Category: Climate 101

‘The science’ doesn’t tell us what fighting climate change costs

Climate change is a problem but a civilization-endangering cure could be far worse than the disease

By BJORN LOM­BORG, National Post, May 31

We constantly hear that because climate change is real we should “follow the science” and end fossil fuel use. We hear it both from politicians who favour swift carbon cuts and from natural scientists themselves, as when the editor-in-chief of Nature insists “The science is clear — fossil fuels must go.”

The assertion is convenient for politicians because it allows them to avoid responsibility for the many costs and downsides of climate policy, painting these as inevitable results of diligently following the scientific evidence.… Read more

What climate crisis? Warming times are good for Earth

Earth’s geologic history shows that past warming has never been driven by an increase in carbon dioxide

By Ian Plimer, The Spectator, Jan. 14, 2023

For more than 80 per cent of its existence, Earth has been a warm wet greenhouse planet with no ice. We live in unusual times, when ice occurs on continents. This did not happen overnight.

The great southern continent, Gondwanaland, formed about 550 million years ago. It occupied 20 per cent of the area of our planet and included Antarctica, South America, Australia, South Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Gondwanaland was covered by ice when it drifted across the South Pole 360-255 million years ago.… Read more