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2021 ‘hottest year’ BUST: NASA GISS, UK Met Office, RSS, UAH, all show global temps declining since 2016 – 2021 an ‘imperceptible 0.134C warmer than 30-year average’

January 21, 2022

The claims: 2021 was the sixth hottest year on record & 2021 Tied for 6th Warmest Year in Continued Trend, NASA Analysis Shows (Claims) # Reality Check: All datasets including NASA GISS, UK Met Office & RSS, UAH satellites, show global temperatures declining since 2016 – Warmists spin to conceal cooling temps in 2021 . Larry Hamlin: NOAA published its global climate report for year end 2021 highlighting that its global temperature anomaly measurements showed 2021 being the sixth highest of its recorded measurements. NOAA’s global annual measurement for 2021 was 0.84 degrees C. … NOAA has exaggerated the importance of both monthly and annual temperature anomaly changes with as small a difference as +0.01 degrees C as a basis for climbing “hottest temperature ever” hype as was done for the July 2021 temperature anomaly data even though the confidence level for this measurement is +/-0.19 degrees C as discussed in WUWT articles here and here. … More than 1/3rd of the monthly temperature anomaly measurements between 1992 and 2021 were adjusted upward by 0.01 degrees C just between NOAA’s August and November temperature anomaly update releases. These large numbers of constantly on-going upward adjustments result in increasing changes in reported data values with for example the highest annual global temperature anomaly measurement as reported originally for year-end 2016 increasing from 0.94 degrees C to 0.99 degrees C in the year-end 2021 report. … In addition to NOAA’s global temperature anomaly decline since year end 2016 all other global temperature anomaly measurement systems used by climate scientists worldwide all show declining global temperature anomaly measurements during the period from 2016 through 2021 as shown in the graphs below for surface global temperature anomaly measurement systems from NASA GISS and UK Met Office and for satellite global temperature anomaly measurement systems from UAH and RSS respectively. Despite the usual climate alarmist grossly exaggerated hype by NOAA and NASA in their year 2021 annual reports trying to conceal the clearly obvious downward global temperature anomaly measurement trends while global atmospheric CO2 levels are continuing to climb the annual global temperature anomaly outcomes for year-end 2021 and the last six years do not support and in fact clearly dispute recent climate alarmist claims that we are in a “climate emergency” driven by man-made CO2 emissions. # UAH Global Satellite Temps: 2021 is 8th ‘warmest year’ since 1979 – ‘An imperceptible 0.134C warmer than the the 30-year average’ “The annual average anomaly for 2021 was +0.134 deg. C above the 30-year mean (1991-2020), which places it as the 8th warmest year in the 43 year satellite record, behind 2016, 2020, 1998, 2019, 2017,2010, and 2015.” # The World Has Been Getting Much Colder For The Last Six Years – Analysis: ‘There has been no statistically significant warming since 1998’ – Paul Homewood: “It is those computer models that dictated UN climate policies, based on ludicrous projections of rapid warming. In reality, the amount of warming since 1979 has been tiny. Indeed, when you factor in margins of error, there has been no statistically significant warming since 1998. You might also note that the satellite data begins in 1979, which just so happens to be the coldest period of the 20thC. At the time it was acknowledged that global temperatures had decline by 0.5C since 1940, which offsets most of the increase since 1979. This decline in temperatures coincides with the cold phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, which has been in warm phase since the 1990s and is soon due to revert to cold.” # 2021 ‘a disappointment for climate worriers’ – ‘2021 wasn’t the hottest year on record. Nor was it 2nd hottest, or even 3rd hottest. Nope, not 4th hottest either’ – MARK HODGSON: “I think this is what is called spin. 2021 must have been a disappointment for climate worriers keen to ratchet up panic and demands for ever-more urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” The headline “Europe experiences average temperatures during the winter and spring and a year of temperatures outside the ten warmest years” didn’t fit the bill. 2021 Ends with Cooler Ocean Temps # 2021 wasn’t THE hottest year so warmists came up with claim about ‘past 7 years’ being ‘hottest on record’ – But ‘It’s been cooling for 6,000 years’ – Jo Nova: Magical seven-year record wins the Hottest-ever Bingo of 2021. Why does “seven years” suddenly matter? “The last 500 years has been the coldest of the last 5,000.” -“Two can play Climate Bingo. In the history of human civilization, we’ve never lived through six centuries that were colder than the last six. Maybe that’s more important than a 7-year hot record in the “blip” at the end?” “It’s been cooling for 6,000 years. The blip of modern warming is higher than the graph shows (which stops in 1950). Things might be the same temperature now as a thousand year ago. But all the records we set today are nothing in the big scheme.” # Update: Wired mag: The World Was Cooler in 2021 Than 2020. That’s Not Good News – Excerpt: One reason for cooler temperatures in 2021 was likely La Niña, a band of cold water in the Pacific. … The Covid-19 pandemic may have had an additional influence, but not in the way you might think. As the world locked down in 2020, fewer emissions went into the sky, including aerosols that typically reflect some of the sun’s energy back into space. “If you take them away, you make the air cleaner, then that’s a slight warming impact on the climate,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, during a Thursday press conference announcing the findings. But as economic activity ramped back up in 2021, so did aerosol pollution, contributing again to that cooling effect. The 2021 temperature drop “may be possibly due to a resumption of activity that produces aerosols in the atmosphere,” Schmidt said. … While global temperatures were cooler in 2021 than the year before, last year 1.8 billion people lived in places that experienced their hottest temperatures ever recorded, according to a report released today by Berkeley Earth. This includes Asian countries like China and North and South Korea, African nations like Nigeria and Liberia, and in the Middle East places like Saudi Arabia and Qatar. “We talk a lot about global average temperatures, but no one lives in the global average,” says Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth. . ‘Global temperature was on course to meet the 2-degree target without any emissions cuts’ – Will the Climate Industry Move the Goalposts Again? Nearly 140 Scientific Papers Detail The Minuscule Effect CO2 Has On Earth’s Temperature Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue: ‘Remove abrupt forced cooling from Mount Pinatubo & your eyeball may discern a 25-year pause/hiatus or period of very slow global warming’ Flashback: Here we go again: 2020 claimed to be ‘tied with 2016’ for ‘Hottest year’ declaration Flashback: Here we go again! Media hypes alleged ‘Hottest year’ declarations as 2018 cools, slips to 4th ‘warmest’ – Book excerpt – Media and scientists hyping temperature changes year-to-year so small as to be within the margin of error. Book Excerpt – The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change: Retired MIT climate scientist Richard Lindzen has ridiculed “hottest year” claims. “The uncertainty here is tenths of a degree. When someone points to this and says this is the warmest temperature on record, what are they talking about? It’s just nonsense. This is a very tiny change period,” Lindzen said. “If you can adjust temperatures to 2/10ths of a degree, it means it wasn’t certain to 2/10ths of a degree.” Lindzen pointed out, “We’re talking about less than a tenth of degree with an uncertainty of about a quarter of a degree. Moreover, such small fluctuations—even if real—don’t change the fact that the trend for the past 20 years has been much less than models have predicted.” Video: Hottest Years Ever by Tony Heller

2020 Hottest Year!?: ‘There has been no significant warming trend for 5 years’ – ‘2020 is statistically identical to 2016’ – ‘Thousandths of a degree’ difference

January 16, 2021

https://www.thegwpf.com/2020-climate-statistics-and-all-that/ 2020, climate statistics and all that Dr David Whitehouse, GWPF Science Editor There has been no significant warming trend for 5 years. Every year in the middle of January various organisations, The UK Met Office, NASA, NOAA, etc. release their estimates of the annual average global temperature of our planet. This year the conclusion is that 2020 is statistically identical to 2016. Some have placed it the second whereas the Japanese Meteorological Agency has it as the third warmest of the modern era. The overall conclusion to be drawn however is the misunderstanding of statistics used to support a predetermined opinion. To illustrate the point let’s just look at NOAA’s data. This has a temperature anomaly for 2020 of 0.98 +/- 0.15 °C compared to 1.00 +/- 0.15 °C for 2016 (which was the year with the strongest recorded El Nino). The difference is trivial, especially since the precision of the mean is reported to thousandths of a degree. Looking at NOAA’s data for previous years you can see that every year since 2015 falls within one standard deviation of the mean. Such a simple and unbiased view of the data leads to a much more justifiable headline for the data: There has been no significant warming trend for 5 years, as NOAA has confirmed. This bar-chart, courtesy of NOAA, shows how the global temperature has not changed in the past five years. Source: Global Climate Series: NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA’s conclusion is also confirmed by the Met Office’s own data set. Source: Met Office, HadCRUT4 – 2015-2020 Looking at the global heat map based on HadCRUT5 data from the UK Met Office published by the BBC it is quite apparent that the warming that was recorded in 2020 was not global but regional, primarily in parts of the Arctic around Siberia. This way of looking at the observational data provides a broader context for a few of the comments have been made. “The exceptional heat of 2020 is despite a La Niña event, which has a temporary cooling effect,” said WMO Secretary-General, Prof Petteri Taalas. “It is remarkable that temperatures in 2020 were virtually on a par with 2016, when we saw one of the strongest El Niño warming events on record. This is a clear indication that the global signal from human-induced climate change is now as powerful as the force of nature.” Actually, it is the opposite, as I pointed out in a previous post. A number of months in early 2020 were affected by El Niño conditions, very different from what the WMO Secretary-General has claimed. It is true that 2016 would have been cooler but for the El Nino and 2020 warmer but for the La Nina. However, as I pointed out in my previous post, the El Nino effect can be seen over several years making estimates for greenhouse gas forcing problematic. That can been seen in a claim by Gavin Schmidt, director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who told BBC News, “We’re still putting our foot on the accelerator of climate change.” How does his acceleration claim square with the fact that the increase in atmospheric CO2 between 2015-2019 made no difference to global temperatures and neither has the 7% fall in global CO2 emissions observed in 2020? The global annual average temperature dataset is a fascinating one. It can be interpreted in many ways, looking at short- and long-term trends to a better understanding of what seems to be a ever changing El Nino and La Nina phenomena. Feedback: [email protected] # Related Links: Warmists recycling ‘warmest year’ claims again for 2020 – Don’t be Conned AP: Earth breaks September heat record, may reach warmest year # JunkScience.com’s Steve Milloy responds: “‘Warmest year’ claim is silly. 1. The ‘record’ only starts ~1880. 2. Recent warming began ~1650. 3. Was as warm 1,000 yrs ago. 4. ‘Record’ biased by urban heat islands. 5. ‘Record’ manipulated by activists. 6. Global temp not known to 0.01C precision.” # Here we go again: 2020 claimed to be ‘tied with 2016’ for ‘Hottest year’ declaration Media and scientists hyping temperature changes year-to-year so small as to be within the margin of error. Book Excerpt – The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change: Retired MIT climate scientist Richard Lindzen has ridiculed “hottest year” claims. “The uncertainty here is tenths of a degree. When someone points to this and says this is the warmest temperature on record, what are they talking about? It’s just nonsense. This is a very tiny change period,” Lindzen said. “If you can adjust temperatures to 2/10ths of a degree, it means it wasn’t certain to 2/10ths of a degree.” Lindzen pointed out, “We’re talking about less than a tenth of degree with an uncertainty of about a quarter of a degree. Moreover, such small fluctuations—even if real—don’t change the fact that the trend for the past 20 years has been much less than models have predicted.” 2020 tied with 2016 for Earth’s hottest year, as global warming overpowered La Niña # A new temperature pause? Zero global warming for 5 years 4 months Christopher Monckton: “At long last, following the warming effect of the El Niño of 2016, there are signs of a reasonably significant La Niña, which may well usher in another Pause in global temperature, which may even prove similar to the Great Pause that endured for 224 months from January 1997 to August 2015, during which a third of our entire industrial-era influence on global temperature drove a zero trend in global warming. … As we come close to entering the la Niña, the trend in global mean surface temperature has already been zero for 5 years 4 months. However, the new Pause is at a surface-temperature plateau 0.3 C° above the old Pause.” # Flashback: Here we go again! Media hypes alleged ‘Hottest year’ declarations as 2018 cools, slips to 4th ‘warmest’ – Book excerpt # Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo rips NASA & NOAA’s ‘religiously’ proclaimed ‘warmest year on record’ “There were just 26 stations in 1880, only 4 in the southern hemisphere. Even in 1900, the 664 global stations was on 2.8% of the number in 2000. Temperatures over oceans, which covered 71% of the globe, were measured along shipping routes mainly in the Northern Hemisphere erratically and with varying measurement methods. Despite these shortcomings and the fact that absolutely no credible grid level temperature data existed over the period from 1880 to 2000 in the Southern Hemisphere’s oceans (covering 80.9% of the Southern Hemisphere), global average surface temperature data estimation and publication by NOAA and NASA began in the early 1990s.”

Antarctica’s ‘Hottest Day’? Not So Fast

February 18, 2020

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2020/02/antarcticas-hottest-day-not-so-fast/ By Michael Kile Have you ever wondered how to play the Climate Game, or game the climate? If so, look no further than a remote research station on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, a submarine-shaped office tower on Geneva’s Avenue de la Paix and an international media pack determined to ramp a single yet-to-be-confirmed measurement into another bogus climate scare. The research station is the Argentine base, Esperanza, coordinates: 63°23′51″S 56°59′52″W. It claimed to have set a new record temperature of 18.3°C on February 6 this year, beating the previous record of 17.5°C on March 24, 2015, according to a tweet (below) from Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN), Argentina’s national meteorological service. It was déjà vu all over again for the alarmist MSM. BBC: Scientists warn that global warming is causing so much melting at the South Pole, it will eventually disintegrate – causing the global sea level to rise by at least three metres (10ft) over centuries. NY Times: Antarctica, the coldest, windiest and driest continent on Earth, set a record high temperature on Thursday, underscoring global warming”. It went on to claim: “the high temperature is in keeping with the earth’s overall warming trend, which is in large part caused by emissions of greenhouse gases. The Guardian: Antarctica is “one of the fastest warming places on earth, heating by almost 3°C [5.4°F] over the past 50 years” The Guardian makes that claim despite recent research suggesting a cooling trend since the year 2000, contradicting the carbon dioxide-driven global warming scare. (Media’s horribly dishonest Antarctica warming propaganda, WUWT, February 9, 2020) Five years earlier, on April 1, 2015, it reported on the previous record under the headline: “Antarctica records unprecedented high temperatures – two temperature readings register ominous new potential measurements of accelerating climate change.” “What was incontestable,” the paper’s journalist concluded, “were the unprecedentedly high temperature readings on the Antarctic ice mass.” Jack Weatherall: Warmists are feeling a polar chill Yet mean monthly temperatures at Esperanza range from −10.5 °C (13.1 °F) in July, the coldest month, to 1.4 °C (34.5 °F) in January, the warmest month. During summer (December–February), the average high is between 3.7 and 4.3 °C (38.7 and 39.7 °F) while the average low is between −2.0 and −1.2 °C (28.4 and 29.8 °F). In winter, mean temperatures are around −6.0 °C (21.2 °F). So what is going on here? ClimateChangeDispatch.com’s Thomas Richard ridiculed the Pavlovian alarmism: To put this in perspective, it would be the equivalent of taking a temperature measurement in Reykjavík, Iceland, and proclaiming that this measurement is indicative of the temperature of the Arctic region, or worse, Tasiilaq (Ammassalik), Greenland. It’s a ridiculous statement and utterly useless. It is well known that West Antarctica is heavily influenced by underground volcanic activity, and hidden beneath its icy exterior is a myriad of active rift systems. The glass, steel and aluminium tower adjacent Geneva’s Jardin Botaniques is the global headquarters of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) According to a local travel agency, Geneva Live Tourism, the building is “respectful of the environment,” and its “grandiose allure with the double façade seeming to dominate the surrounding space”. WMO is the beating heart of Big Climate. It is the UN’s “expert agency and voice regarding the state and behaviour of the Earth’s atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, its climate and the resulting distribution of water resources.” WMO issued a media release on the Esperanza result on February 7. It was a qualified announcement – New record for Antarctic continent reported – for the “likely legitimate record” was subject to formal verification. A committee for WMO’s World Weather and Climate Extremes Archive (WWCEA) will now verify whether this indeed is a new record for the Antarctic continent, which is defined as the main continental landmass. Dr Randall Cerveny, a professor of geographical sciences at Arizona State University, has been the WWCEA rapporteur – or gatekeeper – since its formation 14 years ago. “Everything we have seen thus far indicates a likely legitimate record but we will of course begin a formal evaluation of the record once we have full data from SMN and on the meteorological conditions surrounding the event.” Crucially, he also made this comment: the record appears to be likely associated (in the short term) with what we call a regional “foehn” event over the area: a rapid warming of air coming down a slope/mountain. What is a foehn event? According to WUWT blogger Jim Steele, …foehn events cause rapid extreme temperature jumps simply due to changes in the air pressure as winds descend from a mountain top. During the 2015 foehn event, Esperanza’s daily temperature jumped from 0°C [32°F] 2 days before, to a record setting 17.5°C [63.5°F]. Elsewhere, Antarctic foehn winds are common and have been extensively studied, often raising maximum temperatures by 10+°C [18+°F] above normal. In other words, it was just local weather, not a consequence of so-called dangerous anthropogenic global warming, aka “climate change”. “Verification was important”, Cerveny said. “It helps to build up a picture of the weather and climate in one of Earth’s final frontiers.” The WMO media release noted that: “the Antarctic, like the Arctic, is poorly covered in terms of weather observations and forecasts, even though both play an important role in driving climate and ocean patterns and in sea level rise.” Despite a lack of data, WMO could not resist the opportunity to trumpet a warming warning. Included in the release were ominous comments on the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers. The latter, allegedly, is “one of the largest contributors to global sea level rise from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet”. There was no mention of its precise “contribution”. That, dear reader, is another story, one about why the BBC failed to mention the many active volcanoes underneath this region, yet found space to jest about “snotsicles”. Spending £38 million of US/UK government funding to “prove” we are in a “climate emergency” has never been such fun. Scientists fear the Thwaites Glacier could be beginning a process of catastrophic collapse. There is more than three metres of potential sea level rise in the ice of West Antarctica, enough to swamp many of the great cities of the world and drive hundreds of millions of people from their homes. In any case, speculating about the threat of global sea-level rise, despite the region’s prevailing temperature profiles, is surely a fool’s game. The Antarctic Peninsula (the northwest tip near to South America) is among the fastest warming regions of the planet, almost 3°C over the last 50 years. The amount of ice lost annually from the Antarctic ice sheet increased at least six-fold between 1979 and 2017. Most of the ice loss takes place by melting of the ice shelves from below, due to incursions of relatively warm ocean water, especially in west Antarctica and to a lesser extent along the peninsula and in east Antarctica. We will need more than the IPCC’s brave 2C warming guesstimate to melt the massive southern polar ice block. Spanning 14 million km2 (roughly twice the size of Australia), the Antarctic’s average annual temperature ranges from about −10°C on the Antarctic coast to −60°C at the highest parts of the interior. Its immense ice sheet is up to 4.8km thick and contains 90% of the world’s fresh water, enough to raise sea level by around 60 metres were it all to melt. There is another important issue here too: geographical semantics. The WMO release conflates the Antarctic Peninsula with the continental Antarctic ice sheet. Little surprise, then, most of the MSM missed the fact that the Antarctic Peninsula is not the Antarctic continent or “region”. The former refers to the narrow northwest tip nearest to South America. As for the latter, the WMO – controversially – defines it as “everywhere south of 60 degrees latitude”. (See Antarctica map) The Esperanza base is actually outside the Antarctic Circle, which runs 66°33′48.0″ south of the Equator. It is misleading – some might say mischievous – to imply that “record” temperature measurements on the Antarctic Peninsula – less than 5 per cent of the continent and especially those taken on islands at its northern extremity, are meaningful for Antarctica itself, as the WMO does here by including this sentence in its February 7 media release: “The record for the Antarctic region – that is, everywhere south of 60 degrees latitude – is 19.8C, taken on Signy Island in January 1982.” The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Signy Research Station at Factory Cove, Borge Bay, Signy Island, is also outside the Antarctic Circle. Located at Lat. 60°43’0″S, Long. 45°36’0″W in the South Orkney Islands group, it is 1300 km from the Falkland Islands, 900 km from South Georgia, 600 km from the Antarctic Peninsula, and 3250 km from the South Pole. According to the BAS website, meteorological records at this summer-only site “were kept by professional meteorologists from 1947 to 1969 and by station volunteers from 1969 to 1995.” How much confidence can we have, then, in the 19.8C reading of January 30, 1982 — a record maximum for any station south of 60°S — especially when the month is prone to significant variation, including “sudden falls in temperature”, down to -7°C? Whatever the case, a recent detailed analysis of meteorological conditions prevailing at the time – prompted by Dr Cerveny and the WMO Committee on Antarctic Temperature Extremes — confirms that it, too, was due to foehn (or fohn) warming: At the time of the record temperature exceptionally warm air was being advected southwards towards the South Orkney Islands from the subtropical South Atlantic…. Since conditions conducive to föhn occur relatively frequently, föhn warming may have a significant influence on the local climate and ecology of Signy Island. As mentioned, WMO’s WWCEA committee rightly is not prepared to declare a new record for Esperanza without further investigation, at this stage referring only to a potential new Antarctic (continent) high temperature: The Argentine research base, Esperanza, on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, set a new record temperature of 18.3°C on 6 February 2020, potentially beating the former record of 17.5°C on 24 March 2015. WWCEAC would “now verify whether this indeed is a new record for the Antarctic continent, which is defined as the main continental landmass.” It has not done so yet, so we await the rapporteur’s “decision and relevant documentation” to be posted on this site (here). Dr. Cerveny, incidentally, proposed creating WMO’s global archive for verifying, certifying and storing world weather extremes in 2006. As Rapporteur he has called an “ad hoc extremes committee” to “provide an expert and unbiased recommendation” on whether the new extreme qualifies for the archive. This process is easier said than done, for if “the truth be told, world record extremes are mistakenly created all the time.” For example a “fat finger” error such as hand digitizing a 28.0°C as 82.0 would create a world record observation that every quality control system would say was invalid. Additionally, instrumentation problems can generate a report far in excess of the meteorological conditions. But sometimes a combination of fairly extreme meteorological conditions with minor instrumentation problems, such as calibration errors, can necessitate considerable detective work to determine whether a new world record observation was indeed valid or not. Since weather records are often used as indicators that the Earth’s climate is changing and/or becoming more extreme, confirmation of new weather extreme records should be recognized as a high priority in the meteorology community. An alert blogger, Nicholas McGinley, made the following post at WUWT : I am having a hard time verifying this report from Esperanza station. The thermometer data from the last five days did not show anything close to what is being reported, when I looked earlier this evening. But now I checked again, and the numbers have changed completely. Here is a Tweet I posted with the two graphs side by side: Nick McGinley@NickMcGinley1 What is going on at Esparanza Station? Earlier this evening I took this screen grab of the past five days there. But now, hours later, the graph has changed to the second picture below: 9 10:03 PM – Feb 9, 2020

It’s Official! Climate PSYOP replaces COVID PSYOP – Global ‘boiling’ replaces ‘warming’ – NYT declares end of vacations

August 7, 2023

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Top climate scientists rubbish claims July was the hottest month ever – Public being ‘misinformed on a massive scale’

August 3, 2023

Via The Australian: Cliff Mass, professor of Atmospheric Sciences at University of Washington, said the public was being ‚””misinformed on a massive scale “”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.””

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.””

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 urbanization 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.

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.

Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels RIP: Michaels battled climate hysteria & tortured data – He will be sorely missed

July 17, 2022

https://co2coalition.org/2022/07/16/pat-michaels-rip/ By Gregory Wrightstone It is with a heavy heart that we report on the death of dear friend and colleague Pat Michaels on July 16, 2022 (born February 15, 1950). Patrick Michaels obtained a B. A. in biological science in 1971 and an M. S. in biology in 1975 from the University of Chicago, and in 1979 he obtained his Ph.D. in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His doctoral thesis was titled Atmospheric anomalies and crop yields in North America. Patrick J. Michaels was a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. He was a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for 30 years. Michaels was a contributing author and is a reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. .His writing was been published in the major scientific journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature, and Science, as well as in popular serials worldwide. He was the author or editor of nine books on climate and its impact, and he was an author of the climate “paper of the year” awarded by the Association of American Geographers in 2004. He appeared on most of the worldwide major media. Dr. Michaels was Senior Fellow at the CO2 Coalition and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He remained very active up to his last days. He had just completed his review and comments on the USGCR decadal plan and filed them on Thursday. He met with Coalition staff just the day before his passing to discuss his next venture looking at regional assessments of changing climate/CO2 on the Midwest. He leaves a legacy of sound science and dedication to the scientific process. He will be missed terribly. 1992 Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming 2000 The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming 2004 Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media 2005 Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming 2009 Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know 2011 Climate Coup: Global Warmings Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives 2015 Climate Change: The Facts 2016 Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything 2019 Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Public Science and Public Policy Pat Michaels (left) testifying at Pennsylvania House climate hearing in 2021. pic.twitter.com/TZhb65grTj — Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) July 16, 2022 "I have known Dr. Pat Michaels since the 1990s and he will be sorely missed in the climate debate. Michaels was a great scientist and communicator. RIP Pat." – Marc Morano — Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) July 16, 2022 Sad news about Pat Michaels. He has long been a key entry in the climate alarmists' Demonology. https://t.co/Q3RXKHfaTk — Ben Pile (@clim8resistance) July 17, 2022 Watch: Climatologist Dr. Patrick Michaels discusses climate change for a full hour on Fox News Michaels: ‘Do you really expect scientists who have been paid for decades to study the effects of warming and to create models that by the way have too much warming, do you expect them to testify in front of Congress when asked do we need more research? They would say no, it’s really a non-problem? They’d get thrown out of their jobs if they did that.’ ‘Surface temperature of the planet is warmer than it was a hundred years ago about 9/10th of a degree Celsius…It’s not a lot. There are two periods of warning, one in the early 20th Century that could not have been caused by human beings because we hadn’t put enough CO2 in the air, and one in the later part of the 20th Century that either slows down or ends depending upon whose data you use somewhere in the late 1990s, only to resume with the big El Nino that covered the news the last couple of years.’ ‘So the theory is right, but the application of it is wrong. It is nowhere near as warm as it’s supposed to be.’ ‘There are 32 families of computer models that are used by the United Nations, each government sponsored. And all of them are predicting far, far too much warming.’ ‘In “Science” magazine in late 2016, and there was a paper that was published by a French climate modeler called “The Art and Science of Climate Model Tuning,” and in it, he speaks of parameterizing — we could say fudging — the models to give, his words, an anticipated acceptable range of results.’ ‘The models systematically predict that as you go up in the atmosphere in the tropics which are 40% of the earth that the temperature should rise dramatically as you go further up in the atmosphere. So when you get to the level of the jet stream, the computer models are predicting seven times. I didn’t say seven-tenths of a degree, I said seven times more warming than is being observed.’ ‘It’s a fantastic systematic error, and again, that along with the difference between the surface temperatures or rather the lower atmospheric temperatures and what’s being observed, that’s sufficient to kill the endangerment finding.’ Fracking, that’s right. And so we’re substituting natural gas which is cheaper for coal for electrical generation, and that produces about half as much CO2 per unit electricity as a coal plant does, and so our emissions are going down, Read: Bonus chapter: Intimidating the ‘Deniers’ to Enforce the ‘Consensus’ – Climate ‘deniers’ threatened with being ‘thrown in jail’ – ‘The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change’ Excerpt: Patrick Michaels was forced out of his job as Virginia State Climatologist in 2007 after clashing with Virginia’s governor over climate change. The Washington Post reported that then-Governor Tim Kaine “had warned Michaels not to use his official title in discussing his (climate change) views.” The paper reported, “Nobody dislikes [Michaels] because of his day job” but because he “moonlights as one of the country’s most aggressive and, in some circles, most reviled skeptics about the scientific consensus on climate change.” Critics of Michaels lamented that he “creates the false impression of another side to a closed debate.” “I resigned as Virginia state climatologist because I was told that I could not speak in public on my area of expertise, global warming, as state climatologist,” Michaels said in 2007. “It was impossible to maintain academic freedom with this speech restriction.” Other states have also found ways to force out their inconvenient skeptical state climatologists. # Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels: ‘It’s obvious that Biden is just wrong. Extreme tornadoes are in decline as the world has warmed’ Michaels: “Biden’s appears to be thriving in a fact-free world. … The number of tornadoes is increasing, but that’s because of improved detection technology.” Climate Data Is Being Misused and Manipulated, Says Award-Winning Scientist Dr. Pat Michaels Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels: ‘There has been a profound suspension of the normal rules of science in the climate arena.’ Rare climate debate set for Dec. 14 in New Jersey – Dr. Will Happer & Dr. Pat Michaels vs. warmist professors – Open to the Public Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels details how feds manipulate hurricane data The fairest thing we can say is there is no apparent relationship between integrated global tropical cyclone energy and global surface temperature….The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP, a consortium of all the 13 federal entities that consume your money in the name of climate science and propagandistic graphics)…Just for the heck of it, I colored in red the same area that the USGCRP’s artists did. First, the reason the USGCRP data ended in 2009 (they could have ended in 2013 for their 2014 report) was that the years 2011-2013 wrecked their red-line narrative of an unusual increase in intensity. Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels on new fed climate report: ‘Systematically flawed’ – Report ‘should be shelved’ Dr. Pat Michaels: The NA4 (fourth “National Assessment) and the accompanying Climate Science Special Report repeatedly state that models show anthropogenic emissions are responsible for almost all 20th-century warming. This is claimed despite the fact that of the two twentieth-century warmings; the first one, approximately from 1910 to 1945, could hardly have been a result of carbon dioxide emissions. The 1910-1945 warming is statistically similar in slope to the 1976-1997 warming. Going back to 2000, there have been persistent problems throughout the entire assessment process, underscoring the need for major administrative change. For these and other reasons, draft NA4 should be shelved and reset, so that time and resources can be devoted to a new Assessment that corrects and addresses the first three Assessments and the draft NA4. NA4 suffers from a fundamental methodological flaw in assuming that models making large bulk errors are representative of a range of future warming. Ubiquitous tuning of the models to the 20th-century history hardly increases their reliability Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels on Obama’s ‘hottest’ year claim: ‘The hottest year ever — if you use bad data’ Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels: ‘Homogenized’ US Warming Trend May Be Grossly Exaggerated ‘Our government homogenizes weather data so that all nearby weather stations are all singing the same tune.’ Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels: ‘Cancel the Paris Climate Summit’ – ‘Nature and capitalism have already conspired to accomplish’ UN’s climate goals ‘At the end of November, representatives from the nations that signed the U.N.’s 1992 climate treaty will meet — for the 21st time — to implement the treaty’s stated goal of “prevent[ing] dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” There’s no need to meet. Nature and capitalism have already conspired to accomplish this…the total warming to 2100 works out to a cool 2.0 degrees Celsius, or precisely the goal of the 1992 treaty.’ ‘The decades-long climate kerfuffle is therefore over. The U.N. should cancel its Paris meeting.’ Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels: Pope Francis Recycles (Stale Arguments About Climate) Michaels: ‘Much of it reads like the disproven doomsday predictions that have been churned out since the early days of the environmental movement…He asks Catholics to pray for the nations of the world to agree to a new climate treaty in Paris next December. Since there will be no agreement without the Green Climate Fund shakedown, we’ll be paying an energy tithe. I don’t think there’s going to be a lot of votive candles lit for this.’ # Via Norm Kalmanovitch There is no better way to honour Patrick Michaels legacy than to publish this link to the 1990 Documentary “The Greenhouse Conspiracy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9j54rWnmeo which completely destroyed the climate change narrative before it was used to implement Maurice Strong’s Agenda with the issuing of the 1992 UNFCCC Agreement and Agenda 21 at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit convened and chaired by Maurice Strong. To prevent the green agenda from being destroyed the climate cabal prevented its airing on PBS as noted by Tim Ball in this email thanking me for finding a copy of the Greenhouse Conspiracy on the web. Thanks for this. I have been trying to get a copy for years now. I first saw a pirated copy of this in Manitoba Hydro’s boardroom where I was asked to provide commentary. For some reason it virtually disappeared. In Canada Suzuki almost single-handed blocked its showing on CBC. PBS refused to show it claiming it was biased. It is interesting to see Wigley wiggling. Thanks again Tim Ball Here is the link again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9j54rWnmeo Patrick Michaels leads off the documentary asking a question that eferyone gets wrong

‘An Inconvenient Truth’: Climate Depot Founder RIPS Media Still Pushing Gore’s Climate Alarmism – Praises Gore for ‘kneecapping’ the climate movement

May 27, 2021

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2021/05/27/inconvenient-truth-climate-depot-founder-rips-media-still By Joseph Vazquez Climate Depot Founder Marc Morano spoke with the Media Research Center about former Vice President Al Gore’s useless 2006 eco-extremist film An Inconvenient Truth after its 15th anniversary on Monday. The key point? Several major, disastrous predictions Gore made in his 2006 film never materialized. But the media never stopped relying on Gore as a climate change authority. The Guardian, on May 20, characterized Gore’s film as a “landmark film about the climate crisis.” In April, The Washington Post conducted an interview with Gore headlined, “The Path Forward: Al Gore on Climate and the Economy.” Morano stated in effect that “[t]he more Gore’s climate predictions fail, the more authority the media granted him and portrayed him as infallible.” Morano panned Gore as a “dinosaur in an age when the evidence for climate has been redefined.” The MRC asked Morano about the media’s obsession with Gore ever since his film was released. Morano said that “Gore as the media spokesman for the alleged climate crisis was quite simply the best thing ever to kneecap the whole climate movement.” Specifically, Morano stated that Gore being a “a highly divisive political figure” and living “a lifestyle not conducive to his professed low carbon ideals” had all but “guaranteed failure for so-called climate action in the U.S.” However, Morano said he believed that even “the media realize Gore’s star has faded” since his 2006 benign climate solutions are not really efficient for the woke era. Now, the solutions to climate change “have morphed into canceling pet ownership, wishing death to ‘deniers’, ending white supremacy and defunding and abolishing the police,” Morano said. He added, “Gore has desperately tried to stay relevant with the progressives by going full woke on climate” by tying the issue to subjects like “white supremacists.” In other words, South Park’s “ManBearPig” now symbolizes climate racism. Morano gave a “Reality Check” to claims Gore made in the 2006 film that turned out to be fiction. First, Morano fact-checked Gore’s warning “of a 20-foot rise in sea level that would flood Manhattan in his 2006 film.” Morano shot back: “University of Pennsylvania geologist Robert Giegengack said, ‘At the present rate of sea-level rise it’s going to take 3,500 years to get up there [to Al Gore’s predicted rise of 20 feet].’” Gore also made the nutty prediction that we would witness “the demise of the polar bears,” Morano said. Except, polar bears now are reportedly “at or near historic population highs, there have never been this many polar bears counted,” Morano countered. Morano also pointed to Gore’s warning “of dangerous heat waves and the ‘hottest years’ on Earth would happen due to Earth’s fever.” In reality, Morano said, “Global temperatures have been holding nearly steady for almost two decades, according to satellites from the Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH).” He continued: So-called ‘hottest year’ claims—based on surface data dating only back to the nineteenth century—are political statements designed to persuade the public that the government needs to take action on man-made climate change. Morano ripped Gore’s claim that “increasing tornadoes, floods, droughts, hurricanes were on the way due to man-made climate change.” Morano said that “[o]n nearly every metric, extreme weather is on either no trend or a declining trend on climate timescales. Even the [United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] admitted in a 2018 special report that extreme weather events have not increased.”

Special Reports

March 23, 2013

‘A litany of frightening statistics’: New UN 168-page report warns huge changes in society needed to save earth — Climate Depot’s point-by-point rebuttal Here we go again: Climate activists blame record cold/snow on warming! – ‘How global warming also brings colder weather’ – Climate Depot Rebuttal Prominent climate activist Shellenberger officially recants: ‘On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare’ NASA scientist Dr. Kate Marvel links ‘climate change’ to ‘white supremacy’ – ‘We’ll never head off climate catastrophe without dismantling white supremacy’ – Calls for climate & racial ‘justice’ ‘Fantastic’ for the climate: Activists See Coronavirus Lockdowns As Dress Rehearsal for ‘Climate Emergency’ – Special Report Shock Epic Fails: The decade that blew up energy predictions – USA energy boom, CO2 emissions drop defied predictions! See the charts! Exclusive Video: UN’s Whopper of Hypocrisy: UN climate activists line up for Burger King at Madrid summit despite UN’s warning on dangers of eating meat – Harrison Ford confronted about flying up coast for a cheeseburger Skeptical Climate ‘Talking Points’ 36-Page Report Released at UN Climate Summit in Madrid Flashback: John Lennon in 1971: ‘I don’t believe in overpopulation. It is a myth’ – ‘A joke’ – And he was proven correct! Watch: Morano testifies at wild Pennsylvania Climate Hearing – Compared to Racist, a Holocaust denier, tin foil hats & heckled – Dem legislator walks out No Dissent Allowed: Chaos as protesters disrupt climate skeptic Morano’s speech at Georgetown University – Campus police shut down event – Activists ‘would not accept the hosting of’ skeptics – Video Gore’s quest to become a fake meat billionaire – Lobbies for climate policies that limit meat while his firm invests $200 million in meat substitutes Study in Journal Nature tries to ‘blacklist’ skeptics – Ranks Climate Depot’s Morano as NUMBER ONE ‘climate contrarian’ in the media! (#1 out of 386 skeptics) ‘Food Police’ – Watch: Morano on Fox & Friends on UN Meat report: UN seeks ‘massive expansion of the UN’s regulatory power…lifestyle controls’ Eat insects? ‘Meat patch’ to stop cravings? New UN report takes aim at meat eating – UN seeks expansion of climate agenda to regulate what you eat CLAIM: ‘Climate Change Becoming a Deadly Part of White Nationalism’ – Identity politics invades climate change debate Former Award-Winning NOAA scientist Dr. Rex Fleming declares his climate dissent – Converted from warmist to skeptic – Reveals suppression: ‘I had to go to Europe to publish a paper’ AOC’s Chief-Of-Staff Admits Green New Deal About Implementing Socialism – ‘It wasn’t originally a climate thing at all’ – It’s a ‘change-the-entire-economy thing’ Climate skeptics hijack House Dem hearing – Dominate discussion – Warmists lament: “How did these two dominate a hearing run by Democrats?” Video & Submitted Written Congressional Testimony of Marc Morano – Examining UN Species/Climate Report – UN report is ‘authoritative propaganda’ Here we go again: UN, Media recycle climate species ‘extinction’ fears – Dredge up discredited Paul Ehrlich Newsweek slams ‘smiley Morano’ on Fox & Friends for accurately declaring CO2 is NOT ‘pollution’ – Morano responds Watch: Morano testifies at Congressional Hearing On The Green New Deal as AOC Backs Out: The Dem Party has shifted ‘into serious, unscientific, nutty territory’ – Urges GOP NOT to offer ‘Green New Deal-lite’ ‘Pre-determined science’ Morano reacts to NYT’s ‘leaked’ federal climate doom report: ‘Political report masquerading as science’ Extreme Weather Expert: ‘World is presently in an era of unusually low weather disasters’ MIT Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen: Believing UN pacts can save the planet ‘are returning us to the Middle Ages’ Climate Depot’s New ‘Talking Points’ Report – A-Z Debunking of Climate Claims MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen: Believing CO2 controls the climate ‘is pretty close to believing in magic’ Bloomberg News: Obama ‘stashed’ $77 billion in ‘climate money’ across agencies to elude budget cuts Former Obama Official Mocks ‘Hottest Year on Record’ – Temps Within Margin of Error Load of bollocks: 2016 allegedly ‘hottest year’ by unmeasureable 1/100 of a degree – While satellites show ‘pause’ continues Climate Report to UN: Trump right, UN wrong – Skeptics Deliver Consensus Busting ‘State of the Climate Report’ to UN Summit ‘Least extreme U.S. weather year ever?’ 2013 shatters the record for fewest U.S. tornadoes — 15% lower than previous record — 2013 also had the fewest U.S. forest fires since 1984 Watch Now: Climate Depot Debates Global Warming on UN TV At UN Summit! UN Host to Morano: ‘There is no need to shout’ — Morano: ‘The UN IPCC is first and foremost a political process, not scientific’ Watch Video Now: CNN Hosts Rare Live Contentious Global Warming Debate – Marc Morano vs. Sierra Club’s Michael Brune & Philippe Cousteau Jr. – Full Transcript – Morano: ‘So record cold is now evidence of man-made global warming? Climate Depot’s Morano At UN Press Conference in Warsaw Denounces Exploitation of Typhoon to ‘an unappreciative audience’: Morano ‘compared the belief that policy can change the weather to ‘medieval witchcraft’ UN Climate Summit Rejects Its Own Science – Links Typhoon Haiyan to Global Warming – UN Summit Degenerates Into Unscientific Claims to Advance Political Agenda – Climate Depot Special Report UN Climate Report Goes Bust: Even Media Fails to Promote: Top Scientists (including IPCC reviewers) Condemn IPCC Report as ‘Premeditated Murder of Science’ – ‘absurd’ – ‘political’ – ‘wrong’ – ‘dogmatic’ – ‘propaganda’ – ‘grossest misrepresentation of data’ Climate Depot Round Up: A New Climategate?! ‘UN IPCC Stands Accused Of Misleading World Leaders & The Public’ CLIMATE STUDY: EVIDENCE LEANS AGAINST HUMAN-CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING — Group of 50 international scientists releases comprehensive new 1200-page report CO2 Nears 400 ppm – Relax! It’s Not Global Warming ‘End Times’ — But Only A ‘Big Yawn’ — Climate Depot Special Report Obama fails climate science in his State of the Union address — Climate Depot’s point-by-point rebuttal to the President’s global warming claims New Report: ‘Extreme Weather Report 2012′: ‘Latest peer-reviewed studies, data & analyses undermine claims that current weather is ‘unprecedented’ or a ‘new normal’ Watch Now: CNN Climate Debate! Climate Depot’s Morano Debates Bill Nye the Science Guy on Piers Morgan — Updated Transcript Includes Citations SPECIAL REPORT: More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC & Gore

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