Peter Clack

Beautiful description of the living soil and our plant and trees growing in this live rich environment. Climate doomsdayers have no clue about our living earth.

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@vm_mensch And a yes from me, Victoria..

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Under the banner of 'saving the planet', a far-reaching political transformation is taking place — and it's happening out of sight.

Behind unelected figureheads like António Guterres (Secretary-General of the United Nations) stands a vast, featureless apparatus: thousands of embedded bureaucrats shaping policy far from public oversight.

The UN has already morphed into one of the largest unelected institutions in world history, absorbing $68 to $74 billion annually. This includes billions for opaque peacekeeping forays and billions more to maintain a global workforce of up to 190,000 personnel — not one of whom pays income tax.

Beyond them lies a vast money-hungry corporate queue waiting to cash in on this forced transition away from dense, dependable power toward intermittent wind and solar. This transition is projected to absorb $275 trillion. The bureaucracy builds the machinery; the market gets the payout.

This is much more than 'overreach' — it's a calculated PR strategy. By exploiting extreme, worst-case climate scenarios, they have created a permanent state of hyper-emergency.

As policy analysts at free-market institutes like Cato have long pointed out, IPCC computer models consistently overestimate actual warming, elevating fringe worst-case projections into accepted policy inevitabilities.

Beneath the cover of this overheated crisis, national sovereignty is being dismantled and local democracy replaced by an unaccountable regime. It's an unprecedented transfer of wealth and political control designed to concentrate power in the hands of a few.

While near-term carbon credit transactions are projected to remain under $10 billion through 2030, the framework is set up to yield a multi-hundred-billion-dollar annual payout by the 2040s.

Guterres and the UN apparatus say these measures are dictated by physical reality. Yet, their remedies all point toward expanded administrative authority and direct global control over world finances.

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@Sharpe75299870 Thanks...

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@NuncProTunc2 Yes

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The first three days of COP31 have been defined by seven-hour entry bottlenecks, a fierce fight over climate cash, and human rights crackdowns outside the venue.

While COP31 lacks last year's 'highway through the rainforest' spectacle from Belém, it has delivered plenty of friction — from a US government boycott to protests over Türkiye’s own coal expansion and pre-summit home raids.

Opening-day logistics buckled as roughly 100,000 delegates and staff descended on Antalya. Some developing nations missed early sessions after being stranded in broken-down shuttle buses or trapped in sweltering security lines that took nearly seven hours to clear.

Rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, accused Turkish authorities of silencing dissent ahead of the conference through protest bans, home raids and the detention of local union leaders, lawyers and environmental defenders. Villagers from İkizköy — who have spent years fighting tear gas and water cannons to stop the Akbelen coal mine — urged world leaders to leave the resort city and witness the mine's destruction firsthand.

For the second year running, the US administration refused to send an official delegation, dismissing the summit as 'extremist'. Roughly 20 Democratic members of Congress flew to Antalya on philanthropic funding after the State Department denied them standard diplomatic support.

After a five-year absence from UN climate summits, Greta Thunberg resurfaced, following a six-day overland journey from London. She slammed the proceedings as a 'greenwashed circus', warning that after 31 summits, the world was 'still speeding in the wrong direction'.

Not that she has any idea.

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@Maryintexas2 Exactly right Mary...

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@dr_mult_dipl Many thanks..

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@RealGandalph Nothing good for the world.

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@Fancy2000 Thanks Ulli...

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Earth is still in an Ice Age, and almost nobody knows it.

Ice ages don't end when the glaciers melt; they end when all polar ice disappears completely. Right now, ice still covers Antarctica and the Arctic; which means by scientific definition we are still in an Ice Age.

What we are living in - right now - is called an interglacial period, a warm pause, a temporary thaw between glacial advances. The current interglacial - called the Holocene - began about 11,700 years ago. Every human civilisation, that has ever existed - Ancient Egypt, Rome, China - all of it happened inside this single warm pause.

And here is what makes this deeply unsettling; in the last 2.58 million years the Earth has cycled through at least 50 glacial advances. The warm pauses between them typically last 10,000 to 30,000 years. We are already 11,700 years into ours.

The ice cores drilled from Antarctica tells us exactly what happened before. Every interglacial ends; every one! The temperature drops, the glaciers advance, and ice sheets kilometres thick crush everything beneath them.

During the last Glacial Maximum just 20,000 years ago, ice sheets covered most of North America, Northern Europe and Asia. New York City was under a kilometre of ice. And none of that required a catastrophe.

It happened slowly and quietly, driven by wobbles in Earth's orbit around the Sun, called the Milankovitch cycles. The next glacial advance will come; not tomorrow, not in our lifetime. But it will come.

We are not living 'after' the Ice Age: We're living inside it.
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@FutureDissent @grok This is a PR exercise to transfer wealth and free societies into local prisons, run by the UN.

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The world's regional climates are determined by the agonisingly slow tectonic movements of continental and oceanic crustal plates.

Plate tectonics set the long-term patterns for the shape of the continents, the seaways, future ocean circulation and cloud albedo, while solar irradiance and orbital cycles are the trigger points.

Atmospheric CO₂ and global surface temperature are not locked together either, a story revealed in the geological record. Far from causing a mass collapse, past high-carbon epochs created the richest expansions of biosphere diversity in Earth’s history.

Atmospheric CO₂ levels were often 10 to 15 times higher than today during the early Paleozoic era (538 to 251 million years ago), starting with the Cambrian explosion. During these evolutionary peaks, atmospheric CO₂ was measured in the thousands of parts per million. Changes did not happen over decades either — they took tens of thousands of years.

A modest rise in CO₂ levels in the modern industrial era is not a sign of runaway warming; it's a recovery during a far longer global decline in atmospheric CO₂. This brief pulse has stimulated global vegetation growth and leaf area expansion, verified by NASA satellite observations.

Our current geological epoch — the Quaternary glaciation — sits near historical low levels for atmospheric CO₂ concentrations. We are in a severely cold epoch that has locked the world in a 2.58-million-year ice age regime. This ice age climate continues today.

During the Last Glacial Maximum 26,000 to 20,000 years ago, ice sheets miles deep blanketed North America, northern Europe, and Siberia. CO₂ fell to approximately 180 ppm, flirting with the 150 ppm threshold where land plants cease photosynthetic activity.

The glaciers began to melt and retreat rapidly 20,000 to 15,000 years ago, with most ice disappearing from major landmasses by 10,000 years ago. Sea levels rose by only 10-13 millimetres a year for around 9,000 years, a measurably slow pace of change, compared with today's 3 mm a year.

By contrast, today's CO₂ hovers around 425 ppm, rising and falling through the years to the rhythms of the seasons. CO₂ does not pose a danger to climate, but it is an essential building block for the biological world.

IMAGE: What 540 million years of geological history says: Willis Eschenbach.

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@brett_ship65783 It's the climate scam revealed for what it is. You need to know about this stuff.

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This is a quick summary Ted. The Karoo Ice Age — also known as the Late Paleozoic Icehouse — was a global ice age that lasted from about 360 to 255/260 million years ago. Global conditions exactly match today, including carbon dioxide levels.
Lasting roughly 100 million years, it is one of the longest major icehouse periods in Earth's history. Much of Earth's landmass was clustered in the southern supercontinent of Gondwana (covering parts of modern-day Africa, South America, Antarctica, India, and Australia) over or near the South Pole.
It was driven primarily by a massive drop in atmospheric CO₂.

The rapid evolution and expansion of vascular land plants and vast coal swamps increased silicate (mountain) weathering and buried huge amounts of organic carbon, cooling the planet.

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I think the climate agenda works this way Tony. It is a slick example of embedded belief. The doom story grabs headlines because news outlets are unable to treat these fabrications as actual news, and don't even attempt to add balance. New outlets report it as the truth, backed by science. So this is the method used over and over. Once the outrageous lie has been reported as science, it is almost impossible to remove it from the public record. And because no one ever investigates this PR scam, it stays lodged in time.

I might add, that this issue has a built in complexity, that needs to be unravelled. But in our pop culture world of one liners and click bait, no-one has bothered to try to unravel any of it.

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This is just paraphrasing a question I put to to google, Bill.

There's no agreed number, but there have been more than 50 glacial-interglacials. The glacials lasted around 41,000 years for the first 1.5 million years, then became longer, lasting 100,000 years.

From 2.6 million years ago until about 1 million years ago, the glacial-interglacials lasted roughly 41,000 years.

Around 1 million to 800,000 years ago, they shifted to longer cycles lasting roughly 100,000 years each.

The warm interglacial periods themselves ypically last 10,000 to 15,000 years (or up to roughly 20,000 to 30,000 years). The much colder glacial phases make up the remaining 70,000 to 90,000 years of a 100,000-year cycle

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@awaveglobal Thanks...

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@EsseiaD The glacier melt after the end of the Glacial Maximum 20,000 years ago, raised sea levels by around 10-12 millimetres a year. And most of these glaciers don't exist today.

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World temperatures were almost 2°C higher than today and sea levels 6–9 meters higher during the Eemian interglacial, 129,000–116,000 years ago.

This protracted warmth was not driven by carbon dioxide; a paradox that exposes the fiction of treating the pre-industrial CO₂ baseline of 280 ppm as a planetary thermostat. If CO₂ were truly the climate control knob, the Eemian could not have been significantly warmer than our current era of 420 ppm.

Tectonic movements, ocean currents and orbital cycles are the ruling heavyweights of climate. Current UN policy continues to distort the atmospheric properties of CO₂ by ignoring such rich lessons from the past.

Historical warm periods — the Roman and Medieval climate optimums — occurred without carbon management, just as the 500 years of the Little Ice Age in Europe unfolded with virtually no change in CO₂.

This contrasts sharply with the UN's 'Code Red' crisis mentality. Civilisation thrived during previous warm peaks without centralised UN oversight. Dismantling the 'CO₂ as primary lever' narrative highlights the natural variability that defines the Quaternary glaciation.

History and physics did not just begin in 1850. We are 2.58 million years into the severe Quaternary glaciation, and our current warmth is simply a standard warm interglacial. The IPCC ignores these precedents because acknowledging them would render their centralised economic solutions irrelevant — like net zero. By 2050, this reasoning risks costing the world $275 trillion while achieving nothing for the planet — an indictment of a flawed climate ideology, designed to promote a UN led One World Government.

IMAGE: The four most recent interglacials over the past 450,000 years (Antarctic temperature proxy and CO2, after R. Hannon 2017).
MIS 1 (11.7 ka–present) – Holocene
MIS 5 (130–115 ka) – Eemian (last interglacial)
MIS 7 (243–191 ka) – Aveley
MIS 9 (337–300 ka) – Purfleet
MIS 11 (424–374 ka) – Hoxnian/Holstein

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@mjhenderson1968 Then show me anything in the post that is unscientific! Anything!