Earth science professor-in-exile, climate and cultural realist, political orphan, pluralist, husband, father, Polish immigrant, Irrational Fear Substack
Beware the censors and ideologues who dodge debate and manipulate the narrative to silence dissent. I am blocked by countless climate scientists and activists because I speak the truth without any concern for my future funding or employment. If that interests you, check out more
Why I am leaving the University of Alabama:
Some internet sleuths have discovered that I will be leaving my faculty position in the Department of Geological Sciences after this semester so I thought I should tell you why. As with most large decisions, the reasons...
Today, I learned about the many emails that have been sent to my university and department due to my claim that there is NO climate emergency. This is cancel culture at work. No longer can there be dissenting opinions in academia. FOLLOW ME so they can't cancel me.
Some of the main takeaways from my writings:
1) climate change is real and not a hoax
2) the climate over the last 1M years is remarkably unstable with glacial and interglacial ossicliations due to minor orbital forcing and low CO2
3) there is no global temperature and CO2s role
While the fossil fuel industry reports record profits, millions of humans and other sentient beings are suffocating today from the impact of global warming. Those who blame "wildfires in Canada" are missing the deeper cause.
The Brooklyn Bridge today in NYC. Photo:
@Phil_Lewis_
The data is clear. There is NO evidence of a climate emergency or climate crisis. FOLLOW ME and share this post to spread the message and expose the bastardization of science by governments and institutions for money and power at the expense of mental health.
#climate
...is no longer worthy of my efforts. Contributing to this is the earth science communities silence on the false "climate emergency" narrative. Members of the community routinely discuss the mental health effects of climate catastrophism but dare not speak out...
...on immutable characteristics of faculty and students and the push for equity in science above all else has dramatically changed the profession of an academic professor. The rise of illiberalism in the name of DEI is the antithesis of the principles that universities...
When did you realize that the climate emergency narrative was unsupported by the data and just a cover for global elites to gather more money and power, at the expense of the mental health of young people?
#climate
#ClimateEmergency
#WEF
#UN
...were founded on. These are no longer places that embrace the freedom of exchanging ideas and will punish those that go against the narrative. Although I had worked from an early age to earn a Ph.D. and become a professor, like my father, I feel the profession...
...received from followers here and members within the community (who shall remain nameless). If you live in CO get ready for the Wielicki Whirlwind! Excited about this new chapter in my life.
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#Wokeness
I'm shocked by the anger of some folks when I say there is NO climate emergency. There has been NO increase in extreme weather events (see manuscript below) and less people die from climate related disasters today than ever before. What's the need to always be in crisis mode?
Rumor has it that climate alarmists have started to contact my university demanding that they fire me. This is what it has come to. You are not a hero or a warrior for trying to destroy those that disagree with you. In fact, it makes you a coward.
I tell my students... I am not here to convince you. I'm here to provide you with as much info as possible so you can come to a reasonable conclusion. Always allow yourself room to grow and change your mind also. My opinion is currently there is NO climate emergency.
#climate
Wow! New research predicts significant cooling in the northern hemisphere until 2050, with growth in sea ice (as has been observed). Furthermore, this research explains the cooling observed between 1940-70 (not aerosols). The science is not settled...
...lest they lose their positions and research funds. I will continue to objectively review the current state of the science and provide my expert opinions through social media and a future podcast and book (hopefully, coming soon). I appreciate all of the support I have...
There is NO climate emergency or climate crisis. Not in lives lost, not in cost and definitely not in crop yeilds. There is no metric that the current state of the climate can be described as in a state of emergency or crisis.
#climate
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateScam
This is how it's done. Folks read the headline or the first paragraph but how many get to the last sentence 👇
"While scientists expect that glacial floods will increase as a result of human-induced climate change, there has as yet been no such increase."
The scientific community is failing young people by not speaking out! It's time to take back the narrative. There is NO climate emergency or climate crisis.
#climate
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateCrisis
The sea level in Oslo, Norway has been steadily dropping for a century due to glacial rebound. However, the IPCC assumes that this ground motion will stop and the seas will start to rise because that fits the narrative. Pure unsubstantiated fear-mongering.
#climate
It's not that the planet isn't warming, although that appears to be over stated in many datasets, it's that nearly all the predictions of catastrophic events were wrong. And in many cases spectacularly wrong. You can only cry wolf so many times.
#climate
When society makes hasty decisions on false narratives, such as a climate emergency, by global elites to increase their power and wealth the outcomes are usually not good.
I've discovered that nearly every single temperature sensor used for climate data is located on an airport!
They are including asphalt and jet exhaust temperatures in their climate "warming" data.
Look for yourself:👇
We commonly hear that air pollution kills 5-7 million people each year. What you don't hear is that this is primarily due to indoor pollution from the use of low energy density fuels (dung and wood) for cooking and heat. Access to cheap and reliable fossil fuels for these people
Here are the facts on the climate emergency. Don't believe some bureaucrats in Davos (
@UN
@wef
). Take it from me, an earth sceintist, there is NO climate emergency. These people are manipulating you for 💰 and power.
#climate
#ClimateStrike
#WEF23
#WEFisEvil
“We are flirting with climate disaster.”
@antonioguterres
at
#WEF23
this week on the urgent need to
#ActNow
, in the face of potentially devastating consequences.
Facts on the climate emergency:
I suspect climate will lead to the unraveling of the EU. Thankfully all of these policies are just words and almost all will not be feasible. I support
@Poland
on this one!
Over 600k EVs were sold in 2021. At 500k lbs of raw materials per battery that's 300,000,000,000 lbs of raw materials in 2021 for just the batteries. Let's not pretend that electrification doesn't have it's share of environmental consequences.
#climate
#energy
#ElectricVehicles
It's as if these folks think that the raw materials to electrify everything grow out of the ground. We currently do not have the geologic reserves to produce one generation of technology to phase out fossil fuels.
#climate
#energy
#resources
All climate alarmists share three characteristics...
1) they need to feel like victims
2) they lack any scientific curiosity which makes them intellectually lazy
3) when challenged they lash out with ad hominem arguments
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#ClimateEmergency
This directly contradicts what your own office of Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) says. There has been NO increase in hydrological, meteorological, or climatological disasters since 2000. Pure unsubstantiated fear-mongering for money and power. They are lying to you.
#climate
The past eight years were the warmest on record globally.
We can’t relinquish our future to inaction.
We need urgent, large-scale & systemic
#ClimateAction
now.
Climate hysteria in the EU is one giant NIMBY campaign. They will slaughter cows while they rely on beef imported from Brazil while simultaneously claiming we need to protect the rainforest. You can't make this up.
The climate emergency in a nutshell...
1) Use modern instruments to make remarkably precise measurments of natural processes.
2) Observe minor changes in the rates and magnitudes of these process.
3) Splice this precise data onto granular reconstructions from proxies.
4)
I know, I sound like a broken record, but I am not here to convince you. As a pluralist, I have no problem if you want to eat bugs and never fly. However, I do have a problem when you manipulate science to try to scare me and my family into doing the same. In my expert opinion
How to manufacture a climate crisis. Put temperature instruments near airports and then claim that record heat is caused by CO2 and not by urban heat island effect. 🤷♂️
Claiming that this year's floods in Pakistan can be attributed to climate change is not supported by the data. This is a century of peak flows along the Indus River System. Notice absolutely NO trend associated with warming or increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration over...
This year, I visited Pakistan, the Sahel & other places affected by the climate crisis.
I could see first hand that leaders worldwide aren't doing enough to address the climate emergency.
We need more
#ClimateAction
to realize everyone’s right to a healthy environment.
To accept a climate emergency is to presume there is an optimal global surface temperature. For whom, is that optimal? Who decides that this is the optimal temperature? Should humans try to control mother nature to keep the temperature at this hypothetical optimum?
#climate
WARNING!
According to many anonymous
@Twitter
users, I am a dangerous purveyor of mis- and disinformation. Following me will expose you to my expert opinion which can be equivalent to violence.
You have been warned.
#ClimateCrisis
#climate
Climate alarmists commonly talk about sea level rise inundating coastal cities globally. However recent research 👇 shows most coastlines are prograding (i.e. shifting seaward) rather than retrograding. This reduces the threat of sea level rise.
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...to live far from family and I started to resent myself for choosing my career over my family's time together. Furthermore, over the last decade or so, but especially the last few years, the obsession with universities and grant-funding institutions...
Nearly 1 billion people live in the center of this image. Sub-Saharan Africa has the fastest-growing population on the planet, and they live in darkness. Yet, they have 63 billion barrels of crude oil. Denying these folks access to cheap reliable energy is evil and immoral.
...are mainly personal. COVID made me realize that we were really far from our families in CA and the travel on our elderly parents was taking a toll. The result was that our children were not seeing their grandparents very often. As a Polish immigrant I know what it's like...
"After one trucking company tried to electrify just 30 trucks at a terminal in Joliet, Illinois, local officials shut those plans down, saying they would draw more electricity than is needed to power the entire city."
#energy
#climate
Let me be clear... Never in the last 550 million years, even when CO2 concentrations reached 7000 ppm, has CO2 been a pollutant or toxic to the environment.
#COP28UAE
#COP28_UAE
Thanks for the outpouring of support after my recent thread about leaving academia. Over 50k followers
Disclaimer: According to many anonymous Twitter users following me makes you a: liar, charlatan, grifter, racist, hypocrite, science denier, etc by proxy. You have been warned
"Put simply, Australia mines coal and exports it to China where coal-fired power stations generate electricity, which is used to manufacture PV panels and batteries, which Australia buys and uses to generate electricity from the rays of the sun. In their lifetimes, the solar
When climate alarmists don't like the data they call you a liar or claim it is misinformation. It's an old, intellectually lazy trick to try to discredit those they disagree with. I'm not here to convince you, I merely show you the data that leads me to conclude that there is
If you are tired of the constant climate catastrophizing and want to get some honest climate information from a PhD in Earth Science, please follow me. Lets see if we can get to 3000 today. Remember, there is NO climate emergency or climate crisis.
#ClimateScam
#climate
I knew that trying to ease the minds of young people about climate change was going to be met with some opposition, I must admit I wasn't prepared for the amount of rage and vitriol. Thank you to those that have followed me and sent messages of encouragement. Let's get to 10k!
What is up with this locked account thing? I'm trying to see if it's true. There is NO climate crisis. The human condition will face many challenges but thus far we have done an amazing job overcoming those challenges. Share, like, and follow if you agree!
#lockedaccount
Most of the western world has significantly decreased CO2 emissions but Greta still says it's not enough. She is convinced she is a victim while 1 in 4 people on this planet don't have access to clean drinking water. Oh, the privilege.
Germany should be a lesson to all.
#Climate
hysteria makes you less sustainable and more reliant on others.
The last three remaining German nuclear plants shut down in April could have provided 25% of the country’s needed household energy.
There is physically not enough material at current extraction rates to produce one generation of technology (which needs to be replaced every 20 years or so) to phase out fossil fuels. We either better start ramping up our mining efforts or drop this fantasy.
They are coming after agriculture, to save the planet. When food shortages start and people die due to famine they will blame climate change. But don't be fooled, this is part of the plan.
If EVs were so much better and could easily replace combustion engines you wouldn't need government bans on combustion engines.
Brussels Cancels Looming Ban on Internal Combustion Engine Cars – U.K. Government “Prepared to Follow Suit”
As we hear more and more dire predictions from
#COP28
... I remind you, that according to the very people at the conference, entire nations were going to have been "wiped off the face of the earth" starting 23 years ago. Did that happen? Did any of it happen?
This is likely to make a lot of my colleagues mad but here it goes...
A significant portion of the climate science literature is nothing more than stamp collecting. Identifying small new changes at resolutions above what we have in the geologic record, claiming...
Climate change is real but it's not an emergency.
A. No trend in the frequency or intensity of hurricanes.
B. Slight increase in global precipitation rates (as expected w/ warming).
C. No trend in US droughts.
D. No trend in US wildfires.
All sources in plots 👇
#climate
Record global corn production!
Record global wheat production!
Record global rice production!
But tell me again how
#climate
change is going to drive food insecurity. It's all pure unsubstantiated fear-mongering and propaganda.
Source:
So let me get this straight, we can power the world through the energy reaching Earth's surface from the Sun but that same energy doesn't influence the climate or current warming. Do I have that right? 🤔
#climate
Although we can't test future climate model predictions we can look back at past ones. For example the UK Met Office predicted a 7% decline in summer rainfall in the 2020s and thus far there has been a 10% increase.
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You know what the difference between us is. Your entire career has 14k citations. My one post that exposes the lies told about extreme weather has 300k impressions in a single day. I sense a little bit of jealousy. The climate emergency narrative is dead.
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@MatthewWielicki
@JonLeCook
@TheDisproof
Considering you have scraped up a mere 323 citations on Google Scholar in the years since you got your PhD, you are not in any position to claim 'expertise'. As someone with 14,000 plus citations, I seem better qualified to defer to the actual experts in climate science.
Climate science is so settled that opposing papers don't exist in the peer reviewed literature. Why? Because they were willing to "redefine what the peer review literature is" to keep them out. This is how you manufacture consensus and fool the public.
#climate
When climate change doesn't increase global fires... Activists take it upon themselves. There is NO climate emergency but there is an emergency surrounding mental health and climate anxiety that is leading people to start fires to save the planet.
This is how low climate alarmists are willing to go. Submitting emails on my website pretending to be my Ph.D. advisor, whom I speak with regularly and who has my email. When you are over the target, you get the most flack. There is NO climate emergency! I will not be silenced!
Over the past month or so I have been writing a small multi-part series about the most newsworthy climate papers from the last decade. It's fascinating to see how the media latches on to the most sensational papers. This is how you construct a false climate crisis narrative. 🧵
I'm not here to convince you of anything. As an expert in earth science I do not see the compelling evidence to call the current state of climate an emergency. My goal is to share this info, that you rarely see on MSM, so that you can be informed.
#climate
#ClimateEmergency
There is NO consensus on the forcing associated with anthropogenic GHG emissions on global average temperature. This is how you lie with statistics. These consensus papers are a new phenomenon and absolutely not scientifically rigerous. Turn 1.59% into 97%. Magic.
Economic damage from drought is at a record low. There is NO climate emergency or climate crisis. Not in cost and not in human suffering. The human condition is improving, largely due to access to cheap energy.
The idea that the recent climate that humans have evolved in is somehow a climatic optimum that should be protected is utter bollocks and shows a complete misunderstanding of the climate system over 65M years. In fact, over the last couple of millions of years, the Earth's
Certain places on our planet get hot at times. It doesn't mean the world is on fire. Just like it wasn't on fire in 1905, 1913, 1931, or 1960. This is pure unsubstantiated fear-mongering.
Remember folks. I'm not here to convince you or teach you what to think. I, an earth science expert, don't find compelling evidence that we are in a climate emergency and I share the data that leads me to that conclusion with you. What you do with this info is up to you. Cheers.
And thousand year old trees are being exposed from below the ice. Why were these trees growing here, a thousand years ago at pre-industrial levels of CO2?
The Arctic is greening with Trees replacing ice Because the trees are darker than snow, they absorb more of the sun’s energy, further heating the region and further driving more global warming and
#climate
change
For the last couple of weeks I have been giving my "State of the climate" lectures to hundreds of students showing them that there is no compelling evidence that we are in a crisis or emergency. Many have emailed to thank me for easing their minds. It's criminal what climate...
Let me be perfectly clear. There is no such thing as tipping points in the geologic record. The vast majority of the last 550My have had significantly higher CO2 and temperature and yet here we are. This is just unscientific gobbledygook and is propaganda to instill fear to