I don't think you can be a public figure anymore without getting threats from somewhere.
It's become part of our culture.

‘The Earth is dying’, ‘the world is on fire’, we’re undergoing an ‘environmental extinction’: just three of the sentiments which have been expressed by today’s climate ‘strikers’ and which, unlike even moderate expressions of skepticism on matters of climate science, seem to escape without challenge.

While it is tempting to think of today’s climate ‘strike’ by schoolchildren around the world as a case of truants finding an ethical excuse to skip lessons, I think many are acting for genuine reasons: they are traumatized. They are the reflection of the hyperbolic coverage of climate change by Al Gore, Hollywood and even, latterly, David Attenborough – films where footage of fires, hurricanes and calving glaciers is stitched together to give the impression of impending doom. How many of these kids know that hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are a natural part of the tropical climate and were going on many millennia before significant man-made carbon emissions? I rather wonder.

Any principal who values his or her students’ education will not turn a blind eye to today’s absences, still less join the kids for a march, as some are reported to be doing.

They will keep them behind after school and set them two papers to research and write. The first should answer the question: ‘Does scientific evidence support the notion that “the Earth is dying”?’ As for resources to answer that question, I point them towards the latest IPCC report as well as the data sources which feed into it. That would include Nasa data on sea ice in the Arctic, which shows a sharp retreat in recent decades, as well as satellite data from the same organization on wildfires – which shows a fall in the acreages burned in recent decades. They might also like to look at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization’s report on hurricanes which last month concluded: ‘it is premature to conclude with high confidence that human activity – and particularly greenhouse warming – has already caused a detectable change in Atlantic hurricane activity.’

‘The Earth is dying’, ‘the world is on fire’, we’re undergoing an ‘environmental extinction’: just three of the sentiments which have been expressed by today’s climate ‘strikers’ and which, unlike even moderate expressions of skepticism on matters of climate science, seem to escape without challenge.

While it is tempting to think of today’s climate ‘strike’ by schoolchildren around the world as a case of truants finding an ethical excuse to skip lessons, I think many are acting for genuine reasons: they are traumatized. They are the reflection of the hyperbolic coverage of climate change by Al Gore, Hollywood and even, latterly, David Attenborough – films where footage of fires, hurricanes and calving glaciers is stitched together to give the impression of impending doom. How many of these kids know that hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are a natural part of the tropical climate and were going on many millennia before significant man-made carbon emissions? I rather wonder.

Any principal who values his or her students’ education will not turn a blind eye to today’s absences, still less join the kids for a march, as some are reported to be doing.

They will keep them behind after school and set them two papers to research and write. The first should answer the question: ‘Does scientific evidence support the notion that “the Earth is dying”?’ As for resources to answer that question, I point them towards the latest IPCC report as well as the data sources which feed into it. That would include Nasa data on sea ice in the Arctic, which shows a sharp retreat in recent decades, as well as satellite data from the same organization on wildfires – which shows a fall in the acreages burned in recent decades. They might also like to look at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization’s report on hurricanes which last month concluded: ‘it is premature to conclude with high confidence that human activity – and particularly greenhouse warming – has already caused a detectable change in Atlantic hurricane activity.’

Paper number two should be on the question: ‘What would it mean for the global economy if governments really did eliminate all carbon emissions by 2025?’ Given that this is the central demand of many of the climate strikers, this is a rather pertinent question.

Resources for this essay might include, for example, data on the steel industry, which accounts for around seven percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, for which there is as yet no known means of decarbonization – and without which we cannot, for example, build wind farms, construct tractors to till the soil and many other things.

Children should also be invited to consider how we might store energy generated exclusively by intermittent renewable means, how we would maintain global food production – for which they will need to look beyond the livestock industry, given that 13 percent of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions come from fertilizers and 10 percent comes from rice production.

In addition, the students must answer this: if global food production did fall as a result of efforts to eliminate carbon emissions, which groups of the global population would suffer most?

How we deal with climate change is, of course, a serious issue and deserves to be treated as such in schools as anywhere else. I challenge principals to set striking children essays along the lines I have described. I would be genuinely interested in reading the results.

This article was originally published on The Spectator’s UK website.

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Love to see all the squirming.

Don't worry jog, you'll be dead before there's any real problems.

Suffice it to say, the rate at which global temperatures are rising will indeed pose huge problems.

But go ahead and don't believe.  B!tch and moan about "how much this will cost".  I guess money's all you cons care about anyway.  Because, hey, the more money you have, the better afterlife, right?

SMH

I have no intention of letting a bunch of little kids, who've sadly been brainwashed, yell at me to "get back in line."

Pretty revealing TT.

Wrong, but revealing.

WTF are we supposed to do?
Bow down to a child who is getting used? She's gonna have the same trajectory as Hogg, fade to irrelevancy, only she's gonna go faster. She shouldn't have admitted she's doing it to ditch school.
Lord knows she NEEDS school.
Maybe the history of
Being always wrong in the predictions
Would help her.
The clowns here don't care how often they are wrong
That absolutely NOTHING they have said would happen has actually happened.
Everyone is supposed to be afraid and change their lives so tomorrow won't be bad.

STFU already.
What is going wrong?
Point to Something that was gonna happen
That's actually happened..
Or STFU..

You're doing all you can
To solve a nonexistent problem.

Show me ONE THING that we were told was gonna happen.
And Obama, that FOOL, bought a fifteen MILLION dollar place, right at sea level.
He's obviously convinced..