Science Quote by Piers Corbyn

Corbyn’s move here is to launder a political stance through the soothing cadence of moderation. “My view is” softens the opening like a shrug, presenting a contested claim as personal temperament rather than an argument that needs evidence. He concedes a sliver of warming (“a little bit warmer”) to sound reasonable, then immediately dilutes its significance by invoking the Medieval period and the Bronze Age - a rhetorical time machine that collapses radically different causes, baselines, and data quality into a single vibe: we’ve been warmer before, so relax.

The subtext is less “I’m weighing history” and more “today’s alarm is ahistorical.” By choosing pre-industrial eras popularly associated with natural variability, he invites the listener to treat modern warming as just another cycle, not a consequence with accountability attached. It’s a familiar tactic in climate contrarian discourse: shift the frame from mechanisms (greenhouse gases, radiative forcing, attribution) to anecdotes about “past warm times,” where uncertainty is higher and the public’s intuition is easier to steer.

Calling himself a scientist matters because the sentence is engineered for credibility without precision. No numbers, no rate of change, no mention of regional vs global averages, no acknowledgment that “how fast” and “why” are the entire story. In an era when climate communication often fails on trust, Corbyn exploits that gap: he offers a tidy historical comparison that sounds scholarly, while quietly sidestepping the present-day point that makes the stakes real - not that warmth exists, but that we’re driving it, rapidly, with consequences.