The invention of net zero: Best ideas of the century No. 6, in New Scientist today

[John Nissen]

Hi all,

Now we know the culprits of this disastrous idea from the New Scientist latest issue: David Frame and Myles Allen. The latter also boasts of setting up the carbon budget: another naff idea. 

They imagine that the world can be saved by emissions reduction alone: what nonsense. Yet this belief has been sold to the government and many environment NGOs - and to the New Scientist it seems.

Cheers John 

The invention of net zero: Best ideas of the century | New Scientist https://share.google/XgfPbqlntiCme9KR2 

[John Nissen]

Just to confound matters, Idea No. 11 is for climate attribute studies which fail to distinguish between climate change and global warming. Furthermore climate extremes are often the result of a meandering or sticking jet stream in turn resulting from Arctic Amplification driven mostly by albedo loss, which is now plaguing the whole planet 🤔 

Cheers John 

[H simmens]

John and others,

What do you make of this 2025 analysis?

“A Dartmouth study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the massive current of Arctic air that regulates weather for much of the Northern Hemisphere. 

Large waves in the jet stream observed since the 1990s have, in recent years, driven abnormally frigid temperatures and devastating winter storms deep into regions such as the southern United States. Scientists fear that a warming atmosphere brought on by climate change is fueling these wild undulations, causing long troughs of bitter-cold air to drop down from the Arctic.

But a new paper in AGU Advancesled by Jacob Chalif ’21, Guarini, and Erich Osterberg, a professor of earth sciences, shows that the jet stream’s volatility actually may not be that unusual. Instead, the jet stream appears to have undergone natural—though sporadic—periods of “waviness” since before the effects of climate change were considered significant, the researchers report.“

Herb Simmens

Author  of A Climate Vocabulary of the Future

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On Jan 24, 2026, at 11:08 AM, John Nissen <johnnis...@gmail.com> wrote:



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