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 Are you really showing a graph with a scale of 500 millions of years, to demonstrate that there are not problems, now, for the human being? The temperature is just a symptom, not the biggest concern. Think about what you breath or eat. 
 Why wouldn't he? Don't you remember the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum? I use to live in Mykonos back then, soooo nice! 
 The IPCC models on climate change still view the sun's impact as a constant, yet we have proven scientific data that says this is not the case. One such example is the sun's approximate 11 year sunspot cycle. The sun also has many much longer cycles that impact temperature, intensity, etc.

Why does the IPCC use constants when the evidence has been proven otherwise? Because it doesn't fit the narrative they are being used by global elites to pedal. 

That giant ball of intense heat in the sky is why we have any life on Earth. We should probably pay more attention to that and be less self-centered thinking we are more capable than we likely are at heating an entire planet. Take the power away from "authority" and DYOR.  
 I don't know what is the IPCC agenda, and actuality I don't care. I neither can do a full research on my own on planetary scale. I just observe the last 120 years timespan, when industrialization and chemicals arose, and evaluate the increasing problems on my local area, related to health,  (physical and psychological) and environment. It's quite clear that we reached great technological goals, that helped extend humans life, at least temporally, and their comfort, but we are also breaking some other balances.

As said, the temperature is just a signal. When the wise man (not me, of course, it's the planet) points to the moon, it is no use staring at his finger.  
 The IPCC was embroiled in scandal around 2009 when leaked emails showed they had been falsifying data, and suppressing all dissenting voices. They had a specific agenda, and have actively worked to suppress the Medeval warming period, because it shows the fallacy of anthropomorphic warming being tied to industrial output.
If you want to talk about the very real problems of chemical output into the environment, the destruction of soil through petroleum derived chemical fertilizers, and the giant plastic islands accumulating in the oceans,  we are on the same train. But the UN Climate Change agenda is a manufactured crisis for the sole stated goal of “uniting mankind” under the Hegelian dialectic of created crisis, with the result being the supplanting of sovereignty.
And whats worse, is that it distracts people from the very real problems of pollution with a false sense of purpose 
 As I said, I know nothing about the IPCC, but the fact that they falsified data doesn't change the fact that in the last few decades, the climate, not only temperature, changed brutally. We should also keep in consideration the timespan in which events happen, not only the absolute values, because time is necessary to adapt. It's clear that "industrialization" moved some values suddenly, and humans have not been able to keep pace with evolution to avoid serious damage.

Btw, what IPCC's final goal? 
 Just because data moved at the same time industrialization happened doesn't equal cause and effect. That's failure to utilize the scientific method. Who compiled the data? Who paid for that data to be compiled? What were their goals? Science is fraught with biases and flat out fraud in all directions. No study is all encompassing and only recently has anyone started paying serious attention to the impact of our sun. If you've been paying attention to the studies that focus on the sun you'll realize pretty quickly that something is changing rapidly to it and that definitely impacts Earth.

If the historical climate activist narrative was true we'd all be dead already, but they don't have a very good track record of being right because they use flawed, biased science.  
 So I ask, do you have a scientific answer?
And secondly, what is the purpose of this narrative based on erroneous facts?
I am genuinely interested. 
 Ben Davidson wrote "The Weatherman's Guide to the Sun" it is a heavily cited work--several hundred sources referenced. He also runs the Suspicious Observers YouTube channel where he covers solar events as they happen as well as regular updates on scientific findings. 

The purpose of the erroneous narrative is subjective. I'm not interested in that dialogue. It gets political very quickly and I don't play that game. Seek the truth and prepare accordingly.  
 i think James Corbett series on Anthropomorphic Climate Change ™️, the IPCC, and the unscientific Scientism cult are fascinating. 

https://corbettreport.com/qfc-ipcc/ 
 Thank you, I will try to read it.

About the erroneous narrative and underlying interests, I think it is interesting and important to talk about it openly. It may not be a scientific subject, but it helps to understand the positions of individual parties, and thus weigh their aims and intentions. 
 This assumes political parties are different and voting matters. I don't subscribe to those views. 

The only thing I care about is the truth and using that to prepare my family as best I'm able.  
 the problem in all of this is the weaponization and politicization of science and reason into encampments which have nothing to do with an honest desire for truth. and all of is are trying to figure out how to navigate this new norm. 
 if you were interested youd be looking for that yourself. 
i think you meant it when you said, “ i dont care what their agenda is” .
my statement was more for others who are genuinely still looking for the truth. 
 Perhaps my language could have been misunderstood. By “I don't care” I meant what I pointed out in the following note, which is that the fact that they may be telling the falsehood does not change the fact that in the last decades the earth system has been put under pressure by many human actions.

I know very little about this subject, but I have noticed that there is often a clash on the subject of temperature and global warming, when the environmental issues are much broader. Indeed, temperature is only one parameter to be monitored, but there are many others, such as the presence of chemicals in the air, soil, plants and animals. Or like the incidence of certain diseases.

So when I see a graph that focuses on the change in temperature of the planet over 500 million years I sense the risk of bringing attention to a single parameter, which perhaps is indeed completely normal, consequently dragging everything else into denialism.

But as I said, I know little about this area and my reaction was probably too knee-jerk, although I think it has its own logic. 
 Here’s some facts and data for you:

The earth is greener than 1970
The earth has more ice than 1970

Government is out of control and using “carbon” fear to brainwash you. 
Environmentalism (less pollution, clean air clean water)  is dead and should be revived- free of the anti-carbon cult. 


https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth-study-finds/

https://www.antarcticajournal.com/antarctic-ice-sheet-mass-gains-greater-than-losses/ 
 Best thing you can do to reduce Co2 is kill yourself 👍 
 I’m curious about your perspective here. Why would a 120-year chart be more meaningful than a 500-million-year one if the concern is about current CO2 levels being unusually high? Wouldn’t a broader timeline give a more comprehensive view?

Given that Earth has experienced extreme conditions—like being a fiery ball of magma at one point and a frozen ice ball at another—what do you think would qualify as a "normal" average temperature for our planet? 
 I didn't referred the 120 years span to a temperature graph or CO2 levels.
Mine was meant to be a broader discourse, I think I explained myself in the following messages.