Professor William Happer on integrity in climate science on Sky News Australia - 17 September 2023

[@GregSheffer]

I’ve listened to Dr Happer for some years now but there would still be a lot of people who will be hearing this message for the first time. Keep spreading the word Dr Happer.

[@geoffreytoomey682]

Good Day, Some Aussies may be interested in a brief trip down memory lane of the past 49 years to where we are today. In 1975, with no public consultation, the ALP government of Gough Whitlam signed Australia up to the United Nations-inspired Lima Declaration which required Australia to reduce its manufacturing capabilities by around 30% and to commit to importing that amount from other preferred UN Member countries. Like China, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, etc. The UN Lima Declaration also mandates that we import as much primary produce as we can consume; such as fruit, vegetables, meat, fish etc.! But, time has told us that this UN Lima agreement ‘requirements’ were more insidious than we were led to believe. Over the following 49 years since their first UN misleading agreement! The UN Lima Declaration. Successive UN- Australia Government, LABOR and LNP POLITICIANS have forgotten that they are supposed to be working for the Aussie People, not against the very citizens that make them rich! Every UN agreement these dim-witted or deliberate traitors? Politicians have made with the unelected UN! 1982 the UN Agenda 21, then 1992 the UN Rio Agreement followed 2015 the UN Agenda 2030 to strengthen of the UN Agenda 21 insidious plan! And apparently, in May 2024 LABOR/gang-green pm Albo-sleazy will agree to the WEF+EU+UN+WHO latest and most dangerous power grab the “WHO PLANNED-DEMIC TREATY” Finally in 2019 the UN and Dr Billy Goats WHO and the WEF made formal joining of global objectives to create their Global Government and Global Policing Force in each UN Member Country by 2030! The 49 years of LABOR and LNP implementing all UN plans onto the Australian people, has been disastrous! And continues to be! 49 years ago Australia was self-sufficient in all manufacturing and agriculture and one of the leaders in exporters! We exported Aussie steel! Not just our minerals for others to make the steel and then sell it back to us? Back 49 years ago, Australian families needed one Parent working while the other Parent took care of the kids and the household and they all spent the weekends together! that’s how it was in my street, and around the city of Brisbane. But! Here we are 49 years since the Government Politicians were first foolish or was it an ego-driven decision to become just one of the UN's Global puppet Governments, the “UN Duopoly Politician Puppets” have changed our “Lucky Country “that so many have fought and many died protecting our Sovereignty, into a hollow shell of a country! With half the population now reliant on jobs within Governments and Councils, both parents working in Australian families, can they even afford to have a family in the GREAT RESET future? Thanks, Gough Whitlam, you might be proud of how the LABOR/gang-greens and LNP politicians have followed your example to this day. They are now loyal to the WEF+EU+WHO and your original bosses in the UN. Gough Whitlam that’s quite the legacy! May 2024! Will Albo-sleazy secretly sign our Sovereignty over to the globalist-controlled WHO? That is the intention of their “WHO PLANNED-DEMIC TREATY” 83% of WHO Annual funding is from Black Rock Dr Billy Goats, Amazon, the Rothschild Foundation and the rest of the Globalist Monsters creating the WESTERN FUDAL SYSTEM. Will own nothing and be happy apparently?

[@MrTryReasoning]

If Nuclear for Australia get it done.. WOW! But those pushing CO2 panic.. DON'T WANT THAT! AS IT TAKES AWAY THIS CO2 MYTH!

[@HealingLifeKwikly]

Happer is one of the most notorious spreaders of climate denier misinformation and propaganda. He's been caught in a sting operation accepting money for writing text that he admitted would not pass academic review. Anyone who knows a little climate science can easily debunk Happer's misleading claims.

[@JohnWilliams-iw6oq]

Dr Happer's visit to Australia has been totally ignored by the mainstream media, why? No headlines in what he says? No panic or predictions of impending doom? Let's you know exactly what's going on, debate is stifled and truth is being buried.

[@HealingLifeKwikly]

"Dr Happer's visit to Australia has been totally ignored by the mainstream media, why?" Maybe because he's not a leading climate scientist and has spent many years misleading the public about the issue, likely backed by massive funding from oil/energy companies.

[@johnarbuthnott3445]

Mainstream media is a disgrace to a balanced discussion on climate warming

[@andrezcabara2774]

Where was debate here? Sky News Australia did not dare to have him debate with other climate scientists, did they? And why do you already know what the truth is? If you already think that, of course you ask why others don't report on the "truth". Maybe it's because your premise of "truth" is wrong? Maybe you only accept "news" and "facts" if they align to what you already determined the truth?

[@JohnWilliams-iw6oq]

@@andrezcabara2774 In case you missed it, this is the other side of the argument.

[@andrezcabara2774]

​@@JohnWilliams-iw6oq But it's not a debate, is it? Or has any of Happer's argument been challenged here? And by whom? I don't think Sky News even wants an honest debate. They invite people they know give them the answers/opinions they want to push their viewers. Have a real debate and I'll love to watch. This was dumb.

[@Blake-sh3nf]

Prof Happer is THE reference point for the CO2/ Global Warming science. So highly qualified to talk on the matter. A great guest and congratulations to the IPA for bringing him to the Australian debate. Well done!

[@kathleencook3060]

Agree 100%. Excellent analysis by scholars in their fields. Always cut through the fake "scientist's analysis " Or so called "experts in their fields "

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

He's completely debunked in the scientific literature.

[@Blake-sh3nf]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 But the planet is not warming, the concept has been rebranded from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change" (to ensure the corporates extract maximum government printed dollars} and the Barrier Reef is expanding. So I am not sure which point of view is debunked. It seems fanciful that man is now trying to control mother nature. Governments are doing everything they can but reduce their size and increase the wealth of the communities they 'serve'.

[@terenceiutzi4003]

​@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 you mean the totally unsubstantiated alarmist lies, Right!

[@nosferatut9084]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 No he's not but you are.

[@thebritishbookworm2649]

William Happer is the real deal. Hes a great scientist. Why people arent spreading "the expert in CO2 " says is a crime of knowledge. Hes the leading expert on C02.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

William Happer is the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which is funded by the oil industry to promote the use of MORE fossil fuels. He isn't a climate scientist, by the way. His expertise is OPTICS. Nor has he published any scientific papers on climate change. He doesn't do that because people who actually are climate scientists would profoundly debunk him, which you can see examples of here: CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER. The tentacles of the fossil fuel industry's marketing departments reach far and wide, much wider than you know. Sky News itself has strong connections to the fossil fuel industry, with owner Rupert Murdoch heavily invested in the company, Genie Energy, so much so that he is considered a co-owner. It's precisely why all of Sky's talking heads reject climate change science and renewable energy.

[@nosferatut9084]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 You made all of that up

[@douglastodd1947]

@thebritishbookworm2649 Some of OUR Farmers in Scotland scatter CO2 capsules over the Fields to improve plant growth , as we all know CO2 FEEDS the WORLD Flora & Fauna , Trees create the air we breathe by absorbing CO2 , Cancel CO2 Earth becomes another DEAD PLANET..

[@HealingLifeKwikly]

"William Happer is the real deal. Hes a great scientist. Why people arent spreading "the expert in CO2 " says is a crime of knowledge. Hes the leading expert on C02." He's NOT a climate expert and repeatedly and blatantly misleads people about the topic. Among other things, he "forgets" to tell you that higher CO2 levels trigger higher levels of planet-warming water vapor and methane.

[@crotalus2011]

He's being shadow banned.

[@duncanfindlay3227]

At last !! William Happer on mainstream media, I’ve watched hours of you tube featuring him, there is no more authoritative voice on climate change, thank you.

[@hosnimubarak8869]

In December 2015, Happer was targeted in a sting operation by an environmental activist group. Posing as consultants for a Middle Eastern oil and gas company, they asked Happer to write a report touting the benefits of rising carbon emissions. Happer asked for the fee from this work to be donated to the "objective evidence" climate-change organization CO2 Coalition, which suggested that he contact the Donors Trust to keep the source of the funds secret. Happer further acknowledged that his report would not pass peer-review with a scientific journal.

[@littlefish9305]

@@hosnimubarak8869 so he didn't want payment then, ok

[@andrezcabara2774]

97% of climate scientists disagree with him. And Happer isn't even a climate scientist.

[@littlefish9305]

@@andrezcabara2774 fake study. you can only get 97% if you ask the question "does co2 cause warming". the usual liars then go on to say 97% think human caused warming is dangerous, but the poll results do not say that.

[@bills5009]

@@andrezcabara2774 Please provide your evidence that 97% of climate scientists disagree with Happer.

[@unpersononce6753]

An old school right stuff, intellect , at last. Professor Happers mathematical physics, wont be cancelled.

[@kathleencook3060]

Amen!.

[@fugawiaus]

Oh, but they try

[@mrunning10]

Like one, just name ONE "mathematical physics" that says co2 doesn't warm the planet? Just fucking ONE.

[@kathleencook3060]

@@mrunning10 The Sun warms the Earth!

[@fugawiaus]

@@mrunning10 saturation

[@j3m638]

The Co founder of Greenpeace actually says the very same thing, so that should tell you plenty! His recent speech on this is here on YT.

[@buffhooper7417]

Patrick Moore spread his name!!!!

[@HealingLifeKwikly]

Patrick Moore's talks are easily de-bunked, and NO, Greenpeace itself says he is not its co-founder. Read a little more climate science and you can easily see through his claims and misinformation.

[@chrisbrewer4285]

and there lies your debunked agenda, anything written by climate scientists is heavily biased @@HealingLifeKwikly

[@itsmorphed6416]

​@karlwheatley1244 so he lies publicly risking his reputation.? He shows photos of him being in green peace from the beginning. Debunked what? He says carbon has been steadily going down for a long time until humans started putting it back. This I would say is common knowledge to a knowledgeable scientist. What's been debunked exactly ?

[@crotalus2011]

Karlwheatley you are the one that's full of it! If you don't allow rebuttal on your comments it just means your stance is so weak that you can't allow anyone to tag you with a challenge to your propaganda.

[@johnjones6601]

No matter his credentials, the climate cult fanatics will label him a 'climate denier' and privilege the Kid over this brilliant man. 2:05

[@HealingLifeKwikly]

"No matter his credentials, the climate cult fanatics will label him a 'climate denier' " Happer is NOT a climate scientist so he doesn't have any credentials in the field, and anyone who knows climate science immediately spots how he is fooling people.

[@JRB22144]

And some 21 year old kid, who was stupid enough to study Lesbian Dance Theory in college, and is now living in his parents' basement, will get hired by KZbin to opine on what constitutes MISinformation and will label anything not in accordance with the approved narrative as false using the sophisticated algorithm provided to him by the social media and the MSM where the number of articles supporting the 'narrative' exceeds those disputing it as MISinformation. This is what you get when you let children select what they will study in college. My prescription.: Choose a STEM discipline and I will pay your tuition. Choose gender studies and you are on your own!

[@andrezcabara2774]

What about the credentials of 97% of climate scientists that disagree with him?

[@davidpierce6075]

Prof Happer's lecture in Brisbane was excellent. Thank you.

[@lambsy2278]

Agreed - I saw him in Perth

[@volkerengels5298]

No - it wasn't excellent. The man is a liar.

[@franktully3065]

@@volkerengels5298 No, YOU are.

[@JRB22144]

Prove it! You made the allegation. Provide the evidence. Reflect on the Tao of Mike Tyson who opined that "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the FACE!"@@volkerengels5298

[@littlefish9305]

@@volkerengels5298 what does he lie about?

[@rosyrussell5209]

Happer, at 84, a brilliant nuclear physicist, who lectured on CO2 at Harvard, is a man of integrity who therefore has no fear about speaking the truth. Anyone who,wants to know more should look up The CO2 COALITION online, written only by scientists, most of whom also have PHDs.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Yes, the CO2 Coalition, long funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil. See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER, at the Skeptical Science website. Not a single scientific institution on earth agrees with his views that "more CO2 is good" or that climate change is "natural and harmless," and that includes his own American Physical Society, made up of over 50,000 physicists. Go to their 2021 public statement on global warming, which asserts that climate change is "unequivocally human-caused" and requires "swift action" to mitigate the damage our emissions are causing. Those are the same assertions you'll find in the public statements on climate change from every scientific institution on the planet, from NOAA to NASA to the World Meteorological Organization. Go look and see for yourself. Sky News is a propaganda channel for the oil industry. Why? Because Sky owner Rupert Murdoch co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their advisory board. Connect the dots.

[@canemcave]

thank you this is fantastic! I was not aware of this web site

[@andrezcabara2774]

"No fear speaking out the truth". What about the 97% of climate scientists that disagree with him. Are they afraid of speaking the truth? What a dumb argument. Now, let's look closer at the CO2 COALITION. From Wikipedia: "The CO2 Coalition is a successor to the George C. Marshall Institute, a think tank focusing on defense and climate issues which closed in 2015. William O'Keefe, a chief executive officer of the Marshall Institute and former CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, continued as CEO of the CO2 Coalition." You really believe the CO2 COALITION is unbiased and not influenced by the oil industry? The oil industry has deep pockets and a lot to lose.

[@Radrzo1]

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[@MrTryReasoning]

Would be great if he also looked up Nuclear for Australia! Also that impressive young man!

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

Dr Happer has been nice to corresponde with me and answer questions. He even shared a paper with me prior to his publishing it.

[@mysterion4301]

Real scientists will do this. When I was working on my PhD in 2004 I tried to contact another scientist about her work and wanted to use it as the foundation for mine; more research is needed was her mantra in chapter 5. She ignored me and avoided me regularly; no phone calls, no email, not letters. She only relented after a year of me chasing her. By that point she'd finally gained Tenure and finally gave me written permission for me to use her test instrument. I then went through her entire project and checked all her published data, all her math, and all her correlations. To my dismay I found numerous math errors which made her correlations wrong. I re-ran the numbers four more times and they were still wrong. Remember most committee members don't have time to read a dissertation, much less run the numbers. I talked with my committee chair and decided to ignore her work and use another pathway instead. I earned my PhD in 2006 and on my last check she is still a respected faculty member, now a full professor, in a major southern university here in the US. I'd be really dismayed by this if I hadn't ran into so much bad math and bad data interpretation from 'respected' scientists in the 20 years since. I left academia in 2012, after 6 years and created my own chemical business; I've never looked back. The true scientists we learned about as children still exist, but their work is routinely overshadowed by people with Ds behind their names, who want to grab headlines, gain tenure at all costs, and make money off bombast. 😞

[@lluisboschpascual4869]

Will Happer is a great hero for science. Stay strong and help us all for our future, prof Happer!

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

His own American Physical Society, with over 50,000 physicist members, completely reject his views. Check out their 2021 public statement, in which they assert that global warming is caused "unequivocally" by human activity. Unlike Happer, they urge swift action to mitigate the damage our emissions are causing worldwide.

[@kjr2868]

I love Prof Happer, ' ... CO2 is life for all plan life on the planet'. Life for plants means life for humans!!!

[@Oscarphone]

Yup. All life on the planet depends on plants. Not some or most but ALL.

[@andrezcabara2774]

Close the garage door, leave your car running. Put a plant on one seat and yourself on the other. Plant will survive, you won't. Don't you think the question is more complex? Simple answers can be wrong.

[@kjr2868]

@@andrezcabara2774 true but increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere from 0.03% to 0.0425 (current level) or even to 0.08%, is not going to suffocate human and animal life. US Submarines set the emergency level at 0.3% (3000 ppm) and astronauts set it at 0.5%. So what is the panic at 0.4%??? And as you say without oxygen all humans will die. And produces the Oxygen?? PLANTS!

[@HealingLifeKwikly]

"CO2 is life for all plan life on the planet'. Life for plants means life for humans!!!" Actually, we are already 20 years into an increasing"global browning trend" due to the hotter and drier conditions that more CO2 ALSO creates. Hint: For most major and minor mass extinctions in Earth's history, the main "kill mechanism" was substantial changes in global CO2 levels. If you want life to thrive, you leave the CO2 levels right where the species and ecosystems NOW on Earth are used to and adapted to CO2 levels being. For us, that would mean lowering CO2 levels back under 350.

[@brianterence3211]

@@HealingLifeKwikly You are incorrect. Why is CO2 pumped and trapped into greenhouses to speed up growth and improve the quantity of produce? CO2 is essential for photosynthesis, so you would slow down plant growth, food would be harder to obtain (because it all depends on plants) if the level of CO2 is reduced. Increase CO2 and plants thrive; the ceiling being 3000 ppm. It is currently 400 ppm. (av).

[@gerardleahy6946]

I wish Prof. Happer would come to Ireland and educate our government. Prof Happer should take heart that truth ALWAYS wins out.

[@Arturo-lapaz]

A presentation to his Majesty the King is in order to correct his real ignorance about the push for net zero, the stupidity of the century. His first message as a King contains this embarrassing push for net zero, losing all respect, normally given to the Crown.

[@andrezcabara2774]

Again someone who already figured out the "truth" and now falls into the trap of confirmation bias over and over. Good luck.

[@northrockboy]

the govt knows they are full of bull dung on this. they are following orders from wef and friends to set up à contril grid

[@hendrikdejong4580]

Not only to Ireland but also to Canada and he should educate Al Gore about climate science

[@annemouse6788]

@@andrezcabara2774 Is that a trap that I see you're in? Yes we're all subject to the temptation of confirmation bias. The question is this: How many times do the doomsayers like micheal mann have to be wrong? Is the old tale of the boy who called Wolf, incorrect? did the town's people actually make a hero of him? looking at erlich and mann now one has to wonder.

[@jenstube11]

Gee, I hope Chris Bowen is going to Prof. Happers presentation!

[@tombradshaw5164]

Nah, Bowen doesn't understand science. He thinks that CO2 in an integral part of climatology. How dumb can anyone be to believe such nonsense?

[@Johnsmith-zi9pu]

Chris Bowen probably will just keep worshiping his windmills and solar panels.

[@thelaughingprophet2275]

Chris Bowen isn’t allowed to go out and play with ‘those’ kids….

[@db5351]

​@Johnsmith-zi9pu Bowen won't be able to see to worship his windmills and solar panels on a windless night when the lights go out

[@aeroearth]

Pigs will fly first!

[@liberty-matrix]

"The problem with science is science follows the money." ~Russell Brand

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

As if Russell Brand would know how science works. He's an actor/comedian/rapist/former drug addict.

[@Blake-sh3nf]

So just happens to be right with the comment about (government funded) science@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Cite your evidence that any climate scientist anywhere at any time has fudged data in order to fake climate change. Good luck. @@Blake-sh3nf

[@thaipixie]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 Well evidently he can read... that is all that is required and a fundamental understanding of arithmetic...

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@thaipixie Yes, he can read conspiracy nonsense and bullshit on the internet and believe it blindly. Climate scientists can't fudge data without being caught. They must prove their work with quantitative evidence and others must check their work and replicate it with follow-up studies. It's why Michael Mann's hockey stick data has been replicated by over 30 follow-up studies.

[@geoffreywilliams9324]

Thanks professor for telling the truth about CO2 . .

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Unfortunately he didn't tell you ALL the truth. He left out the bits that would make him look bad.

[@desolateones]

​@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481according to you, Einstein

[@blankfirer]

​@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481like you left out the words that would make your comment make sense.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@desolateones Happer has been profoundly debunked in the scientfic literature, which you can see for yourself at CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER, at the Skeptical Science website. Skeptical Science has the highest rating for scientific accuracy by MediaBias/FactCheck. Happer isn't even a climate scientist. His expertise is OPTICS. He hasn't published a single scientific paper on climate change. His loyalties, in fact, lie with the fossil fuel industry. He's the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the industry to promote the use of more gas and oil. We're you aware? I'm guessing not. Your fake "news" channel is also owned by Rupert Murdoch, the world's most notorious climate change denier, who himself co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their advisory board. You've been royally duped.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@blankfirer See my comment to desolateones

[@MARS-z4d]

I wish they would teach this in schools, I see it in the mallee where I live the trees are not getting enough something, and now I know what it is. Thanks Professor William Happer.

[@vmasing1965]

It's the right tactic to talk about the CO2 as a positive factor, that we need more of it, not less. Because THIS strikes right at the heart of the scam, this forces them to roll out their claims that there's a positive feedback loop ready to unleash in the atmosphere any minute now. That's actually (scientifically provable!) a false claim. The part where they talk about the gradual warming trend is true, that's why they like to talk about it all the time but this alone doesn't constitute any threat to anyone. You need to add this "runaway feedback loop" fairy tale to it if you want to threaten and frighten people. And that part is a lie. It's so obvious lie it's mindboggling. Anyone can Google "concentration of CO2 during the Cambrian era" and in 5 seconds you have irrefutable proof that raising our current CO2 levels can most definitely NOT cause any "runaway effects" whatsoever. Because that experiment has been already run on this planet. Results were negative. That's empirical test with measurable, objective results. That's how science works, you need actual test results to claim something. Not hysteria and empty slogans based on nothing.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

No climate scientist is warning of a "runaway effect" that turns earth into Venus. They're warning of a 3C increase in temperature if CO2 doubles. Quite a difference. The Cambrian experienced high CO2 for two reasons: (1) Massive volcanic activity and (2) During the first half of the period THERE WERE NO LAND PLANTS TO ABSORB THE EXCESS CO2. LAND PLANTS DID NOT EXIST. Today plants cover our entire planet with the exception of the poles, and they absorb a lot of CO2. Our sun was also significantly weaker in the Cambrian. The sun of our type actually strengthens as it evolves. With a normal, slow increase in CO2 and warming, as earth experienced many times in its ancient past, animals and plants have thousands of years to adapt, migrate or evolve. But today's warming is happening TEN TIMES FASTER than in those ancient times. Many living organisms simply can't adapt this quickly. It's why 10 billion snow crabs just died off Alaska and why the shrimp fishery off the coast of Maine has completely collapsed. Our world is also home to over 8 billion human beings with trillions of dollars worth of vulnerable infrastructure. Thus it's not exactly meaningfu to compare the Cambrian to today. Everyone on the planet knows that CO2 is good for plants. What most don't realize is that the warming that accompanies rising CO2 is terrible for plants. See my answer to the "dogtutor" above your post for details of what Happer leaves out.

[@KD-cg9iq]

My car drives on composted organic material or in other words my car drives on fossil fuel.....the positive effect is more of the mutch needed CO2 for a greener world.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@KD-cg9iq "CO2 is needed for plant food" is one of the fossil fuel industry's favorite propaganda memes. Unfortunately, the fossil fuel industry doesn't tell you the whole story. CO2 is great for plants. But only up to a point. We've passed that point. That's because the warming that accompanies rising CO2 cancels out its benefits. Heatwaves, for example, have TRIPLED since the 1960s, according to the EPA. Heatwaves DECIMATE crops. With a few days of temperatures above 75 degrees broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, lettuce and cabbage all bolt and stop developing. Between 85-95, tomatoes and cucumbers drop their flowers, reducing yield. Blueberries become necrotic and rot. At 104 degrees all photosynthesis STOPS and many seeds won't even germinate. Think of places like Phoenix, which suffered through 31 straight days of above 110-degree temperatures this summer. If you're a subsistence farmer (and there are still over a billion in the world), you lose your crops, your sustenance and your livelihood in one fell swoop. Unfortunately the negatve effects of heat don't end there. Warming air holds more water vapor, which is why extreme precipitation events are increasing worldwide. Epic downpours are not only drowning crops but washing away topsoils and fertilizer. Increasing drought conditions are also blowing away topsoil and drying up the land, making them more prone to wildfires. Canada just suffered through the largest wildfire in its history this summer. This was after their average burn acreage had already doubled since the 1970s. Burn acreage in the western U.S. has TRIPLED. Greece just had the largest wildfire in European history. Not only do wildfires destroy trees, brush and crops, the smoke they create travels hundreds of miles, dimming the sun and reducing photosynthesis. CO2-driven warming is also melting the icecaps, raising sea levels and increasing high tide flooding; it's intensifying hurricanes, expanding the range of disease-carrying ticks and mosquitoes, and increasing marine heatwaves. Warming ocean waters are why Alaska just lost 10 billion snow crabs in the Bering Sea and why Maine's shrimp fishery has totally collapsed. It's not nearly as simple as William Happer and the oil industry would have you believe.

[@Johnsmith-zi9pu]

My car emits plant food every time I drive it. How green is that???????????????

[@mikey673442]

If it was the only bye product.

[@Johnsmith-zi9pu]

Ev's have by far the most non biodegradable waste.@@mikey673442

[@user-zz9gn2dc3l]

What else does it emit?

[@Johnsmith-zi9pu]

Nothing else because my car complies with emission standards.@@user-zz9gn2dc3l

[@Johnsmith-zi9pu]

Nothing else because my car complies with emission standards.@@user-zz9gn2dc3l

[@Hickalum]

An committee of international climate scientists recently said exactly what they are paid to say.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

That's just plain dumb, dude. Science doesn't even remotely work like that. You've been duped into complete indoctrination by fossil fuel industry propaganda.

[@billsmith-qq9pt]

If they continue to say what they paid to say, the should be jailed for their fraud, on mass.

[@RetiredPilot]

This summer in Canada we had forest fires and the smoke associated with that. Where I live the trees and farm crops flourished with the extra C02 and my lawn has never been greener. Along with that we had a wonderful summer and fall. The only negative was an increase in the cost of gas/petrol due to a government CARBON TAX. LOL

[@SardonicSteve]

The wildfires aren't a negative?

[@rockerjim8045]

enjoy the lung disease

[@paythepiper6283]

Wouldn't it be nice if one day we had a debate between qualified people about CC. The alarmists put up 3 'experts' and the realists put up 3 experts and we get to hear arguments from both sides from people who are actually qualified. Then we could all be informed...

[@thesepeoplearecriminals1731]

Just look at all the climate change predictions that have been made. Here in Sydney we added a desalination plant at Kurnell because in 2010 our climate change “ expert “ said our dams would never fill up again. Our dams did fill up & We have flooded twice since.

[@thesepeoplearecriminals1731]

They just want to control us !

[@robharris6874]

Yes be good idea, only problem it`s impossible to win an argument with idiots like Bowen & his dopey cohorts !!

[@paythepiper6283]

@@robharris6874 You don't have to beat him, you just have to show those that are easily lead how much of a fool he is.

[@Blake-sh3nf]

Whoops! Billions of dollars later. Oh well, it's only public money...

[@patriciamccandless7940]

Love his comparison to the hysteria of the witch trials in the 1600s 1700s in Salem Mass. Spot on.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Hysteria? Every scientific institution on the planet disagrees with Happer, including his own American Physical Society, with a membership of over 50,000 physicists. Happer is the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil.

[@andrezcabara2774]

Yeah, because he has no scientific evidence to backup his claim, or any good arguments to pick faults in the theories by other climate scientists. "CO2 is good for plants". Yikes.

[@JohnJ469]

@@andrezcabara2774 Sorry but no. Look at the data. There is literally zero evidence that any of the changes we have seen since 1850 are outside natural variations. I could go further and ask; "Why, if CO2 rise causes temperature rise, this has never been seen in the record?" CO2 rise follows temperature rise and always has. What makes modern CO2 "special"? It's those who are predicting disaster who have to prove their case, not the other way around.

[@andrezcabara2774]

@@JohnJ469 I"m a layman, I don't know what data to look at. But I know that climate scientists have been debating over decades and I trust them more than fringe scientists. Oh, and this is "Sky News Australia". Google "sky news australia on climate change" and you see a pattern. I trust the majority of climate scientists more than I trust Sky News Australia.

[@nc6714]

The burden of proof is actually on you climate change deniers. The evidence provided for nearly 50 years at this point is resounding. and its a damning indictment of our behavior as people. We have been able to map carbon 12, carbon 13, and carbon 14 from ice core samples dating back 800,000 years. Average global temperature has risen in lock step with the increase of co2 in our atmostphete. Rising temperatures spawn many other problematic factors as well. The worst part a out climate change, are dorks that wanna go "against the establishment" as if its the plateu of their personailty. They dont want to put forth the effort to do the reading. Reading from primary and secondary scholarly scources. Not the crap podcasts and talking heads with credentials telling you how you ought to feel.​@JohnJ469

[@neilhobson3624]

It’s strange that for a good many years we have been told that all these alternative sources of energy are to be “ cheap energy “. Yet all that I have experienced is that energy is at its highest price ever. People are in bloody poverty now because of it. It’s the biggest scam that I’ve ever experienced.

[@Snowdog070]

We need more Happer and less Mann. Mann and his hockey stick were called out by a couple Canadians who did a deep dive on his data and statistical analysis if not his science and discredited him. The likes of Happer, Moore, Lindzen, Curry, Plimer, McKittrick, Soon, Connolly, Zharkova, Dilley, Ott, Salby, Ellis, Wijngaarden, Essex, Ridd (somebody stop me) should all be regarded.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Michael Mann's hockey stick data has been replicated by over 30 follow-up studies worldwide and is affirmed by the National Academy of Sciences. And the two Canadians who TRIED to debunk him, McKitrick and McIntyre, were themselves debunked in the scientific literature 20 years ago. (See their debunkings here: FALSE CLAIMS BY MCINTYRE AND MCKITRICK REGARDING THE MANN RECONSTRUCTION. ) 20 years ago, Snowdog. Are you this far behind in your reading of scientific journals? WILLIAM HAPPER: See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER, at the Skeptical Science website. He isn't a climate scientist. He's the former director of the CO2 Coalition, long funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of MORE gas and oil. Not a single scientific institution on earth agrees with him that more CO2 is "good" or that cimate change is "natural and harmless." Even his own American Physical Society (over 50,000 physicists) disagrees with him. Look up their 2021 public statement on climate change, which is the opposite message that Happer delivers. WILLIE SOON: Secretly paid $1.2 million by the fossil fuel industry to peddle his "It's-all-the-sun's-fault" mantra. He published 11 scientific papers without telling a soul about his funding, a serious breach of scientific protocol. His work has been completely debunked in the scientific literature. PATRICK MOORE: Paid spokesman for the energy industry and debunked in the scientific literature. He hasn't worked as a forest ecologist (his educational background) or for Greenpeace for decades. He's notorious for using a fraudulent climate graph and a debunked wildfire graph in his presentations. I'd be happy to show you all the ways he misleads you. RICHARD LINDZEN: See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: RICHARD LINDZEN, at the Skeptical Science website. Lindzen has sworn that he'd never take a dime from the fossil fuel industry yet was exposed for doing exactly that during a bankruptcy hearing for Peabody Energy. Check out how 22 of his fellow MIT colleagues in the atmospheric sciences refuted him at CLIMATE CONTRARIAN GETS FACT-CHECKED BY MIT COLLEAGUES. ZHARKOVA: Debunked multiple times in the scientific literature. Zharkova's famous scientific study blaming the sun for climate change was RETRACTED FOR FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS. IAN PLIMER: See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: IAN PLIMER. Plimer has been involved and heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry for decades. DEBUNKED. DAVID DILLEY: Predicted years ago that earth had entered a COOLING PHASE. We've done nothing but warm since then, with this year the warmest year of all. Here's a direct quote from his E-book: "In 2008, earth entered phase 1 global cooling. Phase II cooling will begin around the year 2020, this will usher in very dramatic cooling..." Not a single scientific institution on earth agrees with his cooling nonsense. Just the opposite. Shall I go on?

[@geoffreytoomey682]

Half a century of planning the WEF=EU=WHO=UN Climate Change invention>>>>>>The Dictionary definition of the word TREASON; Treason is when a person acts against his/ her country. ... A treasonous person is called a TRAITOR!. Outside the field of law, the word "traitor" can be used to describe a person who betrays a group to which he or she belongs. >>>>>>>>>in this case that’s the ongoing betrayal by the LABOR/Gang-greens and LNP politicians working against the AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE! Collaborating with the Globalist MONSTERS! (WEF=EU=WHO=UN) for over 49 years! So far! (In 1975, with no public consultation, the ALP government of Gough Whitlam signed Australia up to the United Nations Lima Declaration which required Australia to reduce its manufacturing capabilities by around 30% and to commit to importing that amount from other preferred countries China, Vietnam, India.etc) That was the beginning of the now endemic TREASON by Labor/Gang-green Politicians and LNP Politicians, 49 years working for the UN=EU=WHO=WEF globalist monsters. How and why did these POLITICIANS never ask the Australian People if they the people wanted to be governed by these GLOBALIST MONSTERS? Unconscionable TREASON! Australia's tribute to the UN and WHO amounts to one Billion dollars a year, the UN is paying the migrants (invaders) to infiltrate the Western countries and has been doing this for 15 years so far. Their GREAT RESET by 2030 appears to be on target. Thanks entirely to the majority of UN Puppet government Politicians TRAITORS, their next betrayal will be in May 2024!

[@DanishGSM]

Thanks so much for the video and info.

[@teryd5672n]

Thank goodness for the voice of sense.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Which isn't Happer, by any stretch of the imagination. He's part of the 0.1% of scientists who reject the consensus of thousands of scientists around the world.

[@teryd5672n]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 I am a scientist and I must therefore be in that % along with the dozens of my peers.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@teryd5672n Great, Terry. Are you a climate scientist? Do you work in the field of climate and publish scientific papers in the field? Because that's the criteria for being surveyed for the consensus. Scientists outside the field simply aren't qualified to give an opinion one way or another. It would be like surveying proctologists about brain surgery. Expertise and field knowledge matters. In 2021 Cornell University audited the over 88000 climate studies published from 2012-2020 and tallied a 99.9% consensus that human activity, not nature, is driving global warming. If you don't have published scientific papers like this your opinion is not going to be counted, and rightly so.

[@thaipixie]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 So you missed the letter sent to the UN signed by 31,000 real scientists not pseudo scientists with sociology and psychology degrees....

[@thaipixie]

​@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481Follow the money.... all this BS is based on climate models that cannot model reality.... most of this statistical crap is metadata... does the abstract mention climate change...... the papers do not have to provide evidence just refer to the models.... Climate scientist is a made up title... What do you know about computational fluid dynamics? What do you know about the black body (infrared) absorption spectrum of CO2 versus water.... what do you know about the motions of the planet, the moon and the gas giants with respect to the earth and the sun, what do you know about the movement of water in the oceans, how much CO2 is sequestered into sediments and carbonate rocks every day, how much CO2 is sequestered by seawater at what temperature, what do you know about solar wind energy and cosmic rays, what about the ice core oxygen isotope data.... How would you model a planet Finite element, Finite difference, Finite volume, Spectral methods? What grid size is appropriate or realistic there are +20,000 atmospheric interactions alone. How do you model chaotic events like turbulence, whose equations of state Euler or Navier-Stokes.... How much of your body mass is made of carbon compounds all derived from atmospheric CO2.... You do not have to be "climate scientist just be able to read and have a knowledge of arithmetic and have a functioning cortex.... You obviously missed the letter signed by 31,000 real scientists sent to the UN.... Let's discuss the above.... I have been studying fluid (liquids and gases) dynamics, aspects of chemistry physics and geology for 45+ years so bring it on.... I am not climate BS artist either!!

[@elizabethfilby930]

Al Gore promised me an ocean view by 2008. Still 50 miles from the sea.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Al Gore never promised such a thing. He predicted increasing sea level rise, PERIOD. And he was right. Sea level has risen four inches since 1993 and its rate of rise has doubled since then, according to NASA. According to NOAA, high tide flooding along the American south and Gulf costs has risen an astonishing 400% and 1100% respectively since the year 2000. (See NOAA HIGH TIDE FLOODING) Maine is uplifting land from glacial rebound yet last month suffered a record high tide that caused over $100 million in damages. The City Dock neighbrohood of Annapolis is flooding 60 times a year now, closing streets and businesses. Miami Beach has raised 105 miles of roads. New York and Louisiana have a combined $100 billion in new flood mitigation projects in the works. This isn't in someone's imagination. It's really happening.

[@andyx8440]

Great person and valuable interview 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@sirstiffpilchard]

This guy is 100% right

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

He's actually debunked in the scientific literature, which you should probably read before believing anyone.

[@leonharrison800]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 Agreed. When does Sky News defend truth??

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@leonharrison800 They defend whatever will get them the most viewers and advertising revenue. They'll also defend Rupert Murdoch's climate change denial because he co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their board.

[@nosferatut9084]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 Debunked by you. That means he's almost certainly telling the truth

[@NoRegertsHere]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481interesting

[@jerryracicot2231]

Wow ! What a Brilliant Man ❤

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER, at the Skeptical Science website. Not a single scientific institution on the planet agrees with Happer that more CO2 would be good for us or that today's climate change is "natural and harmless." Even his own American Physical Society with its over 50,000 physicist members disagrees. Go to their website and check out their 2021 position statement on climate change, in which they're "urging swift action" to mitigate the damage we're causing. Happer is the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil.

[@udo9999]

Thanks

[@kennethblakeley6536]

True scientist, 👍 brilliant gentleman 👏

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Happer isn't a climate scientist. He's published ZERO scientific papers on climate change. His expertise is OPTICS. He's also been profoundly debunked in the scientific literature, which you can see for yourself at "Climate Misinformation by Source: William Happer," at the Skeptical Science website. Not a single scientific institution anywhere on earth agrees with his views that more CO2 would be good for us or that today's climate change is entirely "natural and harmless." NONE. NADA. ZILCH. Even his own American Physical Society and its over 50,000 physicists members disagree, which you can see first-hand at their 2021 public position statement on climate change. Happer is the former head of the CO2 Coalition, a disinformation front group long funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil. Always vet your sources before you believe them.

[@nosferatut9084]

​@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481More 🐂 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 from you .Who exactly do you work for?

[@robertnicholson1409]

Chris Bowen I hope you are watching !

[@nosferatut9084]

No, he's got his head buried in his arse and thinks the view from in there is absolutely magnificent.

[@elastotec173]

Wouldn't help if he was because Prof. Happer is not speaking in single syllables

[@vern146]

@@elastotec173or finger painting

[@thelaughingprophet2275]

Read a book when I was a child, chicken little it was called…..seems to be the playbook being used today.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Read any science as an adult? ELEVEN studies confirm the scientific consensus on climate change.

[@thelaughingprophet2275]

Yuktube won’t let me see replies….only that there are two others...

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@thelaughingprophet2275 You're aware that ELEVEN separate studies confirm the scientific consensus on climate change, right? ELEVEN. 80 academies of science and ALL of the world's major scientific institutions from NASA to NOAA to the World Meteorological Organization publicly endorse the consensus findings, which is why every nation on earth is a card-carrying member of the IPCC. In 2021, Cornell University audited the over 88000 climate studies published from 2012-2020 and tallied a 99.9% consensus that human activity, not nature, is warming the planet. Even Exxon's own scientists in leaked memos have acknowledged that combusted fossil fuels are warming the planet to a damaging degree. Yet you choose to believe a TV news channel owned by Rupert Murdoch, who CO-OWNS A FOSSIL FUEL COMPANY (Genie Energy) and William Happer, who was funded by the oil industry when he headed the CO2 Coalition, and who has debunked in the scientific literature. Give that some thought, my friend.

[@nosferatut9084]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 No they don't. You're making everything up

[@jimhughes1070]

🤣🤣👍🙏💯 "The sky is falling! 🤣🤣

[@paulburket]

I’m an American and use Sky News Australia to get current news then watch the Hoover Institution for weekly/monthly coverage. Love you guys!

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Sky News Australia, the biggest fake news network in the world, after Fox News in the states, both run by Rupert Murdoch, who CO-OWNS A FOSSIL FUEL COMPANY, GENIE ENERGY, AND SITS ON THEIR BOARD.

[@gabrielgriffin617]

The oceans are warming. Ice caps are melting. Has anyone informed the great professor?

[@paulchalk2939]

God bless this old man, too much truth for the Luddites.

[@richardmacey3619]

Paulchalk6989 - No chance you’ll ever hear this guy on Main Stream Media,his narrative is totally at odds and exposes the ‘Climate Nutters’ for the deranged idiots they are.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@richardmacey3619 You won't hear him on mainstream media because he has been 100% debunked in the scientific literature. Every scientific institution on earth disagrees with him, from NASA to NOAA to the World Meteorological Organization. Even his own American Physical Society, made up of over 50,000 physicists, disagrees with him. Happer isn't a climate scientist. His specialty is optics, and his loyalties lie with the fossil fuel industry, not the science. He is, in fact, the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil. Sky News has Happer on because Sky itself is owned by someone (Rupert Murdoch) who co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their board.

[@andrezcabara2774]

No, too many dumb arguments.

[@johnburnett3942]

Co2 is plant food, more co2 will make the planet green.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

CO2 is plant food. Yes. But the warming that accompanies rising CO2 actually hurts crops, according to university studies, cancelling out CO2's benefits.

[@Blake-sh3nf]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 But not some other university studies... the rebuttal continues.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@Blake-sh3nf While rising CO2 helps crops, the warming that accompanies it cancels out the benefit. Rising CO2 has TRIPLED heatwaves since the 1960s, according to the EPA. Heatwaves decimate crops, and at 104 degrees all photosynthesis STOPS. Many seeds won 't even germinate at that temperature. Think about places in the world like Phoenix, which experienced 31 straight days of temperatures above 110 degrees this summer. If you're a subsistence farmer (there are still over a billion around the world), your entire season of crops would be wiped out. Now add in the increase in extreme precipitation events, which are inundating farmlands, washing away topsoils and fertilizer and drowning crops. These are also increasing, according to the EPA. Add in wildfires. Burn acreage has doubled across Canada since the 1970s and TRIPLED in the western U.S. Now add in the final blow: increased drought, which is also increasing, according to the IPCC. Fossil fuel propaganda fools you by little lies of omission like this. Yes, CO2 is good for plants. And university studies clearly show that. But what they don't mention is the damage the warming does that accompanies that rising CO2.

[@Blake-sh3nf]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 So why is it a fact the globe is greening? You need to be more fact based. But your story sounds nice.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@Blake-sh3nf The "greening of the earth" story originates with a NASA satellite survey back in the 1990s. That survey found significant increases in green-up around the globe, which NASA assumed came from our extra CO2. But a follow-up survey with greater resolution and additional on-the-ground research found that the most substantial greening didn't come from CO2 but from the planting of over 100 billion new trees and intensive new farming techniques in China and India, in addition to new mass plantings in the Sahel in Africa (the Great Green Wall, to stop the spread of the Sahara Desert) and elsewhere. Climate deniers never mention NASA's second survey, only cherry-picking the original flawed findings. See HUMAN ACTIVITY IN CHINA AND INDIA DOMINATE THE GREENING OF EARTH, NASA STUDY SHOWS, Feb 11, 2019 See also EARTH STOPPED GETTING GREENER 20 YEARS AGO, Scientific American, Aug 15, 2019 CO2 has turned some parts of the earth greener, mainly in the Arctic, where no one lives, unfortunately. That makes sense, though, because there is no extreme heat there to hurt plants and they can enjoy the full benefit of CO2 enrichment without damage from higher temperatures.

[@frenchenstein]

🌟Always talks a lot of common sense does Prof Happer.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Yet he is roundly debunked in the scientific literature, where he has ZERO credibility. Sky News gives him credibility because it's run by Rupert Murdoch, who co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their board.

[@nosferatut9084]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 The fact that you say he has zero credibility means he's highly credible

[@HealingLifeKwikly]

@@nosferatut9084 That's funny, this channel seems to be removing switlytiltingplanet's comment. Perhaps they can't handle the truth?

[@crotalus2011]

Karlwheatley what are you afraid of? Without allowing rebuttal on your comments just means your stance is so weak it won't hold up to scrutiny.

[@HealingLifeKwikly]

@@crotalus2011 "what are you afraid of? Without allowing rebuttal on your comments just means your stance is so weak it won't hold up to scrutiny." What on Earth are you talking about? I have no power to stop rebuttals on my comments, and I have probably responded to 20 rebuttals to my comments for a different Happer video, filmed in Australia. What I DID notice on that video you are talking about is that LOTS of comments seemed to have been taken down, including some that I think I made. There are lots of places in the comments thread where the replies that are supposed to be there just aren't anymore.

[@patricelauverjon2856]

To wrap what one does not know or does not agree with in a wrap of inaccessible complexity is a weapon of mass distractions used by some Governments!

[@qbarnes1893]

One statement or question that’s never addressed is, What’s the percentage of CO2 in our atmosphere? It’s 0.04%...... Plants, on average, cannot survive with less than 0.0125%....

[@名字はい]

Climate change refers to the long-term shifts of funds from the public to the government, caused by Human activities including those by policy makers and special interest groups. Formerly called Global Warming, the term Climate change has been adopted to cater for any change in Climate.

[@AJ29430]

Integrity and climate science, two phrases that should never be used in the same sentence

[@HealingLifeKwikly]

Actually, climate scientists have very high integrity and their science has stood the test of time: We have had quite accurate climate models for over 40 years and the major predictions of climate science have already come true or are coming true now.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Name one instance where climate scientists lied or made up data. Fossil fuel industry propaganda has gotten to you. The fossil fuel industry makes over $4 trillion per year in pure PROFIT, according to Reuters. Its CEOs make over 100 times what climate scientists do. It also funds nearly 100 climate change-denying front groups, think tanks and websites, according to investigations by Drexel University. Those industry front groups (CO2 Coalition, CO2 Science, Friends of Science, the Heartland Institute, etc) promulgate misinformation and disinformation seven days a week to a gullible, impressionable lay audience. Those without critical thinking skills, education or the ambition to fact-check succumb to the conspiracy nonsense. Worse, they become sales representatives for the industry's marketing juggernaut, repeating what they've been indoctrinated to believe to other gullible, impressionable people. The oil industry's marketing propaganda reaches far and wide. It's also more insidious than most people realize. The world's largest hubs for renewable energy bashing and climate misinformation are Fox News and Sky News Australia, both owned by Rupert Murdoch, who co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their advisory board.

[@buffhooper7417]

Everyone should watch this

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

To see what climate misinformation looks like? Yes, absolutely.

[@robdixon945]

Thank you for the show guys 🍻 🇦🇺

[@colinboreham2744]

ALL of the CO2 currently in Fossil Fuels in the ground was once in the atmosphere. So to say that there’s is more in the atmosphere now than there was in the past is utterly ridiculous.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Yes, but when CO2 was 2000ppm all of the icecaps melted and raised sea levels hundreds of feet. The meltwater even created a new ocean, the Western Interior Seaway, which flowed down over western Canada and the United States with a depth of 1500 feet. It's why we find the fossils of sea creatures in Kansas today. That kind of flooding would not be cool today.

[@philippalthaus1323]

Ein beeindruckender Mann !! A great man !!

[@briananderson7285]

I'll keep saying it, climate change is a political policy $$ not an environmental problem.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

So you don't see a four-inch sea level rise since 1993 an environmental problem? The rate of rise, in fact, has DOUBLED since then, according to the World Meteorological Organization. In the U.S., Houston, New York and Louisiana have a combined $100 billion in new flood mitigation projects in the works. Miami Beach has moved buildings and raised 105 miles of roads. One neighborhood in Annapolis must close its streets and businesses 60 times a year. All due to rapidly increasing tidal flooding. Heatwaves have TRIPLED since the 1960s, according to the U.S. EPA. Marine heatwaves have increased 20-fold, according to the University of Bern. A marine heatwave off Alaska just killed 10 billion snow crabs. Warming waters off Maine have completely collapsed its shrimp fishery. Hurricanes have intensified 8% per decade, according to NOAA. Canada just suffered through the largest wildfire in its history. Greece just suffered through the largest wildfire in European history. No worries? Tick-and-mosquito-borne diseases like malaria and Lyme have increased 60% worldwide as both insects have increased their range. Flesh-eating bacteria is expanding its range by 30 miles per year. Extreme precipitation events are also increasing, washing away entire towns and villages and destroying farm crops. The incidence of drought, drought intensity and drought duration have also increased. No worries?

[@briananderson7285]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 NO.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@briananderson7285 According to NOAA, high tide flooding along the American south and Gulf coasts has risen an astonishing 400% and 1100% respectively since the year 2000. Even New England, which is uplifting land from glacial rebound, is up 140%. The lower Breton Sound area of Louisiana has lost over 8500 acres to inundation since 1985, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. We know from proxy evidence that the last time the world experienced 400ppm of CO2, sea level rose 29 feet, according to the University of South Hampton. The only reason we haven't seen 29 feet yet is time, as ice melt greatly lags CO2 levels. Many insurance companies are jumping ship with the rising costs of coverage. People living in high risk areas like the U.S. northwest and in Florida are struggling to pay for skyrocketing premiums, are dropping coverage or have lost coverage to insurance companies fearing bankruptcy. Lyme Disease never existed in the northeast before 1985. Now it's epidemic. Nobody walks unprotected through woods and fields anymore. Ticks surving the New England winters are also killing moose calves by blood drains, with some corpses found with as many as 70,000 ticks covering them. The moose are nicknamed "ghost moose" because they've lost all their hair to the tick infestation. See WINTER TICKS WIPED OUT NEARLY 90% OF MOOSE CALVES SCIENTISTS TRACKED IN PART OF MAINE LAST YEAR. What I've presented here is a microcosm of the damage global warming is doing around the world. And we're just getting started.

[@northrockboy]

​​@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481but wealthy are still buying expensive ocean front property. they must be idiots. when their houses and property go under water. 4 inches. wow. were all doomed

[@g40471]

Good stuff, the voice of a professor, at last, many others with knowledge were defunded if they had a different yet qualified opinion regards this global warming issue.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Nobody with a different opinion was "defunded." This is your own manufactured BS. And Happer is an oil industry shill, not a climate scientist.

[@e.a.p3174]

CO2 is the bubbles in your beer, it is not a poison.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Great for drinks, but not so good in the outside world when the heat it causes melts icecaps, raises sea levels, expands wildfire seasons, intensifies hurrcanes, and increases heatwaves, marine heatwaves, extreme precipitation events and droughts.

[@e.a.p3174]

that's not happening. Why don't you just go back a 100 years and look at what was happening then. It was hotter in the 30's than it is now. In the US forest fires are down 90% over the last 100 years. The sea levels are not rising any more than a millimetre or tw a year. Tell me something if sea levels really would rise, why did Obama then spend $4 million on ocean front property? Why has oce front property sky rocket in price?. I remember when the experts predict that an ice age was coming, I remember when the experts predicted that the world was running out of oil by 1990. @@swiftlytiltingplanet8481

[@littlefish9305]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 none of that happened.

[@GregSheffer]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 all these things happen its just not because of CO2, do some more homework.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@GregSheffer I've been a science writer for fifty years, published worldwide, in multiple languages, and I work with climate data every day. Rising CO2 increases the greenhouse effect, which increases the warming that causes all of the effects I noted. ELEVEN separate studies confirm the scientific consensus on climate change. ELEVEN. Over 80 academies of science and ALL of the world's major scientific institutions, from NASA to NOAA to the World Meteorological Organization, publicly endorse the consensus findings, which s precisely why every nation on earth is a card-carrying member of the IPCC. In 2021, Cornell University surveyed the over 88000 climate studies published from 2012-2020 and tallied a 99.9% consensus that human activity, not nature, is driving climate change. Even Exxon's own scientists in leaked memos have acknowledged that combusted fossil fuels are warming the planet to a damaging degree. You'll never hear any of this on Sky News, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their board.

[@robharris6874]

This is the stuff I was taught in school science classes, obviously this does not happen anymore !!!

[@andrezcabara2774]

Dumb argument. Nobody denies that CO2 is good for plants. Do you think other climate scientists claim that CO2 is bad for plants? The problem: Is climate change bad for us humans, and what causes climate change.

[@alancotterell9207]

Integrity IS NOT misinformation.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

There is no integrity here. Sky News is an international hub for climate change denial and Happer is an oil industry shill, not a climate scientist.

[@RichardHooper-j5k]

Pity the Labor and greens won't take any notice of him

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

They won't take notice of Happer because (A) he isn't a climate scientist; (B) he has published ZERO studies on climate change; (C) he's profoundly debunked in the scientific literature; (D); he's the former head of the CO2 Coalition, long funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil; and (E) not a single scientific institution on earth agrees with him. Even his own American Physical Society with its over 50,000 physicists disagrees. Sky News agrees with him because Sky owner Rupert Murdoch co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their advisory board. Connect the dots.

[@timmcgrath9708]

Dr Happer learnt science before it was politicised

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Happer is profoundly debunked in the scientific literature. Ask him about the funding he has received from the fossil fuel industry.

[@timmcgrath9708]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 Sounds like you swallow leftist mainstream talking points whole on a regular basis

[@newtongroves3413]

Why would someone of his Standing allow himself to be Swayed? He wouldn’t You might want to look up his Involvement in the Guide Star laser Telescope calibration to get an appreciation of his Authority on particle physics light / heat absorption. A true heavyweight in atmospheric and particle phyics

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@newtongroves3413 See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER, at the Skeptical Science website for a complete dismantling of his talking points. Happer isn't a climate scientist. He's published no scientific papers on the subject. His expertise is OPTICS, not climate. He's also the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil. Even Happer's own American Physical Society, made up of over 50,000 physicists, disagree strongly with his views that today's climate change is "natural" and "harmless" and that more CO2 would be "good for us." In their 2021 public position statement, they assert clearly that today's warming is "unequivocally human-caused" and they urge "swift action" to mitigate the damage our emissions are producing. Every position statement of every major scientific institution on earth says the same thing. Happer is an outlier, debunked by the preponderance of the evidence and by the scientific consensus on climate change, which is now confirmed by eleven separate studies.

[@annemouse6788]

@@newtongroves3413 That's the only answer those who have become believers in the global climate change cult have.That people who question their obviously anti-human cult have been corrupted. I mean government money never corrupted anyone, right!?

[@paulflannery2834]

Dr Happer is a wonderful genius

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

He's actually profoundly debunked in the scientific literature. Would you like to see how?

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 Wait, let us guess, he's a shill for the fossil fuel industry. Isn't that the accusation you claim for every single expert that you don't agree with? I see you're here once again spreading your nonsense.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@anthonymorris5084 That's correct. He's the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil. Look it up.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 Naturally. That's your answer for everybody. It's your tiresome "Go to" attack directed at every single scientist or expert you dislike, spreading a message you don't like.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@anthonymorris5084Are you refuting that Happer headed the CO2 Coalition? Easily checked. Go do it and surprise yourself by actually verifying what I've posted instead of having your usual knee-jerk rejection of facts you dislike. But we both know you won't do it. Also easily checked who funded them. But we both know you won't do that either. That's because you have a psychological need to remain in your fortress of confirmation bias, where the ugly truth can't possibly reach you.

[@jiritichy7967]

It would help to show all the historic facts about global temperatures, CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere, ice age and warming periods.

[@Arturo-lapaz]

Easy, view the presentations made by him, recently and the ones by Patrick Moore, Murry Salby, Professor Otto Weiss, and quite a few others, inconvenient to Al Gore, since New York is not submerged as this former Vice President predicted and disappeared in shame. The rather quiet carbon 14 dating community gives reliable information about the CO2 content in the ocean, the true knowledge so important for their profession.

[@axle.australian.patriot]

Our climate will will vary over time regardless of our petty human attempts to tinker. The real question is how to we produce enough energy to adapt and survive? Closing coal and gas etc reduces humans ability to exist so this sounds completely backward to me.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

"Closing coal and gas etc reduces humans ability to exist..." Fossil fuel propaganda, Axle. A joint study by MIT, the Carnegie Institution for Science and Tsinghua University in China finds that solar and wind with battery back-up can power industrialized nations 90% of the time right now. We simply need to put the infrastructure into place to achieve that. Sky News is run by Rupert Murdoch, who co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their advisory board. It's precisely why all of his media outlets are the world's most notorious climate change deniers and bashers of renewable energy. Connect the dots.

[@mrman1536]

Nuclear.

[@axle.australian.patriot]

@@mrman1536 I would like to keep all energy options on the table, including nuclear :)

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@axle.australian.patriot I would as well, but according to the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the new, advanced nuclear reactors are no safer than the old technology. According to Lazard, the levelized cost of building and running a new wind farm per megawatt hour is $50, a solar farm, $60, and a nuclear plant, $180.

[@axle.australian.patriot]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 I would be very skeptical of those statistics. They are often skewed with the omission of hidden costs.

[@fionahobbs8818]

The greenhouse point is interesting. Very interesting commentary, thankyou!

[@jackreacher.]

99 out of 100 people in my climate zone understand Professor Happer to be wise, intelligent, trustworthy, and correct.

[@hosnimubarak8869]

Happer conveniently neglects to include in his projections the feedback effects that C02 triggers. C02-driven warming, in fact, accelerates evaporation, which fills the atmosphere with additional water vapor which, itself a greenhouse gas, then works synergistically to warm the planet more than C02 could do on its own. Methane, another powerful greenhouse gas, is also released from pent-up permafrost. Like water vapor, it works with C02 to increase warming beyond what C02 could do on its own. As time goes on, more and more of the ice sheets melt, reducing sun-reflecting albedo, and exposing more land and ocean to absorb (instead of reflect) sunlight. This is, in fact, one of the most powerful synergistic warming agents to work with C02.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

So these people are basically scientifically illiterate then? Not a single scientific institution on earth agrees with Happer's view that more CO2 is good for civlization or that today's climate change is "natural and harmless." NONE. NADA. ZILCH. Even his own American Physical Society, with its over 50,000 physicists, vociferously disagree with him, which you can see at their 2021 public position statement on climate change. To see his talking points completely destroyed by the scientific data, see "Climate Misinformation by Source: William Happer."

[@jackreacher.]

@@hosnimubarak8869 Oh, so you're one of those new age geniuses who believes the new lies. Good luck. Good God Almighty, forgive us for raising up these fearful, imaginative children to believe the critical theorists who hate humans.

[@jackreacher.]

@@hosnimubarak8869 I think we f ed up when we created green houses. New metaphors have ruined our future.

[@jackreacher.]

@@hosnimubarak8869 blah blah blah blah blah We are smarter than than previous generations. They were too stupid to recognize the end of the world is just around the corner. Yay for smart kids. Smart kids will save the world.

[@bodgitscarper5353]

Question: if you reduce the amount of C02, would it eventually reduce the worlds production of food,and by reducing the amount of food, would certain groups be able to convince the the world on depopulation, and who is propagating of thies WHO,? WEF,?

[@phillipchalmers3363]

all life on earth would be dead except those organisms which live on undersea volcanic flues.

[@Tom-h3s4x]

Bingo

[@Dimitris-td5kb]

Αl Gore, two decades ago, created a new "profession" for some leftovers and they jumped on it. It will be very difficult to get rid of them now, but it can be done.

[@littlefish9305]

the book red hot lies documents the level of infiltration that al gore's minions have done throughout the institutions worldwide. Most people do not appreciate how widespread it is. The only way I see to eradicate this cancer is to educate people. if people sit on the sidelines they will be destroyed.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Absolute sea level has risen four inches since 1993 and the rate of rise has doubled since then, according to NASA and the World Meteorological Org. According to NOAA, high tide flooding along the American south and Gulf coasts has risen an astonishing 400% and 1100% respectively since the year 2000. Even New England, which is uprising land from glacial rebound, is up 140%. In response to the rising tide, New York, Louisiana and Houston already have a combined $100 billion in new flood mitigation projects in the works. And we're just getting started. Should no one in science be studying this? How about the tripling of heatwaves since the 1960s? The 20-fold increase in marine heatwaves, one of which killed an estimated 10 billion snow crabs off Alaska? How about the 8% per decade increase in hurricane intensity? The increase in extreme precipitation events and drought? How about the record wildfire in Canada this year? The record wildfire in Greece? The tripling of wildfire burn acreage in the American west over the past 20 years? Not worthy of scientific study?

[@littlefish9305]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481so its enough for you to just claim warming. you are not speaking to the cause of warming because it has been drilled into you that the only cause is human cause. also you are cherry picking your start dates with the word "since". wildfires are dramatically down if you look further back, they were multiples higher 100 years ago. seek out the real data, then you will realise that those saying things like "over the past 20 years" are only showing you data to make you think trends are increasing, that is a form of lying, you are happy to repeat the lies of these people? why? because you are afraid? because it aligns with your political agenda? same with hurricanes, look at ryan maue's work - it show there is no trend in hurricanes, even the ippcc state this. are you trying to brainwash me or trying to brainwash yourself?

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@littlefish9305 Sorry, no. You've been hoodwinked by the usual internet charlatans. The infamous wildfire graph that shows MORE fires 100 years ago includes millions of acres of INTENTIONAL BURNS. Worse, the total burn acreage was mistakenly counted MORE THAN ONCE by multiple government agencies. Today's stats don't include intentional burns and they're definiately not counted twice. The National Interagency Fire Center warns people about the gross inaccuracies in that notorious graph, but it falls on the deaf ears of internet deniers like Tony Heller, Anthony Watts (wattsupwiththat) and many others. That's where you're getting your information from, not a credible scientific source. Atlantic hurricanes have intensified 8% per decade for the last forty years, according to NOAA. A Taiwanese study of typhoons shows the same increase. Arctic cyclones have also increased in intensity. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/climate/hurricane-intensity-stronger-faster.html WHY ATLANTIC HURRICANES ARE GETTING STRONGER, FASTER, Time, Sep 30, 2022 LINK BETWEEN EARTH'S HEAT AND HURRICANE STRENGTH GROWS, National Centers for Environmental Information, May 19, 2020 GLOBAL WARMING IS MAKING HURRICANES WORSE, STUDY FINDS, Washington Post, May 18, 2020 HURRICANES, CYCLONES AND TYPHOONS ARE GROWING STRONGER, CNN, May 18, 2020 ARCTIC CYCLONES ARE GETTING STRONGER, MORE DAMAGING, Scientific American, October 23, 2023

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@littlefish9305 ELEVEN separate studies confirm the scientific consensus on climate change. ELEVEN. In 2021, Cornell University surveyed the over 88000 climate studies published from 2012-2020 and tallied a 99.9% consensus that human activity, not nature, is driving climate change. Even Exxon's own scientists in leaked memos have acknowledged that combusted fossil fuels are warming the planet to a damaging degree. We know humans are warming the planet via several lines of evidence, including analysis of the ratios of carbon 12, 13 and 14 in atmospheric CO2. CO2 from combusted fossil fuels has a DIFFERENT isotopic signature than CO2 from volcanoes, the ocean or the biosphere. Because of that difference, we can calculate how much of the 140ppm of CO2 added to the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution has come from us: 100%. The Milankovitch Cycles that ushered warm and cold periods in and out in earth's past are now in COOLING phases and have nothing to do with today's warming. Earth’s axis is currently tilted 23.4 degrees (it's maximum is 24.5), or about half way between its extremes, and this angle is very slowly decreasing in a cycle that spans about 41,000 years. It was last at its maximum tilt about 10,700 years ago and will reach its minimum tilt about 9,800 years from now. As obliquity decreases, it gradually helps make our seasons milder, resulting in increasingly warmer winters, and cooler summers that gradually, over time, allow snow and ice at high latitudes to build up into large ice sheets. As ice cover increases, it reflects more of the Sun’s energy back into space, promoting even further cooling. Earth's orbital eccentricity ranges from ZERO (a perfect circular orbit) to 0.067. Today it’s 0.017. That means we're moving toward COOLING, not warming. The same is true of earth's precession or wobble. Spectroscopic analysis of the the atmosphere clearly shows heat passing through CO2 and radiating back to earth. It's emprical evidence of the greenhouse effect at work. As that greenhouse effect has increased, our troposphere has warmed and our stratosphere has COOLED. If the sun was involved, both atmospheric layers would be warming. Instead the heat trapped in the lower level is causing the upper level to cool. It should be added that the sun's output has also weakened over the past 40 years, according to NASA. These are just a few of the reasons why the consensus on anthropogenic warming is 99.9%.

[@stanthogerson6714]

this is something that you will never see on CNN-- or news in general.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Absolutely true, because CNN is a responsible network that vets their "experts" before they believe them. Happer has been profoundly debunked in the scientific literature, which you can see at CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER, at the Skeptical Science website. Not a single scientific institution anywhere on earth agrees with him that today's climate change is "harmless and natural" or that more CO2 would be "good for us." NONE. NADA. ZILCH. Even his own American Physical Society and its over 50,000 physicists disagrees, which you can see at their 2021 public position statement on climate change. Happer is, in fact, the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by fossil fuel industry investors to promote the use of more gas and oil. Sky News loves to have on oil industry shills like Happer because Sky owner Rupert Murdoch himself co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their advisory board. Sky, in fact, is known as the world's largest hub for climate and renewable energy misinformation. Connect the dots.

[@tedrussell902]

Great common sense! I knew this and I’m not near as smart as this man! Global warming is and has always been a political joke!

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Happer is an oil industry shill, not a climate scientist. Ditto Sky News, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has a huge financial stake in the fossil fuel industry.

[@econrith]

Time for politicians not on the take to stiffen up and fight these incentives being given to the so called climate idiots. Thanks to Dr William Happer, professor Emeritus of Physics now having to work so hard at his age to try to pull back this ridiculous climate movement.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

ELEVEN separate studies confirm the scientific consensus on climate change. ELEVEN. Over 80 academies of science and all of the world's major scientific institutions pubicly endorse the consensus findings, which is precisely why every nation on earth is a member of the IPCC. In 2021, Cornell University surveyed the over 88000 climate studies published from 202-2020 and tallied a 99.9% consensus that human activity, not nature, is driving climate change. Even Exxon's own scientists in leaked memos have acknowledged that cmbusted fossil fuels are warming the planet to a damaging degree. By contrast, you just watched a clip from Sky News, run by Rupert Murdoch, the world's most notorious climate change denier. Why such a denier? Because he co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their advisory board. Happer casts a kindly old grandfather figure. We can't help but like the guy. Unfortunately he has been profoundly debunked in the scientific literature, which you can see at CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER, at the Skeptical Science website. Alas, not a single scientific institution on earth agrees with his opinion that "more CO2 would be better for us." Just the opposite. Even his own Amercan Physical Society, with its over 50,000 physicists, vehemently disagrees. (See their 2021 position statement on climate change.) FYI, Happer is the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the families who own fossil fuel companies. Food for thought.

[@nosferatut9084]

​@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481What you just posted is made up and more 🐂 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

[@FarleyMan151]

End the UN

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

I'd rather end Sky News Australia, which is owned by Rupert Murdch, who co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their board. It's why every one of his media outlets, including Sky, bash climate change and renewable energy at every opportunity. Convincing you that the UN should end illustrates just how destructive this fake news channel really is.

[@nosferatut9084]

​@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481No he's correct and not only the UN but the WTO ,WHO ,WEF and the IPCC .

[@crataeguscrusgalli]

I have a PhD in environmental science. While there are some interesting dynamics occurring in global climate patterns, there is certainly no climate crisis. Unfortunately, saying this makes me a heretic and I could lose my job if I said this out loud. As every sane and observant non-scientist can see, this is all about power, money and control.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Who has lost their job from climate contrarianism? Can you name anyone? There's lots of hyperbole about such action but no evidence it has ever happened. Sea level has risen four inches since 1993 and its rate of rise has DOUBLED, according to NASA. In January the state of Maine suffered a record high tide that caused $100 million in damages. According to NOAA, high tide flooding along the American south and Gulf coasts has risen an astonishing 400% and 1100% respectively since the year 2000. Louisiana has already lost over 8800 acres to permanent inundation in its lower Breton Sound area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It's why that state has a new $50 billion flood mitigation project in the works. So does New York, with its borough of Queens flooding on a regular basis. Annapolis, Maryland (the City Dock neighborhood) closes streets and businesses 60 times a year due to flooding. Miami Beach has raised 105 miles of roads by two feet in order to keep back the rising tide. Odisha Sate in India reports losing no less than 16 coastal villages to high tide flooding. Sea level is going to rise by another two feet by 2100, causing much more financial catastrophe than we're seeing now. No climate crisis? In 2015 the Amazon suffered a record drought that killed an estimated 2.5 billion trees and plants and millions of animals. It was the second "once-in-a-century" drought since 2005. 8 years later it happened a third time, only worse, killing far more flora and fauna and igniting 26 million acres with out-of-control wildfires. Rain forests are normally too wet to burn. No climate crisis? According to a study in Environmental Research Letters, crop losses due to drought and heatwaves tripled over the last five decades in Europe. According to a study by Cornell University, farm productivity is 21% lower than it would otherwise by without global warming. Luckily we've been able to stay ahead of the losses with industrial-scale farming, but small scale farmers who can't afford crop insurance are suffering. Third world subsistence farmers are suffering most of all. If you're well versed on the environment, you know that photosynthesis breaks down at 104 degrees, and many seeds won't even germinate at that temperature. Think of places in the world like Phoenix, which last summer suffered through 31 straight days of temperatures above 110 degrees. You can't successfully farm in temperatures like that. Cool weather crops like cabbage, lettuce, spinach, broccoli, peas and cauliflower cease development entirely when temperatures go above 75 degrees for more than five days. Many other crops wilt and drop their flowers with extended days in the 90s. Above 100? Most crops, other than those originating in the tropics, crap out.

[@philgamble4161]

I just tell people to go and look at the trees. They are so incredibly healthy.

[@HealingLifeKwikly]

"I just tell people to go and look at the trees. They are so incredibly healthy." Actually, the science shows that much of the great forests of the world are now drying out, stressed, dying, and burning at much faster rates than before due to man-made global warming caused by our CO2 emissions.

[@crotalus2011]

​@@HealingLifeKwiklymore garbage propaganda from you. I'm sure you believe the polar bears are in danger too!

[@sylviam6535]

@@HealingLifeKwikly- In the meantime, Europe and North America are more green than they were 100 years ago.

[@HealingLifeKwikly]

@@sylviam6535 Thanks for the reply. "In the meantime, Europe and North America are more green than they were 100 years ago." Unfortunately, that's not a trend that helps us with the forest-killing threats posed by man-made global warming. In both Europe and North America, they simply stopped the relentless deforestation that had been going on, created some state and national forests, and did some reforestation. But unfortunately now, the great forests of America, Canada, Europe, Siberia, Australia, and South America are drying out, dying, and burning faster than before. So the impacts of man-made global warming are wiping out many of those gains you refer to--and the increased tree death and acreage burned will just keep increasing with warmer global temps. Take care.

[@sylviam6535]

@@HealingLifeKwikly - Isn’t a lot of that destruction intentional, though? I know that the Amazon rainforest is constantly being burned to make room for grazing and in the Borneo it is cut down to make room for palm oil plantations.

[@desking8065]

That is right co2 has it's place on earth, the trouble comes with the accumulation of co2 in the upper atmosphere currently at is biggest level sinse the 1900 's that is the problem.

[@martinstallwood5799]

I am seeing so many documentaries that state CO2 is essential for the environment. I know there are tables related to e-carbon. Those toxic gases that companies release into the atmosphere. I have first hand experience of the toxic gases released by coal powered electricity generation. I don't think it's the carbon that does the damage but the other nasties that burning coal emits. I don't like the waste that finds its way into the environment. Surely efforts should be put into better waste management or more biodegradable waste and better filtering of gas emissions than just harping on about CO2? Unfortunately the e-carbon tables have the name carbon in them. This gives CO2 the bad name. Media reckons they can improve their following, and therefore their advertising, which results in better profits, by hyping up the CO2 debate and creating mass hysteria. Politicians and certain very astute businessmen pick up on this and try to benefit from it. Just like the Corona virus epidemic. Just my thoughts

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

CO2 is great for plants but only up to a point. We passed that point. That's because the warming that accompanies rising CO2 cancels out its benefits, and in a myriad of ways. Sky News won't tell you that because its run by Rupert Murdoch, who has a huge stake in the oil industry.

[@phillipchalmers3363]

When UK "cleaned up" their coal fired power stations, the crops began to fail. The farmers bought the bags of pollutants and put it on their fields, the crops recovered. It was fertilizer.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@phillipchalmers3363 Using coal as fertilizer has nothing to do with the damage coal causes when combusted.COMBUSTED coal is the issue here. When combusted, the gases released actually DIM the sun, reducing photosynthesis. The CO2 released also increases the greenhouse effect, which in turn REDUCES farm productivity. While CO2 itself is good for plants, the warming that accompanies rising CO2 cancels out its benefits by increasing crop-killing heatwaves, extreme precipitation events, droughts and wildfires.

[@dontbeasheeple5883]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 are you getting paid to post all this shyte? You seem to be a gubbermint paid shill to me.

[@DanielStone-yw1rn]

If integrity and climate change were in the same sentence we would be looking after the environment for free, seeing we take everything from the environment already, I'd say we owe BIG TIME

[@andynarcross3695]

Yes, Professor Happer is absolutely brilliant. I fail to understand why and how People believe the Climate Boiling Cr ap!,, PS, Yes, Before you ask, ido have a Science degree in Biology. Also, if you have time, look up Dr Judith Curry.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

This is why we don't ask biologists questions about climate science. See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER, at the Skeptical Science website, for a complete dismantling of his talking points. Happer is the former director of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil. Not a single scientific institution anywhere on earth agrees with Happer that today's climate change is "natural and harmless" or that more CO2 would be "good for us." Even his own American Physical Society with its over 50,000 physicists disagrees. See for yourself in their 2021 public position statement on climate. In it they state clearly that today's climate change is "unequivocally human-caused" and they "urge swift action" to mitigate the damage our emissions are causing. Judith Curry told us that global warming stopped in 1995. She was wrong. She tried again in 1998. Wrong again. She tried again in 2002, 2007 and 2010. Wrong every time. She then doubled down and told us that we would be COOLING right through to 2030. Wrong. She has, in fact, been debunked on many climate topics by her peers, which is why she quit the field and began writing a blog that requires no fact-checking peer review.

[@docbrandy915]

Amen! Any biologist understands that plants absolutely need CO2 to thrive. The more the plants thrive, the more Oxygen is created. More Oxygen means humans thrive.

[@jerryracicot2231]

Finally The Truth ! A Brilliant Man with Knowledge and Understanding ! God Bless Him !!!

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

ELEVEN studies confirm the scientific consensus on climate change. ELEVEN. Over 80 academies of science and ALL of the world's major scientific institutions from NASA to the American Physical Society and its over 50,000 physicists publicly endorse the consensus findings, which is precisely why every nation on earth is a card-carrying member of the IPCC. By contrast, William Happer has been roundly debunked in the scientific literature, and Sky News owner Rupert Murdoch co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their board. Connect the dots.

[@rogerthat487]

' The manical focus on CO2' sums it up

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Not a single scientific institution on earth agrees with Happer's view. Even his own American Physical Society and its over 50,000 physicists disagree. Happer is the former head of the CO2 Coalition, long funded by the families who own fossil fuel companies, to promote the use of more gas and oil. Look it up.

[@jimmyreid1458]

Why doesn't anybody actually listen to someone like Dr Happer who actually is knowledgeable about climate. Instead talking heads and self serving politicians have taken the stage.

[@hosnimubarak8869]

What Happer frequently neglects to include in his projections are the feedback effects that C02 triggers. C02-driven warming, in fact, accelerates evaporation, which fills the atmosphere with additional water vapor which, itself a greenhouse gas, then works synergistically to warm the planet more than C02 could do on its own. Methane, another powerful greenhouse gas, is also released from pent-up permafrost. Like water vapor, it works with C02 to increase warming beyond what C02 could do on its own.

[@jimmyreid1458]

There's more than just Happer raising the alarm about this climate hoax. Soon from Princeton and Moore from UBC to name just 2. Tune into the Climate Discussion Nexus ( CDN) to give yourself a broad overview of this manufactured crisis. They tackle the various topics on climate change from sea level changes to ice cap science. This might change your mind about the narrative being completely devoid of alternative view points, and it's quests are all ACTUAL climate scientists. Not talking heads or politicians.

[@Moonbeam-dr7zd]

Science sense, we need more of it!

[@keithhissey5173]

There is no climate crisis.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Sea level has risen four inches since 1993 and the rate of rise has DOUBLED since then. No worries? Heatwaves have TRIPLED since the 1960s and are decimating crops, according to the EPA. Marine heatwaves are up 20-fold, according to the University of Bern. It's why Alaska just lost 10 billion snow crabs in the Bering Sea and why the shrimp fishery off Maine has completely collapsed. Canada suffered through its largest wildfire in history this summer. Greece suffered through the largest fire in European history this summer. Western U.S. wildfire burn acreage has TRIPLED in the last 30 years. Hurricane intensity has increased 8% per decade, according to NOAA. Extreme precipitation events have increased worldwide, washing away entire towns and villages. Tick-and-mosquito-borne diseases have increased 60%, as warming has expanded the ranges of both. No worries?

[@keithhissey5173]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 please please please do your research because your argument holds no water.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@keithhissey5173 Everything I posted is easily verified. Nothing is made up. I've been a science writer for nearly fifty years, published worldwide, in multiple languages, and I work with climate data every day. You're being duped by a fake news channel run by Rupert Murdoch, who has a huge stake in the fossil fuel industry.

[@dontbeasheeple5883]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 "sea levels have risen 4 inches since 1993" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 Yeah righto champ

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@dontbeasheeple5883 See NASA SEA LEVEL RISE and give yourself a reality check. You're watching a fake news network run by Rupert Murdoch, who co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their board. William Happer is the former head of the CO2 Coalition, funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil. Connect the dots.

[@christophergame7977]

Champion Professor Happer !!

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Not a climate scientist and fully debunked by those who are.

[@christophergame7977]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 Thank you for your response. Please point me to the debunking material.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@christophergame7977 See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER, at the Skeptical Science website. Happer isn't a climate scientist. His expertise is OPTICS. He's also the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by fossil fuel industry investors to promote the use of more gas and oil. Not a single scientific institution on earth agrees with him that today's climate change is "natural" and that more CO2 would be "good for us." Even his own American Physical Society with its over 50,000 physicist members disagree, which you can see at their 2021 public position statement on climate change. Sky News Australia likes to have Happer and other contrarians like him on because Sky owner Rupert Murdoch himself co-owns a fossil fuel company, Genie Energy, and sits on their advisory board. It's why Sky has been labeled as an international "hub for climate change denial."

[@annemouse6788]

@@christophergame7977 STP Runs around the internet trying to discourage people from listening to people like Happer. I wouldn't be surprised if he also reports it as 'misinformation'. Sad that. The squelching of dissent is always a precursor to tyranny.

[@terryteztattersall]

Will Happer is the most intelligent, interesting and reasonable proper scientist!

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

He has been roundly debunked in the scientific literature, where he has ZERO credibility.

[@terryteztattersall]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 then why won't they debate him in an open forum?

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@terryteztattersall 1. They don't debate him because he has ZERO credibility in the field. It would be like brain surgeons debating a proctologist. To see just how egregiously he muffs the science, see CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER, at the Skeptical Science website. 2. Happer isn't a climate scientist. He's published no scientific papers on climate change. NONE. NADA. ZILCH. That's because his expertise is OPTICS, not climate, and his work would be excoriated by those who are climate scientists. 3. Happer is the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil. Sky News likes to spotlight pro-oil outliers like Happer because Sky boss Rupert Murdoch is heavily invested in the oil industry himself and sits on the advisory board of Genie Energy, of which he is co-owner. 4. Even Happer's own American Physical Society, with its over 50,000 physicist members, reject his claims that more CO2 is "good" and climate change "natural and harmless." Go to their 2021 public statement on climate change, in which they state unequivocally that global warming is human-caused and requires "swift action" to mitigate the damage our emissions are causing. 5. ELEVEN separate studies confirm the scientific consensus on climate change. ELEVEN. Over 80 academies of science and ALL (yes, ALL) of the world's major scientific institutions publicly endorse the consensus findings, which is why every nation on earth is a card-carrying member of the IPCC. 6. In 2021, Cornell University audited the over 88000 climate studies published from 2012-2020 and tallied a 99.9% consensus that human activity, not nature, is driving global warming. Even Exxon's own scientists in leaked memos have acknowledged that combusted fossil fuels are warming the planet to a damaging degree. For Happer to continue to insist that climate change is nothing to worry about flies in the face of the world's PhD-level scientists, their scientific data, and virtually every scientific institution in the world.

[@crotalus2011]

Swiftlytiltingplanet just spews nonsense.

[@crotalus2011]

@@terryteztattersall because they know he's right and it would destroy their doom and gloom narrative.

[@stephenward2963]

Totally agree with you Proffessor

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Did you fact-check him? You should. No scientific institution on earth agrees with him that today's climate change is "harmless and natural." NONE. NADA. ZILCH. Even his own American Physical Society disagrees with him.

[@kayakutah]

It used to be that "science" was about proposing hypotheses and then trying to disprove them. Now, if you're a scientist and you want to feed your family, you have to prove that the hypothesis proposed by those funding you is correct.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Over 30 studies confirm Michael Mann's hockey stick data, which has been affirmed by the National Academies of Sciences. ELEVEN separate studies confirm the scientific consensus on climate change, which is publicly endorsed by over 80 academies of science and all (yes, ALL) of the world's major scientfic institutions, from NASA to NOAA to the World Meteorological Organization, which is precisely why every nation on earth is a card-carrying member of the IPCC. In 2021, Cornell University surveyed the over 88000 climate studies published from 2012-2020 and tallied a 99.9% consensus that human activity is driving climate change. Even Exxon's own scientists in leaked memos have acknowledged that combusted fossil fuels are warming the planet to a damaging degree. By contrast, William Happer has been profoundly debunked in the scientific literature and Sky News is run by someone (Rupert Murdoch) who co-owns a fossil fuel company (Genie Energy) and sits on ther board. Connect the dots. You are beng royally hoodwinked.

[@wheel-man5319]

💯

[@user-zz9gn2dc3l]

Yes precisely true. And very shameful. Ruining and undermining their own industry by having no integrity and producing mendacious paid for results 😔

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@user-zz9gn2dc3l So fossil fuel industry propaganda has gotten to you. Did you notice how they got you to flip the narrative, to make the "evil" scientists sound greedy, when in fact oil industry CEOs make 100 times their income per year? The nearly 100 climate-denying front groups, think tanks and websites the industry funds (source: Drexel University) freely promote false information about climate science. For them, there are no repercussions. For scientists to peddle misinformation? A loss of credibility, of funding, and a career. Contrary to the nonsense you've been fed, scientists must PROVE their findings with evidence-based data, and that data must be confirmed and replicated by others. They can't LIE without being caught. So they DON'T. If you think anyone in climate science has lied, name him. Sky News is owned by Rupert Murdoch, the world's most notorious climate change denier. He's a part-owner of Genie Energy, a FOSSIL FUEL COMPANY. He also sits on their advisory board. It's precisely why Sky delivers such dishonesty about climate science 24/7. It's also why they only have on fringe scientists like Happer, who has been profoundly debunked in the scientific literature. See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER, at the Skeptical Science website for a complete dismantling of his talking points.

[@lloydsingline340]

Carbon dioxide makes up only 0.004 % of the atmosphere. Green vegetation needs it for photosynthesis. Nitrogen 78 %,Oxygen 21 % then inert gases Carbon dioxide means more food.I dont think that there is too much in the atmosphere and I like soda water !!

[@richardryan2769]

This climate crisis is not about climate.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

It's EVERYTHING about climate. Thousands of PhD-level climate scientists, tens of thousands of peer-reviewed studies, 80 academies of science and ALL of the world's major scientific institutions, from NASA to NOAA to the World Meteorological Organization, say it is. So do Exxon's own scientists in leaked memos. Happer, by contrast, is completely REJECTED by the American Physical Society, which is comprised of over 50,000 physicists with the same qualifications as Happer. Unlike Happer, they urge "swift action" against the damage we're causing with our emissions. Keep in mind that Sky News is run by Rupert Murdoch, who CO-OWNS A FOSSIL FUEL COMPANY AND SITS ON THEIR BOARD. It's why this fake news network only has on crackpot and outlying scientists, never anyone from the 99.9% consensus.

[@nosferatut9084]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 If by fossil fuels you're referring to petroleum, it's NOT a fossil fuel, it's Abiotic. Please refer to Climategate, the 2009 hacking and leaking of hundreds of emails from the University of East Anglia where scientists acknowledged that none of the modelling / predictions over several decades had eventuated, how to censor dissenting scientists and how to hide the Medieval Warm Period which was conveniently left out of Al Gore's thousand year hockey stick graph because it was the real "inconvenient truth".

[@wheel-man5319]

It's about Klaus Schwab gaining more power.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Incredibly stupid. Falling for the internet's cesspool of conspiracy nonsense means your suggestibility is off the charts. Read some science and reconnect with your critical thinking skills. @@wheel-man5319

[@annemouse6788]

It's about driving you into a trap.

[@garylancaster3995]

I salute this man. Speaking the truth.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER, at the Skeptical Science website. Not a single scientific institution on the planet agrees with Happer that more CO2 would be good for us or that today's climate change is "natural and harmless." Even his own American Physical Society with its over 50,000 physicist members disagrees. Go to their website and check out their 2021 position statement on climate change, in which they're "urging swift action" to mitigate the damage we're causing. Happer is the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil. You've been royally duped. But that's standard fare from a news network owned by oil industry investor Rupert Murdoch.

[@berniefynn6623]

Thousands of greenhouse people use CO2 Generators.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

A greenhouse bears no relation to the outside world. In the outside world, CO2-driven warming melts the icecaps, raises sea levels, intensifies hurricanes, expands wilfire seasons, reduces farm productivity, and increases heatwaves, marine heatwaves, extreme precipitation events, droughts and tick-and-mosquito-borne diseases. None of that happens in a greenhouse.

[@littlefish9305]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 none of that happened in the real world either.

[@HealingLifeKwikly]

@@littlefish9305 "none of that happened in the real world either." Uhh, I guess you aren't reading the science. Thousands of research studies prove that our emissions are hurting people and the planet in hundreds of ways, including reduced incomes and higher prices. Here's are two of many chunks of depressing findings from the 6th IPCC report: B.1.1 Widespread, pervasive impacts to ecosystems, people, settlements, and infrastructure have resulted from observed increases in the frequency and intensity of climate and weather extremes, including hot extremes on land and in the ocean, heavy precipitation events, drought and fire weather (high confidence). Increasingly since AR5, these observed impacts have been attributed28 to human-induced climate change particularly through increased frequency and severity of extreme events. These include increased heat-related human mortality (medium confidence), warm-water coral bleaching and mortality (high confidence), and increased drought-related tree mortality (high confidence). Observed increases in areas burned by wildfires have been attributed to human-induced climate change in some regions (medium to high confidence). Adverse impacts from tropical cyclones, with related losses and damages19, have increased due to sea level rise and the increase in heavy precipitation (medium confidence). Impacts in natural and human systems from slow-onset processes29 such as ocean acidification, sea level rise or regional decreases in precipitation have also been attributed to human induced climate change (high confidence). {1.3, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.2, 5.2, 5.4, 5.6, 5.12, 7.2, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.11, 11.3, Box 11.1, Box 11.2, Table 11.9, 12.3, 12.4, 13.3, 13.5, 13.10, 14.2, 14.5, 15.7, 15.8, 16.2, CCP1.2, CCP2.2, Box CCP5.1, CCP7.3, CCB DISASTER, CCB EXTREME, CCB ILLNESS, WGI AR6 SPM.3, WGI AR6 9, WGI AR6 11.3-11.8, SROCC Chapter 4} B.1.2 Climate change has caused substantial damages, and increasingly irreversible losses, in terrestrial, freshwater and coastal and open ocean marine ecosystems (high confidence). The extent and magnitude of climate change impacts are larger than estimated in previous assessments (high confidence). Widespread deterioration of ecosystem structure and function, resilience and natural adaptive capacity, as well as shifts in seasonal timing have occurred due to climate change (high confidence), with adverse socioeconomic consequences (high confidence). Approximately half of the species assessed globally have shifted polewards or, on land, also to higher elevations (very high confidence). Hundreds of local losses of species have been driven by increases in the magnitude of heat extremes (high confidence), as well as mass mortality events on land and in the ocean (very high confidence) and loss of kelp forests (high confidence). Some losses are already irreversible, such as the first species extinctions driven by climate change (medium confidence). Other impacts are approaching irreversibility such as the impacts of hydrological changes resulting from the retreat of glaciers, or the changes in some mountain (medium confidence) and Arctic ecosystems driven by permafrost thaw (high confidence). (Figure SPM.2a). { TS B.1, Figure TS.5, 2.3, 2.4, 3.4, 3.5, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 9.6, 10.4, 11.3, 12.3, 12.8, 13.3, 13.4, 13.10, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 15.3, 16.2, CCP1.2, CCP3.2, CCP4.1, CCP5.2, Figure CCP5.4, CCP6.1, CCP6.2, CCP7.2, CCP7.3, CCB EXTREMES, CCB ILLNESS, CCB MOVING PLATE, CCB NATURAL, CCB PALEO, CCB SLR, SROCC 2.3} Be well.

[@salambinny7580]

Politicization of Religion, Education, Philosophy and here, Science ... WILL DEFINITELY END IN TOTALITARIANISM AND DICTATORSHIP .... Failure, Failure and Failure

[@davidreynolds6477]

It makes a change to listen to someone who actually knows what he’s talking about and I’d like to see Greta Thunberg debate professor Happer

[@MrFilipsolar]

That was actually very interesting and entertaining. In a mad world full of alarms and claims about death and destruction, here comes a ln enlightened man with reasonable words. Thanx sir.

[@andrezcabara2774]

Those were not reasonable words. It was bullcrap. "CO2 is good for pants" as an argument why climate change isn't real and why we should not reduce carbon emissions.

[@andrewandres148]

Solar, the Sun..... Cycles, sunspots, corona holes, mass ejections, solar flares, magnetic fluctuations all on the Sun... This Prof. is spot on.... The Sun is the thermostat of the earth, by the hand of God. And Amen....Keep the truth my Aussie cousins..... From the USA

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

The sun is a nuclear fusion reactor that never changes its output by more than about a degree up or down, even over centuries of time. It has, in fact, WEAKENED over the past four decades, according to NASA. Greenhouse gases are the more powerful thermostat of the earth, capable of altering global temperature by 20 degrees or more simply by trapping the sun's heat and preventing it from filtering back to space.

[@thedogtutor4998]

The planet LOVES C02 and its SUPPOSED to be about the planet, right ?

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

How about the 8 billion people who live on it? While everyone knows that CO2 is great for plants, the warming that accompanies rising CO2 is terrible for plants. Heatwaves have tripled since the 1960s, according to the U.S. EPA., and heatwaves DECIMATE farm crops. A few days above 75 degrees and spinach, lettuce, broccoli and cabbage all bolt and stop developing. Above 90 degrees tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, strawberries and most other vegetables drop their flowers, greatly diminishing yield. Blueberries become necrotic and soften. At 104 degrees all photosynthesis STOPS and most seeds won't even germinate. Think about places in the world like Phoenix, which suffered through 31 straight days of above 110-degree temperatures this summer. If you're a subsistance farmer (and there are still over a billion in the world) in this kind of heatwave you lose your crops, your sustenance and your livelihood in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, that's only the beginning. Extreme precipitation events are also increasing rapidly, according to the EPA and the IPCC. Because warmer air can hold more water vapor, epic, Biblical downpours are becoming common, not only causing flooding, but drowning farm crops and washing away vital topsoil. The incidence of drought, drought intensity and drought duration is also increasing, drying out the land, blowing away topsoil and making wildfires much more likely. Wildire burn acreage across Canada, in fact, has DOUBLED since the 1990s. In the American west, it has TRIPLED, according to the U.S. Forest Service. William Happer doesn't tell you any of this. He doesn't tell you because his loyalties lie with the fossil fuel industry, not climate science. Happer isn't a climate scientist, by the way. His expertise is optics. He is, however, the former director of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil. To fact-check his talking points, see "Climate Misinformation by Source: William Happer at the Skeptical Science website.

[@JohnCatto]

How refreshing to hear some common sense being spoken for a change.

[@tropolite]

Happer is awesome. He knows more about CO2 than CO2 itself. He's a real scientist. Case Closed.

[@climatecraze]

Ditto. Happer is correct - and there is no climate crisis ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/en_Ipp2CZq6ieaM

[@hosnimubarak8869]

@@climatecraze Oh come on. everyone knows Happer is an A$$clown.

[@andrezcabara2774]

And CO2 knows nothing, so yes, that's easy to accomplish.

[@kevinoneill41]

Heat pumps proficiency starts diminishing long befor minus 25 C at 8C ambient temperature heat pumps would struggle to keep a 2500 sq ft home above 15C or 59F a rather uncomfortable temperature and the coast would be very high.

[@keithfarrington960]

CO2 is great for plants agriculture and food production.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

CO2 is indeed great for plants, but the warming that accompanies rising CO2 cancels out its benefits by increasing heatwaves, extreme precipitation events, droughts, wildfires, and heat-loving insects. None are good for plants. Contrary to popular belief, farm productivity is now 21% LOWER than it would otherwise be without global warming, according to the world's leading agricultural research institution, Cornell University. High CO2 also diminishes staple crops like wheat and rice of their zinc, iron and protein content, making them less nutritious for human consumption. Most people don't know that and climate denying media outlets like Sky won't tell you that. Plants also leave behind over 40% of our CO2 emissions, allowing them to simply accumulate in the atmosphere, year after year, decade after decade. That excess CO2 can remain in circulation for centuries before finally being fluxed back into natural sinks. The same warming that hurts plants is also melting the icecaps, raising sea levels, expanding wildfire seasons, intensifying hurricanes, and increasing marine heatwaves, and tick-and-mosquito-borne diseases. Keep in mind that Sky News is run by Rupert Murdoch, the world's most notorious climate denier and co-owner of Genie Energy, a fossil fuel company.

[@marcobsomer5574]

Excellent.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Happer is roundly debunked in the scientific literature.

[@marcobsomer5574]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 comme pour le vaxxin covid ? le "con-sensus"scientifique ? un vaccin sûr et efficasse ? Venu d'un pangolin et d'une chauve souris? Etant un scientifique, j'ai vu dans mon laboratoire de nombreuses études fausses. Je ne prend pas une position mais le doute est important dans la Science. Ce n'est pas une religion. Dedunked, cela ne veut rien dire. Bonne soirée.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@marcobsomer5574 We're talking about climate here, not Covid. There is no consensus yet on where the Covid virus came from, although more data supports the Chinese market than the Chinese lab. Conflating the mountain of evidence and consensus on climate science with the still evolving question of Corona virus origin is not a good argument, my friend.

[@marcobsomer5574]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 vous ne m'avez pas compris. La science doit se baser sur le doute. Le doute sur le cov, le vaccin génique et bien d'autres choses doit être, comme pour le réchauffement climatique, la base de notre raisonnement; Je vous conseil la lecture " La fin des certitudes" de iIlya Prigogine, prix Nobel de chimie physique. Les certitudes tuent la pensée, ce sont des religions quelques soient leur domaine. Bonne soirée, donneur de leçon.

[@nosferatut9084]

​@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481No he's not.More 🐂 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 from you.

[@kathleencook3060]

Add in the erroneous Modelling!!.

[@philmeadowcroft9637]

Talking about greenhouses as an example in the old days. I installed heaters in greenhouses and did not vent them. They weren't there or necessary for heat which was a bike product. But they were there because the burning and natural gas create CO2. They would fire them up in their greenhouses and order 2 propagate CO2. And yes, you have to be careful, but it's doable situation. They used to do it in a lot of greenhouses for years and tell the safety Engineers come by that have never done anything in their life. Except sit behind a desk and read a book

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

A greenhouse bears no resemblance to the outside world's vulnerability to rising CO2.

[@Tom-h3s4x]

I quit riding my bike. A nice "byproduct" of that: I quit buying bike products.

[@Medders-k3c]

There is a risk in commenting on a subject, which one doesn't understand that one may be labeled foolish

[@kathleencook3060]

It is Malthusian. Too many people, and we will run out of food etc.

[@Blake-sh3nf]

So we need to restrict the population of some countries. A cap of 500m per country? How does that play out?

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Birth rates of industrialized nations are already dropping rapidly. Without an influx of immigrants, population will drop, making Social Security and Medicare greatly under-funded. @@Blake-sh3nf