Time to call out ‘new levels of stupid’ on climate science
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This post title was inspired by an excellent 30-minute YouTube video by this philosopher (we don’t post videos anymore as Big Brother says you have to sign up to Google and not use a VPN, otherwise the site would be full of black ugly boxes saying ‘you can’t watch this!’)
The video goes into detail on the ‘new levels of stupid’ by climate-denying MPs. Of course it’s good to stay polite. But really –
The decisions made by Reform UK in a year that has had five heatwaves, thousands of people dying and people literally fleeing from burning homes is going into super-scary end-of-the-world stuff.
It’s time to call it out. And listen to the science.
And just as important is to not let the media get away with being so beige on everything. He rightly points out that after Richard Tice asked us all to ‘enjoy the warm weather’ and beat the French with better sparkling wine – even The Guardian wrote that he was ‘accused of misinformation’ on the subject. No, he was giving actual misinformation!
Climate change is real, but where is the evidence that Net Zero is going to stop it? Richard Tice
Philosphy Toby responds ‘You lost me, Rich. Where would you like me to start? He then goes back 800,000 years showing the atmospheric levels of Co2. Just watch the video!
After the Clacton-on-Sea by-election, the Farage Fest (in the middle of a heatwave) literally celebrated by having three open fires. The clue’s in the name – WILD fire. They were lucky the constituents that just re-elected him did not lose their homes and possibly lives.
It’s super-important to get your science from some place else than right-wing political parties and media. Or simply put – we’re all going to die from climate change, so there’s no point in even trying. None of these people have any scientific training.
What does Net Zero actually mean?
It just means reducing emissions, to balance ones given out. So if 100 tons of carbon is emitted, it’s offset by other things like reducing fossil fuels, planting forests and restoring wetlands (Richard Tice calls this ‘net stupid zero’). He’s often never sat near a bogland and stood in awe at the site of a wading curlew.
Net zero plans help to reduce carbon emissions, which in turn help to reduce heatwaves and stops species going extinct. It also helps our farmers by preventing droughts and wildfires.
An important caveat here. This does not mean that we cover the country in wind turbines (some off-shore planned builds would kill thousands of puffins and other seabirds). Join the campaign to Stop Berwick Bank.
Intelligent solutions are walkable communities, organic food and alternatives to GDP, this would mean far less reliance on oil.
There’s a common thread in that all of the below accept climate change is real, but don’t accept that it’s mostly caused by humans.
Climate scientist Dr John Cook says that when asked how much of modern day climate change is caused by humans, his general answer is ‘all of it’. Even for people less certain, it’s known that around 97% of climate scientists say the same, the other 3% or so are funded by the fossil fuel industries.
What does Reform UK say on climate change?
It wants to scrap net zero to reduce energy bills. This is nonsense. Drilling for oil and gas will decimate the wildlife, create more emissions – and the oil would be sold on the international market, so would not reduce prices.
What does Restore Britain say on climate change?
Rupert Lowe’s party is even less of a fan of climate science, saying The Climate Change Act should be abolished. Again he’s doing what ecological writer Satish Kumar says is the problem by ‘replacing one energy with another’. If we used less energy and lived simple sustainable lives, there would be no issue.
What does GB News say on climate change?
GB News (owned by a billionaire hedge fund manager who also owns The Spectator and online news site Unherd) employs Reform UK MPs and constantly denies climate change. And gives oxygen to the nonsense science-denying soundbites in mainstream media.
Once when GB News presenter Neil Oliver suggested high temperature warnings were just ‘scaring people’, BBC meteorologist and weather presenter Tomask Schafternaker said that the presented facts were wrong, due to not knowing the difference between air and ground temperatures.
In fact, the reality was more scary. People are dying due to misinformation on climate science.
What does Trump say on climate chnage?
Oh dear. He calls climate change ‘the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world’. And is presently being sued by Earth Justice, who is hoping to stop him drilling for oil in areas where polar bears could go extinct.
On the plus side, he and Vance are so deeply unpopular, that it’s almost certain that they will be replaced by a climate-change-believing President at the next election. Hold on polar bears, help is hopefully not far away.
Trump calls wind farms ‘windmills’. It is true that there are issues with wildlife. But there are now bladeless turbines and in Norway they found that painting the base and one blade black, helped to stop collisions with wildilfe.
But again, less energy is the answer (turbines are built with imported materials, and need lots of maintenance which involves driving out to the farms in trucks, which rather defeats the point).
What do oil companies say on climate change?
Strangely, Shell Oil actually admits that climate change is human-induced. And states it intends to become a net-zero business by 2050. How it’s going to do that is not clear, as it still does not advocate shutting down its oil and gas operations.
