Cliff Wareing

[Jonathan Cohler @cohler]

FOR THE WILDFIRE CRAZY AND
CLIMATE MENTALLY DERANGED

The last 150 years is the greatest improvement in the human condition in the entire history of our species. It is not close.

Fire is down.

US burned area peaked at 52 million acres in 1930. It runs 5 to 10 million now. An 80 percent collapse. Global burned area, measured by satellite since the late 1990s, is down 25 percent.

Africa’s savannas, which used to dominate the global burn, have gone quiet as agriculture replaced fire-prone scrub.
The planet is greening.

Satellite data shows a leaf area increase equivalent to adding one entire Amazon rainforest to the Earth since 2000. Zhu et al. attributed 70 percent of the greening to CO2 fertilization. Deserts are shrinking at their edges. The Sahel is greener than it was 40 years ago.

Crops are exploding.

Global grain production has more than tripled since 1961 on roughly the same acreage. Yield per hectare on wheat, maize, and rice has quadrupled. Famine deaths per capita have fallen by roughly 99 percent since the 1870s.

People live twice as long.

Global life expectancy in 1875 was about 30 years. Today it is 73. More than doubled. In the developed world it went from 40 to over 80. Doubled again.

Children stop dying.

In 1800, 43 percent of children died before age 5. Today it is under 4 percent globally, under 1 percent in the developed world. A tenfold reduction. An order of magnitude.

Poverty collapsed.

In 1820, roughly 90 percent of humans lived in extreme poverty. Today it is under 9 percent, and falling. Another order of magnitude, while the global population grew from 1 billion to 8 billion. More people, vastly less poverty, per capita and in absolute terms.

Everyone can read.

Global literacy in 1875 was around 20 percent. Today it is 87 percent. Four times higher across a population that grew six times larger.

Everyone got rich.

Real GDP per capita globally (Maddison data, constant dollars) went from about $1,200 in 1870 to over $16,000 today. Roughly a fourteenfold increase. In the developed world, more like fiftyfold.

Weather stopped killing people.

Deaths from climate and weather related disasters peaked in the 1920s and 1930s at around 5 million per year, mostly drought and flood in Asia. Today, with five times the global population, it runs under 20,000 per year. A per capita reduction of over 99 percent. Two full orders of magnitude.

Work got easier.

Average annual working hours in developed economies fell from around 3,000 in 1870 to about 1,700 today. Roughly half. Child labor collapsed. Leisure exploded.

The cause is not a mystery.

Fossil fuels. Coal, oil, and natural gas turned muscle labor into machine labor. They powered fertilizer production (Haber-Bosch alone feeds roughly half the humans alive). They powered refrigeration, sanitation, hospitals, tractors, transport, and every step of the industrial food chain. Cheap dense energy is what dragged our species out of the Malthusian trap where it had lived for 10,000 years.

And the byproduct of that cheap dense energy, CO2, is the same molecule that is regreening the Earth and boosting crop yields on top of the mechanical gains.

Every actual measurement of the human condition and the biosphere shows the same thing.

Fires down. Green up. Lifespans up. Child deaths down. Poverty down. Hunger down. Wealth up. Literacy up. Weather deaths down. All by factors of 2 to 100 in a century and a half.

The industrial civilization the alarmists want to dismantle is the single largest engine of human and ecological improvement ever recorded. The data are not ambiguous. They are not close.

They are not debatable.

They are simply denied.
By the mentally ill.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

It must now be seen as the greatest blunder in human history. And it was all done on purpose. No public relations campaign can change that.

Yes, the world is still a bit warmer. CO₂ is still a bit higher. But NASA satellites have revealed the recent rise in carbon dioxide has sparked the greatest expansion of green leaf area 'in recorded history'.

The entire human story has been about our dogged survival in a harsh, dangerous world, thanks mainly to sheer luck. Our species is thriving in today's warmer Holocene interglacial cycle, which has lasted 11,700 years. This covers the entire rise of all human civilisation, every single empire, every invention and everything that makes us modern, from razor blades to spaceships.

The observable data throughout geological history suggests that today's cooler temperatures lie mostly within natural variability. The natural world invented the miracles of multicellular life and DNA on its own. It doesn't need human intervention. The Earth will run its course despite our interference.

However, many are unaware that we still are living in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, beginning 33.9 million years ago when permanent ice sheets formed on Antarctica. Ice ages may be rare, but we are in one, whether we like it or not. Earth has seen just five major ice ages in its long history - the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, Karoo, and today's Late Cenozoic Ice Age.

Today's global average temperature is estimated at 15°C, but this is not hot in geological terms. Our modern era sits deep within a major cold trough. It is up to 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average range of 18–26°C.

It was the Industrial Revolution though, that kicked off the modern world, beginning around 1750. And the discovery of coal, oil and gas created the most successful period in human history. We have medical miracles and the astonishing technology to prove it.

CO₂ levels over 250 years from 290 ppm to 426 ppm have created a massive spreading green canopy. Agriculture has exploded beyond anything ever seen before. It has not caused a global disaster.

And Net Zero, by the way, has never been fully explained - other than swapping promissory notes at annual summits worth trillions of dollars. There is every likelihood it will not change a thing. It's nothing more than a throw of the dice. Yet the error strewn 'transition' to wind-solar is expected to cost $275 trillion - equal to 2.5 times global GDP.

This could have built up to 27,500 nuclear power stations worldwide, ending any doubts about pure energy.

Global temperatures have risen by around 1.4°C since the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. This came after the end of the 500-year Little Ice Age in Europe, the coldest spell in 10,000 years. Cold usually brings famine, misery and an early death.

Until the past few decades, most people only learned about CO₂ in biology classes at school. It is where we discovered this trace gas is the building block of complex life, the engine of photosynthesis and the oxygen we breathe.

The CO₂ miracle isn't taking a bank holiday.

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 JEREMY CLARKSON BLASTS ANDY BURNHAM FOR APPOINTING ANGELA EAGLE TO RUN THE COUNTRYSIDE.

Jeremy Clarkson has just hit the nail on the head regarding the absolute state of Labour's approach to British farming.

Growing food in Britain is becoming financially impossible.

Clarkson was forced to leave 200 acres of his own farm completely empty this year because planting wheat or barley guarantees a heavy loss!

And how does Andy Burnham respond to struggling British farmers? He appoints Angela Eagle as Environment Secretary! 🤡

A career politician who has never worked on a farm and has never run a business in her entire life.

As Clarkson rightly said, putting Angela Eagle in charge of the countryside is like putting Alan Carr in charge of the British Army!

Our Westminster elite are actively crushing British agriculture with Net Zero red tape, insane energy bills, and family farm taxes. They would rather import cheap foreign produce than protect the hardworking British families who keep this country fed.

How can a politician with zero real world farming or business experience dictate the future of our rural economy?

SHARE this everywhere to stand with British farmers! 🇬🇧🔥

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Cape Verde was a great story. Truly great. But 2 weeks after, football doesn't give a fuck, less so after 1, 2 or 4 years.

If Mauritius, Mozambique, Mali do the same, great, but for 99% of fans, 99% of the time, across the world, nobody cares.

If France, Italy, Germany, England, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal boycott a World Cup, it's automatically invalid. It's just the truth.

Likewise, a club World Cup without any of Europe's top 25 clubs is invalid. Nobody is watching Inter Miami v Boca Juniors except in markets that simply don't generate revenue or global interest.

UEFA should immediately take over global law making ( UEFA replace FIFA 4 votes in a new IFAB with the 4 home nations continuing holding the other 4 votes).

Europe has paid football's bills for 150 years. It does not need to vote for a man in an island of 100,000 to hold the game to random because FIFA are giving him 20 mil.

I'm half English, half Barbadian. One has paid its football dues, the other hasn't, so the other cannot and must not hold the balance of power.

When two thirds of football nations fill their stadiums, support grassroots football, create a pyramid, have women's teams, find kids, then their vote is equal to a European powerhouse.

Not a day before.

Time for UEFA to secede from FIFA

FIFA needs UEFA. UEFA doesn't need FIFA.

[UEFA @UEFA]

UEFA statement on The Times article: ⬇️

[Lee Wickstead©️ @LeeMWickstead]

Getting to the height of the UK summer

And no Test Cricket.

@ecb you’re a disgrace

[England's Barmy Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎺 @TheBarmyArmy]

🤣🤣🤣

[James Price @jamespriceglos]

I’m done with allowing people to insult my ancestors like this.

No other group of people on Earth would allow their forebears to be insulted like this.

🇬🇧 My ancestors were the first people in history to fight to end slavery.

🇬🇧 They spread the common law across the world.

🇬🇧 They stopped Indians from burning widows alive so that they wouldn’t have to pay to feed them after their husbands had died.

🇬🇧 They stood alone against the Nazis.

🇬🇧 They invented and built the modern world with technology and medicine that started to defeat death and disease.

🇬🇧 They invented economics and democracy as we know it.

My ancestors were great people. Without them, the world would be an immeasurably darker, more wicked place.

Never again let entitled actors who known nothing about anything browbeat you into feeling shame for your ancestors.

Britain, and Western civilisation, are the greatest expressions of human flourishing in the history of the world.

Be proud of the ancestors who fought and toiled and sacrificed for that.

Don’t ever be ashamed of the greatness of our inheritance.

Live up to it.

[RoryLarmer @RoryLarmer]

“And then Rudy said, we have a good squad, we just had too many injuries”

[grandson @Grandsoncr7]

���️ Luis de la Fuente:

“I’m so happy we won the World Cup. This is the happiest day of my life, thanks to Ferran Torres’ goal. But we also need to talk about the VAR and the referee. I have never seen a bigger robbery in my coaching career than this. It looked like they wanted Argentina and Lionel Messi to win it again so badly.

The referee was practically Argentina’s 12th man on the pitch. In the first half, there were several fouls that he ignored, but the worst was the challenge on Dani Olmo. Mac Allister tackled him with both feet, which is a red-card offense, but the referee and VAR ignored it.

There was also the challenge on Yamal, where a player stepped on his ankle from behind. The referee ignored it, and VAR didn’t intervene either.

Argentina should be ashamed of receiving such favoritism in a World Cup final. They had the officials on their side, but we were fully prepared for everything. In the end, football won.”

[𝔸𝕣𝕖𝕫𝕟𝕠 🦋 @Arezno]

“Hola, no me conocéis, soy Unai Simón, el portero de la selección española”

[🇯🇲 T-yes 🐺 @t_yes]

Cucurella se rasca y Messi pide que lo expulsen por taparse la boca…
Jajajaja es un chiste con patas negras. https://t.co/YSiDmQxykX

[WendyWoo 🐝 @wendy1704]

For the love of all that is football... and for our collective sanity, NEVER EVER let the Americans host world football EVER again.

Everything they've done is beyond dreadful. Stick to your rounders and rugby with padding & helmets.

[Paul Rees. ex Rucksack. @HannahIamthest1]

I wasn’t there, however this guy was:

"I’d like to put the record straight, because I was there.

People often forget how the Argentine troops were treated after the Falklands War. We treated their wounded, and many would not have survived without the medical care they received. They were fed, and their officers were even allowed to keep their sidearms for their own safety.

After facing each other in battle, that wasn’t easy, but it was the right thing to do.

They were fed, cared for, and many were transported home on Canberra. We also cleaned up the mess that had been left behind. There was no complaining—we just got on with the job.

Many of the Argentine troops were exhausted and relieved to be going home after experiencing the reality of war. They were defeated and demoralised, and many couldn’t even look you in the eye.

Many of those young soldiers were more afraid of their own officers and the military junta than they were of us. They had been sent into an impossible situation by leaders who would never share their hardships.

The Falklands’ climate and terrain are brutal, and the weather is unforgiving. I saw young men who were hungry, frightened, dirty, wet and cold, longing to be back with their families in Argentina. Many I spoke to, while sharing hot drinks and sweets, told me they never wanted to be there in the first place.

So before anyone starts abusing me, my family or my brothers-in-arms, remember this: we were there. We experienced the full cycle of war, and we also witnessed the immense relief of the Falkland Islanders when the invaders finally left.

To those in Argentina who still believe the stories told by defeated generals, I’d simply say this: many of us were there, and we know what happened. Don’t confuse propaganda with the reality witnessed by those who fought and those who surrendered.

The war is over. Britain won. History cannot be changed. It’s time to stop reliving old arguments and instead focus on building a better future for the people of Argentina rather than making repeated claims over the Falkland Islands.

As my grandmother used to say, “Children should be seen and not heard.” Sometimes it’s wiser to listen to those who were actually there.

War tests not only courage in battle, but also humanity in victory. I am proud that we showed both.

Feel free to share and comment “war is not a political football “ maybe you should try it sometime it’s not advisable

Lives broken families destroyed

Respect to those lost to war and those who are still fighting a war long ago."
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[Sunil Sharma 🇬🇧 @SunilSharmaUK]

That half-time show can f*ck right off. I never want to see that crap at another football game again.

Average viewers for American sports biggest matches:

🏈 NFL Super Bowl: 130 million
🏀 NBA Finals : 20 million
⚾️ MLB World Series : 20 million

Now let’s look at football:

⚽️ Champions League Final: 350 million
⚽️ World Cup Final: 1.6 BILLION

We don’t want half time shows, we don’t want the over-commercialisation of the sport. We don’t want football “Americanised.” It’s not needed.

Football is the BIGGEST sport in the world.

Why? Because it is for the people. It’s authentic. The show is the sport itself.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

This World Cup has been horrible. Four quarters is horrible. The corruption is horrible. This final is horrible. Half time is going to be horrible.

Please can the USA never host a World Cup again. They have their own sports, which are very fine. They do not need to ruin ours.

[Adam Ripley @AdamRipley1408]

@FabrizioRomaxno Fifa rules state it is a immediate disqualification from the tournament fifa princesses get away with it

[Chris Martin @ChrisMartin_93]

Is now a good time to suggest we should have brought Adam Wharton to sort this out?

#FIFAWorldCup

[Ben 🦏 @BenW_03]

ITV advertising they're showing the final
Absolutely NO ONE is watching it on ITV 😭😭