Mallen Baker 
In this news round-up of the week for Friday 3rd May 2024. The UK government loses a case seeking to force it to improve its plans to achieve net zero by 2050, even as the US government wins a similar case there. A massive heatwave is gripping large parts of south and southeast Asia, described by one scientist as the ‘most extreme climatic event in history’. And Boris Johnson’s routine incompetence in government comes back to bite him, while the conservatives lose big in the latest local elections.
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When a lake or reservoir dries up the increased concentration of salts and minerals is what kills the fish.
The same phenomenon is quite common in British rivers that don’t have weirs; like the River Yare in Norfolk, where low pressure and onshore wind force sea water miles up river. The gulls clean up !
Freezing cold April in Britain and cold start to May. Stunning silence from the media. Solution. Seek the world for heatwaves and report on them.
Famines/drought/heat in India killed millions of people in various years repeatedly in the early 1900s, as google can easily tell you. No big deal.
But dozens of deaths this year from heat and drought are clearly breaking records in an India that no longer suffers from famine even in this heat and with a vastly larger population.
Note that "ocean temperatures" are not higher (to any degree of confidence) in the current year. Ocean surface temperatures have been higher. We can measure those!
If the deep ocean currents are actually colder (something we don't really have data on), the oceans could actually be colder. And that might cause massive cooling some centuries in the future when that colder water cycles to the surface (as it will).
Further, we don't know why ocean surface temperatures have spiked. We have various theories. But none of them include a spike in CO2 causing the warming. That would imply that CO2 could decline in a year or two to cool the ocean surface. A cooler year in the near future is likely, but not any reduction in CO2 levels.
Thus nobody thinks CO2 drives the weather. CO2 levels have been rising at a very steady rate since 1960, as measured by the Keeling Curve. Global temperatures can rise or fall in various years without a direct connection to CO2 levels or human CO2 emissions. As we have seen.
History is inconvenient for the CO2 driven climate theory.
The historical record is filled with weather disasters that we now deem "local events" no matter how disastrous because we have no records of what the rest of the world was doing. Today, we have a brutal heatwave in Asia, and it is a climate, not local, event even if most of the world isn't in a heatwave.
What qualifies as local weather and what qualifies as climate doesn't seem to be an objective classification. It is more about how to defend CO2 as a driver of climate even though it doesn't make much sense.
So let's destroy our economies just to be safe.
Thanks, Mallen. Great video 👍
It appears that many of the campaigners for net zero don't realise it's a scam to continue capital's voracious consumption of our world while placing the consequences anywhere but on those businesses and governments destroying it. That's how capitalism works.
As far as I understand it, the court rejected the governments plan for net zero. I can understand this because I have never seen a scientific study of the issue laying out the pros and cons and costs and describing what is achievable and what is not. The fact that doing more than we are will lead to economic and social collapse is something the government and climate activists do not want to admit. We still get 90% of our energy from fossil fuel, and I cannot see any easy solution to that.
Net Zero is a scam – I thought it was finished as a serious concept?
Net zero and a judge 😂😂 what a joke 😑 🙄
Jeepers😢
No such thing as net zero. Everything takes energy to make. The solar cells and wind machines will probably not generate as much energy as it took to make them. People are als surrounded by plastic which takes huge amounts of petroleum and energy to make. The main thing is is that they cannot show that reducing carbon emissions will change anything. Its all theory based on models that they created.
lol 😂😂😂more climate change mass psychosis😂😂😂😂😂
global warming 😂😂the gift that keeps on giving 😂😂🎉😂😂
Salt water comes to my eyes. Cancel the bloody policy it is idiotic. If the judge thinks we can live on net zero, show us how to do it.
The morons on a race to nothing
When this climate trap was set by this government, they knew exactly what they were doing. Politicians can now stand back and say "the courts tell us we must ……so we have no choice." Why do they think climate policy does not come under the word – democracy?
Not too sure about Rees Mogg's comments, older voters are the ones with driving licences, Free bus passes etc. They carry identity.
They should have sorted the criminal charade of the Postal Vote when they had the chance.
London has fallen to Mr Khan again, and is unlikely to have a whyte mayor ever again.
Boris did go home and get i.d. all the same.
Sigh. The heatwave is a real danger for SE Asia and I bet your video gets swamed with PRATT comments from trolls. Extreme temperatures there are a worry because of the high humidity.
Using the law to stop co2 emissions was always doubtful. The government can make the law, but it can equally rescind it. Either way, no nation will act decisively on this unless most/all others do too.
Net zero is a policy invented by retards and followed by retards, no one with any common sense would ever consider such a stupid dangerous policy
I never voted for judges.