The above video is 11:12, and do take the time to watch it. If you’re like me, you’ll appreciate not only the information given, but also the sardonic wit. Dr. Peter Ridd likens certain parts of the Climate alarmist crowd as witch burners, and repeats that theme throughout. He also references Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, an 1841 work by Charles Mackay that highlighted tulip mania, the South Sea Bubble, and other notable public exhibitions of madness. Climate Change is but the most recent.
I like Dr. Ridd, formerly of James Cook University in North Queensland, Australia. Not everyone shares my view. He holds a prominent position on DeSmog, formerly DeSmog Blog, a site that keeps track of climate “deniers”. The blog, which was once openly critical and demeaning of anyone skeptical of the alleged science of climate change, is now wearing more respectable clothing, merely listing the career, papers, prominent writings and media appearances without comment. The overall tone, of course, is to hold “deniers”, a propaganda term, accountable for heresy. See Dr. Ridd’s DeSmog page here. I find his resume’ quite impressive.
Ridd was fired by James Cook in 2018. Here’s Wikipedia on the subject [note that Wiki has de-credentialed him. He is merely Peter Ridd, the “Dr.” dropped]:
Beginning in April 2016, James Cook University took a number of disciplinary measures over two years against Ridd, which culminated in Ridd being fired, for refusing to take down confidential information which he had placed publicly online.[6] The university denied that the dismissal was over Ridd’s views on climate change.[12] Ridd filed two crowdfunded lawsuits, the second over the dismissal.
On 16 April 2019, Ridd initially won the lawsuit,[13] with James Cook University found to be in violation of the Fair Work Act 2009; in September 2019, Ridd was awarded in excess of AU$1 million, together with AU$125,000 pecuniary penalty. While the two parties continue to disagree whether the case related to academic freedom, the ruling judge said the case was “purely and simply about the proper construction of a clause in an enterprise agreement”,[13] although he also stated James Cook University had “not understood the whole concept of intellectual freedom”.[14] In July 2020, JCU won an appeal against this judgement from the full bench of the Federal Court.[15][16] Ridd appealed to the High Court of Australia, but that appeal was dismissed.[17][18]
If you’ve followed climate as I have these past years, you’ll note that when they want someone fired, they can find a reason. However, Ridd has landed on his feet. I like his style and delivery. And humor.
Piece of Mindful 
LOL. I’ve had this book for over 30 years! My eyes ain’t what they used to be. So, I recently acquired an MP3 from archive.org. However, the video was informative also.
Thanks Mark.
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I think we know nothing and I am quite fascinated by the idea of an expanding earth: All the water in the oceans etc. originates from inside the earth. Actually all elements were formed there. So rise of the level of the oceans caused by climate change? What about all the other possible hypotheses? Anyway, the increase of CO2 level caused by human activity as hypothesis is preposterous.
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Fakeflip on YouTube covers this topic. It’s mostly in Portuguese. He does some videos in English though. His best work was last year when he tracked a Brazilian expedition’s circumnavigation around Antarctica.
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Jan – this is great opening to a question I have meant to post on this forum, especially Mark. What are your thoughts on the abiotic synthesis of petroleum? To me, that is common sensical – petroleum is largely saturated hydrocarbons, with no oxygen or nitrogen. If it were of biological origin, it should retain some of those elements. Coal may indeed be generated from biomass – however oil or petrol could possibly be due to methane that sinks into the ocean at great depths, and under intense pressure and heat gets cooked into oil.
Our friend Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty was a proponent of that, claiming to have intelligence on this, and claiming it was understood by Russian scientists that petrol was generated abiotically. Which is the flip side of the carbon dioxide equation – it suggests a chemical equilibrium where oil is constantly regenerated, and basically in almost limitless supply. Lets go back 50 years and the big fear mongering was not climate change, but oil running out. Does anyone talk about that anymore?
Wherever oil comes from I know it did not come from dinosaurs, fake animals who all died out 66 million years ago!
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I’m being facetious about Prouty, if that wasn’t clear. Talk about controlled opposition, Colonel X indeed! The guy is publishing books on secret CIA operations around the world, while working as a vice president at banks. Yeah, go figure.
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I agree it doesn’t come from dinosaurs. That’s just a sexy way of saying organic matter. We do produce organic manner in massive quantities.
I have known for decades that the Russians theorized that oil came from non-organic sources. But the business was so invested in organic matter that they laughed it off.
I do not know, of course. But, I am tempted to believe that energy on this planet is infinite in supply.
I read a book about peak oil years ago and bought into it. That was a mistake.
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I found out about the abiotic oil theory some ten years ago if my memory has not become to sloppy… wait, let me verify… no, February 2020 it was. Six years ago. I found it mind boggling and absolutely logical. That the origin of oil was to be found in some prehistoric vegetable soup with dinosaur balls has always sounded weird to me.
Anyway, the energy level of oil being way above the energy level of biological material already settles the debate. Biological origine is absolutely impossible and could no way have occurred spontaneously even under high pressure.
And by the way: the daily production of crude oil was in 2020 like 10 million tons PER DAY.
Trees caught in coal layers are not at the origine of the coal. They where trapped in seas of hydro-carbons.
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