Archie O'Donnell

More calories less nutrients Oil lobby hides how Climate change is paradoxically making food more calorific but less nutritious. With rising atmospheric CO_2 levels acting like a "junk food" fertiliser. Crops grow faster but protein, zinc, and iron levels have dropped by 10%

@BjornLomborg Then why are paid oil/gas influencers being pushed so hard to amplify these messages. Advances in BESS EV PV and flexible grids are pushing us away from volatile fuels. Nobody investing in dirty fuels. Renewables make money and build reputation. Not like befriending Epstein!

The world still runs on fossil fuels Globally, fossil fuels supply 81.1% today (2023) only marginally down from 81.4% in 2000 Fossil fuels are not on track to end by 2050 but rather in 4-10 centuries iea.org/data-and-stati… Threads&refs: x.com/BjornLomborg/s…

@RichardEdinger @MatthewWielicki Less subsidies for renewables than oil. Look at the investment flows away from fossil fuel and into renewables. Ya, I heard BP’s renewables plan labelled ‘Green-wishing’.

@Beyondpassive @MatthewWielicki Remove the subsidies and see how keen they are (or anyone else for that matter). BP has lost billions and is now pivoting away from the sector.

Everyone keeps talking about an “energy transition.” The data say otherwise. Look at global fossil fuel consumption. Coal. Oil. Natural gas. All of them are still rising. Not flattening. Not declining. Rising. Wind and solar aren’t replacing fossil fuels. They’re being added on top of them. That’s not a transition. That’s energy expansion. The world isn’t choosing between fossil fuels and renewables. It’s choosing more energy of every kind because billions of people still want electricity, transportation, heating, cooling, and modern living standards. This chart shows the reality policymakers don’t want to admit: The global economy runs on energy… and demand keeps growing. The “transition” narrative only works if fossil fuel use is falling. It isn’t. Not globally. Not even close. The world is building wind, solar, nuclear, coal, gas, and oil all at the same time. Because prosperity requires energy… and energy demand doesn’t care about political narratives.

@RichardEdinger @MatthewWielicki It’s just sums really, oil industry is wetting its pants over renewable technology.

@Beyondpassive @MatthewWielicki Politics.

@Electroversenet That’s simply not true, just ask @Grok

A new study using Antarctic ice core data reveals the 1.1C warming of the past century is not unusual in Earth's climate history. The research analyses temperatures preserved in ice cores stretching back hundreds of thousands of years. Looking at the last 20,000 years, the study finds that 16% of all centuries warmed by at least 1.1C. In other words, roughly one out of every six centuries warmed as much or more as the past hundred years. Also, the records show temperatures rising about 12C since the last ice age, with the last interglacial period around 125,000 years ago several degrees warmer than today. The modern 1.1C century scale increase falls well within natural variability. There is nothing alarming or unprecedented or even rare occurring with Earth's climate.

A different kind of hockey stick showing why renewables and energy storage are the best path, not price volatile fossil fuels.

You're quoting a MINING GEOLOGIST who sits on fossil fuel company boards to 'dismantle' climate science. That's like citing a tobacco executive to disprove lung cancer. Yes, it's been warmer before - during periods when sea levels were 20+ feet higher and human civilization didn't exist. Congrats, that's not the flex you think it is. The issue was never 'has it been warm before?' - it's that current warming is happening at a rate 10x faster than any natural cycle in the paleoclimate record, and it's driven by US. 'We're just warming from the Little Ice Age' - Natural forcings since 1950 would have produced COOLING. The warming is us. Plimer hasn't dismantled anything except his own credibility. But you wouldn't know that because you get your science from YouTube clips instead of journals.

We were promised 'global boiling'. What we got is much more comfortable. We are enjoying a welcome recovery from the frozen ages of the 600-year Little Ice Age deep in 1850, a biological bounce-back from six of the coldest centuries in 10,000 years. Satellite data from 2026 (NASA) confirms persistent greening across many regions for decades, including the Sahara Desert and Australian outback. Higher CO₂ and a warmer world are delivering more food, more green space and fewer deaths from the cold. The world isn't ending; it's just returning to its lush and productive geological past. Global greening isn't wild nature at work. It's driving intensive agriculture and food security, which undermines the climate-driven famine dogma. By starting the climate clock at the frost-bitten tail end of the Little Ice Age, the UN bureaucracy has manufactured a crisis out of a recovery. Earth has spent 90% of the last 540 million years at 25°C. No, this isn't a crisis. Nor was the pre-industrial baseline of CO₂ at 280 ppm a golden age. It was starting the count from a very low bar. In reality, the Little Ice Age was a time of widespread biological famine where even the plants were gasping for air.

@japieKla @PeterDClack Big bang zero? (38bn yrs ago) or Homo sapiens evolution in Africa 300,000 years ago?

@Beyondpassive @PeterDClack So, do this graph again starting in the year 0. Complete other perspective.

The global climate crisis has hit a wall - called physics. The models refuse to admit it, but it's not getting much warmer and this is why. CO₂ warming is logarithmic, not linear. Each additional molecule has less impact than the one before it. Think of it as a sponge: the first few drops of water (initial CO₂ rise) are absorbed quickly but as it nears saturation point, more water adds almost nothing. The sponge is saturated. Going from 280 ppm to 420 ppm had a minimal effect, but the physics dictating diminishing returns explains everything after that. CO₂ 'saturation' is why temperatures have leveled out despite a recovery in CO₂ levels since the near extinction event of the last Glacial Maximum, when CO₂ hit 190 ppm. Plant life faces asphyxiation at 150 ppm. The hysterical 'runaway warming' scenario is nothing more than a ghost in the machine.

@paddymacc1 A minor part of impact we are seeing from more extreme rainfall events driven by a massive increase in heat

Very similar situation in Ireland

@WimKoning @tooidevry @fmeeus1 No, this is:

@fmeeus1 Roep het al jaaaaaren.

Meten is weten. Dat is precies wat Duitse klimaatwetenschappers hebben gedaan. Ze hebben , voor Duitsland, gemeten hoeveel energie van de zon de aarde bereikt. En die hoeveelheid is significant gestegen . Niet CO2 , maar de zon is schuldig vr de opwarming van 1°C sinds 1850.

False and misleading. The Ice Ages were 5-14°F colder. Last time Earth was this hot was ~125,000 years ago. If current warming continues, by 2100 we will reach temps higher than 3 million yrs ago, before humans existed science.nasa.gov/earth/explore/… agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.102…

@ChrisMartzWX These are acute events - rather than chronic changes in weather patterns.

Dublin, Ireland has daily temperature data dating as far back as 1867. I got an itch, so I decided to examine their all-time record highs by month. To my surprise, none of them have been set in the 21st century. In fact, the most recent “all-time” record high to be broken there was August's 34-years ago in 1990. 8 of the 12 “all-time” monthly record highs for Dublin were set in or prior to 1950, six of which occurred over 90-years ago. • January: 17.0°C (62.6°F) on 1/10/1971 • February: 18.1°C (64.6°F) on 2/23/1891 • March: 23.4°C (74.1°F) on 3/29/1965 • April: 22.9°C (73.2°F) on 4/11/1869 • May: 26.7°C (80.1°F) on 5/31/1922 • June: 28.9°C (84.0°F) on 6/6/1950 • July: 33.5°C (92.3°F) on 7/16/1876 • August: 30.6°C (87.1°F) on 8/2/1990 • September: 28.7°C (83.7°F) on 6/6/1868 • October: 24.2°C (75.6°F) on 10/3/1959 • November: 19.4°C (66.9°F) on 11/2/1927 • December: 17.2°C (62.9°F) on 12/2/1948 Everything is “unprecedented” when you think history began the year you were born. If you go back far enough, the weather was often more extreme at some point or another. There's no indication that Ireland is facing a climate emergency, so I guess I'll have to look elsewhere. 🧐

@BjornLomborg Yes but Epstein …. Look closely there is less to burn as the forests are removed or burned to exhaustion

The world is burning less, not more A historical reconstruction shows this is true even across the last century, mostly because of human fire suppression Yet, the data runs contrary to the climate narrative of ever-more fire agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… earthdata.nasa.gov/data/catalog/l… Threads&refs: x.com/BjornLomborg/s…

@Willy1000 @wideawake_media Plenty of data coming from Insuance underwriting environmentenergyleader.com/stories/insura…

@Beyondpassive @wideawake_media That's called weather and anecdotal , so you have no proof. Got it...

Journalist Alex Newman delivers a flawless 90-second summary of the climate agenda: "The notion that CO₂ is pollution is absolutely preposterous... But from a totalitarian perspective, if you can convince people that CO₂ is pollution, there's no human activity that doesn't result in CO₂ emissions." "Every single aspect of your life, then, if we submit to the idea that CO₂ is pollution, then comes under the regulatory control of the people who claim to be saving us from pollution."

@Robert_Meov @wideawake_media It was fine when migration was Europe to Africa, Asia, south East Asia, Australia, North America and South America. Are we sure the conversation is migration?

Sure, but the point stands. There have been relatively developed and underdeveloped countries for milenia. Suddenly saying migration is due to climate change? Cheap, green enough, and able to be implemented energy tech would help these countries. We are still waiting for that. It always was a tech issue since poor countries don't want to stay poor. IMO nuclear is the best interm solution....for developed countries. See those links. If you are listening to greens then hear the other side...engineers.

@NetZeroWatch ….said the oil and coal lobby. 9 out of 10 doctors would smoke camel cigarettes playbook.

Academia has been captured by climate alarmism.

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