IS THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY FOR REAL?

Lately, we have been bombarded with much publicity about the climate emergency.

However, on 23 Sept 2019, Mr António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, received a registered letter from a global network of more than 500 knowledgeable and experienced scientists and professionals in climate and related fields. Led by Dutch engineer, Professor Guus Berkhout, they proclaimed  in a “European Climate Declaration” that there is actually no climate emergency!

They informed the UN that the general-circulation models of climate on which international policy is at present founded are so immature that they are unfit for their purpose and therefore, they constitute unsound science.  Further, the unrealistic economics behind the unnecessary attempts at mitigation of climate change will result in much harm. Climate change action will squander away trillions of dollars while putting many lives at risk by making affordable energy unavailable to poorer countries.

They also proposed that the UN organise with them “a constructive high-level meeting between world-class scientists on both sides of the climate debate early in 2020.”

In conclusion, the group made six statements which challenge the position on climate science and climate policy as held by the UN’s IPCC, the mainstream media and young climate activists:

1. Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming, but for the most part of Earth’s history, it naturally cooled and warmed.
2. Warming is far slower than predicted, so we are far from understanding climate change.
3. Climate policy relies on inadequate models which are not plausible policy tools.
4. CO2 is a beneficial plant food, the basis of all life on Earth and therefore is not a pollutant.
5. Global warming has not increased natural disasters; conversely, some CO2-mitigation measures can be costly and harmful.
6. Climate policy must respect the scientific and economic realities that tell us that there is no climate emergency.

It appears that there is still much diametric disagreement within the climate science community itself over climate change. It will be all the  more difficult for the public to be convinced of the truth and the urgency of the climate emergency especially if the IPCC and its proxy activists are reluctant to confront  dissenting fellow scientists with historical evidence, empirical data and good scientific logic.