Timothy Birdnow

A Gang Green U.N. silly person type went to Australia to make ridiculous claims to push for more money for climate alarmism and he argued that there will be a 99.7% reduction in fruit production because of planetary warming, meaning fruit will become aluxury item of great expense.

Of course this is utterly ridiculous; fruit production globally has increase five fold since 1960, and that may well be because a warmer climate PRODUCES MORE PRODUCE. Plants like warrmth and co2 and a wetter world (which is what the climate models say should happen even while they blame droughts on climate change.)

Jo Nova writes about this whole mess here.

The climate kook's name was Simon Stiell. I assume that is pronounced Steal, as in taking what is not yours; a fitting name for this fellow.

Stiell says "megadroughts" will make fruit production impossible. But what is the fundamental core of the theory? Carbon dioxide raises planetary temperatures modestly, but this EVAPORATES WATER which is Earth's primary greenhouse gas. This bakes more carbon dioxide out of the ground which in turn leads to more water vapor in the atmosphere. Then, if all goes according to the models, methane will be released from the planet's permafrost, spiking temperatures up ten degrees or more.

But the main driver of it is not carbon dioxide but water vapor, and this water vapor has to go somewhere. It goes where things go - down. In the early days climate alarmists always said it would be a warmer, WETTER world, not dryer. More rain, moreng,etc. And of course what went unsaid was more rain at the polls would lead to more ice which would lead to more sunlight reflected, which would lead to cooling. It was a negative feedback loop. But the climate change cult was always about politics and not science.

I would add that more rain meant more ice at the polls, particularly Antarctica, which falls as ice, not water. The polar caps should be growing not shrinking. Also, I would point out cold places tend to be dryer as the water freezes and drops out of the atmosphere. The dryest desert in the world is not the Sahara, the Sonora, the kalihari, nor even the Atacama,but it's the McMurdo dry valleys in Antarctica. There has never been observed ANY precipitation there. That's a coefficient of the bitter cold.

So this guy is either a complete fool or more likely a liar of titanic proportions.

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