That’s the question posed by the all-activism all-the-time BBC in Britain.
Some of us fondly remember the days when the Beeb meant I, Claudius or various adaptation of 19th-century English novels, but now it’s devolved into a tiresome Leftist scold, trying to frighten the children and mental defectives into believing the world is coming to an end:
CO2 is at the heart of our changing climate@BBCRealityCheck looks at whyhttps://t.co/tFPfJBG1sF pic.twitter.com/VQTtb70j7M
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 9, 2020
In order to believe this arrant hooey, you must believe that CO2 keeps the planet from freezing but at the same time — because of “an incredibly delicate balance” that seems to have evolved entirely by chance — you’re just going to have to take it on faith that we humans are bollixing everything up: and all in just 50 years!
The fact that half a century is just about within the lifetimes of everybody reading this post is entirely coincidental, of course, because just like the Holy Ghost, “you can’t see it, you can’t smell it, but it’s actually all around us, and it’s at the heart of our climate crisis.”
The key to understanding the Religion of Climate Change is making you believe that you are the problem. That’s why they’re so insistent upon locating this “crisis” within living memory.
Here’s a more coordinated harum-scarum with an English accent. (Weasel words, as always here at The Pipeline, are highlighted in bold.)
Notice how, at the outset, “global warming” — we’re back to that again — is immediately linked to another phantom menace, Covid-19:
While Covid-19 has shaken much of human society, the threat posed by global warming has not gone away. Human activities have increased carbon dioxide emissions, driving up temperatures. Extreme weather and melting polar ice are among the possible effects.
The Earth’s average temperature is about 15C [59F] but has been much higher and lower in the past. There are natural fluctuations in the climate but scientists say temperatures are now rising faster than at many other times.
This is linked to the greenhouse effect, which describes how the Earth’s atmosphere traps some of the Sun’s energy. Solar energy radiating back to space from the Earth’s surface is absorbed by greenhouse gases and re-emitted in all directions.
This heats both the lower atmosphere and the surface of the planet. Without this effect, the Earth would be about 30C [86F] colder and hostile to life.
Scientists believe we are adding to the natural greenhouse effect, with gases released from industry and agriculture trapping more energy and increasing the temperature. This is known as climate change or global warming.
Note the Note at the bottom of the graph: “Average is calculated from 1951-1980 land surface temperature data.”
Why not calculate the “average” from say, 476 A.D., and the Fall of the Roman Empire to the turn of the sixth century?
Wouldn’t that be just as representative of what the ideal “average” ought to be? Cherry-picking a 29-year period within most of our lifetimes is sure to make some point — but “warming” isn’t it.
Global-warming “science” is like taking the batting average of a marginal player on a hot streak in spring training and projecting it out over the course of a ten-year major league career.
But that doesn’t stop the Beeb or the other climate-change nutters, of course, who are now frightening the horses with images of the volume of seawater swelling as it heats up, soon to overrun all the world’s major landmasses.
Where’s Noah when we need him?
There is uncertainty about how great the impact of a changing climate will be. It could cause fresh water shortages, dramatically alter our ability to produce food, and increase the number of deaths from floods, storms and heatwaves.
This is because climate change is expected to increase the frequency of extreme weather events — though linking any single event to global warming is complicated.
No kidding!
But as long as we’re on the subject, warming/change will affect the poor and people of color hardest, so why not give up beef you selfish bastards and stop using fossil fuels to move about and heat your houses because as warming/cooling/change happens, you’re going to be plenty warm/cold anyway and so just die already and save us the trouble of killing you.
They didn’t actually say that. But you know they mean it.
Read more at The Pipeline
“will affect the poor and people of color hardest”
So people without color are not hit?
Please stop this political correct non discrimination nonsense.
I had this book FACTS NOT FEAR in one page the have about someone showing their child a Rain Cloud the child replyed LOOK AT THE POLLUTION yes their worst all times forms of Pollution is called MIND POLLUTION and we see that with the school kids talking part in some protest with Gret Thunberg as the leading victim of Mind Pollution spreading it to others
In view of the fact that CO2, 0.04% of the atmosphere, is stored/emitted from the oceans, biomass processes, decay and regeneration, solar activity, surface and undersea volcanic actvity etc etc can they please inform us as to who they distinguish this from human activity? And how they can prove CO2 warms the planet anyway given that so many factors warm cool the planet down the ages and decades? Also why Arrhenius who put forward the theory, said any warming would be wonderful since warmth is better than cold (Sweden!) and also CO2 would make crops and plants grow better? Also why it became warmer from around 1300 to around 1850, as had happened before? And can the BBC tell us why their former well earned reputation for fair objectivity and argument, along with excellent programmes is now in tatters, for which they wish to charge the over 75s for a licence to watch much poorer programmes?