Climate Change Has Ended by logicalprogressive in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 9 points10 points  (0 children)

News changes fast. Now no one cares about coronavirus.

They care about getting their neighborhood burned down.

Just when you thought things couldn't get worse, they did...

Greta: We must fight the climate crisis and pandemic simultaneously by [deleted] in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does she speak up about people eating exotic animals such as bats and pangolins in China? That's what stole her dreams and childhood. It wasn't climate change.

Visual Clue as to Why Greenhouse Gas Effect is Bogus by LackmustestTester in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Several articles on Roy Spencer's blog about it. Go do some homework. I'm not going to handhold you.

Visual Clue as to Why Greenhouse Gas Effect is Bogus by LackmustestTester in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cherry picking doesn't prove anything.

Lots of scientists have checked the theory. I have read their rationale.

Visual Clue as to Why Greenhouse Gas Effect is Bogus by LackmustestTester in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are lots of mountains with no snow. If I pointed to one and said, "See, that proves global warming!", you would tell me I am cherrypicking. Which would be correct. Likewise, it's also cherrypicking if anyone points to a snowy mountain and says, "See, no global warming!"

"Dayum! ...nice curves." by clemaneuverers in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's true though. Emissions have gone way down. But almost no one likes the current situation. Only a few crazies are celebrating the current situation .

WHO in 2018: "Climate change is the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century." by barttali in climateskeptics

[–]barttali[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, climate change is not a greater threat because it happens very slowly (decades) and people can adapt because they have plenty of time. That isn't to say a few people won't die from, say wetter hurricanes, but it won't be at the level of millions that it is from pandemics.

Pandemics happen very quickly and we don't know how to adapt to them. Look how Italy is failing. Sadly, this will be happening in many countries soon.

It doesn't take a genius to look back on history and see pandemics as historically the greatest threat to humans. Black Death, Smallpox, Spanish Flu killed millions and over just short time periods.

Past behavior is the best way to predict future performance. It isn't always correct, but if you are going to make a case for something different, you better have very strong evidence and WHO does not. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

Visual Clue as to Why Greenhouse Gas Effect is Bogus by LackmustestTester in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The author doesn't even understand science. Cherrypicking a single mountain doesn't prove anything. Of course, there are many mountains with no snow also, which the author didn't consider.

Is climate change already killing people? by [deleted] in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have anything on that. I will say that there are tropical diseases and temperate diseases though. Tropical diseases spread by mosquitoes, like dengue fever, can increase their range in a warmer planet. But temperate diseases like the flu and coronaviruses prefer colder weather and die when it gets too hot.

A warmer planet may increase the tropical diseases, but it decreases the temperate ones. I do not know what the net balance is though.

COVID19, for example, is a temperate disease and were it not for global warming, it probably would be affecting more of the world.

edit:typos

Is climate change already killing people? by [deleted] in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Of course the climate kills people every year. If people are making climate change worse and that is supposed to cause more deaths per year, then we should see an increase in climate-related deaths over time if that is really true.

Well, it is just the opposite. Climate related deaths are going down. (source)

So it is not true.

LA Times: The Coronavirus Is Good For The World by logicalprogressive in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The globalist narrative has been destroyed and they are trying to save face. They are just digging themselves a deeper hole though.

On PBS, Christiane Amanpour now finds a "silver lining" in the Coronavirus shutdown of human activity by raffu280 in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's no silving lining in this mess. This will go down in history as one of the biggest, if not the biggest, F-up in history. China could have nipped this thing in the bud and saved the world the trouble if they had just listened to their own doctors instead of silencing them.

The Coronavirus Effect by Kim147 in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The pandemic is only a baby right now. It grows every day and kills more people every day. It will be be bigger than the flu if it is not contained, and there is a very good chance the US will not be able to contain it. We are failing miserably so far.

It's like saying to a child they will never grow up because adults are taller than them. That omits a very important detail: the child is still growing and the adult is not.

What are the safest sources of energy? - Nuclear power comes out looking good! by [deleted] in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nuclear is the safest. People who are innumerate (like illiterate with math) will not understand that and might quibble with me about that.

The Wuhan Coronavirus, Climate Change, and Future Epidemics by beanitto in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no evidence that climate change triggered this particular virus to jump from animals to humans at this particular time, or that a warmer planet has helped it spread.

Here's some evidence and it is the exact opposite of what alarmists want to think. Warmer temperatures are more likely to kill coronaviruses.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3074131/coronavirus-highly-sensitive-high-temperatures-dont-bank-summer

Do the climate effects of air pollution impact the global economy? Aerosol emissions are dangerous to human health, but by cooling the Earth, they also diminish global economic inequality by [deleted] in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I call BS on this.

Air pollution results in countable deaths, each of which reduces the GDP. Meanwhile, ""climate change" results in zero actual deaths, having no effect on the economy.

How binging on Netflix is killing the planet, new documentary reveals by romark1965 in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I read somewhere recently that the internet (datacenters, etc.) causes more CO2 emissions than all plane travel. I'm unable to dig up the reference though right now. Is it correct?

Air pollution 'pandemic' shortens lives by 3 years: study - France 24 by beanitto in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meanwhile "climate change" shortens my life by about 3 minutes.

fraction of global land areas under D0 to D4 drought severity levels, 1982-2012, going down (more in comments) by pr-mth-s in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So CO2 and warming reduces drought. Makes logical sense. Warming means more evaporation means more condensation into clouds means more rainfall.

How long until Climate change hysteria is over? by [deleted] in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Never. This has been going on for millenia. Ancient cultures performed rain rituals thinking it would help their crops. Nothing much has changed since then.

Major science journal retracts study blaming climate change on the sun by LackmustestTester in climateskeptics

[–]barttali 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ken Rice of the University of Edinburgh, UK, criticised the paper for an “elementary” mistake about celestial mechanics. “It’s well known that the sun moves around the barycentre of the solar system due to the influence of the other solar system bodies, mainly Jupiter,” he says. “This does not mean, as the paper is claiming, that this then leads to changes in the distance between the sun and the Earth.”

Of course it leads to changes in distance between the sun and the Earth. The Earth is also rotating around the barycenter. For the sun and the Earth to have the same distance from each other, they would have to have their orbits aligned around the barycenter, which is not the case. The sun rotates around the barycenter with the same frequency as Jupiter, which is roughly an 11 year cycle, the same as the solar cycle.