Is there really a climate crisis?

@EugenieLaBorgia ye there have been hot and cold times on every planet in out solar system, our rocky neighbours had there time to support life but didn't. I think its happening at a extreme rate. what is the perigée and apogée got to do with it?

@Scarfface P and A have a significant influence on our planet - have done for over a billion years - and so do the active volcanos in the Pacific's 'ring of fire'.

@EugenieLaBorgia How do you know this? Is this your original research?

@CountScrofula Where do I begin on this fifty pages dissertation that any geography student will know? I'll start with 'Insolation' which discusses the main source of heat which affects the atmosphere and the earth's s This is (and this is not from Google) surface!..this is the radiant energy or solar radiation which travels through space from the sun ("Pay attention, Thunberg!!")with a temeperature estimated to be at its surface 6000 C in the form of electro- magnetic energy.At the outer layer of the atmosphere the solar radiation consists of visible light rays - maybe 40% - short gamma, x-ray and ultra violet....hope you're going to stay on for the next ten hours...

@EugenieLaBorgia Got it, so you're relying on the research from the scientists who have studied the history of earth's climate and the various things that affect it?

@CountScrofula Now, we'll just quickly skip to the solar constant!! Yeish!! You tink the media would understand this! So, this is a gramme-calorie per square centimetre per minute (I'm not converting that!!) andtis is the radiation received on the surface of water which could raise the temperature of 1 gramme of water through 'til 2 C. Next...

@CountScrofula Naturally, we should rely on science which has no political bias and forms the fundamental of all sciences.

@EugenieLaBorgia To continue. Now the radiation will vary between 1 and 2% - which may be evidenced by what some call 'sun spot activity'. That in itself is interesting. No. round about July 4 (USA! USA! USA!) we have aphelion - about 150 million kilometres at it's nearest round about January the third.

@CountScrofula So...I'm doing this in paragraphs...it's easier. So, about 5 or 6% is received more at the perihelion... are you still there??

@EugenieLaBorgia Sure am, I'm at work. I'm also Canadian so metric is fine.

Here's my point.

You are relying on research from the same community of scientists who are now saying that we are undergoing an unusual, extreme, human-caused period of heating. You can't cherry pick.

The notion that there are somehow tens of thousands of people working diligently to deliberately falsify information to serve a political agenda when ALL OF THEM have the protections of academic freedom which means they can say what they want without government interference is insane.

The conspiracy -cannot operate-. There is no mechanism for it.

I literally go to court rooms to fight for academic freedom as a part of my duties. The notion that somehow, there are teams of people deliberately falsifying data at my university and I do not know about it, and none of my colleagues do either, is insane and laughable.

@CountScrofula 'Unusual, extreme, human-caused period of heating'. I have never encountered such emotive words as those from any who has studied science in any depth.

@CountScrofula From which Mickey Mouse endorsed university specialising in scientific pursuits was this re-gurgitated??

@EugenieLaBorgia Let's speak to the point I'm making here.

I'm not sure how many academics and scientists you work with or personally know. I know them, and I have been -personally responsible- for negotiating and defending their right to academic freedom.

It is illegal for the government or university to force an academic to say things they do not agree with.

I know where their grants come from, and where their salaries come from. There are no bribes.

How does it work?

@CountScrofula This is related to science, how?