Climate Crisis Fun Facts!

By Hermann O.

Take a deep breath. It’s time for Climate Crisis Fun Fact Number One: There is no Climate Crisis.

The weather is not your fault. The climate (weather over time) is not your fault either. Yes, the climate is changing. It is changing because it has never not changed. But no, the “pollutant” CO2, anthropogenic or otherwise, is not driving this change. The only thing CO2 is driving is plant growth. The narrative you are being force fed is false. The cause or causes for climate change are natural. Natural, although not yet fully understood.

How do we know this? We know this because of the historical records our ancestors have left us. We know this because of the physical evidence Nature has left us from the vast, pre-industrial past. We know this through astronomical observation. What we are experiencing has all happened before, only it was much more unpleasant in the past. This is why we don’t need to worry about slowing down or stopping the changes we have been conditioned to fret about. These changes can’t be stopped, and we can’t “save the planet” because the planet doesn’t need saving. We only need to worry about how we can best adapt to these changes, something humankind has already been doing for millennia.

But wait! How could this be? How could the rest of the world have reached the “consensus” that CO2 is a threat when it isn’t? This is because consensus is a political not a scientific term and those who profit from this supposed threat also control public opinion. Certain professions, institutions and industries benefit either directly or indirectly from this CO2 narrative and manipulate the public by exploiting three well-known human weaknesses.

The first is fear. Fear is easily planted and maintained in the minds of the uninformed. Short of any real and present danger, our species will even search for things to fear. Something inside the human brain has always been receptive to apocalyptic warnings that the end of the world is nigh. Climate hysteria serves this psychological need. The second weakness is our need to conform. Being firmly rooted in strict social hierarchies, humans have a primal need to belong. This need is so great that we would rather defy our own reason than be banned as social outcasts. And our third weakness? Anthropocentrism. We innately feel that human beings are the center of the universe and are somehow, some way in control of Nature. We are neither of course and this leads to hubris, narcissism, megalomania, and harmful decision-making. We lack humility, in other words.

Humility is a good thing, however. And this book is an exercise in humility. It aims to offer those who feel uncomfortable with today’s presumptuous CO2 Climate Crisis consensus an opportunity to step back and doubt. It is a modest collection of well-documented facts and informed observations (please see the books listed in the bibliography) that will hopefully help you choose to refuse. Choose to refuse the bias. Refuse the fear mongering and lack of critical thinking. Refuse the indoctrination and the religious fervor of the era in which we live. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual can reason. No one can force you to take part in mob psychology, so don’t. Mass delusion and popular hysteria currently plague our planet, not CO2. Just say no and move forward. May the skepticism be with you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hermann O.
• Release date: Sep 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215184912

Hermann O.

Dazed and confused about Germany in general and Berlin in particular, Hermann O. (AKA Hermann Observer, AKA Clarsonimus Maximus, AKA Clarsonimus) is a mean, nasty and cynical old expat American who observes the world around him in quiet desperation.

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Critics agree.

This nutjob thinks anthropogenic CO2 only makes up .00016 of the Earth’s atmosphere! Well, OK. That’s true. But he also thinks that there’s no definitive scientific proof linking CO2 to temperature! Well, fine. That’s true too. But he’s still a nutjob.

― The New Woke Times

A dyed-in-the-wool climate denier. It makes no difference that there’s a vast range of historic, geological, and astronomical evidence backing him up. Nothing will ever convince us that Planet Earth does not need us to save it from ourselves. To even entertain the possibility that we’re not the center of the universe is a moral outrage!

― The Washington POS

Increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are the RESULT of higher temperatures, not the CAUSE? It’s time to cancel this oddball and his contrarian friends immediately.

― Consensus News Network

Dedication

This book is dedicated to all those inclined to question or doubt accepted opinion.

Future historians will wonder how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin.

- Richard Lindzen

Contents

An Inconvenient Introduction

Historical Inconveniences

Astronomical Annoyances

Geological Incongruities

Psychological Disorders

Logical Contradictions

Conflicting Statistics

Political Expediency

Religious Salvation

Profit Maximization

Media Manipulation

Mindless Activism

Unsettled Science

Panic Propagation

Studied Deception

Myth Maintenance

Magical Thinking

Economic Ruin

Clever Quotes

Good Books

Nice Sites

Author

Other

An Inconvenient Introduction

Take a deep breath. It’s time for Climate Crisis Fun Fact Number One: There is no Climate Crisis.

The weather is not your fault. The climate (weather over time) is not your fault either. Yes, the climate is changing. It is changing because it has never not changed. But no, the pollutant CO2, anthropogenic or otherwise, is not driving this change. The only thing CO2 is driving is plant growth. The narrative you are being force fed is false. The cause or causes for climate change are natural. Natural, although not yet fully understood.

How do we know this? We know this because of the historical records our ancestors have left us. We know this because of the physical evidence Nature has left us from the vast, pre-industrial past. We know this through astronomical observation. What we are experiencing has all happened before, only it was much more unpleasant in the past. This is why we don’t need to worry about slowing down or stopping the changes we have been conditioned to fret about. These changes can’t be stopped, and we can’t save the planet because the planet doesn’t need saving. We only need to worry about how we can best adapt to these changes, something humankind has already been doing for millennia.

But wait! How could this be? How could the rest of the world have reached the consensus that CO2 is a threat when it isn’t? This is because consensus is a political not a scientific term and those who profit from this supposed threat also control public opinion. Certain professions, institutions and industries benefit either directly or indirectly from this CO2 narrative and manipulate the public by exploiting three well-known human weaknesses.

The first is fear. Fear is easily planted and maintained in the minds of the uninformed. Short of any real and present danger, our species will even search for things to fear. Something inside the human brain has always been receptive to apocalyptic warnings that the end of the world is nigh. Climate hysteria serves this psychological need. The second weakness is our need to conform. Being firmly rooted in strict social hierarchies, humans have a primal need to belong. This need is so great that we would rather defy our own reason than be banned as social outcasts. And our third weakness? Anthropocentrism. We innately feel that human beings are the center of the universe and are somehow, some way in control of Nature. We are neither of course and this leads to hubris, narcissism, megalomania, and harmful decision-making. We lack humility, in other words.

Humility is a good thing, however. And this book is an exercise in humility. It aims to offer those who feel uncomfortable with today’s presumptuous CO2 Climate Crisis consensus an opportunity to step back and doubt. It is a modest collection of well-documented facts and logical observations (please see the books listed in the bibliography) that will hopefully help you choose to refuse. Choose to refuse the bias. Refuse the fear mongering and lack of critical thinking. Refuse the indoctrination and the religious fervor of the era in which we live. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual can reason. No one can force you to take part in mob psychology, so don’t. Mass delusion and popular hysteria currently plague our planet, not CO2. Just say no and move forward. May the skepticism be with you.

Historical Inconveniences

About 3500 years ago, during the Minoan warm period, the temperature was 4°C warmer than it is today.

The Vikings found a green land around 1100 A.D. they called Greenland. They also grew grapes on Newfoundland and Labrador, an area they referred to as Vinland, meaning vine or wine land.

The Little Ice Age (LIA) took place during the sun’s Maunder Minimum 1660-1715 and a cold relapse in 1790-1820. It was the closest Earth has been to glacial conditions for the past 12,000 years. It finally ended around 1840.

A large temperature increase of 0.6 degree Celsius (or about 1 degree Fahrenheit) took place between 1880 and 1940, well before human influences were important. The amount of fossil fuel burned at that time was very small compared to today.

One of the worst climate-induced human catastrophes in history took place around 1210 BC (the 2.8 ka BP Cold Event). This abrupt climate event or ACE brought about the Late Bronze Age Collapse through the combined effect of the climate change it caused and the invasions that followed.

Another abrupt climate event took place about 8,000 years ago. It ushered in a multi-millennial dry-wet transition in Scandinavia and a decrease in precipitation in the Middle East that lasted over 2,000 years. It is believed that this change in climate helped spread agriculture to the North.

There have been at least 78 major temperature swings in the last 4,500 years, including two since the 1970s.

1816 was a year of severe world-wide climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to drop by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1 °F). This was most likely a result of the violent volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia.

The Green Sahara entered a dryness crisis around six thousand years ago and became a desert in just 500 years when the ecosystem collapsed, and its human population was forced to flee.

Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier had already retreated by half its length before 1851. This was during much cooler times. Dynamics other than warming were clearly involved here.

The greatest temperature increase before the major rise in greenhouse gas concentration after WWII, the Dust Bowl years in the 1930s, was followed by a quarter-century decrease in temperature between 1940 and 1965.

For more than 6,100 years, or 60% of the current interglacial warm period (Holocene), the temperature was warmer than it is today.

Megadroughts occurred during the Medieval Warm Period that dwarf modern-day droughts. This was a time when atmospheric CO2 concentrations were more than 100 ppm lower than they are today.

Swedish botanist Rutger Sernander proposed that an extremely abrupt climate transition about 3,000 years ago (the Subboreal climate period) was the basis for the Norse saga Fimbulwinter, a three-year-long winter with no intervening summers.

The temperature increase during the last 25 years is unique and exceptional? Not if you compare it to the warming episodes that took place from 1860 to 1880 and 1910 to 1940. They had a similar slope (warming rate).

About 1000 years ago, during the Medieval Warm Period, wine grew in Southern Scotland and wheat cultivation reached as far north as Trondheim, Norway. Is it a coincidence that the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) coincided with the last maximum of the Eddy Solar Cycle?

The 1936 North American heat wave was one of the most severe heat waves in the modern history of North America. The death toll exceeded 5,000. Human-induced CO2?

During the Little Ice Age, three climate cycles took place in close succession: An atmospheric-oceanic cycle and the Bray and the Eddy solar cycles. This made this the coldest period in the Holocene and nearly triggered a glacial inception.

During modern times, glaciers reached their shortest extent 10,000 and 5,000 years ago. Many of the glaciers that now exist were absent.

Frost fairs were held on the river Thames in London up until the early 19th century. Most were held between the early 17th and early 19th centuries during the Little Ice Age, when the Thames froze regularly.

The modern warming period, AKA the long slow thaw, began more than 200 years before any significant contribution of human-induced CO2 to the atmosphere could be made.

Although the CO2 level was only about 70% of what we have now, Earth went through several warm periods during the past 10,000 years (the Medieval, Roman, Minoan, Egyptian Old-Kingdom, etc.). All of these were considerably warmer than today.

Storms have never been as bad as they are today! Really? How about the Great Blizzard of 1888 (in mid-March)? Also known as the Great White Hurricane of 1888. It paralyzed the East Coast and was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in American history.

Man-made CO2 has increased hurricane strength? The strongest hurricane to ever hit New England was The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635. The Mayflower had just arrived a few years earlier.

According to a group of Australian scientists, aboriginal (First Nations) society has preserved memories of an ancient sea level rise of Australia’s coastline dating back to 11,000 - 5,300 BC. Industrial CO2 and rising oceans?

The Laki (Grímsvötn) volcanic eruption in Iceland in 1783 drove down temperatures in the northern hemisphere by an average of 1.5 °C and nearly 5 °C in the eastern U.S. Major eruptions spew hundreds of millions of tons of ash into the stratosphere.

The rising sea level is a problem? Looks more like the rising land level. The Maldives is 70 centimeters higher now than in the 1970s. Eastern Australia is two meters higher than 4,000 years ago. The ancient port of Ephesus in Western Anatolia is now fifteen kilometers inland and seven meters above sea level.

The climate has been in a net cooling phase for the past 6,000 years. It has been in its recent warming period for only the past 300 years, coming out of the Little Ice Age just before