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Jan 25, 2023Liked by Richard Lyon

A first class essay - short, very informative, punchy and to the point.

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Jan 26, 2023Liked by Richard Lyon

Well presented facts and drawn along with interest to the conclusion. Learned that we can't predict cloud formation....(unless made by chemtrails.... long thin 'clouds' that spread to form grey canopies), and, about 'Global Circulation Models'. The reductionism to Co2 by particular individuals and groups across Continents, is one giant bluff to mankind and one giant step back to a Darker Age.

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Jan 25, 2023Liked by Richard Lyon

Well said, that man! I'm marking this to re-read, slowly, several times I should think!

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Jan 26, 2023Liked by Richard Lyon

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."

Karl Popper

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Jan 26, 2023Liked by Richard Lyon

Excellent and thank you.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/25/former-spokesperson-for-extinction-rebellion-turns-on-group-now-rejects-climate-doomsday-climate-activism-has-a-cult-problemi-used-to-be-one-of-them-i-w/

A former cult member reveals her change of heart.

Unfortunately, HMG, led by history graduate Skidmore, is committed to Net Zero; what could possibly go wrong?

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/23/uk-coal-plants-fired-up-again-as-renewable-energy-output-fails/

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/01/25/how-much-is-net-zero-really-going-to-cost-the-government-has-no-idea/

Cultism should have no place in government, but unfortunately, that no longer applies.

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The ones who livelihoods depend on their hypothesis being accepted are fossil fuel shills like William Happer and Willie Soon.

You are a willing dupe.

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Great article Richard, which I have shared in the hope of educating others

Net Zero is the mother of all stealth taxes, based on an unproven hypothesis, as a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist - from inept, intermittent renewables, to mobile crematorium battery cars, net zero tat is just engineeringly incompetent nonsense, transferring wealth from the masses, to the globalist elites

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Excellent and pithy analysis, thank you

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Berkeley Earth has discounted any significant role for UHI in global temperatures.

https://static.berkeleyearth.org/papers/UHI-GIGS-1-104.pdf

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You state: "There are very many other processes that affect the earth’s temperature, including water evaporation, cloud formation, ocean currents, meridional transport, sunspot activity, and the gravitational effect of the movement of the planets around the sun."

H20 is an amplifier; CO2 is a driver.

https://www.acs.org/climatescience/climatesciencenarratives/its-water-vapor-not-the-co2.html

Identification of human-induced changes in atmospheric moisture content

B. D. Santer et al

September 25, 2007

104 (39) 15248-15253

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0702872104

Cloud formation results in both warming and coolng depending on cloud height.

https://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/role.html

Climate change affects ocean currents.

https://www.science.org/content/article/global-warming-speeding-ocean-currents-here-s-why

Solar activity has been declining for decades as global temperatures increase.

https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/14/is-the-sun-causing-global-warming/

Climate change affects gravity.

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/GOCE/GOCE_reveals_gravity_dip_from_ice_loss

Milankovitch cycles have us cooling.

https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/2949/why-milankovitch-orbital-cycles-cant-explain-earths-current-warming/

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You claim

Climate catastrophism falls at the first hurdle: rising carbon dioxide does not produce rising temperature. Specifically, there is no observable relationship (what statisticians call a “correlation”) between the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the temperature of the atmosphere.

The data say otherwise.

500 million years of correlation.

https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-319-46939-3_1/MediaObjects/426313_1_En_1_Fig1_HTML.gif?as=webp

Salawitch, R.J., Bennett, B.F., Hope, A.P., Tribett, W.R., Canty, T.P. (2017). Earth’s Climate System. In: Paris Climate Agreement: Beacon of Hope. Springer Climate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46939-3_1

250 years of correlation between anthropogenic CO2 and global temperatures.

https://berkeleyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/results-plot-volcanoes.jpg

https://berkeleyearth.org/archive/summary-of-findings/

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