r/climateskeptics

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According to the people of Connecticut's 3rd district, this is an accurate representation of who they are. If you happen to meet anyone from there, be sure to make them aware of how embarrassed they should be.

u/gwhh — 1 day ago

Inequality causing 100,000 extra deaths a year from heat and cold in Europe

Complete B.S.

Europe is wealthier than most countries regardless of EU nation. It's certainly wealthier than many African, South American & Southeast Asia developing countries.

Yet some are making gross guesses at income effect leading to more or fewer heat/cold deaths. It's all that extra heat generated by climate change, & heating in particular.

Meanwhile, EU/UK folks up north keep going on holiday to hotter south Europe...when instead they could buy air conditioning & better heating/insulation.

This is just another excuse for requested income redistribution disguised as climate alarm.

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Billions have been wasted on UN's climate change lies. It’s safe to say that many hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars have been wasted on them worldwide.

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u/optionhome — 3 days ago

Air pollution caused by coal power plants is significantly reducing the energy output of solar installations

More proof that Chinese coal still provides much of their power and depletes the usefulness of their solar.

earth.com

Roger Pielke Jr: The Death of RCP8.5

Roger Pielke Jr believes in CC and the IPCC. He's always been a thorn in the CC narrative, because he's rational, articulate, and often times right. A Trojan Horse of sorts, the enemy within the CC movement, a "climate criminal".

Almost an hour long, but also includes some basic background, history...right up to a more rational discussion on CC.

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u/Illustrious_Pepper46 — 2 days ago

CO2 is cooling the upper atmosphere while warming the planet's surface...

Earth.com is a notorious CC zellot, shows up regularly in the Google "news" feed...The Science is Settled. There is nothing CO2 cannot do, warming, cooling...and it's all bad.

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Climate change has a paradox hiding in plain sight. While temperatures rise at the surface and in the lower atmosphere, the upper atmosphere has been cooling dramatically.

A new study conducted at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has shed more light on this phenomenon.

Up there, CO2 molecules act more like a radiator than a blanket. They absorb infrared energy coming up from below and emit some of it out into space.

The stratosphere has since cooled by roughly 2 degrees Celsius since the mid-1980s – more than ten times what would have been expected without human-caused CO2 emissions.

Link if you must.

https://www.earth.com/news/carbon-dioxide-cos-is-cooling-stratosphere-upper-atmosphere-while-warming-planet-surface/

u/Illustrious_Pepper46 — 3 days ago

2016: "I can't imagine there'll be a human on the planet in ten years" - Guy McPherson, University of Arizona

u/suspended_008 — 4 days ago

Reading around in skeptical circles I heard this claim quite a bit and would love a source/explanation for it

The claim being that as CO2 increases, it's warming capabilities diminish as a result using a kind of bottleneck effect I suppose. Is there a source that explains it? I searched across the web but was unable to find anything. I'm genuinely curious as I have never heard that theory before and would love to learn more

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u/Sixnigthmare — 3 days ago

Global map of 2,213 cities reveals why some urban heat traps are worsening

Study confirms that China and Western high-rises, streets, & parking lots trap nighttime heat, whereas suburbs hold more daytime heat.

So the idea that we all need to live in 15- minute congested cities for mass transit is flawed.

Plus, the study supports that global average temperature is rising due to higher day averages of many smaller cities. Higher night averages of far fewer large cities raise temperature less, except in China where large cities are the norm.

earth.com
u/Adventurous_Motor129 — 3 days ago

What do YOU think will happen in 2050, a reflection.

This exact question, "what do you think will happen in 2050" was asked a couple of years ago by my very no-nonsense Balkan mother who I will gladly credit as the reason I gained sense as it was her who taught me to be skeptical of the media (courtesy of having lived through the end of a country I suppose)

This question, to my anxious teenage brain was my first wake up call inside the deepest pit of climate anxiety, because I couldn't answer. I was told that (at the time) global warming was going to end humanity at the least and that it was somehow my fault just by existing as a human being.

Now I may be incorrect (in which case I'll gladly take the L as kids say) but I don't believe that the average layman climate alarmist whether activist or doomed can answer this question fully, after all we're just being told that everything will just get blanket worse. Especially today! Back when mother asked me this it was still global warming. One could answer "it'll just get warmer until x bad thing happens" but now? We're told it's going to get warmer but also colder, wetter but also drier (everything everywhere all at once you might say) in these conditions, getting a picture of the future (which I firmly believe humans need to have to survive) whether bad or good is impossible. Which I believe is (part of) the point.

If I'm wrong/have an idea what future the average climate alarmist could be imagining please do share so.

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u/Sixnigthmare — 5 days ago