Letters / Your grandchildren are safe
I listened to the TED talk put up by Jan Bevington and “seconded” by Richard Gibson until I heard the first major lie: “All the most recent science shows that the climate is much more sensitive to greenhouse gases than we previously thought.”
No. In fact, recent scientific papers are suggesting climate sensitivity is much less dramatic than previous studies.
This is because of the dawning realisation that alarming predictions derived from computer climate models are failing to be fulfilled in reality.
Here’s a tip for the TED Talks, has anyone ever sat through a school science lesson with music playing throughout?
Neither have I but many’s the time I wished it was.
The gentleman making the TED presentation, Dave Roberts, is not a scientist he is an evangelist for climate alarmism.
TED, incidentally, stands for “Technology, ENTERTAINMENT, Design.”
I’m still listening to it as I write and I can honestly say I’ve never heard so much bizarre tripe talked about climate and his presentation finishes with a powerful musical crescendo to stir the emotions of those whose critical faculties have been suspended.
My wife and I own a cottage whose floor is only five feet above the normal high water mark and according to the University of Colorado who record sea levels, sea level has been rising at an average of 3mm/year for the last hundred years or so and if anything, the rate of rise has slowed in recent years, in line with the absence of global warming since 1998.
That means sea level is rising about one foot per hundred years so we won’t be selling our cottage and we expect our grandchildren – and their grandchildren – to be able to stay in it in comfort should they so wish.
Does anybody care that the top of the tide was a foot lower than now during the Battle of Jutland? Or two feet lower when Nelson lost his life at Trafalgar? Did anybody notice?
Jan, you do wonderful work at your seal sanctuary, please keep doing it and don’t worry about your grandchildren.
They won’t be cowering in underground caves to escape the heat they will be far more capable of dealing with anything the climate throws at them than we are, just as we are far more capable of dealing with it than were our grandparents.
Oh…, perhaps someone from Shetland News might call that nice smiling gentleman Lang Banks from WWF who can’t bear to think of us creating jobs for our grandchildren in North Sea oil and ask him why WWF opposed increased protection for polar bears under the CITES rules on trading animal furs and parts?
John Tulloch
Lyndon
Arrochar.
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