Misopinionated,

Every religion needs some Satanic figure, the Devil, Satan himself, some embodiment of evil to focus all of their troubles on. In the Middle Ages, as you unintentionally stumbled upon, they created witches to personify evil, those in league with the Devil. And of course, they had to be exterminated. Perhaps some fifteen million women were burnt to death or otherwise killed - in fact, the last recorded 'witch' to be burnt alive was in Hungary in 1929. She could have been still alive if she had a bit been luckier.

So you raise the possibility (at least) that the 'Climate Crisis' is a new pseudo-scientific religion, one in need of figures of Evil to be exterminated. I'm not saying that it is, except in the simple minds of some devotees. But thanks for joining the dots.

As you get further into your sociology, you may encounter the work of Durkheim on this subject. Persevere with it.

Joe

Aiden, the Turku & Kobe studies commentated on the co2.
Because the various IPCC studies did not take into account Svenmark's
hypothesis the effect that it caused was put down to co2.
In their study CO2 has caused 0.1deg C and the rest is due to Svenmark
Sun,sunspots,cosmic rays & clouds.
The mathematics of it was way over my head.

Bazz,
Svenmark was under the impression that global warming had stopped. But the data since then has proved otherwise. His conclusion about the relative effects of cosmic rays and CO2 has been shown to be incorrect.

Cosmic rays do have some effect on cloud formation and therefore climate. But the effect is far less than that of CO2.

Dear Bazz,

This isn't over anyone's head.

From the horse's mouth;

“In fact global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary. And this means that the projections of future climate are unreliable.”

That was 10 years ago. In the decade since we have seen an average temp of +0.265 °C over the decade before.

This is what was predicted from the climate scientists and they have once again proved to be spot on the money.

Time to let him go.

What do people think about the news release today that Scott Morrison does not want to assist the firefighters?

I could write what I think of him doing that but I would be banned from The Forum for an eternity.