Summarised by Centrist
The Daily Sceptic’s environment editor Chris Morrison argues that the global warming narrative driving COP30 and Net Zero policy rests on distorted data, political manipulation, and selective science.
Morrison says claims about breaching the “1.5°C threshold,” triggering climate “tipping points,” and attributing individual weather events to fossil fuels are not supported by credible evidence.
According to Morrison, the world has warmed by roughly 1°C over two centuries, a small, historically typical fluctuation, and recent “hottest ever” years can be explained by natural phenomena such as volcanic activity and El Niño cycles.
He singles out Professor Mark Maslin of UCL, a co-author of a COP30 tipping-point report, accusing him of shifting from an earlier scientific position acknowledging rapid natural temperature swings to what Morrison calls “climate Armageddon politics.” He says Maslin and others abandoned open debate, turning climate science into an ideological project.
He notes that over 600 million years, CO₂ and temperature often diverged, with higher CO₂ during past warm eras, and that the Holocene, Roman, and Medieval warm periods were as hot or hotter than today despite CO₂ staying near 260 parts per million.
He concludes that the “Net Zero fantasy” inflates minor, poorly measured warming; vilifies CO₂ despite its proven role in plant growth and food yields; and fabricates computer-model “tipping points” to justify an authoritarian political agenda.
“And they call us sceptics the deniers,” he writes.
