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If Global Warming Does Not Get You, The Space Debris Will!

October 28, 2022

By Paul Homewood

h/t Ian Magness

Even by Times standards, this surely takes the biscuit!

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CORRECTION – I have now learnt it was the Times, not the Telegraph.

19 Comments
  1. Mike Turner permalink
    October 28, 2022 11:18 am

    is there no limit to their imagination of climate terrors?

    • October 28, 2022 4:35 pm

      Since you ask – no.

      • October 28, 2022 4:44 pm

        I see the JSO tweets, and they/the followers are now using “end of world” language. They are out of their minds. Even on BBCQT last night (27/Oct), JHB was scoffed for even suggesting that the IPCC SPM wasn’t supported by the technical reports (inc David Lammy with his head in his hands) – as if everyone has read them!! The messaging has been Goebbels style, repeated and repeated until it’s perceived as fact, such that most people now blindly believe anything negative about the climate that’s said, no matter how obviously ridiculous.

  2. Dazed and conservative permalink
    October 28, 2022 11:20 am

    ” There is no danger of the sky falling down ” . Really ? The sky falling down ? This is either a demonstration of the patronising contempt that these halfwits have for their readers , or further evidence of the rampant cretinism at Telegraph Towers . Perhaps future articles will be in the form of cartoons featuring all our favourite Cbeebies or Disney characters ?

    • catweazle666 permalink
      October 28, 2022 3:06 pm

      “There is no danger of the sky falling down”
      Really?
      Thank goodness for that!
      They had me worried for a moment there…

      • Dave Ward permalink
        October 28, 2022 6:41 pm

        “There is no danger of the sky falling down”

        Don’t worry – the Greens will arrange for the ground to rise up and meet it…

  3. It doesn't add up... permalink
    October 28, 2022 11:22 am

    I think this should be peer reviewed by Wijngaarden and Happer. Getting the real physics properly understood would be a bonus.

    As a starter for 10, here is NASA’s guide for children

    The thermosphere lies between the exosphere and the mesosphere. “Thermo” means heat, and the temperature in this layer can reach up to 4,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

    This layer of Earth’s atmosphere is about 319 miles (513 kilometers) thick. That’s much thicker than the inner layers of the atmosphere, but not nearly as thick as the exosphere.

    The thermosphere is home to the International Space Station as it orbits Earth. This is also where you’ll find low Earth orbit satellites. There’s a lot going on in the thermosphere!

  4. robertliddell1 permalink
    October 28, 2022 11:32 am

    Leaves one with a feeling of quiet desperation

  5. October 28, 2022 11:38 am

    Well, its nice to know that the sky is going to stay up there instead of falling down and squeezing us.

  6. Ben Vorlich permalink
    October 28, 2022 11:58 am

    But surely the atmosphere becomes more dense as it “shrinks” and as a result slows debris and anything else falling to earth more quickly and creating more heat and becoming more eficient at saving us from redundant space hardware?

  7. GeoffB permalink
    October 28, 2022 11:59 am

    CO2 is bad bad bad, repeat after me CO2 is bad bad bad……..

  8. Graham Worthington permalink
    October 28, 2022 12:07 pm

    Telegraph?
    Or Times?

  9. Gamecock permalink
    October 28, 2022 12:22 pm

    ‘The Earth’s upper atmosphere is turning into a junkyard.’

    ‘In this crowded sphere . . . .’

    Low earth orbit satellites are distributed over 57,000,000,000 cubic miles of space.

    ‘A million pieces of space debris’ ≠ ‘crowded.’ One particle per 57,000 cubic miles.

    Is the British Antarctic Survey study junk science, or is it Mr Simons’ report which makes it appear so?

    Gamecock suspects dumb and dumber.

  10. October 28, 2022 1:08 pm

    Now who would have thought CO2 is a cooling agent 🙂 Perhaps this beginning of critical thinking can extend to the remaining 99% of their brains.

  11. Nigel Sherratt permalink
    October 28, 2022 1:12 pm

    But this is good new surely since the junk won’t be burning and causing ‘carbon’ and the odd destroyed satellite might takes us closer to the longed for stone age utopia.

  12. ancientpopeye permalink
    October 28, 2022 3:24 pm

    Stored in the LoonyTunes folder.

  13. Knut_Bjorn Jasterdae permalink
    October 28, 2022 4:24 pm

    So Carbon Dioxide, which is heavier than air is ‘rising’ to the upper levels of the atmosphere. Perhaps this moron should try blowing up a ballon and see just how ‘quickly’ it floats!

  14. Brian Smith permalink
    October 28, 2022 6:35 pm

    My tin foil hat will save me.

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