The Climate Change belief system is built on the Anthropocentric principle that human society is responsible for climate related disasters and has displaced 'natural' factor responsibility.
In a wider sense the post-modern belief system built on the Anthropocentric principle covers more than issues of climate.
The climate-destroying mechanism invoked for this responsibilty is: 'burning fossil fuels leads to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and this causes an increase in the total Greenhouse effect that results in Global Warming and hence Climate Change.
Other anthropogenic emissions causing increases in the total Greenhouse effect include methane, nitrous oxide, ozone and trace pollutants. However, these are usually sidelined to minor status by the Climate Change zealotry's obsession with carbon dioxide.
The changes gathered under the 'Climate Change' umbrella are high temperature records, regional or local heat waves, the occurrance of fires, droughts, floods, less snow and rain, more snow and rain, strong wind, storms & hurricanes as well as melting ice and dangerous sea-level rise.
The Climate Change belief is so strongly held by many leading intellectuals, politicians and educators that whole generations (from the 1980s) of young people have become so indoctrinated that they refuse to believe anything else is possible. They refer to unindoctrinated (and hence non-believer) commentators as 'Deniers' or 'Skeptics'.
Anyone under the age of 55 know no other climate education than the dogma of Climate Change. Their frequent use of terms like 'Denier' or 'Skeptic' show the degree to which this indoctrination has succeeded. As is their war-cry of "Save the Planet".
Having said that, I acknowledge that a growing number of social media influencers on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and X (formerly Twitter), express skepticism about Climate Change. Research indicates that climate-skeptic content has grown significantly in recent years, often merging with conspiracy theories or right-wing political narratives.
As Climate Change is a left-wing political narrative, 'popular' skepticism expressed by 'influencers' will always be linked to (far) right philosophy.
The fundamental science of Global Warming, however, has no political flavour.
But, left-wing ecosocialist philosophy has politicised the 'Climate Debate' which has now descended into Manichaen form of 'Good' (the Anointed) versus "Evil' (the 'Deniers').
The Climate Change Anointed attitude has many parallels with other anthropocentric belief systems particularly geocentrism – that the sun goes round the Earth. This was such a strongly held belief in the sixteenth century that those who suggested evidence-based alternatives were termed ‘heretics’ and persecuted.
The use of ‘Climate skeptics’ or ‘Climate deniers’ is the modern (or is it post-modern?) equivalent of 'Heretic' and those individuals highlighted as such are sanctioned by being 'Cancelled'.
Prominent Individuals who are branded ’Deniers and Skeptics’ by the Anointed include Anders Jonas Ångström, John Christy, John Francis Clauser, William Happer, Mike Hulme, Steve E, Koonin, Richard Lindzen, Bjørn Lomborg, Steve Rayner, Matt Ridley, Fred Seitz, Fred Singer, Roy Spencer, Patrick Michaels, Christopher Monckton, Roger A. Pielke Jr., Daniel Sarewitz and Donald Trump.
This list includes many eminent scientists who have the academic knowledge fundamental in understand the Greenhouse effect, the workings of the climate system and the modelling of these. Many are criticised by the Anointed for dabbling in pseudo-science.
The list does not include many leading intellectuals, lawyers or politicians.
Expressing skepticism is in most political systems (USA currently excluded) career ending.
The most vocal scientist 'Deniers' are retired and no longer dependent on politically-directed funding.
Not going along with the so-called scientific consensus exemplified by President Obama’s May 2013 tweet "Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: Climate Change is real, man-made and dangerous" is enough to earn the ire of the Anointed.
President Obama's claim of 97% consensus is a sham – as further discussed in volume two of ‘Natural and Anthropogenic Climate Variability’.
Also, to quote Professor Paul Reiter (Pasteur Institute in Paris) in a statement to the UK Parliament (March 2005) “Consensus is the stuff of politics, not of science”.
To call out serious scientists as ‘Climate Deniers' contains a falshood. Serious scientists accept that the Earth is currently in a period of warming – this has been clear since the Earth's surface temperature began its climb from the depths of the ‘Little Ice Age’ over two hundred years ago.
What these naturally skepical scientists deny, if that’s the right word, is that all the warming can be blamed on anthropogenic emissions.
True scientists are naturally skeptical. The Royal Society (founded in 1660), is the UK's independent national academy of sciences and the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world). Its motto is ‘take no one’s word for it’.
Unfortunately, the Climate Change belief system rests upon taking the words of the assertion ‘Anthropogenic emissions cause Climate Change’ without question or scientific challenge.
The Anointed's 'We're saving the planet!' shows faith in the absolute truth of the assertion and provides them with typical (for Anointed) moral high-ground arrogance to call challengers of their belief system ‘Deniers’ and proceed to do their best to cancel them.
A very dangerous elements of the Climate Change belief system is that ‘Humans (in particular the populations of democratic ‘Global North’ countries) must take the blame for everything bad’.
While claiming that something is all your fault is as vain as claiming it’s to your credit, the energy policies emanating from the Anointed are hugely damaging to the economies of the ‘Global North’. They are based on the arrogant anthropocentric belief that only humans can ‘fix’ the so-called ‘Climate crisis’.
This ‘fix' lacks any evidence that these policies will make the Earth’s climate more benign for human society.
Their faith of the policies working appears to be based on the hypothesis that a few countries (including Britaain) sacrificing their economies by getting to 'Net Zero' in the next 20 to 40 years will magically stop the climate warming.
How do they think human society reversed the warming of the Holocene thermal optimum, the Minoan warm period, the Roman warm period and the Medieval warm period.
The Medieval warm period ended with a plunge into the Little Ice Age - how did those Medieval societies engineer that?
If apportioning blame to humans (and their emissions) for the early warming following the Little Ice Age we are forced to say 'well done' the British Georgians and Victorians!
Whatever they did, it had very little to do with CO2 which increased 15-20ppm from the start of the Georgian to end of the Victorian. From the end of the Victorian to 2025, CO2 has increased 120ppm.
Somehow the Anointed mistakenly believe that: ‘the negative phenomena (for human society) caused by Climate Change will be mitigated by stopping the burning of fossil fuels’.
Human Societies, or at least a few of them, achieving 'Net Zero' will reverse our plunge into 'Climate Armageddon'.
This is a strange anthropocentric belief that speaks more about the arrogance of humans than any rational, evidence based science.
That droughts and famine will cease to plague the Earth and Hurricanes will tone-down and cause less mayhem and that spring in England will move later belong with belief in the magic money tree.
Many of the Anointed who have some slight inkling that their faith may be misplaced fall back of the ‘Precautionary Principle’ which, baldly stated, means they would rather see the hollowing out of the economies of the ‘Global North’ in the vague hope of staving off some alarmist’s nightmare fantasy ‘Climate Apocalypse’.
The factors contributing to natural climate variability have been around for over 500 million years.
They have given the Earth, among other extreme climates, the long, over 100 million years, Karoo ice age and, 56 million years ago, a very hot Palaeocene - Eocene thermal maximum.
In the last 3.6 million years natural climate variability has caused the Earth (particularly the Northern Hemisphere), very many advances (and retreats) of ice.
We happen to be in the middle, possibly towards the end, of a retreat of ice. The warning that low-lying land and islands might be inundated is a warning that has been around nearly 12,000 years.
That warning would have been very apposite 130,000 years ago when the Eemian interglacial saw temperature records soar 'to the highest for the last few million years' and sea level rose to about 5 metres above current level. The inundation of low-lying settlements must have been spectacular!
Before humans began to industrialise, but within recorded history, there have been warm and cold periods, as mentioned above.
The Holocene Thermal Maximum (around eight thousand years ago), the Minoan Warm Period, the Roman Warm Period, the Medieval Warm period and (most recently) the Little Ice Age - were all the result of natural climate variability factors at play.
Despite the long history of natural factors affecting the Earth’s climate – sometimes quite radically – a major tenet of Climate Change belief is that human’s and our industrialisation emissions have relegated these 500 million year record of factors of variability to a minor – almost negligible – role in our climate.
This relegation is an extreme demonstration of the arrogance of Climate Change believers.