Age of Hysteria

Posted: September 26, 2021 by tallbloke in climate, opinion

Frank Davis

Oh dear,

Changing what we eat is a radical act that will make us and nature healthier and happier. By making nature-conscious eating choices and helping to spread the word, each of us can contribute to keeping planetary warming within the 1.5° Celsius limit laid out in the Paris agreement. A healthier plate makes for a safer planet.

We’re living in an age of hysteria.

There’s no way of “keeping planetary warming within the 1.5° Celsius limit laid out in the Paris agreement.” That “limit” is a nonsense. We’ve always been helpless passengers aboard a planet on a roller-coaster ride around the Sun. We’re in control of next to nothing. We have no control whatsoever of the orbit of planet Earth, nor of the Sun’s radiation, nor of the solar system’s planets and asteroids and comets. Nor are we even in control of the gases in the Earth’s atmosphere, including the tiny fraction…

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  1. I dunno. I think we should make volcano blasts illegal while we are at it. Just think of the benefit to the environment. Maybe we should make all natural disasters illegal? Would it not be in the same line of logic?

  2. SasjaL says:

    Not long ago in human history, people (foremost women) was incarcerated, when showing signs of hysteria.

    Mr Tipton,

    Why not a senseless tax? Just like we have in most countries on carbon dioxide – The Gas of Life …

  3. JB says:

    El gobierno, –Pendejos todos

  4. Chaswarnertoo says:

    Time for Greta to pick a volcano to placate. Mr Nut Nut PM’s insanity is showing.

  5. Gamecock says:

    ‘Changing what we eat is a radical act that will make us and nature healthier and happier. By making nature-conscious eating choices and helping to spread the word, each of us can contribute to keeping planetary warming within the 1.5° Celsius limit laid out in the Paris agreement. A healthier plate makes for a safer planet.’

    This appears to have originated with CHRISTIANA FIGUERES.

    Note the begging the question fallacy: we have no evidence that what she says is true, other than her assertion, which is, of course, not evidence.

    But what she is doing is making a moral assertion, that doing what she says is the moral thing to do. Pointing out that she has her facts all wrong will have little effect. The right/conservatives need to learn to fight moral assertions with counter moral assertions. Scientific facts and data are not effective counter arguments to moral assertions.

  6. Phoenix44 says:

    It’s not hysteria, simply what we have been doing for tens of thousands of years. Want it to rain? Sacrifice a goat. Long drought? Sacrifice a virgin.

    What’s sad is that the people reverting to these pre-science thought patterns think they are the clever ones.

  7. oldbrew says:

    There’s no way of “keeping planetary warming within the 1.5° Celsius limit laid out in the Paris agreement.” That “limit” is a nonsense.

    More nonsense: 30,000 or so climate fear merchants and hangers-on plan to be in Glasgow for 2 weeks in November for COP26.

    Police Scotland reveal £250m cost of COP26 security
    https://news.stv.tv/west-central/police-scotland-reveal-250m-cost-of-cop26-security

    Police diver patrols on River Clyde for COP26 conference
    8 hours ago

    Ministry of Defence police will provide a “24/7 armed policing presence” on the river alongside Police Scotland’s dive and marine unit.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58699120

    In their diesel-powered boats…

  8. oldbrew says:

    ‘Fact Checks’ by Non-Experts Are Shutting Down Genuine Scientific Inquiry
    Willie Soon
    Ronan Connolly
    September 22, 2021 Updated: September 27, 2021

    Science thrives when scientists are allowed to investigate areas of scientific disagreement. So, when journalists and social media platforms use “fact-checkers” to suppress genuine scientific disagreements, they are effectively shutting down scientific inquiry.

    https://www.cfact.org/2021/09/27/fact-checks-by-non-experts-are-shutting-down-genuine-scientific-inquiry/
    – – –
    There’s also the matter of obtaining funding for such inquiries in the first place, if they pose any perceived threat to IPCC climate dogma.

  9. oldbrew says:

    ENSO Outlook
    An alert system for the El Niño–Southern Oscillation
    28 September 2021

    The ENSO Outlook remains at La Niña WATCH. This means that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation is currently neutral, but the chance of a La Niña forming during the coming months has increased to around 50% – twice the normal likelihood.

    Sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean continue to cool. Three of seven models indicate La Nina thresholds could be met during the southern hemisphere spring and persist until at least early 2022.

    http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/outlook/archive/20210928.archive.shtml

  10. tom0mason says:

    This is not just hysteria, it’s a CRISIS OF HYSTERIA !
    The old are dying, the young will perish eventually!
    So don’t just sit there and panic, hysterically run around and shout your panic.
    If you are still calm switch on any BBC station and listen intently to the latest news crisis!!!!!!!!
    😎

  11. oldbrew says:

    Don’t think, no time for that. Act like your brains are on fire!

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