“The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again.” – George Santayana

Do you know your history? Let’s look at some timelines and see how much of the doom-and-gloom narrative is actually holding mustard.

Definitions of climate change

Source: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) https://www.unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf

Source: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Fact sheet: Climate change science – the status of climate change science today (2011) https://unfccc.int/files/press/backgrounders/application/pdf/press_factsh_science.pdf

IPCC = Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Source: United Nations Statistics Division, Chapter 5: Applications of the FDES to cross-cutting environmental issues, Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES 2013), Section 5.3: Climate change (2016) https://unstats.un.org/unsd/environment/Climate%20Change/ClimateChange_FDES.pdf

The Sun has the biggest impact on Earth’s climate

Source: John Shewchuk https://twitter.com/_ClimateCraze/status/1667533173540913152/photo/1

Source: Climate4you http://climate4you.com/Sun.htm#Recent%20sunspot%20activity

It’s been a lot warmer in the past

Source: John Shewchuk https://twitter.com/_ClimateCraze/status/1664958001415872512/photo/1

North Atlantic sea surface temperatures

Source: Climate4you http://climate4you.com/SeaTemperatures.htm#AMO%20(Atlantic%20Multidecadal%20Oscillation)%20Ind

The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) is a mode of variability occurring in the North Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperature field, and is basically an index of North Atlantic sea surface temperatures (SST).

There is no proof CO₂ controls Earth’s temperature

Source: John Shewchuk https://twitter.com/_ClimateCraze/status/1670818354846740481/photo/1

Source: John Shewchuk https://twitter.com/_ClimateCraze/status/1698745045392712019/photo/1 [5 September 2023]

CO₂ famine for plant life

Source: John Shewchuk https://twitter.com/_ClimateCraze/status/1689450104900427776/photo/1

Natural disasters are not increasing in modern times

Source: Bjorn Lomborg https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1421430520009920512/photo/1

Source: John Shewchuk https://twitter.com/_ClimateCraze/status/1665383430064861185/photo/1

In modern times, world crop yields are up and protein malnutrition deaths are down

Source: John Shewchuk https://twitter.com/_ClimateCraze/status/1667160439740940291/photo/1

In modern times, there’s a high of coral in the Great Barrier Reef

Source: John Shewchuk https://twitter.com/_ClimateCraze/status/1661357845919547392/photo/1

Climate models have been woeful in making predictions for the past 30+ years

Source: John Shewchuk https://twitter.com/_ClimateCraze/status/1657702065248825356/photo/1

Source: John Shewchuk https://twitter.com/_ClimateCraze/status/1637613770527703040/photo/1

Climate change policy and politics isn’t about the environment nor climate

Source: John Shewchuk https://twitter.com/_ClimateCraze/status/1665107147946958851/photo/1

Further Reading

Global Warming Swindle: https://www.modernsamurai.info/gws/