dailydeclaration.org.au
2026-11-13
The alleged threat to the planet from human-caused climate change has been at the forefront of international politics over the recent half-century. Every year, just before meetings of the UN Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Climate Change Convention, slight increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature are portrayed in the media as harbingers of future doom. Every extreme weather event is made out to be an ill omen of what is to come unless burning of fossil fuels is eliminated.
Globally, billions of research dollars have been expended building complex computer models that reinforce a projected dire future scenario if carbon-dioxide emissions are allowed to continue to increase at historic rates. According to model projections, Earth's temperature will rise several degrees Celsius by the end of the century, making many regions unliveable. Also, the polar ice caps may melt, causing sea-level rise to swamp low-lying coastal regions, including many large cities. There may even be "tipping points" leading to runaway global warming.
There is little evidence of unprecedented weather extremes or dangerous climate change. Forty-five years of satellite-based global monitoring point to a slowly warming climate responding to Earth's natural processes.