Evidence is clear on climate change

JOHN Gray’s climate denial makes no sense.

The fact that our emissions are warming the atmosphere is no longer in doubt because in 2021 a team, led by NASA scientist Ryan Kramer, was able to show this using measurements from satellites.

This direct measurement confirmed what basic physics and multiple indirect methods has told us for decades – climate change is real.

He’s not persuading anyone that matters because every national science academy accepts dangerous climate change as fact and the Nobel Prize selection committee for physics awarded a prize to three scientists for showing that “our knowledge about the climate rests on a solid scientific foundation.”

There’s more because politically appointed representatives of every IPCC member nation have signed-up to the wording in the IPCC’S summary reports for policy makers. If there was defensible scientific evidence that the conclusions the IPCC reports were unfounded, the likes of China, India and United Arab Emirates wouldn’t sign off on the reports. Yet they have.

Similarly, look at the statements on climate change from oil majors like BP, Shell and Exxonmobil. Despite being subject to legal challenges relating to their role in climate change, they all publicly accept that CO2 emissions are leading to dangerous global warming because their own scientists were among the first to draw this conclusion.

The evidence is clear and can now be measured from satellites, climate change is real.

Too many organisations agree for John Gray’s conspiracy theory to have any validity.

MICHAEL CARTER