The Guardian Peddling Climate Doom Again

Last Tuesday, that bastion of accurate reporting; The Guardian, told us the planet has almost reached the ‘heating’ that will cause our own extinction

The article begins:

The world has never been closer to breaching the 1.5C (2.7F) global heating limit, even if only temporarily, the United Nations’ weather agency has warned.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed on Tuesday that 2023 was the hottest year on record by a clear margin.

It was if you continue to engage in data tampering to change the true figures by lowering past temperatures and raising recent ones.

In a report on the climate, it found that records were “once again broken, and in some cases smashed” for key indicators such as greenhouse gas pollution, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic sea ice cover and glacier retreat.

So-called ‘greenhouse gases’ are NOT pollution, and ‘ocean acidification’ is a myth. The oceans have a pH of between 7.9 and 8.3, making them an alkaline, NOT an acid. You cannot increase the acidity of something that is not an acid to start with.

The pH scale, like the Richter Scale, is logarithmic, meaning each division is ten times the previous number. Therefore ocean pH would have to reduce by a factor of over 11 to become even the mildest acid at 6.9.

There has been no increase in the rate of sea level rise for over a century. It continues at a global average of 3mm a year. Any claims to the contrary are false.

Antarctic sea ice gradually reducing is what we should expect from a modestly warming world, as is glacier retreat. This is in no way a cause for concern.

Andrea Celeste Saulo, secretary general of the WMO, said the organisation was now “sounding the red alert to the world”.

I would prefer more people to be sounding a red alert to the propaganda and outright lies of the UN and other globalist organisations.

The report found temperatures near the surface of the earth were 1.45C higher last year than they were in the late 1800s, when people began to destroy nature at an industrial scale and burn large amounts of coal, oil and gas.

The error margin of 0.12C in the temperature estimate is large enough that the earth may have already heated 1.5C.

But this would not mean world leaders have broken the promise they made in Paris in 2015 to halt global heating to that level by the end of the century, scientists warn, because they measure global heating using a 30-year average rather than counting a spike in a single year.

They got something right. Weather events have to continue without a break for a minimum of 30 years for it to be classed as a change in the climate.

Anything less than 30 years is weather not climate, but alarmists stubbornly refuse to acknowledge this.

The report documented violent weather extremes – particularly heat – on every inhabited continent. Some of the weather events were made stronger or more likely by climate change, rapid attribution studies have shown.

As Richard Lindzen and the late Dr Tim Ball have pointed out many times; in a warmer world you get LESS bad weather, not more.

Also, attribution is the weakest form of science, it proves nothing. I could attribute the fact that I have one cat to the fact my neighbour has one child, but does that mean one caused the other?

Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London who was not involved in the report, said: “If we do not stop burning fossil fuels, the climate will continue to warm, making life more dangerous, more unpredictable, and more expensive for billions of people on earth.”

Utter nonsense. All the flowerings of previous civilisations; the Medieval, Roman, Minoan and Holocene, have occurred precisely due to their respective warm periods. That’s why they are referred to as ‘climate optimas’.

Climate scientists are divided on whether extreme temperatures seen at the start of 2024 represent an unexpected acceleration of the climate crisis. Some indicators, such as sea surface temperatures, have been unexpectedly high – even accounting for the return of the ocean-warming weather pattern El Niño – while other weather events have reached rare extremes sooner that thought.

All the data shows the weather is becoming more benign as the Earth modestly warms. Claims of the opposite are false information.

Andreas Fink, a meteorologist at Karlsruhe Institute for Technology who was not involved in the report, said: “In terms of temperatures, it can be stated that a year like 2023, although extreme, is already possible in climate simulations of the current human-heated climate. But not all extreme weather events can be simulated with the current climate models.”

Climate models can be programmed to produce any desired result. They DO NOT reflect real-world observations.

The WMO found “a glimmer of hope” in the growth of renewable energy. The amount of renewable capacity added in 2023 was almost 50 percent greater than the year before, the report found, bringing it to the highest rate observed in the past two decades.

Ah yes, ‘renewable’ energy, that which on still cloudy days will leave much of the countries embracing it without electricity.

Simon Lewis, professor of global change science at University College London, said the state of the climate is an “accelerating crisis” for humanity. “This is, sadly, only the beginning of much worse impacts to come, given carbon emissions are still rising and there is continued massive new investment in extracting fossil fuels.”

The report found that marine heatwaves seared one third of the world’s ocean on an average day in 2023, harming vital ecosystems and food systems. By the end of the year, just 10 percent of the ocean had escaped heatwave conditions.

Climate change also worsened extreme weather events that left people hungry and forced them from their homes, even if it was not the main factor in their suffering.

No it has not. As noted above, ‘extreme weather’ events are becoming less frequent not more.

The UN Environment Program predicted in 2015 that there would be 50 million ‘climate refugees’ by 2020. When nothing happened, they revised their claim to 50 million by 2025.

How many climate refugees have there been so far? ZERO.

The number of people who are “acutely” food insecure has more than doubled since 2019 to 333 million people in 2023, the report found, concentrated in Africa and south Asia.

That has nothing to do with the climate, and everything to do with how many children they have.

The uneven impact of climate change is already making itself clearly felt, said Karsten Haustein, a climate scientist at the University of Leipzig who was not involved in the report. “The public debate, on the other hand, continues to pretend that the problems of the global south do not affect [the global north] – and that the consequences of climate change can somehow be overcome through technology.”

As long as the mainstream media continues to produce this garbage, the gullible will continue to believe it.

See the Guardian article here theguardian.com

See also this article about the UN claims from climatechangedispatch

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