Why the sudden hysteria over climate change?

The BBC is in the grip of this hysteria, there's a total nonsense program on right now, Steve Backshall Undiscovered Worlds in the Arctic. He's going up a sound in a kayak to show us melting sea ice. This requires a helicopter and multiple engine powered support vessels. Doubtless there was a recon trip. He seems completely obvlivious to the carbon footprint in this endeavour to show us the effects of climate change. That's hysteria.
I don't think anyone in the BBC would have given funding for this junket except every 10 minutes he goes on a hysterical rant pointing at melting sea ice.

It should be mentioned that UK carbon emissons since 1990 are down 30% so I'm not even sure who he is being hysterical towards. I don't think the hysteria has anything to do with real concerns about climate change, it's a mass hysterical outbreak of virtue signalling.

Charles Ingles wrote: »

That's it case closed

The vast consensus of scientists from multiple fields agree humans are impacting the climate and in a bad way. I'll probably take their word for it.

Of course the water has been muddied by governments and big industries who can't let this consensus go unchallenged because this means mega money, lost jobs and lost votes etc etc. The world turns on power and money and they won't let scientists (sure what do they really know anyway) get in the way. It's worsened by poorer countries with dirtier industries and less money to do anything about the situation.

It's also hard to sell climate change because it doesn't impact us right now. It's the same way people drink too much, eat too much junk, smoke cigarettes and all the bad stuff in life. Telling a teenager they shouldn't smoke vs a 50/60 year old with terminal lung cancer wishing they'd never started.

We'll be long dead either way before anything really kicks off and sure why bother doing anything about it. It's not our problem is it.

We are probably getting really close to the End times disasters that were foretold in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. And the Establishment want a way to fool people into thinking these disasters are a result of climate change so the keep on living in Sin and don't repent and follow God instead.

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

That's the main reason I'm not too worried if it did turn out to be true.

Still doesn't help that we're being gouged for a problem that isn't ours though.

People are inherently selfish. We can't look past ourselves and our greed. Can't be helped, it's just the way of things. The world will go with or without humans either way.

What I hate about the chancers is they always say there's time to fix it. Wait 5 years and if the world is cooling down too much they won't know what yarn to spin next.

NaFirinne wrote: »

We are probably getting really close to the End times disasters that were foretold in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. And the Establishment want a way to fool people into thinking these disasters are a result of climate change so the keep on living in Sin and don't repent and follow God instead.

So the bible makes no mention of cutting carbon emissions then?

Do we have so little faith in our children and theirs that if there is a problem that they can't fix it

That's the real sadness not the rising water

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Do we have so little faith in our children and theirs that if there is a problem that they can't fix it

That's the real sadness not the rising water

We need to make Waterworld part of the school curriculum.

What always gets me is the lack of stuff getting banned if the world really is fecked.

But no, sure we'll not ban big cars, burning coal etc, we'll just bring in more tax from it instead.

Either we are at a tipping point for the world or we aren't. If it's as serious as they are saying, just start banning stuff.

It's all fake.

All the scientists are in almost unanimous consensus but I'm an old idiot who doesn't care about anyone else so it's all fake.

Rothko wrote: »

This is far from sudden.

I'd also rather listen to what qualified scientists have to say than some armchair "experts".

Whoah whoah whoah. Charles has been observing the climate for 40 years which is effectively the gold standard for climate change monitoring and he reckons it's all rubbish. Who are YOU to challenge that view?

Everybody, especially our youth are being told to worry about this climate change craic. Fair enough, but why stop there in the forced worry over events concerning our planet? Why don't the powers that be tell the youth about all the rest of the natural cataclysmic disasters that could well happen here in the morning? Such as some of the biggest wipeout cataclysmic disasters that have struck the planet numerous times before. Every year the planet runs twice into a asteroid stream going through the solar system, the taurid meteor stream, remnants from the comet Encke. Some of the largest meteor objects in our solar system are in this steam. Some of these things are 20 - 30km width in size. It takes the earth several weeks to enter and exist this stream. One hit of one of those objects and we can all say bye bye to it all. No mention of this from any state agency anywhere. The worldwide funding for the detection of these objects is literally nothing.

We are so concerned with our own planet being the total end all of everything we have totally lost sight to the bigger natural disasters not of our own immediate vision and potential blame. Can't tax people for that craic you see. Climate change could well be the actual result of our solar systems star, the suns increased activity. The sun is powering up. Its a star. The Star tomorrow could blast out a coronal mass ejection explosion that could wipe out all electromagnetic power on this planet forever. No mention of that little nugget that has also happened numerous times before. Check out The Carrington event that happened in 1859. If that same event happened again, all electrical power on the planet is shut down. No electricity - No power to keep nuclear power plants operating which results in Worldwide nuclear meltdown. But yeah, don't talk about it so don't worry, look over here and we'll tax the weather our way out of it instead, somebody has to pay the politicians pensions before some asteroid does actually blast into here.

Charles Ingles wrote: »

I'm a fifth generation farmer I know a lot about the land and the weather

Jesus man, why didn't you tell me you were so qualified at the start of the thread and I wouldn't have made fun of you.