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Geologist Gregory Wrightstone argues against a “man-made climate crisis” narrative, saying Earth’s current warming trend began about two centuries before significant carbon dioxide emissions. He claims historical warm periods were hugely beneficial for human civilisation, while historical cold periods were “horrifically bad.”
A second speaker cites recent records, including the hottest June and May on record, 2022 breaching, the first time 40 degrees, and 2025 being the warmest year on record in the UK, concluding that “the planet is getting warmer” and asking whether this is a problem.
Speaker 2 responds that the warming is occurring and emphasizes when the warming trend started. He says it began more than 300 years ago, during periods when CO2 levels were very low. He states that only in the mid-20th century, during the post-World War II economic boom, did humans start adding a lot of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and he claims that two-thirds of the warming trend occurred before that CO2 increase. He contrasts this with claims that natural warming stopped in the mid-20th century and that current warming is primarily caused by human emissions.
He also links the warming to the end of what he calls the Little Ice Age, describing it as the coldest period of the last 10,000 years. He says the Little Ice Age was “horrifically bad” and argues that cold periods throughout human history brought crop failure, famine, pestilence, and mass depopulation. He claims warmer periods, warmer than today, led to food abundance, and civilizations and empires thrived, adding that this is “completely contrary” to what he says people are being told.
He concludes by saying history suggests people should “welcome the warmth and fear the cold,” and says he would be called a “science denier” by some, but identifies himself as a scientist and argues that those promoting a climate crisis “false notion” should be called “history deniers.”