Here are some articles and interviews that may open the wider debate about climate alarm and net zero.
- An introduction to the way research is collated by the IPCC and summarised in assessment reports (16 mins).
- The 6th IPCC assessment report was released in 2023. Important to note is that the science in the IPCC reports is reserved regarding the likelihood and confidence limits on all the various findings. Essentially there is no good evidence for human-caused climate change. But the assessment reports are summarised for policy makers and at this step the findings are simplified and lose connection with the evidence.
- There is scant data to support the notion that any of the things like hurricanes, droughts, melting ice are changing due to human influences
- Research bias – journals tend to only publish papers that promote alarmism.
- IPCC doesn’t study natural climate change.
- Predictions of a dire future are based on models. There are a range of models, giving different results. Models can’t model everything and so have tuning parameters, which are changed according to the modellers ideas, not any strict science.
- Modest warming of 1.3C global average since 1900s and in that time, everything you might measure – lifespan, nutrition, death rates from adverse weather – is all going in a positive direction.
- Sea rise continues about 30cm per 100 years.
- Huge cost of net zero in GDP to developed countries.
- The 6th IPCC assessment report was released in 2023. Important to note is that the science in the IPCC reports is reserved regarding the likelihood and confidence limits on all the various findings. Essentially there is no good evidence for human-caused climate change. But the assessment reports are summarised for policy makers and at this step the findings are simplified and lose connection with the evidence.
- Interview with Steven Koonin (54 mins). This is a deeper overview of how the IPCC works, and how the science gets distorted in the summaries for policy makers. Details many alarmist assertions.
- We don’t have the money, workforce or materials to achieve net zero. Michael Kelly, professor emeritus of technology at the University of Cambridge. He was a government scientist when the Climate Change Act launched in 2008, and has been researching the reduction of carbon in Britain since then. This is incredibly practical.
- Climate Change – the impacts and the need to act. A 6-page document summarising much of the climate knowledge and possible actions. This is evidence given to US Congress in 2019 by Judith Curry. She explains the uncertainty associated with our scientific understanding.The worst outcome for decision makers is a scientific conclusion or forecast issued with a high level of confidence that turns out to be wrong.
- A longer interview with Judith Curry on the uncertainties of Climate change. I have added notes to summarise much of what is discussed. It is a good primer on many of the uncertainty issues around climate change. Judy has spent 40 years studying weather and climate.