I have sat quietly for a long time now, before, but especially since my recent change of position on what is really happening with the climate system of Earth – the one and only planet anywhere in sight (or reach) which could possibly support human and the various other forms of life on which we depend for essential support of our own lives. I have reached the general conclusion that there is actually nothing going on with our climate that is not predictable from the planet’s history (both recent and distant) and which would merit the assumption that we are in any imminent danger from such things – whether specified or currently unspecified. There are no such dangers, no such events, and no such reasons for getting the human public all worked up about any of it or to amass funding to combat, fight, mitigate, adapt to, or otherwise deal with these figments of someone’s (who exactly?) imagination. Everything is perfectly normal – for the situation we are currently passing through.
Now, before I go on, I have absolutely no academic qualifications with which to back my assertions, other than a good (and free) Junior and Grammar School education through the 1950s (the last period of time such things were available to other than the moneyed), and a lifetime of almost continuous and broad personal study and other extraneous life events which have molded me into who I am today – and one, of whom, few remain. In addition, I have also witnessed more science and history unfolding, as it happened, than any child anywhere has had passed on to them as educational material since that time. So, while such people as Professor Emeritus McPherson may have papers to suggest they know what they are talking about, I have the life experience and accumulated wisdom which ensures it. Though I do say this very humbly and fully aware that neither I nor my opinion are infallible. So, it is up to you to decide whether what I have to say, is worth reading or not. I don’t care either way. I’m going to say it no matter what.
I have neither the time nor the space to make general statements on the situation. You can read back in my blog posts over the past few months to see what I have already said, so let’s restrict this current work to just examine McPherson’s most recent work, here…
Science Snippets: Scientists Quoted, “We Are Afraid” – Guy McPherson – Substack – Jan 11, 2024
I will attempt to dissect this, statement by statement (until I get bored at least). I am unsure at this stage just how far I will go with this. It may need to become another multi-part bulletin. I have only quickly read some of McPherson’s piece, but I have seen enough for me to act in writing this to bring some light to the subject and to correct such diverse mechanisms as I have already seen to be only a subversion of the truth. Here we go.
We can bypass the first two commentary paragraphs of the McPherson article, which incidentally is simply a necessary transcript for his usual mumbled and indecipherable vocals on the accompanying video. The cutting remarks in these paragraphs on the efforts of the panel of experts, I completely agree with.
The first thing to note about the third paragraph is that the basis of that on which McPherson is commenting is buried so deep as to be unverifiable by most readers. It speaks of an unnamed group of twelve (only 12?) ‘distinguished international’ scientists who during an article published by Forbes concerning something written by ‘the twelve’ in Bioscience (a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences) have made some rash and foolish statements about the current climate situation. I will not comment on the Forbes article, which is full of other wild characterisations of the climate situation which do not bear scrutiny, other than to give the one example where it is stated that there has never been a hotter period in the last 100,000 to 120,000 years. Of course that is true, because that was the beginning of the previous cooling cycle which led the planet down to the low level cooling of GMST (Global Mean Surface Temperature) which has not been exceeded at any time in the past 500 million years (that is a low of around 9°C), before climbing again 5-6°C to our current GMST of around 14.5°C. But if you study the records back to 130,000 years ago you will see a similar climb of again about 6°C to something even hotter than today’s GMST by approximately 1°C. Which is why I declare today’s temperatures nothing to get excited about. It has occurred before, several times in the most recent 130,000 year cycles of heating and cooling – and will continue to do so into the future. Which is why I predict one further degree of warming in the current cycle, followed by another slow but drastic cooling period over the next 120,000 years. Except there is one potential catastrophic occurrence looming in the collected data, which I will speak of later.
I will just make the general comment here that the 500 million year valid level of 9-10°C of GMST marks what I have called the bottom of the climate envelope for normal Earth climate temperature variances. The upper level of that envelope I determine is some 28-30°C of GMST (again valid for the past 500 million years). We are currently at something less than 15°C of GMST. So why are we worrying abut climate at all? Everything is normal and is even at middle of the range values just now. The only thing which is not normal is the level of CO2 in the atmosphere. It is far too low for both human comfort and to get the best out of the planet. This together with the issue I mentioned at the end of the previous paragraph are what we should be concerning ourselves about.
What I have said so far is sufficient to put to bed everything that so-called climate science raves about today in terms of a hot-house Earth. But not everything McPherson raves about. That is another story. But back to the current one for a little while longer.
This is the kind of ‘science basis’ of the Bioscience ‘peer-reviewed’ report, which McPherson’s article reviews…
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory
That document makes interesting reading but, I opine, and will pursue further (if time and interest persists), it makes little sense from a climate, statistical, logical, or scientific perspective – but is exactly the kind of garbage which is used and abused by rampant climate lunatics worldwide to confuse ordinary people.
Incidentally, and before I go any further, why is this team of 12 ‘scientists’ publishing a (supposedly) climate science study on a distinctly biological science journal and not a climate science journal? I will tell you why. Because none of them are actual climate scientists, being mostly Forestry and Terrestrial Ecosystem researchers, and some not even academics. A real climate scientist would laugh them out of the door. They know nothing about climate science. They should be directed to stick to their forestry ring-counting and terrestrial worms per square metre fields, and leave climate issues to those who actually know something. It is not a good look for Bioscience.
So, for now, I will leave further criticism of both these reports to concentrate on examining what Guy McPherson is saying.
Still not finished with the third paragraph of McPherson’s video transcript, while not his words but those of the now discredited team of twelve, the assertion is made which is the basis of all false climate logic – that “human activity is pushing Earth into a climate crisis”. Nothing could be further from the truth. But since that calls for a possibly extended response, and seems to represent a large chunk of the basis on which McPherson’s views are held, and because I think I have said enough for now, I will leave it to be dealt with …in the next bulletin. Hopefully tomorrow.
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