If its summer, its climate change

[The Natural Philosopher]

But in winter, its just weather.

[newshound]

No, it's all climate change. Hot, cold, floods, drought, storms, big stable highs. Obvs.

And not change, crisis. Sometimes catastrophe.

[Spike]

Gathering together all the emotive descriptions used by the climate change industry and their hangers-on, it should really be described as the Dangerous Unprecedented Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change Global Heating Emergency Alarm Justice system, a phantasmagoria in which only the future is certain and where the past is constantly being revised.

[Tim Streater]

Huge floods in the low countries. Hmm, wonder why they're called that.

Perhaps some have forgotten the Lynton/Lynmouth flash flood, see:

They may also have forgotten the Banqiao Dam business, see:

[Andrew]

The only crisis is 7.9 Billion, the population of planet Earth, and it's increasing, relentlessly.

[Tim Streater]

+1

Odd that this fact doesn't get more air time.

[jon]

....and they all pump out ~1 litre of CO2 with some water vapour every second.

[newshound]

Well actually, not so relentlessly. In the late 60's it was 3.6 billion with a doubling time of 37 years, so should have been 7.2 in about 2000, ICBA to calculate the figure for now.

Billions were going to starve by 1980, according to Erlich.

There is substantially less poverty and starvation now, even in absolute numbers.

[Chris Hogg]

Er...no. Breathing inhales and exhales about 350 ml of air with each breath. Exhaled air contains about 5% CO2 by volume, so somewhere between 15 and 20 ml of CO2 exhaled with each breath.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Spike brought next idea :

Like it!

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Andrew used his keyboard to write :

+1

[Jack Harry Teesdale]

The average growth rate is about 1% a year which is hardly a crisis, next years figure may be less due to Covid.

[Chris]

Really? Looks like pretty standard gammon-babble to me.

[Andrew]

That's the most pathetic excuse I've heard for ages. 7.9 billion don't just need food, they need the whole infrastructure needed to support that number. Houses, roads, school places, hospitals, cars, jobs, vans, lorries, shipping, aviation for the masses, ... .

How many millions died of starvation in places like China when Mao tried to enforce top-down socialist control ?. Roll on 50 years and now China is the worlds polluter and they can now afford to eat lots more beef and pork which they are now importing.

[Andrew]

The planet is on fire now thanks to the combined demands of 7.9 billion people. The 'experts' say it's "ok", it will level off at 11 Billion. FFS, that's 50% more than now.

[Sam Block]

Nope, only small bits of it.

Nope, due to drought. That has always happened even before there ever were any humans.

Less than 10 billion actually.

Nope.

[Vir Campestris]

In the UK Covid has killed 130k mostly old and sick people out of 66 million. Imperceptible.

World wide that's currently 4 million out of 7.9 billion. Apparently

385,000 babies are born every day...

Covid won't make enough difference to help.

Andy

[newshound]

Excuse? It's a verifiable statement of fact.

That's another story altogether. Mao wasn't the architect of China's successful capitalist expansion. I think the USA is still a higher per capita polluter.

Their per capita meat consumption is less than the west. The reason they can afford to eat meat is because we like to buy their cheap iPhones.