Re: Why climate sceptics are winning

it never ceases to amaze me just how braindead you are joolian, imagine 
considering this dribble a serious or meaningful discussion on the 
matter 🤣🤣🤣

On 8/25/26 10:00 AM, Julian wrote:
> One man's 1,000-mile walk against catastrophism
> 
> 
> Travis Cook is a man on a mission. Armed with just a sandwich board 
> (‘There is no Climate Crisis’), an array of literature and formidable 
> scientific knowledge, the 32-year-old former mechanical engineer is on a 
> 1000-mile walk around the UK to talk to people and try to dispel the 
> climate gloom that we are customarily bombarded with. His is a message 
> of climate realism (what the BBC might call ‘climate denialism’) and of 
> hope. Far from being the lost cause this might once have seemed, he 
> believes his message is beginning to be accepted.
> 
> ‘I love it,’ he tells me of his daily interactions (he was at Hayling 
> Island in Hampshire when we spoke). ‘It’s a good news message, so it’s 
> easy to deliver, and it brings me joy.’ And though he does face regular 
> abuse, this doesn’t bother him, ‘as long as they don’t touch me, I don’t 
> mind.’
> 
> His views are outlined in a series of punchy but robust articles on his 
> website and two books. In essence, he takes his cue from world-renowned 
> authorities like William Happer and Richard Lindzen. Yes, increased CO₂ 
> in the atmosphere does raise global temperatures, but only to a limited 
> degree and with much of the effect being beneficial (evidence suggests 
> that the Earth has become 5 per cent greener since 2000). Renewables are 
> pretty much a waste of time, and Net Zero is a dangerous, unattainable 
> fantasy. The whole debate is skewed by bias and saturated with 
> unreliable, or even manipulated, data.
> 
> Cook is a veteran campaigner. He was heavily involved in the anti- 
> lockdown movement, the ‘Great Re-opening’, which he says ‘catapulted’ 
> him to the forefront of activism. He started the Climate Con movement in 
> 2022, first as an Instagram page, then a website, and now a walk. He 
> claims 100,000 subscribers across various social media platforms. His 
> supporters are assisting him on his walk, with offers of accommodation 
> and support.
> 
> Cook is an optimist, a rational one, and describes the reception he has 
> received as ‘mixed but leaning towards positive’. Women are worse than 
> men, he says. So far, Essex has been the place most receptive to his 
> message and Rye in Sussex has been the most aggressively hostile. He met 
> people there who seemed to have a ‘demon within them’, he says, which 
> recalls Jordan Peterson’s depiction of ultra-progressives as 
> ‘ideologically possessed’.
> 
> What is the evidence that we sceptics are winning? Despite a fresh wave 
> of climate doom in the wake of the hot summer and forest fires, there is 
> reason to believe that the public’s sympathy for and interest in climate 
> apocalypse messages is waning. YouGov has the environment as a key issue 
> for just 20 per cent of voters, down from 34 per cent five years ago. It 
> ranked 18th in priority ahead of the local elections in May. Andy 
> Burnham seems tepid on the subject and Ed Miliband has been moved to a 
> place of greater safety. The whole narrative appears to have stalled.
> 
> The Greens have largely moved on to trans issues, the ‘Nordic doom 
> goblin’ (thank you Rod Liddle), Greta Thunberg has turned her attention 
> to Gaza, and even the permanently keffiya-clad Dale Vince appears to be 
> swithering. The wind seems to be going out of the sails, or blades, of 
> climate catastrophism. Will the great unlocking be followed by the great 
> unravelling?
> 
> ‘It looks promising,’ says Cook. He believes that the volume of climate 
> change research has peaked and is now on the decline. ‘We have reached 
> and passed ‘peak climate’. The whole climate crisis narrative could be 
> gone ‘within five years’.’ Cook has never voted but is cautiously 
> impressed with Reform (‘They have kept their promises when they have 
> attained power’) and Restore (though he doubts they can ever be big 
> enough to make a difference). He hopes they can sort out their 
> differences and work together. ‘I haven’t given up on politics. If we 
> do, it could be civil war.’
> 
> But how does he feel about the ultra-zealots, the ones that spew bile at 
> his good news message, or the Just Stop Oil activists? ‘I don’t hate 
> them, even when they are vicious or hateful. I just think their energy 
> is being channelled in the wrong direction.’
> 
> Are they reachable? I tell Cook about my academic colleague with whom 
> I’d been on reasonably friendly terms, who, astounded to hear I was a 
> sceptic, said she believed in the climate crisis because of the 
> ‘thousands’ of scientists who endorsed it. I asked her to name one of 
> these scientists. One. She couldn’t. And thus embarrassed (this took 
> place in public), she never spoke to me again. I had made my point. But 
> not a great outcome.
> 
> ‘You were on the right track, probing to find the limits of their 
> knowledge. But there is a small percentage that are hopeless, that you 
> have to write off. But I’m not really targeting them. It’s the people in 
> the middle, the not angry, not sad. For them, stay cool and be light- 
> hearted.’
> 
> He then recalls a highlight of his tour, a spirited debate with three 
> lads in Brighton during which he acquainted them with critical 
> perspectives they had never encountered. ‘I met them later at the 
> station,’ he says, ‘and they were completely changed. They had gone on a 
> deep dive. I had had a profound effect on them.’ Fight the battles you 
> can win. Shrug off the defeats, and rejoice at the victories. And enjoy 
> the sunshine.
> 
> 
> Philip Patrick


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