Well, the industry is really ramping up the rhetoric, using the el nino and la nina perturbations (so called apparently by Peruvian fisherman in the 1600's) before the current el nino works through. Which it will, of course.

""Extreme weather is already leading to "crop losses, high food prices and loss of life", a senior climate scientist has said.
Prof John Marsham, from the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, said that unless we switch from fossil fuels to renewables and clean power the situation would "continue to get worse".
It will "wipe out entire ecosystems", he said."
No vested interest with Prof Marsham and the team.

"Parts of southern Europe are likely to get very close to the record temperature for the region, a senior scientist has told Sky News.
Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service at the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, said several countries could match the previous maximum or set a new one."
No vested interest with M. Buontempo and the team.

""Earth will become an "inferno" if the heatwaves don't spur on governments to tackle global warming, a climate scientist has warned.
Humanity should expect "more frequent and intense" extreme weather events if global temperatures continue to rise at their current rate, said Dr Akshay Deoras, from the University of Reading's meteorology department."
No vested interest with Dr Deoras and the team.

Anticyclones now have names.

'Heat storms' are now a thing.

Weather maps hurt the eyes.

It's extraordinary to watch the industry in action. Then there's the politicians - need an excuse for not having fixed the drains/ kept forest firebreaks clear/ managed mountain deforestation to control monsoon runoff, maybe? The industry is here to help.

Have 24 hours of rolling news to fill and a new 'climate catastrophe' department built around an ambitious young 'climate crisis correspondent' to justify? The industry is here to help.
Today, there's a thunderstorm in Canada, some flooding somewhere...more than enough content for everyone.
Quick, employ more 'climate crisis communicators'!

ok thanks Zach - I'm not sure who you're slagging off but thanks for saying it's not me - Nasa, The Royal Society - anyone not financed by the US Government or big tech/pharma ?

Let’s just say that the “climate disaster” is what the eco disciples and media say it is.

I fail to understand why anything the UK does will make the slightest difference. Wrt traffic, anyone who’s travelled in Asia and Africa will know what a joke it is pretending that taxing fuel in the UK will make the slightest difference to anything.

Same with industrial emissions, China, India, Russia etc. will do what they want and revel in the West making themselves uncompetitive by trying to “save the planet.” 🙄

The Royal Society is a charity and has multiple funding sources, same with universities. I get the point you’re making, but don’t understand why you wouldn’t apply that line of thinking to someone like Plimer?

40 odd years ago you certainly didn’t have the US government funding climate science, it’s something that’s grown from a hippy conspiracy to what it is now, widely accepted because of scientific consensus.

The entire global warming science is predicated on just one thing.

That one thing is that the CO2 in the atmosphere rising from 0.03% to 0.04% spells catastrophe for the planet.

That's it. Everything stems from that.


"Does that sound likely?" is my starting point.

At present, I do not believe that such a trivial change can change the planets' temperature by 2 degrees.