@Shane Doyle: I think you’ll find the OP brought climate change into the discussion.

@Diarmuid Hunt: op says afp enough said..love their articles describing children killed in Palestine as 15 year old militants.

@David Jordan: next you will be telling me the Nazis had gas chambers. Your very easily led in fairness or your paid. One or the other.

In 2009, the public discovered emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit exposing how scientists who have been enormously influential in promoting the concept of man-made climate change actually attempted to cook the books to obtain results that served their narrative that the planet was heating at a dangerous trend due to higher levels of carbon dioxide. One of these scientists included Dr. James Hansen, a former NASA climatologist who is known by some as the “father” or “grandfather” of the climate change myth, as it was his “Model Zero” that first introduced the concept of global warming.

Hansen, Philip Jones, Michael Mann, et al. were all involved in trying “to lower past temperatures and to ‘adjust’ recent temperatures upwards, in order to convey the impression of an accelerated warming,” according to the leaked emails. The emails also revealed how this cabal of scientists would discuss various ways to stonewall the public from seeing the “background data on which their findings and temperature records were based,” even going as far as deleting significant amounts of data. They would engage in efforts to smear “any scientific journal which dares to publish their critics’ work.”

@: You’re / your. Anyone paying you needs a refund.

@Ken O’Neill: Even ExxonMobil scientists accurately predicted global warming back in 1977. Exxon’s scientists ran about a dozen sophisticated computer models nearly 50 years ago, and given the models are now nearly half a century old, it’s possible to see if their projections came true.

Exxon’s research correctly forecasted the globe would warm by around 0.2°C every decade.

Supran, G., Rahmstorf, S. and Oreskes, N., 2023. Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections. Science, 379(6628), p.eabk0063. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abk0063

Human caused Climate Change is not nonsense, it’s one of the most scientifically validated and important challenges we face. The first predictions of global warming were published in newspapers over 100 years ago, the science is not new, look at the evidence:

This graph shows the rapid rise in Temperature and CO2 for the last 2,000 years (0 – 2000 AD) perfectly overlap, showing that the CO2 we add to the atmosphere is driving global warming:

https://imgur.com/gallery/5ioVzFY

But instead of warning people, ExxonMobil buried the evidence and instead paid conservative think tanks to lobby against the science of human caused climate change.

For example, 40% of the total funds of The Heartland Institute, an American conservative and libertarian think tank that rejects of both the scientific consensus on climate change and the negative health impacts of smoking, came from from ExxonMobil between 1998 and 2007 e.g., ExxonMobil donated $119,000 in 2005 to Heartland, its biggest gift since 1998.

(The Heartland Institute was founded in 1984 and it worked with closely with the tobacco company Philip Morris throughout the 1990s in an attempt to discredit the health risks of second-hand smoke. Some of the same lobbyists that worked to defend tobacco company profits also lobbied against climate change related science)

See: Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science

Contrary to ExxonMobil’s sponsored disinformation there is an overwhelming 99% consensus that humans are responsible for global warming. It’s something we are responsible for and something we need to remedy.

Lynas, M., Houlton, B.Z. and Perry, S., 2021. Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Environmental Research Letters, 16(11), p.114005.

@Ken O’Neill: “Dr. James Hansen, a former NASA climatologist who is known by some as the “father” or “grandfather” of the climate change myth, as it was his “Model Zero” that first introduced the concept of global warming.”

No. The term Climate was first coined in 1975 by Columbia University geochemist Wallace Broecker. We see here, two papers dating from 1977, that used the term climate change:

Baes, C.F., Goeller, H.E., Olson, J.S. and Rotty, R.M., 1977. Carbon Dioxide and Climate: The Uncontrolled Experiment: Possibly severe consequences of growing CO2 release from fossil fuels require a much better understanding of the carbon cycle, climate change, and the resulting impacts on the atmosphere. American Scientist, 65(3), pp.310-320.

Schneider, S.H., 1977. Climate change and the world predicament: A case study for interdisciplinary research. Climatic Change, 1(1), pp.21-43.

Also, Eunice Newton Foote first demonstrated in 1856 that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it traps the Sun’s heat via en experiment with tube filled with CO2.

“An atmosphere of that gas would give to our Earth a high temperature,” wrote Eunice Foote in her paper titled Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays.

And one of the first warnings that burning fossil fuels would cause global warming was published in Popular Mechanics in 1912:

“The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the Earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.”

So we understood that CO2 warms the planet over 100 years ago, and scientists made predictions that burning fossil fuels and adding more CO2 to the atmosphere would warm the planet, decades before warming was noticed. This successful prediction, proves the theory that humans are causing global warming, is true.

@John Jon: john, will you ever pick a side, no wonder everyone takes the p I s s out of you.

@David Jordan: that was way too long to read tbh. But the narrative is shot in the arse when you look at all the companies involved. All the companies involved on the green and fossil side are shareholder controlled by blackrock , vanguard and state street. All the craziness in the world is being pushed by these lunatics and their investors. The climate communism, the woke rubbish etc… The public are not stupid. Nothing in the world has the right to take peoples freedom or force behavior. Its wrong and totalitarian. I will not comply and neither will most people.

@Shane Doyle: In utter desperation I assume?

@David Jordan: Long story short – Arson is not Global Boiling.

@Ken O’Neill:
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The Climategate scandal was given new life in 2011, with the release of new emails. The new round of leaked emails at the time provided more teeth to the revelations of 2009. Here are a couple of egregious emails from Jones found, via Forbes:“I’ve been told that IPCC is above national FOI [Freedom of Information] Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 would be to delete all emails at the end of the process,” writes Phil Jones, a scientist working with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in a newly released email.“Any work we have done in the past is done on the back of the research grants we get – and has to be well hidden,” Jones writes in another newly released email.

@Tommy Haze: sorry to rain on your parade but only a minority of these fires were started maliciously. If you had bothered reading the article, you would have noticed this section: ‘Fire department spokesman Yiannis Artopios said 140 people had been arrested on suspicion of arson, most of it accidental. Most cases were related to welding and agricultural work that ignored high-risk weather warnings.’

Critical faculties… hahahahaha!. Very good.

@Tommy Haze: I like the comparison.

@ForrestG45:
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Prove it or stfu.

@Alan B: how dare you use plain logic in the journal comments! They won’t like that around here