'Global warming saves lives!' Climate sceptic DISMANTLES mainstream claims and urges for more CO2

The heatwaves hitting Britain could be a blessing in disguise, a geologist and author claims.

Gregory Wrightstone says we shouldn’t fear hotter summers because history shows cold weather poses a greater threat to humanity.

Mr Wrightstone is a senior fellow at the C02 Coalition, a US non-profit organisation that argues the risks of climate change – and man’s contribution to it – have been overstated.

Speaking to GB News as Britain endured record June temperatures, the author of books, Inconvenient Facts and A Very Convenient Warming, said: "History tells us we should welcome the warmth and fear the cold."

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He also argued that today's warming began centuries before industrial emissions rose sharply, saying: "The warming trend occurred before we started adding CO2."

Scientists advising the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have concluded that human activities - principally burning fossil fuels - are the main cause of observed global warming.

They point to graphs that show how temperature rises track increased CO2 emissions, and the view the man is behind global warming is one held by a majority of scientists.

But, according to Mr Wrightstone, much of the public debate wrongly attributes rising temperatures entirely to fossil fuel emissions.

"You're confusing correlation with causation,” he said.

While acknowledging that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that could cause warming, he argued its impacts had been overstated.

The world was on a warming trend before the Industrial Revolution, he says.

He said: "CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and as such it has a warming effect, just not very much."

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Mr Wrightstone said that previous warm periods in human history coincided with flourishing civilisations, while colder eras were marked by famine and societal collapse.

He said: "Every time it got cold throughout human history, we had crop failure, famine, pestilence... while the warmer periods... were hugely beneficial for mankind."

Asked why his views differ so sharply from the scientific consensus, Mr Wrightstone said critics had ignored historical evidence.

He said: "I might be called a science denier by some... I would call those that are promoting this false notion of a climate crisis... history deniers because they're denying what history tells us."

He agreed that if global warming appeared catastrophic and manmade, every effort should be made to stop it.

But he said he didn’t believe the data showed this. ]

He explained: "If we could document that there's a climate crisis happening, millions of people are at risk, we should definitely do something about it. The fact of the matter is, we don't see that at all."

His comments are echoed by other senior scientists including William Happer, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Princeton University and former science adviser to the President Bush administration, who argues the benefits of CO2 outweigh many harms.

Professor Richard Lindzen, one of the world's leading atmospheric physicists, former lead author for the IPCC and Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT also believes the effects of C02 are overstated.

However, the IPCC, which provides scientific advice to governments on climate change, says that man is the “dominant” cause of a warming planet.

It says it is “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land”.

It warns that the impacts of man-made climate change are already dangerous and says hitting net zero by 2050 is vital because it will give the world the best chance of keeping warming to 1.5 to 2C above pre-industrial levels.

A delay in meeting that target would increase the risk of temperature rises of up to 3 to 4 C, it warns.

Such a rise would see a much higher risk of drought, ice sheet loss and sea level rise, as well as irreversible damage to ecosystems, the scientists say.

The UK Government believes that moving away from fossil fuels will not only help meet these targets but also improve energy security and lower costs, thanks to home-grown energy from renewables.

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