Climate occurs in the terrestrial atmosphere, where we and Earth’s terrestrial life live, between clouds and the land and oceans of the Earth’s surface. Climate is the temperature, winds and precipitation in the terrestrial atmosphere over time.
By Tege Tornvall
It depends on how much solar heat reaches Earth’s land, especially the oceans. Obstacles to this are clouds and dust in the atmosphere, dark days and seasons, and the decreasing angle of the sun towards the poles, regardless of the gases in the atmosphere.
The UN climate meetings are political wrangling over the funding and distribution of the now promised USD 300 billion per year to poor countries to get them to switch from cheap, abundant, available and energy-rich energy from the ground (coal, oil and gas) to expensive, energy-poor and insecure “renewable” energy with raw material shortages (wind, solar and bioenergy) under the pretext of alleged climate threats.
This has been and continues to be the case during the global climate meetings organized by the UN and its climate panel, IPCC. It is a struggle between the world’s wealthy countries with over one billion inhabitants and less prosperous or purely poor countries with over seven billion inhabitants.
An imaginary climate debt
Wealthy countries are now paying the price for a purely imaginary climate debt to poorer countries. They have created a situation of pure extortion by declaring themselves guilty of an utterly natural climate trend with more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from warmer oceans since the periodically cold Little Ice Age ended about 150 years ago.
Such temperature changes have been happening on Earth for millions of years without humans or human activity. They will happen again no matter what humans do or don’t do.
It is high time we took care of humanity’s supply of food, energy and supplies – without polluting or damaging the nature we live in and depend on. On the contrary, we have the technology and capacity to protect and improve these conditions.
By Tege Tornvall
Related links
- Klimatsans.com
- NewsVoice: Kan vi lita på IPCC? – Allt fler forskare överger idén om ett koldioxidskapat klimathot (Can we trust the IPCC? – More and more scientists are abandoning the idea of a carbon-caused climate threat)
- WWF: Climate summit was a collective failure – world off course for 1.5 degree target