Yes, Monkton has no scientific qualifications.
As opposed to Thunberg, who is of course a fully qualified climatologist. Not ten years ago, she would be considered a petulent adolescent that would be sent to her room. I think Monkton has as much right to voice his opinions as she has.
Fact is, IPCC maths do not add up and their predictions have been consistently wrong.
Yes, the climate is changing, as it has for the past 4 billion years.It's what climate does, it is not a stable thing. Yes, it's warming up globally. It's what happens to a planet that's in the tail end of an ice age.
All this CO2 bullshit is diverting attention from the very real problem of pollution that is actually shortening the lives of millions right now.
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Tusk knows where you live, Sat 28 Sep 2019, 17:30,
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I see it's for real then
Thunberg has the good grace to take direction from reputable sources.
Monkton has his opinion and little more.
on IPCC wrongness... how wrong are we talking here, climate science is a tricky beast.
you ever read this one, clever guy that Asimov is turns out: chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
some degrees of wrongness are acceptable when you are talking in terms of confidence intervals.
on whether the climate has changed rapidly since the industrial revolution (ie. if mankind might have had a hand, or if this is just the tail end of an ice age), have you not seen the uptick?
It's quite clearly very sudden.
this guy has a nice (sourced, also fun?) diagram
xkcd.com/1732/
on CO2, why do you think that's bullshit?
And it's also diverting attention away from cancer, and gun crime. we can think about more than one problem at once.
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^ Oh, absolutely this
This is an unprecedented uptick which is now proven to be linked to the human industrial revolution. Scientists are no longer saying correlation - now it's causation. And we are the cause
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The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Sat 28 Sep 2019, 21:12,
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In the mid-80's they were saying most of the UK would be under water by 2020.
Still got a few months to look out my snorkel, at least.
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