I know that everyone else is talking about Australia, out of control fires and the insanity of Sydney's fireworks, but I am going to do so as well, nonetheless.
The image comes from somewhere on the web:
The idea is much more important.
That idea is that a great deal must change. That is the essence of the Green New Deal.
In the face of climate crisis - and Australia appears to be at the forefront of the immediate, or at least newsworthy, crisis right now - the idea that we can carry in as before is not just absurd, but is profoundly dangerous.
It's almost crass that it takes the very obvious connection between a bushfire and a firework to make the point that what humans choose to do now will impact not just on our immediate, but also our long term situations. And yet, if that's what it takes to make the point, so be it. Let's not get picky, or anything else here. The point has to be made. Let's celebrate when the connection arrives and hope that few suffer too much as the awareness emerges.
In the UK flooding may deliver this understanding.
Elswhere it might be heatwave.
The point is, it is our behaviour that is making life on earth increasingly difficult. That is the awareness that is the pre-requisite for change,
I regret the pain far too many Australians is enduring. It must be unimaginably stressful. Except the need is to imagine it, however we can. And to then appreciate that a bit of recycling is not going to solve this. We need net-zero carbon. We need to preserve our biodiversity. And we need to be going hell for leather for this. It's the only way we're going to get out of our mess.
There are then four things to note.
First, this crisis is not going away.
Second, there is no market solution to this crisis: markets cannot cope with externalities of this sort.
Third, this does require government action in that case.
Fourth, it's our job to create governments of unity intent on addressing this existential crisis in that case.
As 2020 emerges we are a long way from the political mindset that delivers the last. But if you want to know what underpins all my belief that now is the moment for political compromises for the common good, with the rejection of materialist politics of the extremes that this will imply, this is it.
Nothing matters more than this.
And the green issue - with all that implies - is now the only test of political credibility. Unless it is at the core of every political action then not much else matters because there will, quite literally, in time be nothing much left to worry about.
This is the decade where we make it, or lose it.
And if it upsets some extremist opinion to be so pragmatic as to put a real issue at the core of concern, so be it. The time for dogma is over. In the face of a crisis we need a plan, and the only one we have is the Green New Deal.
It's time to demand it, now. Even if it does mean a great deal must change, including the inappropriate way some celebrate new year.
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Hear hear!
What more can one say, other than to wish all here all the best for their health & well-being in the year ahead, whatever else it may bring. So, as I watch & listen to the cheerful New Year concert from Vienna, I say to all – albeit with much trepidation – a conventional ‘Bonne Année’.
Richard, I agree with most of what you write, but my eye keeps catching on the mistakes in spelling and the clunky grammar.
I presume your books pass before an editor: has that made you a little careless?
The grammar is deliberate and my style (although I tend to refine it somewhat when writing for publication)
The spelling is checked – but it’s very hard to see your own mistakes when you’re writing a lot, especially early in the morning
The fact is that this is a blog – a stream of consciousness
I could polish it, but then it would not be a blog
I have always put down the typos to a phenomenal typing speed, which you must have achieved to write the amount that you do; one does occasionally have to read a sentence twice.
Sorry
The Australian experience is certainly is an eye opener and if the public world wide don’t get the message of the climates disaster that is rapidly developing they never will. The Australian prime minister is still intent on business as usual with continued massive coal mining operations in Australia.
The only way to to get things changed is either or both of Green parties world wide to expand rapidly plus huge civil disobedience campaigns a la Extinction Rebellion.
UK produces 0.04% of carbon dioxide emissions. Go ahead, kill your economy over it
You need to direct your “thinking” in a different direction. Start with China.
The Green New Deal is always going to have to be global
And yes, that means we start at home
You’d rather kill my children’s future? Is that it?
Simon.
We use China as our “workshop” now. We import all those “made in China” goodies. Our real carbon footprint is bigger than you suggest.
@Simon
– As JVA has said the claim that the U.K. produces 0.04% carbon emissions ignores the fact that we are known to export many of our carbon-heavy activities. 0.04% also looks very low to my eye, but I won’t quibble too much.
– Also as JVA stated, not doing something will inevitably crash the economy, in spectacular fashion. Your comment also ignores all the economic activity which would arise from greening.
Regarding your China comment. I think crass would be my chosen adjective. I can only surmise that you do not believe in leading by example. Additionally, “we’re not as bad as them” is not a good argument against trying to improve one’s own lot.
And finally, I would ask you – do you believe that the U.K. should be a globally leading, developed, high tech nation? I don’t expect a response, but I will hope for one.
At least get your numbers right. The UK emitted 371.1 Mt of CO2 in 2017 (the last available numbers), that’s 1% of of global emissions, not 0.04%.
If the UK, US and other developed economies can’t get their act together on this, China and India have an easy excuse not to bother.
Peter Emmrich,
If your numbers are right then you won’t mind linking your sources?
@Marco Fante,
Sure, here’s the number:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/final-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics-1990-2017
The same number is cited in the global context here:
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/each-countrys-share-co2-emissions
Thanks,
I’ll check that out further tomorrow (or on the weekend). You were quite right in saying that the ludicrous 0.04% number was too low but even that 1% looks to be suspiciously modest as well when considering the higher figures that are attributed to comparable nations.
Hmmm, maybe it the UK’s phase out of of coal and /or something else perhaps. Either way its too curiously low to pass without explanation.
@Marco Fante
Here are some stats on per capita emissions: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/chart-of-the-day-these-countries-have-the-largest-carbon-footprints/
The UK does pretty well compared to other industrialised countries – 5.65 t per capita per year compared to a global average of 4.35 t and an OECD average of 9.02 t.
As a sanity check, the UK population in 2017 of 65.6m is about 0.86% of the world population of 7.6b. So if every UK resident emits 5.65/4.35 as much as the global average, you get 1.12%. It’s a rough calculation, and everything shifts a bit depending on whether and how you include non-CO2 GHG emissions and so on (the earlier 371.1 Mt is CO2 alone), but 1% is about right for UK emissions. I suspect it would be somewhat more if you adjusted for trade, but I don’t have numbers for that.
Both (virtually) ending the use of coal for electricity production (great!) and outsourcing manufacturing (meh) contribute to this. Coal-using and manufacturing economies like Germany (8.88 t) and China (6.57 t) do much worse, even on a per capita basis. Of course, countries like the US, Australia, Canada and Japan are still emitting way more than most European countries.
France deserves an honorable mention for having per capita carbon emissions almost exactly at the global mean: 4.38 t, thanks to all the nuclear power (not saying that would be a good way for other countries to go now that renewables have become so much cheaper).
Thanks Peter,
Good info.
Well Simon you’ve started the decade with the dumbest line in the forum:
“Go ahead, kill your economy over it”
You’re obviously not aware that renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels or that one key purpose of a Green New Deal is to facilitate the boom in investment that will lead a comprehensive transition to clean technologies.
Furthermore, your comment seems even more obsolete on a British website given that the UK is a net importer of oil and that the end of coal in Britain has conspicuously failed to “kill your economy”.
https://www.ft.com/content/a05d1dd4-dddd-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc
https://theconversation.com/market-forces-are-driving-a-clean-energy-revolution-in-the-us-95204
Simon s says:
“UK produces 0.04% of carbon dioxide emissions. Go ahead, kill your economy over it”
It’s not a matter of killing the economy. It’s a matter of making the economy work. The last decade of austerity is what is killing the economy. What looks so great at the moment with ever rising sock markets is pure illusion. It’s a bubble of nothing. Financial jiggery pokery to no useful end.
Well said
I do like the idea of ‘sock’ markets. Is there a Sock Exchange we can trade them on?!
Joking apart, not tackling climate change will certainly kill the economy, not to mention people and planet. I suggest Simon S checks out what wild radicals like Mark Carney or Adair Turner have said on the subject. From stranded assets, to insurance claims and the cost of tackling later what we should be tackling now, doing nothing is verifiably much more damaging to the economy.
For some of us at least, its about rather more than just a narrowly defined ‘economy’
Thank you for laying things out clearly and I agree wholeheartedly! I have thought for a while that we won’t see people’s minds focussed on this monumental issue until they see a capital city razed by fire, or under heavy flooding. We have to realise that the only politician to vote for is one who puts climate first, last and everywhere else.
Nothing less will suffice. Never mind ‘jobs’ or ‘the economy’ – we are now in survival crisis territory and we all need to start voting (and living) accordingly.
“The Green New Deal is always going to have to be global”
Exactly! Which for me makes it such a nonsense there was so little effort to stay in the EU. To make matters worse the United States (justified though it was) has now destroyed the WTO by making its top appellate body unworkable. Trump is so neurotically obsessed with getting his own way in life he’s failed to see that a better functioning replacement for the WTO is needed and one centrally focussed on a remit to tackle climate.
Well said. Could not agree more. Green New Deal now!
The rules of the game for all living organisms always is the same. Adapt to changes in environment or become extinct. It applies to us as much now as it ever has. (With the added twist that, this time, it is US that are driving the environmental change!)
Can our, ever more complex, social structures meet the challenges, or have they become so complex that we can’t make the changes that are needed quickly enough? (The political system seems to be captured by vested interested and it seems increasingly difficult to remove them)
I feel that it will take the collapse of the growth economy to shift things. Also, in the UK’s case, London flooding. Both events are coming. Only then will people wake up to the reality of our situation.
Simon.
Another thought…….. Climate change is going to crash the economy. That’s the point!!! The growth economy is finished. People just haven’t woken up to that reality yet. Wait till London floods.
When London floods it’ll be too late. The wait and see politicians are the problem. But nobody has a plan to bring about change, of any kind, anywhere. We (or some of us) know what needs to be done, but not how to do it. Same with Johnson. Nobody knows how to get rid of him and after 5 years it’ll be too late.
Graham,
I don’t know if this is of any consolation to you but this is how Australia’s recently re-elected conservative PM Scott Morrison was greeted today by members of the public.
https://7news.com.au/news/bushfires/scott-morrison-heckled-as-he-walks-through-bushfire-devastated-town-of-cobargo-c-630247
The standing of “wait & see politicians” can change rapidly. The “5 years” may be the bigger problem.
Alas, I agree with you Graham. It will be too late but I can’t see there being a concensus until it happens. In 1939 everyone new what needed to be done and the whole country was mobilised. We need an even bigger response this time round.
The one spot of optimism I have is that we can change very quickly. The “modern world”, the economy and our social structures are all figments of our collective imaginations. We can very easily imagine new ones. It’s what humans are good at, imagining things that don’t actually exist! Like laws or Limited Liability Companies or indeed money itself!
Thanks Marco & Vinnie.
Australia and the fires also illustrates the complex and non-linear nature of climate change. It’s not going to progress in steady, linear, incremental ways. There will be sudden shifts, whether out of sight like Greenland ice-caps, or in full public view like Australia now turning into a giant barbie.
It’s supremely ironic that it has happened in a developed country that has been so dismissive of global heating. Wait until they see the insurance claims and their renewal premiums
Insurance industry is going to collapse or lots of people won’t be able to insure their property leading to personal bankruptcy.
All the hurricane devastation in the Caribbean last year. How many times are the insurers going to pay out if it’s a regular event? Those islands will be economically uninhabitable.
Some big names in the reinsurance industry got this 7-8 years ago – they could see the rise in claims and agreed with climate change as the driver. I was at WWF at the time.
I suspect wider short term attitudes in the City and politics will have ‘trumped’ the evidence they could see. As we know, experts and data are so out of fashion.
I’m not wishing to diminish the crisis of global warming, (in fact I fear it will do for us all in the end) but some of the direst effects are exacerbated by human activity. Building on flood plains is one obvious example as is the mania for tarmacing over everything and draining run-off away as quickly as possible.
Re Australia, one author argued that the original Australians managed their “estate” by regular burning to create open grasslands attractive to game which could then be hunted. I believe the same happened in North America. I know not everyone accepts his thesis, but if brash is allowed to build up and isn’t burnt off regularly in a controlled way then eventually natural processes, such as lightening, will set it ablaze. Fire is itself a natural phenomenon and many plants require fire as part of their life cycle.
I think the point is that in a world of more frequent extreme (in human terms) events such as fire, storms, heatwaves, flooding and so on, we have to learn to adapt and modify our behaviour to lesson the chances of devastation from these extremes. The implications are immense, even in the UK. To go back to London, is it really sensible to continue development there? How many barrages are going to be needed to cope with rising sea level?
Barrages – incorporating tidal power – have to part of a Green New Deal
The Wash is a massive priority is flooding as far inland as Bedford is to be avoided, and with it the UK’s vest arable land
My only hesitation with tidal barrages is that if the sea level is going to rise, then they may end up under water pretty quickly.
I have the same concern with Hinckley Point. I know Nukes have to be located on the coast, so maybe they aren’t a great idea going forward?
I had the nukes by the sea argument with my father in the 1970s when he was working on one of the Sizewells and I have never changed my mind
Barrages have to be big….
Greetings Richard,
In total agreement with everything you’ve said. My generation & the preceding one have successfully managed to “bugger up” the planet and she’s now responding..!
A world-wide response is the only way out of this…!
Agreed…
We must never give up hope!
Here is a book that is a helpful read. Full of insights.
The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
Bina Venkataraman.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7352-1947-2
As always, thanks for what you write, Richard.
Meanwhile using what we have in novel ways continues apace. Something I’ve argued for is using exiting infrastructure to deliver low carbon energy (non-electrical energy that is). We have a nearly complete network of PE gas pipes in the UK seems like a shame not to use it.
https://hydeploy.co.uk/ if this pilot is successful and signs are looking good. So in conjunction with Cadent the next will be a bigger and public pilot in the North East.
How is the hydrogen made though? It takes energy to extract it from water.
Surplus daytime solar
It is like a battery then
Looks interesting. More and more innovative ways to tackle our climate (and social) problems will happen. I won’t give up hope!
Good if it works. Great way to solve peak demand spikes. Probably better for the environment than building big lithium batteries. Create and store the hydrogen adjacent to gas fired power stations. Distributing the gas for domestic use may not be the best/cost effective option.
Maintaininal National Grids for gas and electric may not be a good allocation of resources going forward. Create hydrogen and use to generate electricity at point of creation rather than pump it round the country to be used in homes. Electricity is the answer. Clean at the point of use.
I’m a gas engineer and gas strikes me as old tech.
Thousands of Australians have become stranded following an evacuation order for the south coast of NSW as fire has closed the main highway out of there in both directions while the other option is jammed with traffic.
Following a slow response the navy is planning to evacuate people from beaches and marinas.
This looks like it is becoming Australia’s version of the Hurricane Katrina debacle.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/02/australia-bushfires-tens-of-thousands-stranded-while-attempting-to-flee
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-02/bushfire-relief-reaches-mallacoota-on-naval-ship/11837006
No further comment required.
I have friends and family right in the middle of that who we have been talking to. Locals rather than holiday makers. Finding themselves as ‘refugees’ or taking people into their houses. its every bit as bad as the reports. There will be major health consequences from smoke inhalation in places not affected by fires – not least in Canberra.
Maybe, just maybe, this will jolt the Australians into action. And scare other developed countries
Yep,
The penny has finally dropped. This is where it starts to get interesting.
Marco Fanrte says:
“This looks like it is becoming Australia’s version of the Hurricane Katrina debacle.”
No, Marco.
It had better be more significant than Hurricane Katrina, because that changed absolutely zilch.
It’s a bit like the GFC in 2008. You don’t ignore stuff like that and expect to survive.
Fair call Andy,
The Katrina comparison was about shock, unpreparedness and the failure to make a quick decisive response. Katrina changed one thing – the logistics, the US are now better prepared and more responsive to disasters. But your right about one thing – it did nothing to change policy or attitudes about climate change at the time.
This current incident (drought and fires included) is different. I am in Australia and I can assure you that everyone is talking about climate change. The mood swing is unprecedented. I’m pretty confident that a paradigm shift is under way – finally! Its gonna take 2-3 years though to get something really worthwhile to happen.
These articles (none of which are from progressive journals) give you some indication although they don’t quite capture the mood of the crowd at the moment. If anyone is wondering why the articles are so focused on the PM its because he scraped through with a one seat majority in an unexpected re-election win by touting his leadership credentials. Those credentials have now been exposed for what they really are.
November:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-14/former-fire-chief-calls-out-pm-over-refusal-of-meeting/11705330
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-15/scott-morrison-should-listen-to-fire-chiefs-on-climate-change/11707096
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-12/australian-leader-s-bushfire-plea-don-t-mention-climate-change
December:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-22/scott-morrison-apologises-for-hawaii-holiday/11821762
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/pressure-mounts-on-morrison-over-bushfire-inquiry-20200101-p53o37
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/scott-morrison-australian-bushfires-royal-commission-action-plan-2020-1
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6118920775001
I hope you are right
I’m in daily contact with family and friends in Australia. Some were amongst those trapped on the coast as reported and managed to get out yesterday. Others have got people staying with them.
A key difference might be that the capital Canberra and other major cities have been severely hit by the effects of smoke. A report from a cousin Canberra today:
‘Here are some of the issues we are facing:
– Highest air pollution level of any capital city in the world.
– Blocked air filters in cars, building air con etc
– Closure of public buildings and shopping centres
– No postal deliveries (OHS hazard for the postmen)
– Cancellation of all outdoor sporting events, sailing, etc
– MRI machines unable to operate in our hospital
– Solar panels so dirty they are down to about 25% of normal capacity
– Catastrophic fire danger which means no BBQs, no mowing, no activity (eg welding, grinding) that might start a fire
– Collapse of infrastructure due to fire damage, so no power, no telephone, no mobile phone, no internet, road closures which may take months to re-open due to thousands of burnt trees which could fall on road users at any time
– An estimated 500 million animals and birds have died in NSW. Koalas have been declared fuctionally extinct
– The SA wine industry crop this year is likely to be destroyed. Smoke has got into the plants and tainted thegrapes
– Huge areas of arable land destroyed plus the farm animals, so livelihoods have been destroyed and food prices will rise
Katrina’s impact, serious though it was, was very local and the big impact was on the poor and powerless. I’d be surprised if there is not a major backlash in Australia.
(That Australian tourist video with Kylie Minogue was unfortunately timed…)
Thanks Robin
This reality is grim
What is apparent is that the impact will be ongoing
Robin,
The major backlash is already underway. That said, for the mere sake of accuracy that list needs a little fact-checking. I won’t nitpick the lot of it. Suffice to say that while things are very bad they are not quite that bad and the koala, you my be pleased to know, is not “functionally extinct.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/reports-claim-koalas-are-now-functionally-extinct-that-s-not-actually-true
Point taken Marco but I’d just say that my cousin is a retired, left brained engineer so not too given to hyperbole. His daughter works at senior levels in the federal government, until recently in their disaster relief section so they are quite well informed.
I suspect that the long term consequences such as on health, micro climates, wildlife, infrastructure have barely been recognised yet.
Robin,
I wasn’t meaning to doubt your cousin’s advice generally. None of what he is saying is wrong (koala ‘extinction’ excepted) its just that your list there randomly mixes some locally specific conditions with the general situation and some of those conditions don’t as yet apply to Canberra or other major cities. To that extent the list could be misunderstood.
Given that the situation is truly dire I wouldn’t want to argue the point beyond that.
I do see some signs of hope from around the world and whilst almost certainly too small to be of significance (yet), we are starting to see:
flexitarianism – some reduction in meat intake
clothes swapping / hire – reduction in fast fashion
aversion to single use plastics – some reduction happening
more care/concern for the environment
Locally, at the election in our constituency, the Greens polled higher than ever with 15% vote share. The Greens also had a good showing at the council elections and are starting to influence decisions.
Yes, a long way short of where we need to be – but it is worth continuing to garner public support for even the smallest changes to help tip the balance in favour of all things green.
Until such time as we have economically literate and well intentioned politicians , we’re fucked.
The ones who understand MMT are using in their own interests and the other lot haven’t a clue.
Off (current) topic:
Thank you for your article in the National today…… As ever, informative and interesting…..
Would be great if you could afford the time to make it a regular occurrence….
Best wishes…
Ian
That’s done to Callum…
The fires in Australia will hopefully bring out some good – it is so much more tangible than e.g. parts of Portugal finding temperature increases of 1° to 2° which are highly likely to be very significant in terms of just being able to live, farm and work.
Perhaps the Australians might even reconsider building in areas that have insufficient water, just as we might reduce building in flood zones.
And people might cotton on to Dubai being just a tad inhospitable.
One can hope.
This gives a good sense of the scale of what is happened in Australia
https://myfirewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au/
This is the one that most of the affected people in Australia are using. You can expand it and click on the relevant spots to get the advice for one’s local area. I am in Katoomba to the west of Sydney.
http://google.org/crisismap/australia
Just back from watching the insanity of Edinburgh’s New Year fireworks
More flights of fancy to bore you with
Australia has suffered from a century of droughts and wildfires.
As the Bush Fire Front team say: “We can’t control the weather but we can control the fuel loads“
“Australian states that burn off the underbrush in rotation — such as Western Australia — experience far less wildfire damage. After 67 years of fire management in the giant, hot, dry state of WA, the trend is clear the more prescribed area we burn, the less wildfire does. What do we do, redesign our energy system, pay billions, change our cars, our houses and our light globes in the hope that bushfires will be nicer, or do we just go back to doing what we used to do that worked?”
Floods in the UK are made worse by centuries of draining wetlands, peat bogs, allowing rivers to silt up and building on flood plains so there is no natural protection or control of water runoff nor capacity in the rivers to handle it leading to flooding in areas that should never have been built on.
Heatwaves and disasters are a common phenomenon long before global warming became an issue;
Disasters when Co2 was at 200-300 ppm
627 – Thousands die of thirst in France and Germany
1000 — In Europe rivers dry up putrifying fish spread plague
1123 — the Rhine in Alsace dries up
1260 — Battle Bela more soldiers die from heat than wounds
1276/1277 — Heatwave resulted in failure crops In France
1303/1304 — Rhine, Loire and Seine ran dry
1393/1394 — heatwave scorches crops kills animals in Europe
1440 — Excessive heat in Europe
1538-1541 — European rivers almost dry up
1556 — Great drought all over Europe
1615/1616 — Heat overwhelming in France, Italy, Netherlands
1646 — 58 days of excessive heat in Europe
1678 — Excessive heat in Europe
1718 — No rain from April to October crops burned, rivers dried up theatres closed 113 degrees F
1723 and 1731 — Extreme heat in Europe
1746/48/54/60/67/78/88 — Marked by excessive heat and crop failures
1776 – Stifling heatwave shops all over Europe shops closed for months
1780 — Great Atlantic hurricane kills 24,000 every structure in Barbados destroyed.
1818 — Theatres closed in France due to excessive heat 110 degrees F
1821 — Heatwave came with a plague of mice 200,000 died in France
1896 — Worst heatwave in Australia temperatures soared to 125 degrees F
1896 — Summer 10-day heatwave kills1,500 in New York
1900 — Sept 9th Galveston Texas destroyed by hurricane 10,000 dead.
1911 — Great heatwave in Europe and the US kills tens of thousands. The hottest July 4th on record in the US occurred in 1911.
1913 — Succession of tornadoes, floods, storms and blizzards devastated vast areas of Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska and a dozen smaller states followed by fires, famine and disease.
1925 — Largest tornado recorded hit Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee 1200 dead.
1926 — Sept 19th Miami destroyed by hurricane 38,000 homeless 1000 dead. Sunspot activity blamed
1927 — Red Cross list as the worst year on record 111 disasters, with 29 tornadoes, 24 floods including the Mississippi the worst in the US on record, 9 hurricanes and 23 fires
1931 — Chinese floods 30 million at risk of starvation 30 million bushels US wheat purchased on 20 years credit.
1936 – the US had the hottest July, terrible drought, 65% increase in death rate over 86 cities. 100 degree F recorded in 100 cities North Dakota crop devastated by 119 degree F temperatures, the coldest February -50 South Saskatoon, and record flooding 200,000 made homeless with all eastern America under floodwater.
So exactly what existential crisis are we suffering now that we have not gone through before? It certainly has nothing to do with radiative global anthropogenic forced climate change it would appear. Therefore there is no need for a headlong dash to zero net carbon at a cost of $trillions devastating the economies in all countries. I am fully with you in the hope that awareness dawns before dogmatic policies are put in place based on spurious suppositions and industrial manipulation or “homogenisation” of data.
Very politely, if you wish to argue for the equivalent of a flat earth go and do it amongst the right wing trolls who will appreciate your efforts
The science in this issue is for now settled and suggests you are ignoring the evidence – as anyone with the slightest iota of sense can appreciate
Please don’t call again