European Parliament Told: There Is No Climate Emergency
At a press conference on Wednesday (20th November), the European Parliament was told: ‘there is no climate emergency’.
One MEP became emotional and accused the organizers of ‘collective manslaughter’ on future generations.
The press conference was hosted by the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament, who formally received the climate declaration from Professor Guus Berkhout.
Professor Berkhout represents the Climate Intelligence Foundation (Clintel), a Dutch group that has collected signatures from over 700 prominent scientists and professionals in support of the basic statement: there is no climate emergency.
Signatories include Nobel laureate, Professor Ivar Giaever, who made important experimental discoveries regarding superconductors, and the influential mathematician and physicist Professor Freeman Dyson.
The Liberal Democrat MEP, Irina von Wiese, took umbrage at the declaration and refused to believe IPCC statements about a lack of any global trends in extreme weather events.
The declaration was supported by an addendum, setting out the scientific justification for the statement:
Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming
The geological archive reveals that Earth’s climate has varied as long as the planet has existed, with natural cold and warm phases.
The Little Ice Age ended as recently as 1850. Therefore, it is no surprise that we now are experiencing a period of warming.
Warming is far slower than predicted
The world has warmed at less than half the rate predicted by IPCC on the basis of modeled anthropogenic forcing and radiative imbalance. It tells us that we are far from understanding climate change.
Climate policy relies on inadequate models
Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as global policy tools. They blow up the effect of greenhouse gases such as CO2. In addition, they ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 can also be beneficial.
CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth
CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing. More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth: additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide.
Global warming has not increased natural disasters
There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts, and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent. However, there is ample evidence that CO2-mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly.
Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities
There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm. We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050.
If better approaches emerge, and they certainly will, we have ample time to reflect and re-adapt. The aim of global policy should be ‘prosperity for all’ by providing reliable and affordable energy at all times.
In a prosperous society, men and women are well educated, birthrates are low and people care about their environment.
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Andy Rowlands
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You can bet this will be totally ignored, just as that letter with 500 signatures was ignored by the UN. They will continue with their alarmist globalist / Socialist policies no matter whatever anyone says.
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Vance Lunn
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That’s because it is a religion, and its practitioners are very faithful adherents.
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Andy Rowlands
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You’re absolutely right Vance.
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Chris
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Without atmospheric co2 there isn’t any atmospheric oxygen.
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Steve Parker
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Absolutely ignored because “Climate Emergency” has taken on a life of its own and scientists are no longer required.
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Carbon Bigfoot
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Admitting to the truth would no longer require the imposition of onerous regulations that she and her elitist bureau-rats prescribe and benefit from financially.
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richard
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and the world continues to thrive-
Agriculture yields are up- https://ourworldindata.org/yields-and-land-use-in-agriculture#yields-since-1960.
Poverty has decreased- https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts.
Life expectancy has increased- https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy.
Deaths from weather related disasters have declined- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/natural-disaster-death-rates?time=1900..2018.
oh and the planet and deserts are greening from the increase in CO2- https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth/
“Our world in data” is run by Oxford University.
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tom0mason
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The bottom line is that the EU commissioners make ALL the decisions not the EU’s so called Parliament — the EU Parliament is there to give the population the distraction of voting for someone, while all they can actually do is rubber stamp the diktats handed to them by the EU commissioners.
From Wikipedia …
Note 1 </strong)
That the EU Parliament has NO right to propose or initiate legislation, they can only request the all powerful (and UNELECTED) Commission look into any matter that troubles the parliament. If and when the Commission deems a proposal requires action they (and only they) will propose the legislation that the EU Parliament can vote on. If the EU Parliament votes against the EU Commission then the matter is either dumped, or, as often happened in the past, the legislation is re-proposed until the EU Parliament accepts it
Note 2 </strong)
EU Commissioners are NOT voted into their positions of power but appointed by the Commissioners! The public has NO say in who is or can be a EU Commissioner!
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission
and
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/commissioners/2014-2019_en
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