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"Man-made" Climate Change Lunathicks Out in Full Force

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  • #632
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,243 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    cnocbui wrote: »
    The UN climate panel have the funding of world governments behind them, who's net worth makes oil companies et al, look impoverished.

    So the worlds governments are going to put all of their resources into oppressing the poor downtrodden fossil fuel industry?
    Wow.

    Actually, the IPCC, which is funded by members of the UN, has an annual operating budget of between 5 and 8 million dollars a year

    This is a tiny tiny percentage of the global GDP and very cheap considering that the IPCC has to coordinate thousands of researchers and administrators and hold global conferences and plenary sessions.

    On the other hand, there are dozens of 'think tanks' and 'institutes' that receive millions of dollars in funding every year, not to produce any research or add any knowledge to the pool of human understanding, no, it's to muddy the water, foment doubt and uncertainty, and try to delay action on climate change

    The oil industry has known since the 1970s from their own internal scientific investigation and studies that climate change is real, and they buried those studies.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #633
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,243 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    cnocbui wrote: »
    Who funded all the scientists who have performed the research the UN Climate Panel has based it's findings on?
    The oil companies funded some of those scientists. They ended up suppressing the findings when they didn't like what they said, but the oil industry conducts its own research and their own scientists were telling them about climate change for decades.
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

    The wealth of the oil companies is irrelevant as it does not and has not had any influence on the IPCC findings and recommendations. Postulating governments kowtowing to big oil is conspiracy nonsense, given the Paris accord and all the other acknowledgements of Global Warming coming from governments.
    The oil companies themselves use words all the time promising to be green and sustainable and state that they believe in climate change. And then they use actions and lobbying and build infrastructure that does the exact opposite

    The Oil industry have absolutely been lobbying heavily to water down commitments to reduce climate change.

    As far as they're concerned, Paris was a massive win. They got words promising things, but no actual sanctions for any countries that don't meet the commitments.

    What we need are global treaties that include penalties for countries who fail to follow through. We need treaties limiting exploration and drilling, and committing to phasing out fossil fuel use while Mandating much more stringent carbon capture and storage at all parts of the fossil fuel life cycle

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #634
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    cnocbui wrote: »
    The UN climate panel have the funding of world governments behind them, who's net worth makes oil companies et al, look impoverished.

    And who lobbies governments from a local level right the way up? Solar panel manufacturers?


  • #635
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    Niles Crane wrote: »
    I didn't say my emmissions didn't make a difference.

    Are you now saying they do make a difference??

    If so, you might be good enough explain what it is that you think they are making a difference to.

    I will take it, unless otherwise advised, that you, unlike others here, fully endorse the following , from NUI Galway, about the need to not only take individual action, but also to try to persuade your mates to reign in their carbon footprint too:

    Quote:
    As members of the public, we need to develop discernment in what we read and hear about climate change, and to take individual action to reduce our carbon – and water – footprints, as well as educating our peers and superiors.
    http://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/new...i-galway-.html

    Niles Crane wrote: »
    I said one person doing something won't make a difference unless the whole world goes along with it.

    Seems like all the alarmed environmentalists use that line nowadays.

    I'm not saying you are, because you know your emissions really do make a difference.

    Niles Crane wrote: »
    Based on some of your recent posts it looks like the username you chose is quite fitting.

    Ok, Niles.


  • #636
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,837 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    When the boss of Shell is saying, there's a problem, I think you really have a problem.
    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/09/shell-ben-van-beurden-mass-reforestation-un-climate-change-target


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  • #637
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    Cienciano wrote: »
    This is the bit I don't understand. Maybe because it's búll****. Who has more funding behind them, the UN climate panel or every oil company and major industry in the world? If it's the UN climate panel, they are the most influential group of people in the history of the world.




    You may not be influenced by the UN's talk of global warming, but it would appear that some people here and elsewhere are.



    Their influence has ensured the promise of funding for various climate projects (aptly named as Shifting the Trillions) from many countries, and public and private institutions.



    https://www.carbonbrief.org/climate-finance-challenge-shifting-trillions


  • #638
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    Water John wrote: »
    When the boss of Shell is saying, there's a problem, I think you really have a problem.
    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/09/shell-ben-van-beurden-mass-reforestation-un-climate-change-target


    One minute "big oil" is the demon and can't be trusted, the next minute your hanging on their every word.


    I've seen more flip flopping here today than I've seen in a long time.


  • #639
    maccored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,781 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    we're too late, basically


  • #640
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,837 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    You could really fill Sarah Huckaby Sanders shoes. A remote connection to the truth. Your trying the same twist as before. Touch of heads I win, tails you lose.


  • #641
    xckjoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭xckjoo


    dense wrote: »
    One minute "big oil" is the demon and can't be trusted, the next minute your hanging on their every word.


    I've seen more flip flopping here today than I've seen in a long time.


    LOL


    Defendant: "Your honour, I'd like to change my plea from not guilty to guilty"
    Judge: "No way! You lied about being not guilty so you're probably lying about being guilty too"


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  • #642
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    Akrasia wrote: »

    The oil companies themselves use words all the time promising to be green and sustainable and state that they believe in climate change. And then they use actions and lobbying and build infrastructure that does the exact opposite

    The Oil industry have absolutely been lobbying heavily to water down commitments to reduce climate change.

    As far as they're concerned, Paris was a massive win. They got words promising things, but no actual sanctions for any countries that don't meet the commitments.


    I did tell you before that Christiana Figueres, the former UN climate chief who who led the historic Paris agreement of 2015 is now on the board of one of Italy's biggest oil companies.


    They're doing well too, lots of new explorations in the pipeline as they say.



    Here they tell us how great they and their oil is:


    https://www.eni.com/en_IT/company/eni-history/history-oil-exploration-italy.page#


    Here they tell us how great their Director, the former UN climate chief is:


    :https://www.eni.com/en_IT/media/2018/04/eni-first-meeting-of-the-advisory-board?lnkfrm=serp


    Here they alert potential investors of it's plans about Becoming a fully integrated oil and gas company
    Eni is now a fully integrated oil and gas company, focused on its core operations, targeting greater efficiency and higher cash generation across all businesses.


    https://www.eni.com/en_IT/investors/strategy.page


  • #643
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    Some time ago I posted that the IPCC despite having decades to do so, reports that it could not find evidence of climate catastrophe as a result of global warming.

    It's here for the newcomers to the thread:


    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=108100618&postcount=572


    That position concurs with other research which suggests that outside of the alleged temperate rise from the pre industrial period (which is now apparently 1850 to 1900) less climate change is happening than what is being perceived.


    https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/trends-in-extreme-weather-events-since-1900--an-enduring-conundrum-for-wise-policy-advice-2167-0587-1000155.php?aid=69558

    The media hype about global weather extremes which is being swallowed whole by many has even been condemned by NASA's head.

    "General statements about extremes are almost nowhere to be found in the literature but seem to abound in the popular media," Schmidt said.



    "It's this popular perception that global warming means all extremes have to increase all the time, even though if anyone thinks about that for 10 seconds they realize that's nonsense."
    https://www.eenews.net/stories/1059985592


  • #644
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,243 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    dense wrote: »
    One minute "big oil" is the demon and can't be trusted, the next minute your hanging on their every word.


    I've seen more flip flopping here today than I've seen in a long time.

    So are shell part of the one world socialist conspiracy now?

    'Big Oil' are following the gameplan that has been obvious from the start

    1 deny there is any link
    2 say that there might be some link but it needs more study
    3. Say that there is a plausible link but we don't fully understand all of the causes of climate change, it's probably part of a natural cycle
    4. Admit it is likely caused by humans but the rate of warming is being exaggerated
    5. Admit that it is real and it is serious and they want to take measures to solve it, but we have plenty of time to adapt so there's no need to rush to regulate the industry
    6. Admit that it is real and serious and we are under time constraints and that changes need to be made, but lobby for self regulation and pretend that they are already committed to change, while in reality trying to prevent meaningful action to phase out fossil fuels or enforce CCS regulations.

    They are in phase 6 now, they will stay here for as long as they can while constantly lobbying and trying to water down any regulations that would affect their assets or their operating costs.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #645
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,243 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    maccored wrote: »
    we're too late, basically

    We're too late to prevent a lot of harm, but don't worry, there's still plenty of more harm that we still have a chance to avoid. What we desperately need to avoid crossing any tipping points where natural feedbacks amplify warming. Once that happens, no matter how much we reduce CO2, it might be too late to avoid runaway climate change and we may be forced to resort to much more drastic responses (geo-engineering)

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #646
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,243 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    dense wrote: »
    I did tell you before that Christiana Figueres, the former UN climate chief who who led the historic Paris agreement of 2015 is now on the board of one of Italy's biggest oil companies.


    They're doing well too, lots of new explorations in the pipeline as they say.



    Here they tell us how great they and their oil is:


    https://www.eni.com/en_IT/company/eni-history/history-oil-exploration-italy.page#


    Here they tell us how great their Director, the former UN climate chief is:


    :https://www.eni.com/en_IT/media/2018/04/eni-first-meeting-of-the-advisory-board?lnkfrm=serp


    Here they alert potential investors of it's plans about Becoming a fully integrated oil and gas company




    https://www.eni.com/en_IT/investors/strategy.page
    Thanks for basically verifying exactly what I was saying. Oil industry bribing corrupt politicians to water down negotiations to prevent meaningful action on climate change.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #647
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,243 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    dense wrote: »
    Some time ago I posted that the IPCC despite having decades to do so, reports that it could not find evidence of climate catastrophe as a result of global warming.

    It's here for the newcomers to the thread:


    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=108100618&postcount=572


    That position concurs with other research which suggests that outside of the alleged temperate rise from the pre industrial period (which is now apparently 1850 to 1900) less climate change is happening than what is being perceived.


    https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/trends-in-extreme-weather-events-since-1900--an-enduring-conundrum-for-wise-policy-advice-2167-0587-1000155.php?aid=69558

    The media hype about global weather extremes which is being swallowed whole by many has even been condemned by NASA's head.



    https://www.eenews.net/stories/1059985592
    The irony of your position is that extreme weather is the far end of a bell curve. Climate change makes the extreme heatwave of the early 20th century a normal average summer by the 2030s. And when there are extreme events in the 2030s, they'll be on a scale that was unimaginable 30 years previously.

    If you told someone in the year 2000, that 30 years later, Portugal and Spain could have summer temperatures in the mid 40s almost every summer, they would be appalled. 3 years later in 2003 there was a devastating heatwave that climate 'skeptics' said was just natural variability, once in a century events. But since then, we've had multiple heatwaves approaching that intensity. The extremes of the 20th century are already becoming normal. If we add another .5c-1c to global average temperatures, we'll be in danger of turning mediterranean Europe into a desert.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #648
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    Akrasia wrote: »
    The irony of your position is that extreme weather is the far end of a bell curve. Climate change makes the extreme heatwave of the early 20th century a normal average summer by the 2030s. And when there are extreme events in the 2030s, they'll be on a scale that was unimaginable 30 years previously.

    If you told someone in the year 2000, that 30 years later, Portugal and Spain could have summer temperatures in the mid 40s almost every summer, they would be appalled. 3 years later in 2003 there was a devastating heatwave that climate 'skeptics' said was just natural variability, once in a century events. But since then, we've had multiple heatwaves approaching that intensity. The extremes of the 20th century are already becoming normal.

    You're falling for the media hype again.

    Drought and heatwaves are normal for Europe in a historical context.

    No one here agreed with me when I criticised George Lee and RTE for making up "record breaking" heat in Ireland headlines this past summer because to do so would have been against their agenda which is to be party to the hysteria by spreading false information.

    So you endorse hyped, fake news whenever the opportunity arises.

    The majority of studies on recent hydrological droughts evaluate the drought properties in the context of records starting in the second half of the 20th century.



    There are indications, though, that the main drivers of hydrological drought (precipitation and soil moisture deficits and high evapotranspiration, with the latter linked to high temperature) had already reached recent levels in the more distant past.

    For instance, the highest daily temperatures in parts of Central Europe in 1540 were likely warmer than in 2003.



    The spatial extents of the reconstructed meteorological droughts in 1616, 1893 and 1921 exceed or are at least comparable to those of the recent events. Further, documentary evidence indicates severe large-scale European droughts, e.g., in 1893 and 1921.

    By extending our time window into the past, we can thus more accurately assess the range of hydroclimatic variability, and understand the extremity of recent drought events.
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-27464-4


  • #649
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    Akrasia wrote: »
    Thanks for basically verifying exactly what I was saying. Oil industry bribing corrupt politicians to water down negotiations to prevent meaningful action on climate change.


    Ex UN officials are now corrupt??


    This is all very Maurice Strong isn't it?


  • #650
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,243 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    dense wrote: »
    You're falling for the media hype again.

    Drought and heatwaves are normal for Europe in a historical context.

    No one here agreed with me when I criticised George Lee and RTE for making up "record breaking" heat in Ireland headlines this past summer because to do so would have been against their agenda which is to be party to the hysteria by spreading false information.

    So you endorse hyped, fake news whenever the opportunity arises.


    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-27464-4

    Yeah, the most extreme droughts and heatwave in recorded history are 'normal'?

    I said that the extremes of the past are becoming the new normal, and you go off and find something that says extreme weather happened in the past.

    Another win for dense

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #651
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,243 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    dense wrote: »
    Ex UN officials are now corrupt??


    This is all very Maurice Strong isn't it?

    What are you on about. You brought up this woman as someone who was a game keeper and has now become a fox. That's a thing called regulatory capture. Where officials are bought off by industry to betray their mandate and push for soft regulations, with the promise that they will then be given cushy jobs in industry after their term ends.


    I didn't check your sources or your links on your post. I don't have time. I realise that this was probably a mistake given your history of routinely misrepresenting the facts. I don't know anything about Christiana Figueres.

    None of this affects the science. If some politicians are self serving or prepared to set aside their principles for personal advancement, that says nothing about the scientific basis for climate change or the need for us to act urgently to reduce our emissions.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



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  • #652
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    Akrasia wrote: »


    I don't know anything about Christiana Figueres.


    But you've just said she's corrupt.

    Is she even being remunerated for her work in that company?


    How can you decide that someone is corrupt without any evidence to back up your claim?


  • #653
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    In the time it took me to go out for a blowdry, four posters have already expressed their thanks to someone who not only roundly endorses fake news but has just said that the ex UN climate chief is corrupt.

    I don't see how she's been corrupted by the oil company she's a direcor for and it's also a very serious allegation to be making. Anyone want to explain why they thinks she's corrupt?



    Oh, I see our own climate chief has just resigned.


  • #654
    xckjoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭xckjoo


    I see our Minister for Communications resigned for a rural broadband related controversy. I'm not sure what relevance this has to a thread about climate change but thought it worth mentioning :)


  • #655
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,837 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057886132&page=638

    This is an excellent post here by Demfad
    'Let's look at Brexit: All operating out of the same London address 55 Tufton Street: Campaigns Vote Leave, Leave.EU AND Climate denial groups-- The Global Warming Policy Foundation, The Atlantic Bridge, Institute of Economic Affairs. 55 Tufton Street is Brexiteer central and is the climate denial centre of the UK.'

    Amazing close relationship between Brexiteers and Climate Deniers.


  • #656
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,243 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    dense wrote: »
    But you've just said she's corrupt.

    Is she even being remunerated for her work in that company?


    How can you decide that someone is corrupt without any evidence to back up your claim?
    What was the point you were trying to make about her?

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #657
    Dohnjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,004 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    dense wrote: »
    four posters have already expressed their thanks

    For the fact that some posters have the patience to deal with your neverending circular arguments, pedantic statements, borderline conspiracy theories and obsessive subjective nitpicking over straightforward information


  • #658
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    Akrasia wrote: »
    What was the point you were trying to make about her?

    To try to determine whether your judgement can be trusted. It clearly can't.

    I simply presented a fact.

    She is now a director of ENI.

    You grabbed it and immediately twisted it into something to fit your false narrative, claiming she'd been bought off by big oil and was corrupt.

    You failed the test miserably.
    Alarmists don't do facts.
    They make things up for other alarmists to feed off of and get thanked here for doing so.

    Who knows, your false allegations are probably after been spread all over the net by now by other alarmists.

    As Joe Duffy says, this could go infectious, you just don't know how these rumours can grow legs.

    Nice one Akrasia.


  • #659
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    Someone mentioned something about clear information so here's another study that says that observations consistently show no significant acceleration in global sea level rise from 1900 to the present.


    It's not the sort of information they're looking for though because it goes against what they've been fed and what they want to believe.



    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964569118303429?via%3Dihub


  • #660
    dense
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭dense


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    I find it reassuring that the IPCC are confident that we humans have the ability to determine what the world's temperature will be in 50 or 100 years time.
    We can do this, apparently, by simply controlling the amount of CO2 we put in to the atmosphere.
    It's a wonderful thing that after 5 billion years of having a climate which has fluctuated from one extreme to the other, we humans came along and discovered the key to controlling the whole system.
    So instead of worrying about our climate changing, we should rejoice in the fact that we can control it to suit our needs. All we have to do is turn that big CO2 knob up or down.


    The UN has always entertained proposals to control the weather.



    Here's JFK giving it large to the assembly back in '61 about his desire to control the weather.


    We shall propose further cooperative efforts between all nations in weather prediction and eventually in weather control.
    https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/DOPIN64xJUGRKgdHJ9NfgQ.aspx


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  • #661
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,243 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    dense wrote: »
    To try to determine whether your judgement can be trusted. It clearly can't.

    I simply presented a fact.

    She is now a director of ENI.

    You grabbed it and immediately twisted it into something to fit your false narrative, claiming she'd been bought off by big oil and was corrupt.

    You failed the test miserably.
    Alarmists don't do facts.
    They make things up for other alarmists to feed off of and get thanked here for doing so.

    Who knows, your false allegations are probably after been spread all over the net by now by other alarmists.

    As Joe Duffy says, this could go infectious, you just don't know how these rumours can grow legs.

    Nice one Akrasia.

    So you had no point and were just trolling for a response, and waiting for something you can twist into a gotcha moment.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



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