Wednesday, August 02, 2023
Top climate scientists rubbish claims July was the hottest month ever
Two of America’s top climate scientists have rubbished claims July was the hottest month on record, deploring a “stunning amount of exaggeration and hype” surrounding the UN Secretary-General’s statement last week that “the era of global boiling [had] arrived.”
Cliff Mass, professor of Atmospheric Sciences at University of Washington, said the public was being “misinformed on a massive scale” following a deluge of news reports that summer heatwaves in the US and Europe had pushed July’s average temperature above 17 degrees, and allegedly to the highest level in 120,000 years. UN
“It‘s terrible. I think it’s a disaster. There’s a stunning amount of exaggeration and hype of extreme weather and heatwaves, and it’s very counter-productive,” he told The Australian in an interview.
“I’m not a contrarian. I‘m pretty mainstream in a very large [academic] department, and I think most of these claims are unfounded and problematic”.
John Christy, a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, said heatwaves in the first half of the 20th century were at least as intense as those of more recent decades based on consistent, long-term weather stations going back over a century.
“I haven‘t seen anything yet this summer that’s an all time record for these long term stations, 1936 still holds by far the record for the most number of stations with the hottest ever temperatures,” he told The Australian, referring to the year of a great heatwave in North America that killed thousands.
Professor Christy said an explosion of the number of weather stations in the US and around the world had made historical comparisons difficult because some stations only went back a few years; meanwhile, creeping urbanisation had subjected existing weather stations to additional heat.
“In Houston, for example, in the centre it is now between 6 and 9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the surrounding countryside,” he explained in an interview with The Australian.
Major newspapers from the Washington Post to the London Times have reported July as the hottest month on record after the average global daily temperature last month surpassed 17 C – around 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels – based on satellite data compiled by the University of Maine.
“We’re just really starting to see climate change kick in,” Nathan Lenssen, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado, told the Washington Post last month.
Karsten Haustein, a climate scientist at Leipzig University, told the Times that July was “outrageously warm” and may have been the warmest month since the Eemian interglacial period, about 120,000 years ago.
Growing concern about higher temperatures caused by humans has underpinned a global push to slash carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 by phasing out fossil fuels in favour of solar and wind power, fuelling major political and scientific debates.
“Hot enough for you? Thank a MAGA Republican. Or better yet, vote them out of office,” tweeted former Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton last week.
The IMF cancelled a scheduled talk by Nobel prize winner John Clauser last week after he publicly stated: “I can confidently say there is no real climate crisis, and that climate change does not cause extreme weather events.”
Professor Christy, conceding a slight warming trend over the last 45 years, said July could be the warmest month on record based on global temperatures measured by satellites – “just edging out 1998” – but such measures only went back to 1979.
Professor Mass said the climate was “radically warmer” around 1000 years ago during what’s known as the Medieval Warm Period, when agriculture thrived in parts of now ice-covered Greenland.
“If you really go back far enough there were swamps near the North Pole, and the other thing to keep in mind is that we‘re coming out of a cold period, a Little Ice Age from roughly 1600 to 1850”.
“Global warming, it‘s a serious issue, but it’s a slow issue, it’s not an existential threat,” he added, suggesting human activities may have added up to one degree Celsius to average temperatures since the 1980s.
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They So Want Climate Change to Be a Thing
Oh my goodness, it was warm during the summer! Not just warm, but the warmest warm that ever was! Yes, it’s an emergency, a crisis, the mostest baddest hotness that ever happened in the history of ever. Time to give up plastic straws and cars and hot water heaters – that’s the latest one – because Professional Licensed Scientists™ tell us we must, or else the penguins will burst into flames. Or something.
Climate change is #Science, and you know that because the very same people who lied to you about literally everything else, from Wall Street to Iraq to the Wuhan Flu, told you so. By the way, they are now grudgingly sort of admitting it was from the Wuhan lab after denying it for years and calling you a racist for thinking that a bat-virus respiratory disease that happened to originate within a few blocks of a major Chinese lab doing bat-virus respiratory disease might have something to do with the major Chinese lab doing bat-virus respiratory disease instead of with people nibbling on whatever pangolins are.
Now, hurry up and forget the unbroken track record of lies our institutions have told us and quickly sign over your money and freedom to the same people who have lied to you non-stop for decades. Remember, it’s #Science, although the application of the scientific method, as it was understood before it became a political bludgeon to pummel you into submission and serfdom, would call for us to look at the data, and all the data tells us that everything the people pushing climate change have told us about everything else is a lie and a scam. Accordingly, Occam’s razor – not the thing Hunter uses to line up his yeyo on the mirror but the principle that the simplest answer is probably the right answer – would indicate that this is yet another lie designed to steal our freedom and money.
By the way, the Venn diagram of institutional actors telling you that we have to make all sorts of sacrifices because of climate change RIGHT NOW, NO TIME TO WAIT OR DEBATE, and telling you that Hunter’s laptop was disinformation is a circle.
Understand what we are talking about. It is not whether the climate changes. It does. It has been hotter and colder because it goes in cycles. When we say climate change is a hoax – and it is one of the most pernicious hoaxes in the history of humanity, right up there with socialism – we are referring to the claim and attendant actions based on the lie that climate change is essentially manmade and that these changes require the immediate transformation of society into a form that just happens to match the form of society these people wanted long before they started talking about global warming, and even before they were trying to do exactly the same things because of alleged global cooling.
The climate change hoax is a vehicle for change they cannot impose any other way, and if you notice, these people are trying to get this change done in every way except the democratic one. They cannot win and, therefore, do not try to even bother with votes on the myriad horrible things they want to do to us in the name of controlling the weather. Most of it is regulatory, behind-the-scenes crap like bans on toilets that flush and light bulbs that light. Or it is executive orders – anything but flat-out democratic processes because they would have to face questions. Questions they cannot answer because their whole garbage movement is based on a lie.
So, what is the right temperature for the Earth? Like, in specific degrees? I mean, if it’s getting “too hot” or “too cold” – again, I was alive in the seventies when that was #Science – then what degrees are “just right,” Goldilocks?
So, is man’s activity the primary factor controlling the rate and direction of climate change? What was when the Earth got cooler and warmer, and why are those non-factors now?
If it gets a couple of degrees warmer, so what? Instead of making major changes to society – again, Marxist ones that you want anyway – what is the dollar figure for amelioration as opposed to the dollar figure for transformative societal change?
China’s bringing on a coal plant every week or so – why again is my water heater going to cause the Earth to burst into flames?
So, meat is now bad, and we’re constantly told that the future is delicious bugs. We’re told that our cars and trucks are bad and we need to take public transportation. We’re told that our vacations are Earth murder. But I am kind of thinking that these sacrifices are only to come from us. Hey, if rising sea levels are so scary, why did the Obamas buy a beach house? Why do Leonardo DiCaprio and Frankenstein Kerry fly private jests to their climate summits? Why are normal Americans the ones who need to carry this burden instead of rich people or the damn Chi-Coms?
I know, I know – shut up and listen to the scientists. Those would be the ones who demanded we shut down our schools and wear masks? The same ones who swore to us the vaxx would prevent transmission? I’ve noticed a distinct lack of accountability for all the errors and lies they told us, so why again should I believe that if the scientists are wrong about #Science needing us to turn our country into a socialist green feudal nightmare there will be no accountability for that either? You know, maybe it’s not #Science, but I’ve noticed how people who lie and get away with it tend to lie again because they think they can get away with it.
So, save your climate idiocy. You get nothing except me idling my engine some more, even though your lies have resulted in gas being $5 a gallon. We need a president who will not play, which means a Republican one. Add “defeating the climate change hoax” to the list of reasons why we must get serious about nominating the strongest Republican in the general election. That is unless you want to eat bugs and ride buses with hobos.
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Kerry ripped for demanding agriculture emission cuts: ‘Bankrupt every farmer in America’
U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry was blasted on social media over the weekend by critics who accused him of trying to destroy the agriculture industry in order to achieve "net zero" emissions.
"Agriculture contributes about 33% of all the emissions of the world, depending a little bit on how you count it, but it’s anywhere from 26 to 33, and we can’t get to net zero, we don’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution," Kerry told a climate change summit in May.
"You just can’t continue to both warm the planet while also expecting to feed it," Kerry added. "It doesn’t work. So, we have to reduce emissions from the food system."
That clip was widely shared over the weekend after being posted by the Twitter account Wide Awake Media, which led to a new wave of criticism against the Biden administration's top climate envoy. Republican Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois called them an "attack on American farmers."
"Nothing to see here," Republican Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted. "Just hypocritical Dems wanting to bankrupt every farmer in America…."
"These people are sick bastards," GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas tweeted. "I introduced legislation to defund this clown. But that’s just for show unless Republicans as a whole decide to fight instead of laying down while the very freedom they campaign on is under assault."
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Australia: A Greenie who puts his trust in hysteria
He's certainly drunk the Kool-Aid. He really seems to think that one degree of warming over the last century is dangerous change
A Greens senator unleashed on a climate sceptic Liberal National Party rival with a no-holds-barred attack in the Senate on Tuesday night.
In a wild night in Canberra, Nick McKim told Matt Canavan: 'Shut your mouth - people are dying because of... sociopaths like you.'
The angry exchange of views came during a speech where Mr McKim noted: 'This planet has just experienced the three hottest days on record.'
The Tasmanian senator said: 'I'm usually an optimistic person but I just want to say...' - prompting Queenslander Mr Canavan to interject, quipping: 'You hide it well'.
That outraged Mr McKim, who lashed out with an extraordinary verbal assault, erupting: 'Mate, you can shut your mouth.'
That earned Senator McKim a rebuke from Senator Jess Walsh, the acting deputy president of the Senate.
'Senator McKim,' she shouted, as Mr Canavan also interjected using words not clearly picked up by microphones in the chamber.
But Mr McKim was not deterred, and repeated his call for his rival to keep quiet.
'You can shut your mouth... People are dying because of you and sociopaths like you.'
At this point, the chamber exploded into a cacophony of sound, with Dr Walsh struggling to keep control.
'Senator McKim! Order. I have a number of senators on their feet. I don't really need you to be on your feet for me to say that you,' she said, before the ruckus drowned her out.
Moments later, she tried again, saying: 'Senator Canavan! Senator McKim! Order! This is disgraceful behaviour in the chamber. It is disgraceful.
'Now, Senator McKim, I ask you to withdraw your comments about Senator Canavan and resume your speech and, Senator Canavan, I ask that you cease interjecting across the chamber.'
The Greens senator withdrew his initial comments - but then doubled down.
He said: 'I withdraw, and I'm not going to cop interjections from sociopaths like Senator Canavan. I will not cop it and I won't...'
His halfhearted withdrawal earned him another slapdown from Dr Walsh, who told him 'resume your seat' and then asked him again to withdraw his comments.
'I will withdraw, and I will say... that the sociopaths who run fossil fuel corporations on this planet who are literally destroying the lives and the futures of billions of people,' Mr McKim said.
He added that people on both houses of parliament 'have got a lot to answer for (including) death, disease, displacement, starvation, people dying of thirst'.
'Arable farming lands turning into desert and, most likely, billions of people dead by the end of this century and the collapse of the ecosystems that actually support all human life on this planet,' he said.
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