If we are in a climate emergency... It's not in lives lost due to natural disasters or an increase in geophysical, hydrological, meteorological,or climatological disasters. So where specifically is the emergency? It's in the failed predictions. #climate #ClimateEmergency
No increase in global land area burned and no increase in global major hurricane frequency. Where is this emergency I keep hearing about?
No increase in economic damage from droughts. Where is this emergency?
There is, however, an emergency in our fundamental misunderstanding of forcing within the climate system and the climate models.
"Our observational analyses render models with large positive feedbacks implausible..."
nature.com/articles/s4158…
There is no decrease in crop yields. Again, where is the climate emergency?
So, although there is no metric by which the state of the climate can be considered an emergency, the constant catastrophizing of all weather events by fear mongering adults has caused an emergency in the mental health of young people.
On a dynamic planet the climate always changes and we are relatively cool as compared to the last 5 million years as exemplified by the temperature stripes below.
The climate system is extremely complex and disentangeling natural variability from anthropogenic changes remains difficult.
Although there is likely a consensus that humans can influence the climate, there is absolutely no consensus on the amount of anthropogenic warming currently occuring. Furthermore, the focus on consensus is the opposite of how science is done.
And the simple fact still remains that after all the hysteria there has been almost no change in the rate of increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration. What is this all for? Where is the climate emergency?
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