Climate change is such a powerful force that it may soon trigger a dramatic narrative shift. Over the past century and a half, the end-of-days tale spun by the climate Cassandras has alternated between global warming and global cooling. [emphasis, links added]
A few presenters at this week’s climate gabfest in Belem, Brazil, presaged the possibility that it’s time once again to reverse the hype.
The Nordic Council of Ministers set up a pavilion at COP30, the United Nations climate change conference, to draw extra attention to the chilly, northern nations of Finland, Greenland, Norway, and Sweden. They even found a way to make themselves the focus of worldwide concern.
They issued dire warnings about “the ocean’s conveyor belt ceasing to convey heat from the tropics to the north.”
This refers to speculation about the collapse of a complex weather phenomenon known as the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC).
In simplified terms, toasty southern waters naturally flow northward, taming the winters in the highest latitudes. Without it, the far north would become so frigid that a miniature ice age would ensue.
An August report in the journal Environmental Research Letters and a paper from Chinese researchers published last month in Nature explored the prospect.
The fine print in these publications acknowledges that the climatic implosion isn’t likely, but even a remote chance is enough for fundraising purposes.
Nordic nongovernmental organizations wasted no time soliciting grants from climate-obsessed attendees at the confab while dispensing left-wing public policy nostrums as “climate solutions.”
“We definitely have a need to phase out fossil fuels because that’s the No. 1 driver of the crisis we’re in,” Johan Rockstrom, a Swedish scientist from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said at COP30 on Monday.
It’s also a great excuse to raise taxes.
“We cannot magically have a transformation of the global economic paradigm. I think the first step is we need to start setting a price on carbon, and that also has to include nature … not only the carbon price in the energy system,” Mr. Rockstrom added.
Okay. Time to dissect this climate fear p0rn. 🧤
Lots of followers have tagged me in the replies here, so let’s get down to it.
One of the latest climate scares is that the Atlantic Multidecadal Overturning Oscillation (often referred to by its acronym, AMOC) will “collapse” in… https://t.co/XMuHusLSrv pic.twitter.com/E96Db6B8un
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) June 25, 2024
Like all the ballyhooed environmental disaster scenarios, this one rests on opaque models and unrealistic assumptions, such as a quadrupling of global carbon dioxide output.
Read rest at Washington Times
