{"id":374,"date":"2019-09-27T18:08:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T08:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=374"},"modified":"2019-09-27T18:08:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T08:08:37","slug":"11-cool-facts-on-warming-to-calm-down-your-sobbing-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"11 COOL FACTS ON WARMING TO CALM DOWN YOUR SOBBING CHILD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/blogs\/andrew-bolt\/11-cool-facts-on-warming-to-calm-down-your-sobbing-child\/news-story\/3dd3e39dde022582e174dcdf4ed53a4b\">https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/blogs\/andrew-bolt\/11-cool-facts-on-warming-to-calm-down-your-sobbing-child\/news-story\/3dd3e39dde022582e174dcdf4ed53a4b<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"tg-tlc-storybody_intro\">\n<p>I promised you a list \u2014 easy to print out \u2014 of scientific facts that should stop children from being terrified that global warming will kill them. It&#8217;s time to fight this hysteria, especially after Greta Thunberg&#8217;s breakdown at the United Nations. Here&#8217;s the list. Distribute widely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>NO, GLOBAL WARMING WON\u2019T KILL YOU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are you terrified by claims that global warming is an \u201cexistential threat\u201d? That there will be a \u201cgreat winnowing\u201d and \u201cmass deaths\u201d? That we face \u201cthe collapse of our civilisations\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t believe those scares.<\/p>\n<p>You are told to believe \u201cthe science\u201d. Well, here is some science you should believe \u2013 solid scientific facts that tell you that global warming is not as scary as you\u2019ve been told.<\/p>\n<p>Be calm. You are not in danger.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>You have never been less likely to die of a climate-related disaster. Your risk of being killed has fallen 99 per cent in the past century.<\/strong> <em>Source: I<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjornlomborg\/status\/972868828526010378\">nternational Disaster Database.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>You have never been more likely to live longer. Life expectancy around the world has risen by 5.5 years so far this century.<\/strong> <em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/gho\/mortality_burden_disease\/life_tables\/situation_trends_text\/en\/\">World Health Organisation<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>We are getting fewer cyclones, not more.<\/strong> <em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bom.gov.au\/cyclone\/images\/tc-graph-1969-2012.png\">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bom.gov.au\/cyclone\/images\/tc-graph-1969-2012.png\">Bureau of Meteorology<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegwpf.com\/ipcc-report-extreme-weather-events-not-getting-worse\/\">.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>There is more food than ever. Grain crops have set new records.<\/strong> <em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/fileadmin\/templates\/worldfood\/images\/home-graph_4_sep.jpg\">Food and Agricultural Organisation.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The world is getting greener. Leaf cover is growing 3 per cent per decade.<\/strong> <em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/144540\/china-and-india-lead-the-way-in-greening\">NASA<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Low-lying Pacific islands are not drowning. In fact, 43 per cent \u2013 including Tuvalu &#8211; are growing, and another 43 per cent are stable.<\/strong> <em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/blogs\/andrew-bolt\/abc-disappearing-islands-claim-proved-false-again\/news-story\/3fcaf6b1187d279f06f0bcb9e794db84\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" data-tgev-order=\"3fcaf6b1187d279f06f0bcb9e794db84\" data-tgev-label=\"blogs\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\">Professor Paul Kench, University of Auckland.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cold weather is 20 times more likely to kill you than hot weather.<\/strong> <em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(14)62114-0\/fulltext\">Lancet, 20\/5\/2015<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Global warming does not cause drought.<\/strong> <em>Source: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2019\/08\/prof-andy-pitman-admits-droughts-are-not-worse-and-not-linked-to-climate-change\/\"><em>Prof. Andy Pitman, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes.<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Australia\u2019s rainfall over the past century has actually increased.<\/strong> <em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bom.gov.au\/tmp\/cc\/rranom.aus.0112.51980.png\">Bureau of Meteorology<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>There are fewer wildfires. Around the world, the area burned by fire is down 24 per cent over 18 years.<\/strong> <em>Source: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/356\/6345\/1356\"><em>NASA Goddard Space Flight Center et al.<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Polar bear numbers are increasing, not decreasing.<\/strong> <em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegwpf.org\/content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/State-of-the-polar-bear2018.pdf\">Dr Susan Crockford.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I discussed this list with Liberal MP Craig Kelly:<\/p>\n<h3>youtube<\/h3>\n<div class=\"w_iframe\">\n<div class=\"tge-iframe tge-iframe_widthHeight\" data-src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IagqMq4wfCc\">\n<div class=\"tge-iframe_wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IagqMq4wfCc\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/blogs\/andrew-bolt\/11-cool-facts-on-warming-to-calm-down-your-sobbing-child\/news-story\/3dd3e39dde022582e174dcdf4ed53a4b I promised you a list \u2014 easy to print out \u2014 of scientific facts that should stop children from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}