Re: Why climate sceptics are winning

On 8/25/26 10:37 AM, dart200 wrote:
> it never ceases to amaze me just how braindead you are joolian, imagine 
> considering this dribble a serious or meaningful discussion on the 
> matter 🤣🤣🤣

that chucklefuck travis has a youtube channel with a whopping 92 videos 
and whole 455 subscribers!

wow such winning!

much sticking it to the climate scientists!

about to be a global sensation that one!

i mean are you tired of winning so much, joolian?!

😂😂😂

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> 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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