Washington Post article reports that many Republicans in Congress do recognise the severe threat of climate change but they won’t talk about it because of funding pressures from the fossil fuel industry. ibid.
1st March 2017: a study was released showing that tens of thousands of miles of permafrost in north-west Canada are rapidly melting along with accelerated decline of permafrost in Alaska, Siberia and Scandinavia. And it pointed out that this could lead to massive – huge – release of greenhouse gasses. ibid.
There are big major campaigns being carried out by the Chamber of Commerce, the biggest business lobby by American Petroleum Institute and others to convince people that global warming is a liberal hoax. Noam Chomsky, lecture Oregon 20 April 2011, ‘Global Hegemony: The Facts The Images’
Most of us are going completely in the wrong direction. Last year fossil fuel production increased. Noam Chomsky, Who is the Greatest Threat to World Peace? Interview Matt Chorley, Youtube 34.56, 2023
In reality the US Chamber of Commerce is a large corporation that is reported to lie to the public on behalf of even bigger corporations. The Yes Men, 2003
Their plans are to prevent us from passing climate-change legislation. ibid.
My expertise is in deception … It offends me when someone takes the skills of my honest living [magician] if you will and uses it to twist and distort and manipulate people and their sense of reality and how the world works. Merchants of Doubt, Jamie Swiss, 2014
Global warming is a hoax … There is no consensus. This is a myth.’ ibid. politicians
These guys are rich, they’re politically powerful and they're mean. ibid. anti-tobacco campaigner
Flame retardants in your house: they don’t protect you from anything. ibid. woman
Global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship to the greenhouse effect. ibid. Jim Hansen
All of the papers that had been published since 1992 to 2002 that had used the keywords ‘global climate change’. And then we read them. The question was, how many of those papers disagreed that most of the observed warming is due to increase in greenhouse gas concentrations? … We found nothing. ibid. educational scientist
I consider myself primarily a scientist. ibid. Fred Singer, sceptic
All of this is a political debate about the role of government. ibid. educational scientist
Citizens for fire safety was a front group. ibid. investigator
One of the top former UN climate officials [Christiana Figueres] has come out to warn that there are only three years left to save the world! … ‘Experts’ are saying this, folks. The Corbett Report, Shock UN Warning, James Corbett online July 2017
If emissions can be brought permanently lower by 2020 then we can save the planet. ibid.
What calculations are they doing here exactly? ibid.
We’re going to be looking at the latest from the IPCC: International Panel on Climate Change, specifically their special report on global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius … I like how these headlines – experts warn … is a political document, not a scientific document … Scientific meaningless nonsense they’re trying to put out there. The Corbett Report, ‘Pay Up or the Earth Gets It’, James Corbett online 2018
The CW-7 which despite being the topic of so much controversy over the past seven years has continued development … The artificial cooling substance CW-7 will success in bringing average global temperatures down to manageable levels. Snowpiercer 2013 starring Chris Evans & Song Kang-ho & Tilda Swinton & Jamie Bell & Octavia Spencer & Ewan Bremner & John Hurt & Ed Harris & Go Ah-sung & Luke Pasqualino & Alison Pill et al, director Bong Joon-ho, opening news snippets
Soon after dispersing CW-7 the world froze. All life became extinct. The precious few who boarded the Rattling Arc are humanity’s last survivors. ibid. captions
2016 was the hottest year on record, topping a decade of increasingly warmer years: powerful storms, heatwaves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers, declining ice-caps, and drought stalked the planet. Yet how did a climate change denier get elected president of the United States? Donald Trump has claimed that climate change is an expensive hoax. Donald Trump, the Koch Brothers, and Their War on Climate Science, The Real News online
Climate change deniers now inhabit the most powerful positions in the world’s most powerful government … This is largely the handiwork of two brothers – David and Charles Koch. ibid.
Greenpeace soon dubbed the brother’s apparatus – the Climate Change Denial Machine. ibid.
Koch money has gone to more than half of all senators and nearly 40% of all congressmen. ibid.
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive. Donald Trump
A new movement is emerging on the streets of Britain to fight climate chance. Thousands of people are protesting for the first time. Extinction Rebellion: Last Chance to Save the World? BBC 2019
Scientists say we only have eleven years left to act, so can the movement save the world? ibid.
Dani had organised a huge schools’ strike across the UK with thousands of students taking part. ibid.
It’s been a day when Britain has been burning up. A day when the rail network buckled and the roads melted. A day when vital services struggled to cope. Does climate change mean we are going to have to get used to it? Burning Up: Britain in Meltdown, Jeremy Vine, Channel 5 2019
38.1 degrees in Cambridge: 100.6 degrees Fahrenheit in old money. ibid.
Across the UK extreme temperatures brought chaos and disruption. ibid.
Europe’s first hottest summers since the year 1500 have all been in the 21st century. ibid.
Penn State University: I received an envelope in the mail one day and so I opened this envelope and powder comes wafting out of it …. all because I decided to study applied Math and Physics and move into Climate Science. Climategate: Science of a Scandal, professor, BBC 2019
Today there is scientific consensus about the threat of catastrophic climate change. Ten years ago, the debate over global warming also seemed settled. Until one event shook climate science to its core. In 2009, over one thousand emails from British climate scientists were hacked and released on the internet. The emails seemed to suggest scientists were exaggerating global warming causing a scandal the media dubbed Climategate. ibid.
The Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich: Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability … The global temperature graph which partially drew upon CRU data was given a name – ‘The Hockey Stick’. The scientist who constructed ‘The Hockey Stick’ was Mike Mann. ibid.
The FOI campaign against the Climatic Research Unit reached a climax in July 2009. Four months later, an unidentified computer hacker plunged climate science into global crisis. ibid.
The House of Commons Committee published its report on the CRU’s work in March 2010. In the months following, the independent inquiries also delivered their findings. There was ‘no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice’ … ‘The rigour and honesty of the scientists are not in doubt’ … Phil Jones was reinstated as director of the CRU in July 2010. ibid.
It [David Attenborough’s Climate Change – The Facts] was basically a snuff movie starring everyone on the planet. All the animals and the ice and the forests and the oceans – everything – all the way down to the ants, probably. Cunk & Other Humans I: Our Planet Matters, BBC 2019
Even I’ve noticed the weather’s been a bit weird this years, like its on shuffle mode, one minute it was colder than ever then it was wetter than ever, then it was hotter than ever. At one point the Amazon caught fire, which must have been a real blow to those people trying to chop it down. ibid.
Because she’s a Swedish schoolgirl that middle-aged men seem to hate, it’ll basically be the opposite of the last forty or so Woody Allen films. ibid.
It was a strange feeling seeing all these tiny children marching to demand a future. It filled me with despair. ibid.
But sometimes in a protest it’s important to do things that make absolutely no fucking sense and alienate everyone. ibid.
Going green: save money? The challenges around reducing our greenhouse gases. Can the UK be doing more to reduce climate change? And how helping the planet can save you money. Tonight: Going Green: Save Money? ITV 2021
Apocalyptic forest fires, torrential rain and fatal floods and temperatures that have shattered previous records. It’s been a summer of severe global weather which isn’t over yet. Summer of Wild Weather: Is Worse to Come? Channel 4 2021
‘This is a kind of example of extreme event that is basically impossible without climate change.’ ibid.