SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH EXPLAINS CLIMATE SCIENCE AT COP26 

We are after all the greatest problem solvers to have ever existed on earth. We now understand this problem. We know how to stop that number from rising. We must halve our carbon emissions this decade. We must re-capture billions of tonnes of carbon from the air. We must fix our sight on keeping 1.5C within reach.

RESPONSE:

THE PROBLEM IS THAT SELECTING A SINGLE INTERGLACIAL WARMING CYCLE IN A SINGLE INTERGLACIAL AND ANALYZING THAT SINGLE INERGLACIAL WARMING CYCLE IN TERMS OF ITS UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS IS A CASE OF DATA SELECTION BIAS SUCH THAT THIS STUDY CANNOT LEAD TO USEFUL INFORMATION BECAUSE OF BUILT IN ASSUMPTIONS AND CONFIRMATION BIAS.

AN ADDED ISSUE IS THE DAVID’S INSISTENCE THAT WE MUST RE-CAPTURE CARBON DIOXIDE FROM THE AIR. THERE IS NO SUCH CLAIM IN CLIMATE SCIENCE AND BESIDES “BILLIONS OF TONNES” MAY SOUND LIKE A LOT BUT FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS ARE CURRENTLY 36 GIGATONNES PER YEAR.

LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/10/09/a-data-selection-bias/

THE ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING ISSUE IS NOT THAT THERE IS TOO MUCH CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE BUT THAT OUR CONTINUED BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS CAUSES ATMOSPHERIC CO2 TO RISE. IT IS THE RISING AND ONLY THE RISING THAT CAUSES WARMING.

A new Industrial Revolution powered by millions of sustainable innovations is essential and indeed it is already beginning. We will all share in the benefits of affordable clean energy – healthy air and enough food to sustain us all. Nature is a key ally. Wherever we restore the wild, it will recapture carbon. and help us bring back balance to our planet. We must acknowledge that no nation has actually completed development because no advanced nation is yet sustainable.(transcription ends here at 5:17 into the Youtube video. The rest can be viewed at the link below.

RESPONSE:

WHAT CLIMATE SCIENCE SAYS IS THAT THE ISSUE HERE IS THAT SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, HUMANS HAVE BEEN BURNING FOSSIL FUELS AND THE CARBON IN FOSSIL FUELS IS MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD AND NOT PART OF THE CURRENT ACCOUNT OF THE CARBON CYCLE AND THAT CAUSES FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS TO INCREASE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONCENTRATION AND THE SEQUENCE OF HIGHER AND HIGHER ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CREATES HIGHER AND HIGHER GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE (GMST) AND THAT SEQUENCE OF HIGHER AND HIGHER GMST IS UNDERSTOOD AS GLOBAL WARMING. THIS IS THE CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE AND IT IS THE ONLY CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE. CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT AN ENVIRONMENTALISM THING. THE DAVID’S ECO WACKO INTERPRETATION OF THE AGW ISSUE CAN ONLY BE UNDERSTOOD AS THE EXTENSION OF HIS ECO WACKO VIEW OF THE WORLD.

HIS NEED TO RECAPTURE CARBON FROM THE ATMOSPHERE”TO BRING BACK BALANCE TO OUR PLANET” IS MYSTERIOUS AND YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHERE HIS ECO WACKO OUTLOOK INTERFERES WITH HIS ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE.

LINK TO RELATED POST: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/10/11/anthropogenic-global-warming-in-a-post-modern-world/

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

THE LECTURE MAKES IT VERY CLEAR THAT THIS MAN WHO HAS BEEN A MAJOR SPOKESMAN AND ACTIVIST FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE MOVEMENT AND WHO, IN THAT CAPACITY IS NOW A SPEAKER AT A COP MEETING, DOES NOT ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND THE CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE AND SEES IT THOUGH HIS ECO WACKO NATURE MAN PERSPECTIVE.