BBC website serial fantasist Mark Kinver spends his time combing the world looking for climate change alarmist tosh. His latest foray into the field is a full-scale scare story aimed – as ever – at terrifying our kids into believing that Red Sea coral reefs will stop growing by 2070 because sea temperatures will by then have risen so much that they will die. There’s just one problem in this scenario, Mark, and it’s rather a big one. The records demonstrate that sea temperatures are not rising, despite intensive efforts by alarmists to suggest otherwise. The whole scare, as so often the case, is based on the false predictions of dodgy models. Why, oh, why, can’t he refer to the debate as a whole?
DEAD SEA SCARE…
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What I can never understand with thse clowns is that if sea temperatures are rising (which they don’t seems to be) all that will happen is the natural range of various sea creatures will change
These idiots seem to think that because coral grows where it does now it has always done so, and must continue to do so – this flies in the face of evolution and nature in general
And don’t get me started on polar bears…..!
Surely there are no polar bears left? Wonder how the warmists have reconciled the weather in the UK recently? I see the Met Office computer models have predicted more high temps. What did the warmists have to say when it was autumnal in the northern UK and hot and dry in the south? Any peep from them about ‘climate change’. Maybe not. Because it is just weather your idiots.
He’s a new one to me.
Seems it is an expanding arena. Talking about stuff in ‘we’re all doomed’ mode, at least.
I was just wondering if there is any explanation as to the relative titles engineered to make them all seem a smidge different.
Is there a totemic hierarchy between ‘editor’, ‘analyst’, ‘correspondent’ and/or ‘reporter’ (I am sure there are more)?
And other than mostly having read PPE at Oxbridge (no info I could find beyond: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/mark-kinver/8/720/1b9 ), is there any rationale for their hiring to cover this beat?
Erm, but wasn’t there coral millions of years ago (something like 400 million years ago) when the temperature was much hotter and co2 much higher?
* 542 million years ago
Proterozoic era ends, Paleozoic era begins
* The Cambrian: 4500 ppm, 21 °C
expansion of life, trilobites (anthropods)
* 488 million years ago
* The Ordovician: 4200 ppm, 16 °C
marine animals, mollusca
* 444 million years ago
* The Silurian: 4500 ppm, 17 °C
corals, mosses
* 416 million years ago
* The Devonian: 2200 ppm, 20 °C
seeds, forests, many sharks, fish
* 359 million years ago
* The Carboniferous: 800 ppm, 14 °C
sea stars, sponges, corals, fish, equisetales, insect, tetrapods, fungi
* 299 million years ago
* The Permian: 900 ppm, 16 °C
invertebrates, reptiles, cockroaches, cynodonts
Coal in Siberia, East Asia, Australia; Oil in the U.S.
* 251 million years ago (extinction event)
Paleozoic era ends, Mezozoic era begins
* The Triassic: 1750 ppm, 17 °C
no coal, new corals, ammonites, turtles
* 199 million years ago
* The Jurassic: 1950 ppm, 16.5 °C
dinosaurs, crocodiles, conifers, coralline algae
Oil in Middle East, North Sea, Siberia (part)
* 145 million years ago
* The Cretaceous: 1700 ppm, 18 °C
figs, magnolias, some mammals, birds, modern sharks
Oil around Venezuela; Earth by 4 °C warmer than today;
* 65 million years ago (extinction event)
Mesozoic era ends, Cenozoic era begins
* The Paleogene: 500 ppm, 18 °C
birds and mammals explode
* 23 million years ago
* The Neogene and The Quaternary Period (last 2 megayears): 280 ppm, 14 °C
mammals include early humans
* Today
* Our world in 2009: 385 ppm, 14 °C
http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/04/birth-of-oil-geology-temperature-co2.html
From the excelent Luboš Motls’ site – notice the CO2 concentrations and the temperatures – Can you see any link? No, neither can I.
Mark Kinver spent 2 years as a researcher for Green Futures Magazine, before joining the BBC.
Have a look at an article by him http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12394713 This is about a report by the Soil Association which is critical of the Government’s attitude to organic food. Kinver fails to mention that the Association is a lobbyist for organic food.