climate change. They don’t provide any details on who these scientists are, what exactly was said to them, or how these criticisms were communicated. But they defend their “strong emotions” as being “vital” to their research on climate change. One of the Nature op-ed authors, Dr. Lisa Schipper from the University of Bonn, told the Guardian that due to the “sad destruction of the planet,” she doesn’t have the “choice now to be unemotional about climate change research.” Among the things that frighten her, she said, are heat-wave de@ths, people left homeless by floods, and falling polar bear populations. As Pielke pointed out in a 2022 Substack article, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a consortium of the world’s leading climate researchers, is clear about having no confidence in overall trends in flooding. This also means, Pielke explains, that the IPCC doesn’t have confidence that the frequency or magnitude of flood events can be attributed to climate change. Likewise, normalized U.S. flood damage as a portion of GDP has significantly declined since 1940. Heat-wave de@ths are rising, and there’s reason to be concerned. However, as a result of rising temperatures, fewer people are dying from cold events, which are a far larger killer than heat. Read more: climatechangedispatch.com/climatologists

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Baxter Bentley

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Karl Popper noted the difference between science and religion is that science describes atoms, but religion says that believing in atoms is good or bad. It seems to me that a lot of people are mixing religion & science more than they care to admit.

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Ahmad Hijazi

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"Science is uncertain most of the time. It is a social process, embedded in social contexts. Scientists can be biased. Our vision of science as an ultimate truth is itself a convenient approximation." The Fuzzy Truth of Science | Fuzzy on the Dark Side ahijazi.website/fuzzy-on-the-d

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