Climate Realism - 101

In "Climate Realism -101," we strive to address the arguments supporting the notion of a climate catastrophe in a balanced manner. Our approach promotes education and public awareness on climate realism. We aim to provide evidence for 'climate realism' in a calm and constructive manner and provide references to these peer-reviewed studies. 

A Slideshow Presentation is available for duplication and repurposing to and UN directive programs in our our Public and Private Sectors through public awareness, deputations to councils and clear recommendations.

The following statements are quoted from the Clintels Global Climate Intelligence Groups,` World Climate Declaration, with the inclusion of peer-reviewed studies to support their claims.

“Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.”

Only 0.3% of published scientists stated in their papers that recent warming was mostly man-made.

1. Cook J, Nuccitelli D, Green SA et al (2013) Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature. Environ Res Lett 8(2):024024 2. Legates DR, Soon W, Briggs WM, Monckton C et al (2025) Climate consensus and “misinformation”: a rejoinder to ‘Agnotology, scientific consensus, and the teaching and learning of climate change. Sci Edu 24:299-318

Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming

The Earths Orbit and Tilt Drive Glacial-Interglacial Changes

1. Milankovith cycle chart: The Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/39012/milankovitch-cycle/ 2. Lisiecki LE, Raymo ME (2005) 3,5 million tears of declining temperatures: A Pliocene-Pleistocene stack of 57 globally distributed Benthic 18 records. Paleoceanography, vol. 20, pa1003, doi:10.1029/2004PA001071; modified from Rohde, Global Warming Art

The geological archive reveals that Earth’s climate has varied as long as the planet has existed, with natural cold and warm phases

We are Living in one of the Coldest Periods in Earths History

Scotese CR (2002) Analysis of the temperature oscillations in geological eras. Paleo-map Project http://www.scotese.com/climate.htm

The Little Ice Age ended as recently as 1850. Therefore, it is no surprise that we now are experiencing a period of warming

For Human Advancement, Warmer is Better than Colder

1. Historic Temp: Alley, R.B. 2004 GISP2 Ice Core Temperature and Accumulation Data. IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series #2004-13. NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 2. Current Temp: Box JE Yang L, Bromwich DH, Bai L (2009) Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Air Temperature Variability: 1840-2007*. American Meteorological Society, Journal of Climate Vol 22, pp 4029-4049

Warming is far slower than predicted

The world has warmed significantly less than predicted by IPCC on the basis of modeled anthropogenic forcing. The gap between the real world and the modeled world tells us that we are far from understanding climate change.

Climate policy relies on inadequate IPCC models. Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools.

Christy J, U.S. House Committee on Science, Space & Technology 2 Feb 2016, Testimony of John R. Christy University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Climate policy relies on inadequate models, they exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gases

Carbon Dioxide is not the Primary Greenhouse Gas Making Up Only 0.04% of Earths Atmosphere

1. CDIAC (2016) Recent Greenhouse Gas Concentrations. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/current_ghg.html 2. Robinson GD and Robinson GD (2012) Global Warming- Alarmists, Skeptics and Deniers. Moonshine Publishing, Abbeville, SD https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/greenhouse-effect/

The Warming Effect of CO2 Declines as its Concentration Increase

IPCC (2013) Climate change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC [Stocker TF, Qui D, Plattner GK et al (eds0]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom & New York, NY, USA, 1535 pp.

Climate policy relies on inadequate models, which ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial

CO2 Means Moisture Soil

2013 CSIRO Australia Deserts ‘greening’ from rising carbon dioxide https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130708103521.htm

CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth

More CO2 means more plant growth

Idso CD (2013) The positive externalities of carbon dioxide. Center for the study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth

CO2 is Not the Primary Greenhouse Gas

1. CDIAC (2016) Recent Greenhouse Gas Concentrations. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/current_ghg.html 2. Robinson GD and Robinson GD (2012) Global Warming- Alarmists, Skeptics and Deniers. Moonshine Publishing, Abbeville, SD https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/greenhouse-effect/

More CO2 is favorable for nature, greening our planet

The Earth is Becoming Greener, Not Turning Into a Dessert

1. de Jong R, Schaepman ME, Furrer R et al (2013) Spatial relationship between climatologies and changes in global vegetation activity. Glob Change Biol 19:1953-1964, doi:10.1111/gcb.12193 2. NASA (2016) Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study finds Zhu Z, et al. (2016) Greening the Earth and its drivers, Nature Climate Change 6, 791-795 3. Munier et al. 2018 Satellite Leaf Area Index: Global Scale Analysis of the Tendencies Per Vegetation Type Over the Last 17 Years; Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 424;doi:10.3390/rs10030424

Additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass

CO2 is Plant Food

Idso CD (2013) The positive externalities of carbon dioxide 2. Idso CD, Idso SB, Carter RM et al [Eds] (2014) Climate change reconsiderations ii: biological impacts. Heartland Institute, Chicago, USA

It is also profitable for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide

Helps Feed People More People Worldwide

1. Food: UNFAO (2012) United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization: World grain production 1961-2012. Food Outlook, May 2012, pg.1 2. CO2: Boden TA, Marland G, Andres RJ (2016) Global CO2 emissions and Fossil-Fuel Burning Cement Manufacture and Gas Flaring 1751-2013. CDIAC 3. Temp: HadCRUT4 (2017) The Hadley Climate Research Unit (HadCRUT4) annual global mean surface temperature dataset, I

Global warming has not increased natural disasters

There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent.

Most of Antarctica is Cooling and Gaining Ice.

National Snow and Ice Data Center 2018; All About Sea Ice. https://nsidc.org/learn 2. Illinois, University of (2017) Cryosphere Today Southern Hemisphere Sea-Ice Anomaly, 1979-2017.

Heat Waves are Not Becoming More Frequent

Christy J (2015) That Stubborn Climate. University of Alabama Huntsville

Extreme Heat Events are Declining

Christy J (2015) The stubborn climate. University of Alabama at Huntsville

Forest Fires Across the Northern Hemisphere are Decreasing

Flannigan MD, Bereron Y, Engelmark O, Wotton BM (1998) Future wildlife in circumboreal forests in relation to global warming, Journal of Vegetation 9, pp 469-476 2. NIFC (2017) National Interagency Fire Center - Total Wildland Fires and Acres (1960-2015) 3. Yang, J Tian H, Tao B, Ren W, Kush J, and Wang Y (2014) Spatial and term-portal patterns of global burned area in response to anthropogenic and enviromental factors; Restructuring global fire history for the 20th and early 21st centuries, J Geophys Res Biogeosci, 119, 249 263, dio:10.1002/2013JG002532

There has been a Significant Long-Term Decline in Landfalling Hurricanes in the United States

NOAA National Hurricane Center http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

The Number of Extreme Tornadoes is Decreasing

NOAA (2017b) NOAA NCEI Historical Records and Trends https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/climate-information/extreme-events/us-tornado-climatology

Higher Temperatures = Fewer Draughts

1. Hao Z AghaKouchak A, Nakhjiri N et al (2014) Global integrated drought monitoring and prediction system. Sci Data 1, doi:10.1038/sdata.2014.1 2. Cook ER, Segar R, Cane MA (2007) North American drought: reconstructions, cause, and consequences. Earth-Sci Rev 81(1);93-134, doi:10.1016/ j.earscirev.2006.12.002

There are More Polar Bears Now Than 50 Years Ago

Rode KD (2013) Spatial and temporal variation in polar bear responses to sea ice loss: PowerPoint presentation to Alaska Sea Grant Conference, College of Fisheries and Oceans Sciences University of Alaska

Warmer Weather Means Fewer Temperature Related Deaths

U.K. Office for National Statistics (2017) Excess winter mortality in England and Wales: 2015/16 (provisional) and 2014/15 (final) https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/excesswintermortalityinenglandandwales/2015to2016provisionaland2014to2015final

Cold Kills More than Hot Every Year

Gasparrini A, et al (2015) Mortality risk attributed to high and low ambient temperature: multicountry observational study, The Lancet, Vol 387 July 25, 2015 2. Vardoulakis S, Dear K, Hajat S, Heaviside C, Eggen B, McMicheal AJ (2014 Comparative Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Heat and Cold-Related Mortality in the United Kingdom and Australia, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 122, number 12

There is ample evidence that CO2-mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly.

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Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities.

There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm. We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050. Go for adaptation instead of mitigation; adaptation works whatever the causes are.

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