Humanity has a “moral” responsibility to stop global warming.
QUICK FACTS:
- A study from Canadian and Australian researchers published in the journal Energies claimed that one billion people will die from climate change in the next century.
- The study uses the “1000-ton rule,” which stipulates that a “future person is killed every time humanity burns 1000 tons of fossil carbon.”
- Burning a trillion tons of “fossil carbon will cause 2 °C of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) which in turn will cause roughly a billion future premature deaths spread over a period of very roughly one century,” according to the study.
- However, Nobel Prize winner John F. Clauser has argued the mainstream climate narrative “reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people.”
- “In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis,” Clauser stated. “There is, however, a very real problem with providing a decent standard of living to the world’s large population and an associated energy crisis. The latter is being unnecessarily exacerbated by what, in my opinion, is incorrect climate science.”
- Clauser noted at Quantum Korea 2023 that he can “confidently say there is no real climate crisis and that climate change does not cause extreme weather events.”
FROM THE STUDY:
- The study explains, “It has been clear for a decade or more that the final death toll due to AGW will be much greater than 100 million, or one million per year for a century—an extreme best case if current death rates from AGW miraculously remained constant at about one million per year (a level that may have already have reached).”
- While some climate alarmists believe temperatures of 2 °C may lead to human extinction, the study’s authors claim, “Warming of well over 2 °C, however, could indeed cause natural climate feedbacks to get out of control, leading eventually to human extinction.”
- The study also claims that wealth disparities will lead to climate change deaths, stating, “If warming reaches or exceeds 2 °C this century, mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion mainly poorer humans through anthropogenic global warming, which is comparable with involuntary or negligent manslaughter.”
- The authors then suggest that future energy policies should focus on energy conservation, “replacement of high carbon fuels,” and carbon waste management.
- “[M]ore aggressive policies may be needed than the gradual decarbonization of the past,” it states.
- The study concludes, “The greatest risk to future human life is probably climate change, although biodiversity loss and nuclear war also pose enormous existential risks.”
- “To save millions of lives it is ethically, morally, and logically acceptable to radically accelerate existing trends in energy efficiency, electrification, and the use of renewable energy, with the goal of powering global society without any fossil fuels at all.”
BACKGROUND:
- Recent “global warming” may be attributed to solar heat, not human activity, according to a study published in Climate.
- Up to 87% of modern warming may be linked to variations in solar activity.
- Thirty-seven scientists analyzed temperature data of the Northern Hemisphere from 1850-2018, finding that when urban heat effects—which are non-climatic and artificial—were excluded, the post-1850 warming trend dropped from 0.89°C per century to just 0.55°C per century, American Faith reported.
- This finding challenges the widely held belief that current thermometer-based global temperature measurements are minimally impacted by urban warming biases.
