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Latest Peer-Reviewed Research: "North America (180-0°N, 15-60°N) has been characterized as a “major cooling center”"
From this recent article, the main takeaways from 2019 study are:
North America (180-0°N, 15-60°N) has been characterized as a “major cooling center” by the authors of a new paper (Gan et al., 2019) published in Earth and Space Science...The continent warmed from 1982-1998, but a cooling trend since 1998 has nearly wiped out all the previous warming...Overall, there has been no significant temperature change in North America since 1982.
Climate science alarmists are devastated by these findings and are scrambling to smear its scientific authors rather than challenge the empirical evidence, one would imagine.
Then again, possibly the alarmists will finally admit defeat by accepting the skeptical AGW viewpoint - that CO2 is not the dominant forcing in climatic trends, it is a minor one at best.
The authors of this study assess the likely reason for the cooling as being a natural climate change phenomenon from one of the known natural oscillations/cycles.
This study should again confirm that current climate predictions from "experts" and their computer models have been fabulously wrong.
Conclusion: Politicians and bureaucrats should table any discussions and regulations in regards to actual climate and energy policies, since the assumptions and hypothesis being utilized are clearly without scientific merit.
Amazingly, Another Country With A Winter Cooling Trend, Despite The 'Warming' Prediction Due To CO2
A few days ago, we discussed Japan's cooling winter temperature trend and now it's Germany's turn. If Italy also develops a similar cooling trend, it will be the new #ClimateChange Axis, so to speak.
As usual, we are beating a dead horse - climate expert predictions that are based on the trace gas CO2 are worthless.
No climate or energy policy should ever be based on computer models that are focused on human emission of carbon dioxide. These models cannot simulate natural climate cycle variation at all and thus make for incredibly lousy prediction outputs.
Just another case of those stubborn facts getting in the way of pseudo science by simulation.
Climate Science Truth-Crisis: The Climate Change Fear-Mongering Is No Crisis
The Democrats are now pursuing a media propaganda strategy that purposefully misleads the American public with #hysterical claims about climate change.
The propaganda represents a 'truth-crisis' that has no basis in reference to empirical evidence.
Joe Bastardi, who has some 35 years of weather/climate forecasting at prominent organizations, provides the adjacent climate evidence that clearly debunks the cult-like nonsense about "disastrous" climate change impacts.
Top-Left: Global warming has not caused permanent droughts in the U.S. that are claimed by alarmists.
Top-Right: Snow coverage is actually increasing across the N. Hemisphere contrary to doomsday #experts."
Bottom-Left: Occurrences of violent tornadoes in the U.S. have dropped significantly since 1954.
Bottom-Right: Opposite of the Democrats' propaganda, both the frequency and intensity of hurricanes has declines in total contrast to the UN's and official climate agencies have predicted.
Although the climate change fear-mongering by the Democrats is required to justify their proposed socialist 'Green New Deal', in reality, the climate crisis does not exist.
(Note: In order to bring the climate-truth to U.S. citizens, please share with friends, relatives, and associates. And using Twitter: #tcot @POTUS @HouseGOP @SenateGOP @Sen_JoeManchin @RepFletcher)
The Forever Stream of Failed Climate Predictions Continues To Cause Never-Ending Embarrassment For Experts, Politicos & Pundits
The failure of the climate "experts" to accurately predict short or long-term has been well documented in the past.
And this article points to the latest examples of such failure, which the #Dems and #Green #Socialists will again deny, despite the scientific empirical evidence. (That is what is called science denial.)
The climate prediction failure stream will continue until the point when the "science experts" finally realize that natural climate processes are the significant primary drivers of climate change and not the trace gas CO2.
Rest Assured, AOC Isn't The Only One Making Those Bogus Climate Change End-of-World Predictions
It is absolutely laughable that anyone at this point would believe the climate catastrophe hoaxes from "experts" and know-it-alls since each and every prediction has been wrong.
Human caused climate apocalypse is not in the cards (unless your one of those who believes in Tarot card reading).
Politicians and celebrities need to stop believing the 'Harold Campings' of the world. Enough is enough.
U.S. Drought Before SUVs Vs. Drought After SUVs
#GreenNewDeal @marcorubio @joniernst
Ad nauseam, the global warming and climate change alarmists tell the masses that the world will soon end - maybe in 12 years - due to such things as a global starvation event caused by droughts from human CO2. The actual scientific facts do not support this level of hysteria.
As this climate-alarmism skeptic reports, even the somewhat hysterical NOAA climate site displays real evidence that completely undercuts the notion that we are now experiencing the "disastrous" consequences of excessive amounts of the SUV CO2 trace gas molecule.
Custer's Last Stand?
From 'C3' Twitter Account:
#Establishment #Elites DO NOT want to be challenged by #Empirical evidence: Former Defence Chiefs Demand President Trump Desist From Reviewing Climate Change Advice https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/06/former-defence-chiefs-demand-president-trump-desist-from-reviewing-climate-change-advice/ …
The Washington Post: Where Climate Science Dies In Darkness
As most are aware, the Washington Post (WaPo) has become known as a major purveyor of climate fear mongering propaganda.
And this recent article is a perfect example of their predilection to do so, especially in regards to human CO2 emissions and the very speculative catastrophic global warming climate change said emissions will have.
But, if growing human-based CO2 emissions are the primary cause of disastrous climate change, why aren't they the primary cause for changes in atmospheric CO2 levels? (more on that later.)
Below is a quote from this article that exemplifies the propaganda that the world needs to drastically cut global emissions or ELSE.
“We are in trouble. We are in deep trouble with climate change,” United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said..."It is hard to overstate the urgency of our situation,” he said. “Even as we witness devastating climate impacts causing havoc across the world, we are still not doing enough, nor moving fast enough, to prevent irreversible and catastrophic climate disruption.”
The article is mostly void of any facts but certainly has plenty of fringe green activist estimates, projections, speculations, and "expert" opinions masquerading as facts. Observed empirical climate evidence was not a mainstay of the article.
One of their key "facts" presented at the beginning of the article is that global emissions for 2018 are projected to be 2.7% larger than 2017. Certainly sounds like an authoritative scientific fact until one reads much later in the article that maybe the 2018 emissions could be a much smaller global increase of only 1.8%.
Then again, maybe the final number will be +1.5% or maybe even +1.2%. Truth be told, no one knows for sure what the real number is at this time, although a more accurate number will likely be known by mid-2019.
Of course, the WaPo hopes that readers will walk away from this article with the thought that the estimated CO2 emission growth will lead to much higher CO2 atmospheric levels, thus resulting in the Earth suffering "calamitous" global warming outcomes.
Their hope is that readers will simply believe and not bother to check or question the lack of factual evidence supporting the underlying causation assumption.
When one does check the empirical evidence for the impact of annual CO2 emissions change on atmospheric CO2 levels an obvious disconnect becomes apparent - there is no significant impact of a specific percent increase in CO2 emissions and a subsequent percent increase in CO2 atmospheric levels (ppm).
In fact, as the above chart reveals, the correlation between the annual % increase of CO2 emissions and annual % rise of CO2 atmospheric levels is a ridiculously low with a r2 of +0.002. That is basically zero over the 53-year time span from 1966 through 2018 (assuming the WaPo 2018 estimate of 2.7% is correct).
The chart also depicts a declining linear trend for CO2 emissions while there is a slight increasing trend for CO2 levels, which is another indication that a positive correlation relationship between human emissions and CO2 levels is rather suspect.
For the WaPo's climate fear mongering apostles and recent converts, the lack of correlation seriously undercuts their faith in the 'CO2 Control Knob' hypothesis of climate change: the dogmatic faith that government bureaucrats can just turn a dial knob that decreases CO2 emissions by a certain percentage; the result being that atmospheric CO2 levels will respond by a certain lower percentage increase; and thus the desired climate result being less global warming.
If the "control knob" on CO2 emissions does not correlate at all with atmospheric CO2 levels, it's not very likely to correlate well with a specific percentage change in global temps.
Another way to examine the same datasets is plotting the annual changes of human emission CO2 tonnes versus the annual change in CO2 atmospheric levels (ppm). Again, the correlation might as well be zero due to an r2 of +0.041. (see below)
Again, how can this be if the control knob hypothesis relies on a strong change relationship between CO2 emissions and atmospheric CO2 levels?
The empirical evidence does not lie, but since it is inconvenient, WaPo "journalists" just make it go away no matter the serious consequences. Just another case of those hated stubborn facts.
Conclusion: Bad journalism combined with bad science will kill democracy from the baseless fear mongering.
Note: Datasets used for Excel plots in above charts: CO2 tonne (metric ton) emissions and CO2 atmospheric levels. Link to research article on correlation between CO2 emissions and atmospheric CO2 levels (h/t Thongchai Thailand).
Global Warming + World Ending: It's A '5-AOC' Event
The Washington Post is infamous famous for assigning multiple 'Pinocchios' to a variety of claims that challenge their liberal-lefty-Democrat-progressive standard of "truth".
It's A '5-AOC' Rating
But a new standard of incredulity may need to be established beyond the simple 'lying-Pinocchio' for a growing onslaught of clown claims.
A possible contender for a standard is the '5-AOC' for those claims that makes one wonder if the specific person is just flat-out stupid, or embarrassingly ignorant, or extremely gullible, or hilariously hysterical, or may suffer from an indisputable facts allergy. Most importantly, the recipient of a '5-AOC' could be affected by all the above characteristics to varying degrees.
Of course, the honorary recipient for the very first '5-AOC' should be none other than the original A.O.C., Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. for her incredibly bizarre prediction that "the world is gonna end in 12 years" due to climate change from CO2-induced global warming.
For those millennial A.O.C. contemporaries who believe that the world's climate has changed immensely over the last 50 years, and is soon to be an uninhabitable climate disaster, the below image is based on the extreme hot and cold temperatures recorded, as tabulated by the UN's own World Meteorological Organization.
This world map image shows the year the hottest and coldest temperatures were recorded for each continent. For the record, the last "hottest" temperature for a major continent was recorded in 1982, which was 36 years (and billions and billions of CO2 emission tonnes) ago.
Does this mean the world is not warming?
No. It means that human CO2 emissions are not very climatic(ly) powerful since no new record-setting temperatures by continent have been recorded in over three decades.
Will there be new "hottest" temperatures recorded for the continents?
Yes. And it's primarily due to the fact that the natural climate forces can cause huge climatic fluctuations that are much more powerful than a trace gas emission produced by humans.
Are the majority of humans facing a catastrophic climate doomsday in 12 years?
The empirical evidence suggests not. Rest easy.
Whether It Is A U.S. Politician or An EU Politician, Forcing Carbon Taxes On The Masses To Fight Climate Change Is Dumb
Politicians across the political spectrum and across the globe are discovering how dumb it is to demand the average citizen pay a carbon tax.
Dumb because a carbon tax will not have a single impact on climate change, be it natural or man-made.
Dumb because it is widely unpopular due to its regressive nature, which punishes the non-wealthy to an excessively painful extent.
Plus, the average tax-paying citizen no longer believes the elites' hyperbole about climate change doomsday and global warming. The constant 'crying wolf' and then demanding more taxes in the next breath has proven time and again to be a politically losing proposition.
Even in the EU, the populace rejects having to pay higher taxes that will only enrich the establishment with more money and control. Noteworthy are the recent major protests in France regarding Macron's hydrocarbon tax. A levy that is boosting fuel costs for the masses, which has proven to be, not only wildly unpopular, but also deadly.
And in the U.S., politicians who push a carbon tax on the masses might as well not plan on getting elected the next time. A classic example is a GOP incumbent Latino in Florida who had all the right qualifications, except for his 2018 climate change tax stupidity - a political position of 'I am going to save the world and you will pay for it' that did not exactly resonate with voters.
When a politician chooses to advocate taxing his/her constituents more on a daily basis, one does not have to be a petroleum engineer to figure out that votes will not come gushing in for that politico.
Finally, if politicians were really serious about battling climate change with taxes, they would propose a climate change reparations surcharge tax on asset wealth. The 'asset wealthy' being not only individuals who own Teslas, but also foundations, endowments, religious institutions, and any other organization responsible for directly (or indirectly) using large amounts of fossil fuels.
A climate surcharge on the asset-rich, which would be unable to pass the surcharge taxes onto the masses via price increases. The asset-rich who will then deservedly become the elites' role models for saving the climate from their own doomsday scenarios.
Importantly, the mass of voters - conservative or progressive - would likely support that type of climate change tax in a heartbeat.
Drip...Drip...Drip, Climate Change Alarmism Suffers Torturous Death By Facts
Research studies and actual climate change observations continue to confirm Trump's decision to pooh-pooh the alarmism and doomsday fears of both Democrats and the GOP-elites' never-Trumpers.
Adding to their joint misery is fact that Trump's energy policies are reducing U.S. CO2 emissions faster than their favored major country signatories of the UN's globalist Paris and Kyoto climate initiatives.
Surprised? Global Warming Doomsday Canceled, Again: Another Bogus Climate Model Prediction Fails
Maybe politicians and establishment types should quit believing computer models that are poor replicates of reality and often riddled with forecasting methodology errors.
Heaven Help Us: Only 1 Week After The 2018 Election & 103 Weeks of Crazy To Go Before 2020 Election
The first week's headlines after the November 2018 election do not provide a lot of comfort for moving forward; the next 2 years (103 weeks) are going to be brutal if below headlines are an indication.
Democrats Mulling 85 Investigations, Subpoenas for Trump White House
Democrats Now Say They Won't Try To Impeach Brett Kavanaugh But They Make No Promises On POTUS
Poll: Top Three Dem 2020 Candidates Are Biden, Sanders, And O’Rourke- all are white males
Hillary Clinton Crashes High School Football Game, Takes Selfies
Leftist Sherrod Brown for president? He’s thinking about it
Maxine Waters's Daughter Will Pocket More Than $200K For Campaign Operation
Majority Of Likely US Voters Are Against Impeaching Kavanaugh
Democrat Nadler: We're not impeaching Kavanaugh, but the White House ...
Is Comrade Jerrold Nadler The Most Powerful Actual Socialist in Congress?
Congress braces for high-drama lame duck | TheHill
Here's The Complete 'Democratic Hit List' Of Trump Investigation Targets
Exclusive poll: Most Democrats see Republicans as racist, sexist
Guardian: White Women Voting GOP Embrace ‘Racist Sadism’
The Liberal Mob Continues To Attack
Georgia Southern Prof Claims Trump and GOP Used Fear and Prejudice in Midterms
Look inward, not to Washington, to fix the culture of incivility
TRIGGERED: ‘It’s OK to Be White’ posters are back … and again campus officials, students go…
MSNBC: Trump Would 'Call the Military' if He Lost 2020 Re-Election Bid
RUN, HILLARY, RUN! Hillary Clinton will run for White House again in 2020, says former adviser. Th…
Celebrity Sarah Silverman: I Feel 'Very Lucky' Trump Doesn't Make Me Wear Star of David
MSNBC's Joy Reid Suggests Florida Democratic Voters Might Be Racist
'Emergency Voting' Centers Opened by Dem Recorder Raise Questions
Florida Vote Scandal Coverage Shows Media-Democrat Complicity. Again.
Florida Recount: Broward County Recount is a Dumpster Fire, Palm Beach Officials Decry Deadline
Provisional Ballot Boxes Discovered Inside AVIS Rental Car At Ft. Lauderdale Airport
Georgia Democrats tout surprise ballots that could sink Brian Kemp's bid for governor
Soros-Tied Hillary Alumni Group Helping to Organize Volunteers for Florida Recount
Fired: Broward County Employee Gives Affidavit, Blank Ballots Being Filled Out
Nearly 200,000 Florida Voters May Not Be Citizens - NBC 6 South Florida
6.5M people with active Social Security numbers are 112 or older: IG
Trump Or Cheney? NYT Asks "Who's The Real American Psycho?"
YOU WERE EXPECTING INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY?: Boston Globe Defends Mobbing of Jewish Republican. S…
Facebook Fired Oculus Founder For His Political Beliefs And Pro-Trump Donations
Donald Trump: Honest Vote Count in Florida 'No Longer Possible'
Fed Board Run By Obama Holdovers Is ‘Hemorrhaging’ Taxpayer Money On Legal Fees
Illegal Alien, Released in NJ, Charged with Triple Murder in Missouri
BECAUSE IT’S ON THE LEFT: Here’s The Anti-Semitism The Media Doesn’t Want To Mention
Vox's Matt Yglesias Defends 'Terrorizing' FOX's Tucker Carlson's 'Family'
DEMENTED: AntiFa goons who terrorized FOX's Tucker Carlson’s family have doubled down
“Why Trump Should Be Worried About 2020”
Democrat Kyrsten Sinema Slated For Victory As Vote Count Heads In Her Direction
NBA Players Protest Gun Violence Following Thousand Oaks Shooting
Activists Fly Banner over Jets Stadium, Urge Team to Support Gun Control
Dangerous UN Migration Pact wants to make migration a human right
Bulgaria will not join the UN Migration Pact and joins growing list of countries
France's Macron Rips Nationalism. Then He Gets Slammed.
Germany's Merkel attacks nationalism and says only UN values and cooperation pave a new future
Archdiocese Of Detroit Declares Abuse Claim Credible Against Dead Priest
As Of October 2018, The US Is Now Energy Independent
Planned Parenthood President Says Organization Is All ‘About Saving People’s Lives'
Broward, FL County's Brenda Snipes... idiocy and how to destroy the electoral system
California’s Wildfires Wiped Out This Small Town — Now It Might Never Come Back
Facebook executive's firing fan the flames of an anti-conservative debate in Silicon Valley
Illegal immigrants break November 2017 number in 2 days - Washington Times
First Democrat Officially Announces 2020 Presidential Bid. Trump's Already Given Him A Nickname.
PC GONE MAD: Phrase ‘Long Time No See’ Is Declared Racist
Former 'ThinkProgress' Writer Allegedly Participated In The Mob Attack At Tucker Carlson's Home
France, Google Facebook Push Online Hate Speech Regulation
Here's a Preview of House Democrats' Cavalcade of Investigations
Ignored ICE detainer causes release of illegal alien who goes on to murder 3
Mainstream Media Gave Less Coverage to GOP's Young Kim Than Similarly Historic Democratic Peers
Media Takes Democrats’ Side in Florida Recount - Accuracy in Media
Michelle Obama: America Chose ‘Misogynist’ Trump Over ‘Exceptionally Qualified’ Clinton
Minnesota Dem Congresswomen-Elect: I Believe In, Support BDS Movement
MSNBC Host Incorrectly Claims Broward County Election Supervisor Is a Republican
Fox News Sunday Panel Slams Broward Vote Counting Incompetence, Credibility Issues
Illegal immigrants break November 2017 number in 2 days - Washington Times
Every Week, Illegal Border Crossings Dwarf Caravan That’s ‘Hundreds Of Miles Away'
Poll: Top Three Dem 2020 Candidates Are Biden, Sanders, And O’Rourke
Fed up San Franciscans catalogue images of their city's new depravity
NY Times Blames Trump Alone for Rocky Relationship With Press Corps - Accuracy in Media
OPINION: Jim Acosta Cements Himself As Jester Of Donald Trump’s Court
Planned Parenthood President: 'Very Real Likelihood' Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade
Shawnee State University Wins Competition Of Unhinged Academic Lunacy
Survey of Financial Journalists Shows Liberals Outnumbering Conservatives 14-to-1
Top Dems Melt Down Over Whitaker-Mueller "Unconstitutional" Oversight
Tucker Carlson Rebuts 'Assault' Claim: Country Club Booted Avenatti Client
UW Institutes 'Diversity' Training After Professor’s Op-Ed on Sex Differences | Trending
VOTE: What Should The Lame Duck Republican Congress Focus On?
WATCH: Michelle Says She Was Suspicious Of Barack Because White People Liked Him
Democrats: ‘Cruel and Unscientific’ to Define Legal Sex by Biology
Trump Blames Market Drop On Democrats "Harassing" The President
OPINION: Radical Environmentalists Are To Blame For California’s Wildfires
Macron attacks Trump by calling nationalism treason
Get Cynical, Get Angry, And Stay Free
2018 Proved Obama Is Electoral Kryptonite In Battleground States
Kemp Calls Abrams Delusional as She Files Lawsuit Seeking Count of Rejected Votes
'No Consistent Evidence' $3 Billion Disability Program Helps Recipients Find a Job
HATE CRIME HOAX: Guess Who Posted The Racist Note At Kansas State University
Jerry Brown Blames Climate Change for California Wildfires
UMass Students Upset by Racist Graffiti Found in Dorm
Liberal California Blames Wildfires on Trump
GOP Pundit: Trump's 'Combative' Style 'a Problem' with Black Women
Vatican Official: Migrants Teach Western Women to ‘Be Feminine Mothers’
Defeated GOP Rep. Lewis Blames McCain’s Vote Against Obamacare For House Loss
Brave New Stupid: Man 'Marries' Hologram, But Craziest Part Is How Company That Made 'Her' Reacts
Stacey Abrams Files Suit To Force Georgia Gubernatorial Election Into A Runoff
Kemp Says Updated Vote Totals Affirm His Victory as Abrams Files Lawsuit
LET’S GET FRACKING: Saudi Export Cuts, OPEC Committee Hints on Production Send Oil Sharply Higher….
OPINION: House Democrats Need To Conduct Hearings … On Government Waste
The Most Barbaric Pro-Abortion Ad Of All Time
Women’s March Loses Human Rights Award Due To Rampant Anti-Semitism
Chip Roy Turns Tables On Democrats: They Have ‘Blood On Their Hands’ On The Border
Another Justice Resigns From Scandal-Plagued West Virginia Supreme Court
Environmentalists Urging New Democratic Congress To Investigate Exxon
Maxine Waters: GOP Is Scared of a 'Strong, Black Woman' Like Me in Leadership
Virgil: France’s Macron Attacks America’s Trump, and Americans Help Pay For It
Religion Under Attack More Than Ever as International Religious Freedom Act Turns 20
A Bloodbath for Christians, No Response from Egypt
UN Member States: Migration Is a Human Right
CNN gearing up to sue over Jim Acosta's suspended White House press pass
69-Year-Old Dutch Man Asks Court To Change His Age To 49
GOP Candidate Rick Scott Files 3 More Election Lawsuits in Florida
Beijing Biden: Biden's Bro Linked to Chinese Foreign Agent
All of a sudden, Mexico is warmly welcoming the migrant caravan...
Hungary wants more info on Soros-UN debit cards as they may finance terrorism
Trump warns of effort to "steal" Florida races after recount declared
Cruz: 'Under No Circumstances' Should We Let Migrant Caravan into America
Kyrsten Sinema gains 4,000 votes in Arizona Senate race
German NGO rescinds award to US Women's March due to antisemitism charge
Prominent terror cases with ties to Florida
European police smash ring smuggling Palestinians with 'bogus asylum claims'
Teacher Fails Straight A Student For Not Denying God
Fox News Boycotting Twitter For Allowing Doxxing Of Tucker Carlson, Source Says
Democratic Lawyers Object To 'Non-Citizen' Florida Ballot Being Thrown Out
Exit Polls: Regular Churchgoers Voted Republican in Midterms
Swalwell: GOP Won't Get Democratic Votes to Fund Government if They Won't Protect Mueller Probe
CNN’s Toobin: Trump 'Is Always Attacking Black People'
Trump Gaining Popularity Year-by-Year in France as Macron Plummets
Migrant Family Apprehensions in October Up 378 Percent over Prior Year
Soros-Funded Groups Demand Gov. Rick Scott Recuse Himself from Florida Recount
Surprise! Georgia Democrats encouraged as ‘thousands of new votes’ have come in for Stacey Abrams
Left Furious at White Women for Voting for Hispanic Cruz
Florida Recounting Senate, Governor Races Amid Fraud, Suppression Allegations
Country Club Bars Man Who Called Carlson's Daughter 'C*nt,' 'Whore'
Central American Migrants Continue to March Towards US Border
Dem Congresswoman-Elect: I Won't Vote Pelosi for House Speaker
What’s Happening In Florida and Arizona | Power Line
Arizona GOP Accuses Dem Recorder of Destroying Evidence
Socialists and Fascists Have Always Been Kissing Cousins
From Asylum to the Keystone Pipeline, Obama’s Judges Continue Thwarting Trump
Why Suburban Women Cost the Republicans the House
Newly Unsealed Documents Show Top FDIC Officials Running Operation Choke Point
Florida orders recount in contentious senate, governor races | US Midterms 2018 News
Scott wins two lawsuits as he fights a blatant attempt by Dems to violate the law
No big deal, just Palm Beach County refusing to comply with the recount court order
QUESTION ASKED: Why Hasn’t Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes Been Fired Yet?…
Democrats Plan to Pursue Most Aggressive Gun-Control Legislation in Decades - WSJ
Broward County Is An Embarrassment, And The Potential For A Stolen Florida Election Is Real
ACLU files lawsuit to stop Trump's new asylum restrictions | News
Where Do We Go When Journalism Fails Us?
CNN’s Camerota Slams Broward County’s “Absurd” Vote Counting, “None Of This Inspires Confidence”
Mystery as Teacher finds locked ballot box 'left behind' at Broward County polling place
Stanford hosts lecture on Trump admin's 'racist agenda'
College offers space to 'process' 'stressful' midterm election results
Jon Stewart Thinks It's Harder To Get A Cat Than A Gun
New voters helped GOP the most in Georgia
Scotland is first country to approve LGBTI school lessons
REAL MEN: Witness Says Men In Thousand Oaks Shooting Knelt To Block Shooter From Shooting Others
Majority of Germans feel strangers in their own country since the influx of Muslim migrants - Study
Video Shows Baltimore Student Punching Female Teacher in the Face
Bernie Sanders Claims Voters' RACISM Led To Gillum, Abrams Losses, Quickly Gets Schooled
Larry King: "CNN Stopped Doing News A Long Time Ago"
Police Warn Of Brooklyn Teens Targeting Jews In Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes
‘It’s not about you’: Brit Hume has some sage advice for showboating journos like Jim Acosta
‘Some Say’ Question Brings Tough Response From Trump - Accuracy in Media
Video Contradicts CNN and NY Times Claims About Acosta Incident
Fed Signals Further Rate Increases Amid Strong Economy
Liberal Boomer Says Older Conservatives ‘Suck’ In NowThis Video
Republicans File Lawsuit Over Tight Arizona Senate Race
Cory Booker says American Justice system "a CANCER on the soul of our country."
Trump Administration Officially Rolls Back Obama Birth Control Rule
Stephen Colbert Condemns Alleged Antifa Members Targeting Tucker Carlson
Jim Acosta straight-up lied about touching WH staffer — and CNN helped [video]
Appeals Court Rules Against Trump on DACA Immigration Program
Election Officials Encourage Non-Citizen Voting, Influence Voters on Hidden Camera
Gallup Poll : U.S. Democrats Favor Someone Other Than Pelosi as Speaker
BDS Activists Celebrate Celebrity Chef's Withdrawal from Israel Event
Portland Freak Show Not Happy With the 2018 Election Results
Claire McCaskill, unleashed and sounding a lot more liberal after her election loss
AN ELECTION BEING STOLEN IN FLORIDA? …
Texas Democrat Celebrates Re-Election in Jail Cell
Comparing Republicans to Nazis -- Who Started it?
Every Republican Presidential Candidate Is Hitler
GOP Controlled Senate: Democrats’ Fears Come to Pass
Media Uninterested in First Korean Woman in Congress... Because She's Republican
Democrats Are Going On About The House And Senate ‘Popular Vote.’ Here’s Why That’s Dumb.
OPINION: Student Hysterics Over The Koch Brothers Are Out Of Line
UMass Campus Police Called Over Alleged ‘Confederate Flag’ Graffiti
Texas Poll Worker Tells Undercover Journalist: ‘We’ve Got Tons of DACA Voters’
The 2018 Midterms: Why The House Moved Left and the Senate Moved Right
Report: Google, Facebook Earn 25x More from Political Ads in 2018 than 2014
NO WAY! Slate has an awakening about why Dem blue wave expectations ‘feel mediocre’
8 Big Takeaways From The Midterm Elections
Hell hath no wrath like a physically aggressive CNN reporter who refuses to take no for answer.
John Harwood thinks Trump’s presidency now in ‘mortal danger’ (and people have questions)
Democrats Aren't Losing Faith In Our Constitutional System. They Just Don’t Like It.
Hundreds of thousands of ballots still out in tight Arizona Senate race
After Trump’s Scolding, Black PBS Reporter Now Has ‘Residue Of Hate’
Among Black Voters, Trump’s Popularity Inches Upward - WSJ
‘Embarrassed himself today’: FNC’s Chris Wallace slams Jim Acosta’s ‘shameful’ behavior
Dow jumps by more than 500 points as Sessions resigns as Attorney General amid Mueller probe
Republican Losses In The Midterms Could Play Right Into Donald Trump’s Hands
Tom Steyer’s Renewable Energy Initiative Fails In Arizona
Countless Triggered Twitter Randos ‘Literally Shaking’ Over Beto Loss
Bloomberg’s Big Bucks Is Torpedoing This California Republican’s Re-Election Bid
Beto-Bros Sob After ‘Rockstar’ Robert Francis ‘Beto’ O’Rourke Loses In Texas
Progressives Turn On White Women After Underwhelming Midterm Results
Has Trump Put the Senate Out of Democrat Range for 2020? | Roger L. Simon
Linda Sarsour: "The Jews are our misfortune."
Most Democrat Senators Who Voted Against Brett Kavanaugh Lost in Midterms
Why This Is a Very Scary Time for Young Men - Minding The Campus
The Left Is Normalizing Hatred | Trending
Jerry Brown’s Legacy Stays Intact After California Voters Fail To Nix Gas Tax Increase
Both Sides Claim Victory on Immigration Politics
OUCH! So how did the Dems Obama campaigned for do on #ElectionNight?
Jersey Trash: Sleazy Bob Menendez Wins Re-Election
Israeli firm says info for 62 million US voters found for sale online
Poll Workers in Texas tell Project Veritas Reporter Dreamers Can Vote
Girl Scouts sue Boy Scouts for trademark infringement
Big Labor Still All-In for Dems
Firepower for U.S. Stocks May Lose Spark as Democrats Gain Clout
Armed Black Panthers for Democrat Gov. Candidate Stacey Abrams
The moment Black teens hurled a pole through a synagogue window
How The Caravan Could Lead To A U.S. Refugee Crisis Like Europe’s
Fiji: Scientists Establish The Relationship Between Modern CO2 Emissions & Severe Flooding
Scientists investigated whether the expert climate change prediction that growing CO2 emissions, and the subsequent atmospheric increase of CO2, would cause an increase in the frequency and severity of large flooding.
The island nation of Fiji was chosen to validate the expert prediction due to a Fiji locality having 12 centuries decades of flood climate records.
And the result of this peer-reviewed investigative research of the supposed relationship between CO2 and flooding?
Even with a long-term record stretching across 12 centuries decades, the scientists were unable to find any validation of expert and climate model predictions that CO2 greenhouse gas warming produces an outcome of increased severe flooding.
The empirical CO2-warming and flooding relationship appears to be zero.
"...real scientists engaged in real research have used sound statistical methods to investigate this topic; and what they typically find does not bode well for climate alarmists.....performed a series of statistical analyses on these data, seeking to determine "whether the data set can reveal the degree to which islands in the Pacific are already seeing the impact of global climate change on the risk of severe flooding." Results of the analysis revealed that despite a persistent warming trend of ~0.18°C per decade over the past seven decades, there has been no consistent trend in flooding. Consequently, McAneney et al. matter-of-factly attest that they were "unable to detect any influence of global warming at this tropical location on either the frequency or the height of major flooding." What is more, they add that their study demonstrates "the difficulty of achieving statistical significance in terms of attribution of extreme weather even with relatively long data sets.""
Just another example of failed predictions based on the CO2-centric anthropogenic catastrophic global warming hypothesis.
Source: Fiji flood image
Does Empirical Evidence Debunk The Runaway Global Warming Consensus?
The consensus regarding the catastrophic global warming hypothesis is completely reliant on a proposed positive feedback producing runaway global warming that will destroy human civilization. Simply, is it happening?
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To answer that question, one can examine the HadCRUT4 (HC4) empirical climate surface temperature record in order to identify if a positive feedback is evident.
The positive feedback would reveal its existence if global temperatures were accelerating to a tipping point of runaway warming, due to the ever-increasing human CO2 emission releases into the atmosphere,
As done with a previous article involving the analysis of the satellite record of temperature acceleration warming trends, the same can be accomplished with the HC4 global dataset. Thus, this analysis will also focus on both short and long-term warming trends to determine whether a constant state of acceleration is present.
First, the chart on the right represents satellite short and long-term acceleration plots used in the prior article; the chart of the left plots the short and long-term warming per century acceleration rates derived from the HC4 land/sea global dataset.
To attain the best apple-to-apple comparison, both charts are based on a start date that coincides with the advent of the satellite measuring technology in 1979 and through month-end February 2018.
Visually, the chart similarities of the two different temperature measuring methodologies are striking.
When scrutinized closely, there are differences, but those would be expected when one methodology is measuring lower atmosphere temps and the other methodology is based on near-surface temps of land and water.
As found in the prior analysis of the lower atmosphere temperature record, global surface temperatures accelerate at a faster pace and then always decelerate to a slower pace that may even indicate the potential of a cooling climate regimen.
More importantly, the HC4 temperature dataset verifies what the prior article on the satellite dataset established: despite multiple major warming El Nino events, and with over 60% of all 1850-2016 total CO2 emissions being released since 1979, there is absolutely zero indication of a positive feedback's existence producing a runaway, "tipping point" warming acceleration.
On the contrary, as of February 2018, all 3 short-term temperature HC4 acceleration trends at the end of February 2018 are well below their respective beginning trend values; and the ending February 2018 long-term per century trend is practically the same as the beginning trend value.
This finding matches with what was identified in the previous satellite analysis.
Additionally, as noted at the bottom of each chart, the positive correlations between the rolling monthly temperature trends and the cumulative growth of CO2 levels (ppm) are empirically not much different from zero; plus, both the long-term satellite and surface global trends seemingly have an inverse relationship with accumulating CO2 gases (a possible explanation?).
If correlation is an indicator of potential causation, then one would need to look at an entirely different reason other than CO2 emissions for any attempt to justify a belief in the runaway global warming scenario.
Analysis Summary:
Since a dangerous accelerating climate warming simply does not exist after decades of vast amounts of human greenhouse emissions being released, it is fair to conclude that the consensus of a catastrophic runaway global warming is debunked and entirely without any empirical merit or validity.
It still remains mere speculation after all these years, and should possibly be considered another candidate for the ash heap of group-think "consensus science."
Note: Excel used to calculate trends and to plot. HC4 dataset. The satellite dataset is 50/50 weighting of the RSS and UAH datasets. Monthly CO2 dataset. Calculated trends do not predict the future trends.
Facts Don't Lie: Unexceptional Global Climate Warming In The U.S.
Is there dangerous, human-caused global warming affecting the climate of the continental U.S.?
In a word: No.
As reported by NOAA, the adjacent plot of monthly 1,419 months) maximum temperatures experienced in the U.S. corn belt, a major agricultural breadbasket region, since 1900 is rather unremarkable.
As can be seen, maximum temperatures peak and then they don't.
The 5-yr average (60mth avg.) red curve tells the story: despite huge global emissions of the greenhouse gas, the U.S. breadbasket has a narrowly stable maximum temperature pattern.
And, amazingly, the maximum temperatures of this large region during the 21st century still DO NOT exceed those experienced in the early 20th century.
Conclusion: As discussed in the prior article, [Ed: meant to link to this prior article] unusual and unprecedented dangerous "global" climate warming is not close to being an empirical reality. As the U.S. corn belt reveals, every regional climate is different - they experience major warming and cooling periods for different reasons, at different times, and at different rates, regardless of the global atmospheric CO2 levels.
Peer-Reviewed Confirmation: Growth of Human CO2 Does Not Result In Unusual Climate Warming
There is the following science consensus: the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis has never been empirically validated outside the confines of a computer simulation.
Essentially, across many parts of the world, the lack of warming and the lack of unusual warming - i.e. unprecedented, exceptional warming - confirms that the fear of human CO2-driven catastrophic warming is likely very misplaced.
Similar to the recent scientific findings of unexceptional modern warming for many parts of the world, such as in the U.S., across Antarctica, and multiple other regions of the world, scientists in China have analyzed a 350+ year climate record and found modern warming is not unusual versus the warming of earlier periods in the record.
"In general, the average length of cold periods was shorter than that of warm periods. The cold period of 1869–1877 was the longest and coldest cool period had a mean of 17.63°C. The longest warm period extended from 1655 to 1668, and the warmest period in AD 1719–1730 had a mean of 20.37°C. However, we should point out that the rapid warming during the 20th century was not especially obvious in our reconstructed RLST."
The scientists also determined that human CO2 was not a factor driving the warming and cooling analyzed.
"Accompanied by significant peaks at 60.2 and 73 years, the continuously periodicities around 49–114 years in our regional temperature reconstruction might tentatively be related to PDO, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation...as well as solar activity...The AMO was an important driver of multidecadal variations in summer climate not only in North America and western Europebut also in the East Asia...The 60.2-year peak associated with AMO demonstrated that multidecadal variations in late summer temperature in the NWSP NWSP [northwestern Sichuan Plateau, China ] might be controlled by AMO."
This 2016 study from China adds to the enormous amount of empirical evidence demonstrating that an all encompassing modern "global" warming from human CO2 does not exist.
The scientific evidence is unequivocal: There exist huge regional climate swaths of the globe that have mildly warmed in an unexceptional manner during the modern industrial/consumer era; and there exist multiple large areas that even lack any regional climate-significant modern warming whatsoever.
Additional modern global and regional temperature charts; and historical temperature charts.
Hot Climate Change In Japan? Evidence Refutes
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One of the major tenets of the anthropogenic hypothesis of global warming is that the number of extremely hot days would increase, potentially causing catastrophic loss of life.
Such occurrences are the expected climate change manifestations from increasing CO2 emissions predicted by consensus experts and climate models.
But do these manifestations occur currently in a non-urban area with greater frequency than in years prior to modern global warming fears?
If CO2-driven global warming and climate change are as truly powerful and to be feared as many suggest, then the evidence of a greater frequency in the number of extreme hot days should be obvious.
As this article explains, there is a non-urban Japanese island (Hachijō Island) lying about 180 miles south of Tokyo in the Philippine Sea provides a long-term climate record of hot-day occurrences. (The island is administered by Tokyo.)
As in many countries, Japan uses the 30°C (86°F) minimum to designate an extreme 'hot day'.
The adjacent chart for the island identifies the number of 'hot and furious' periods going back to 1926 based on the 30°C criteria. For the 21st century specifically, including year 2000, there has been an average of 22.7 extreme hot days per year through 2017.
That's pretty high, especially when compared to the 1970's. But is that 22.7 number for the last 18 years unprecedented? Turns out the answer is 'no'.
The following 18-year periods, including 1929-1946, 1930-1947, 1931-1948, 1932-1949, 1933-1950, 1934-1951, 1935-1952, 1936-1953, 1937-1954, 1938-1955, 1939-1956, 1940-1957, 1941-1958, 1942-1959, 1943-1960, 1944-1961, and 1945-1962, had a higher average of hot days versus the 18-year period ending in 2017.
The 18-year span ending in 1958 had the absolute highest average count of extreme hot days - 25.8 days - per year.
What one can hypothesize from the above data and chart is that the huge growth of CO2 emissions has not produced the greater frequency of extreme hot days expected by experts. And also surmise that natural climate processes, for both the past and the present, are the responsible driver for periods with extreme hot weather events.
It should be noted that the modern count of extreme hot-day years has also been shown to be less in the modern U.S. era of high CO2 emissions when compared to the past.
This actual empirical evidence does refute the expert prediction that the frequency of extremely hot days across the globe would be a direct result of higher atmospheric CO2 levels. And although there certainly may well be regional areas of the world that have experienced a greater frequency - especially concrete/steel highly urbanized areas - there are indeed other areas of the world that have not.
Additional failed prediction articles.
Note: This Japanese blogger compiled the data and produced the chart.
Peer Research Analysis: What Is Likelihood of 3 Meter Rise For California Coast Sea Levels By Year 2100?
Simply stated: Slim to none.
Experts in sea level research did a focused analysis on the predicted sea level projections for California by activist groups. These groups are suggesting that sea level rise could be as much as 3 meters by year 2100 due to human CO2 emission release into the atmosphere.
This peer-reviewed study - from experts not associated with an activist agenda group(s) - determined that the alarmist predictions of dramatic increases of California sea levels 'hold no water'.
This chart is from their study analysis, along with the below stinging rebuttal to the activist groups.
"In summing up these and other of their several findings, Parker and Ollier write that "the evidences from real sea level measurements do not support the IPCC models or the even more alarming predictions [made by the National Research Council and California Ocean Science Trust]. The latter, "they continue, "are founded on pure speculation, constructed on unproven assumptions, and do not provide a suitable basis for use in planning or policy making.""
Prior sea level articles.
Science Fact: Per NOAA, "Global Warming" Pause For U.S. Now Exceeds 22 Years (Wrong?)
Connect-The-Dots: The NOAA temperature dataset for the U.S. reveals that for the last 22 years and 3 months, the U.S. continental temperature change has been cooling at a minus -0.02°F per decade.
The chart above was produced by NOAA at their 'Climate at a Glance' web page. In the upper right corner of the chart, NOAA shows its calculated per decade trend of -0.02°F for a period that spans 1996-2018.
After posting this chart and an accompanying article, it just seemed that something was likely wrong with the trend calculation produced by NOAA's web site.
After an Excel analysis of the absolute and anomaly temperature dataset, which can be downloaded from the same web page that produced the above chart, that NOAA trend calculation cannot be confirmed with any confidence. In fact, that NOAA decade trend calculation seems egregiously wrong and very misleading.
Thus, we replaced all of the article's text with the above explanation since the NOAA information looks to be incorrect. That is not to say definitively that they are wrong but that we are completely unable to replicate their calculated trend.
Lesson Learned: Don't trust government work - always double-check.
Note: Chart was produced at this NOAA climate page. Time period selected for the chart was from January 1996 through March 2018.
Science Consensus Versus Climate Models: Southern Ocean Sea Ice Is Growing
Climate simulation models have proven to be unreliable when their predictions, scenarios, projections, etc. are compared to the observed climate realities. A recent example is in regards to the waters surrounding Antarctica.
The Southern Ocean is comprised of 5 sub-regions. This study reviewed the empirical evidence of sea ice extent and found that 4 of the 5 sub-regions experienced an expanded sea ice extent and the Southern Ocean overall did likewise. The study confirms the growing scientific consensus that sea ice has increased since 1979.
In contrast to the climate models and their prognostications, these scientific observations of climate reality are opposite of what the models expected.
"Whatever the true cause or causes, one thing is certain, all of the climate models have failed to predict the observed increase in Southern Hemisphere sea ice extent. Rather, as reported in the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), CO2-induced global warming is supposed to reduce its extent by an average of between 16 and 67 percent in the summer and 8 to 30 percent in the winter by the end of the century (IPCC, 2013). Clearly, therefore, something must be fundamentally wrong with the climate models, for their predictions to be so far off from the observed sea ice trends."
Since climate models are dependent on the CO2 greenhouse gas being a major driving force in the simulations, it is not a surprise to those familiar with the subject that the simulated outputs continue to be deeply flawed.
Additional climate model and failed prediction articles.
Climate Apocalypse: Is The Current Climate Warming Unprecedented In Modern Records?
Empirical evidence review: It has now been 30 years since the former chief NASA climate scientist, James Hansen, unleashed his climate apocalypse scenarios on the public in 1988 ... looking back, does the empirical evidence support the fears of "unprecedented" warming?
It has long been common knowledge among both scientists and laypeople that the world has been warming since the Little Ice Age (LIA) ended during the mid-1800s. In fact, from January 1850 through January 1988, the world had already warmed over 1 degree Celsius.
And it was in 1988 that James Hansen decided to present the case that this slow warming since the LIA was soon to become "unprecedented" due to CO2 emissions, thus causing untold climate chaos - i.e. boiling oceans, droughts, famines, Manhattan Island flooding along with other coastal regions, Earth turning into the next Venus, and etc.
Factually, the world has continued to warm since 1988, but is it "unprecedented" versus the climate warming of pre-1988?
It's not enough simply to claim the world is warmer, more important is to determine if temperatures changes are larger than ever.
To determine if today's global warming deserves to be considered unprecedented, an analysis of 30-year (360-month) climate temperature changes would be an effective means.
Using the gold-standard surface temperature record dataset, the HadCRUT4.6 global anomalies stretch back all the way to 1850.
We know from that dataset that the modern 30-year climate temperature change was +0.29ºC of warming at the end of February 2018. To clarify, that is the temperature warming change from February 1988 through February 2018.
That +0.29°C temperature since 1988 change took place in a global climate context that included not only the impact of multiple powerful El Niños, but also an atmosphere that was infused from 1989-2016 with over 50% of the total human CO2 emissions (metric tonnes) emitted since 1850.
Yet, despite all those CO2 emissions over the last 30 years, as the adjacent table reveals, there are 28 previous 30-year changes all ending in the month of February that exceed the "unprecedented" the most +0.29°C change.
All 28 of those 30-year temperature changes took place before the additional 50% of all CO2 emissions were released into the atmosphere.
By expanding the analysis to include all 12 months - not just the month February alone - there have been 247 monthly instances prior to 1988 when long-term the 30-year global temperature warming change exceeded that for February 2018.
In contrast to the above, the 30-year change in CO2 ppm as of February 2018 significantly exceeds all 30-year CO2 changes prior to 1988 without fail.
As an aside, in regards to the short-term, the 12-month global temperature change was a minus -0.32°C for the month-end of February 2018.
Conclusions:
True: The world has warmed since 1988 as the global temperature dataset establishes.
But, per the same empirical evidence, the current modern warming, as represented by 30-year temperature increases, is not in the least extreme, unusual, or unprecedented.
Prior to the additional 50% of total metric tonnes of CO2 emissions being added to the world's biosphere, global warming change easily matched or exceeded that experienced since 1988 - the year of NASA's James Hansen's predictions of climate apocalypse from human CO2.
Based on all the the gold-standard temperature measurements that the HadCRUT dataset provides, it is evident that periods of exceptional global warming changes (and the recent cooling temp changes) are more likely driven by natural forces than the ever-increasing levels of atmospheric CO2.
Note: Excel used to calculate 30-year temperature changes from the HadCRUT global land/sea dataset of temperature anomalies and past CO2 data (links found here). Left column of table are months of February and associated year; right column of table are the 30-year changes in temperature anomalies. Only chose to show the sub-list of February examples instead of all months, which was comprised of 247 in total.
An Empirical Reexamination: How Two Recent Major El Niño Periods Compare
The 1997-1998 El Niño versus the 2015-2016 event. How do they differ? How are they similar? The takeaway?
Now that the global HadCRUT4.6 dataset is available for February 2018, it is possible to examine a 4-year period for both El Niños, including the 'pre' and 'post' months for each.
These two major El Niño events do have some similarities as shown in their respective 4-year charts.
Besides the shared visual pattern of low-to-high-to-low similarity, the peak temperature for both periods came in the month of February (1998 & 2016).
For both, the beginning month (February 1996 and February 2014) were essentially identical: +0.32°C and +0.33°C.
And the end points displayed in the above charts are not dramatically different - there is only a +0.07°C gap between the higher February 2018 anomaly versus that of February 2000.
The small end point difference of only +0.07°C is rather surprising within the context of how much more peak warming took place in February 2016 (+1.11°C) versus February 1998 (+0.76°C).
Then there is a similarity of linear rate of warming for the 24 months leading up to the peak months of February 1998 and February 2016: +22.3°C per century versus +22.6°C, respectively.
Regarding the differences between the two phenomenons:
There is a large difference for the peak month anomaly of the respective Februaries (1998 & 2016). Indeed, a visually striking difference is apparent.
In addition, on average, the monthly anomalies of the 2014-2018 period are +0.35°C then for the 1996-2000 period. Visually, the entire curve for the later El Niño event has been shifted up.
With that said, when the anomalies for the 10-year period prior to February 1996 and February 2014 are compared, one finds that the later anomalies were, on average, +0.3°C higher than those of the earlier 10-year period.
Another difference is the overall warming trends exhibited during the two 4-year analysis periods. From February 1996 through February 2000, the warming rate is +3.6°C per century. The warming rate for the February 2014 through February 2018 is significantly lower at +0.72°C per century.
This substantially larger per century warming rate for the earlier event analysis period - ending in February 2000 - is rather unexpected given the typical mainstream headlines leading up to this last major El Niño.
Then there is the difference in how much the temperature anomaly has dropped since the peak month for each of these El Niños. For the 24-month period after the Feb. 1998 peak, the temperature anomaly dropped a -0.3°C. In contrast, the drop from the Feb. 2016 peak has been double the earlier period's - a drop of -0.6°C.
Finally, the deceleration of warming rates after the peak highs do differ but not excessively. For the 24-month span ending February 2000, the deceleration of warming from the February 1998 peak was a -18.81°C per century (i.e. cooling per century) versus a deceleration, from the 2016 peak, of -16.44°C per century ending February 2018.
The Takeaway?
- There is no convincing evidence from the empirical temperature record to suggest that the differences/similarities are nothing more than the expected natural variation seen when comparing the two powerful natural climate/weather phenomenon.
- There is no empirical evidence that higher CO2 levels resulted in the overall higher temp anomalies of the 2015-16 El Niño. With a monthly anomaly average being only +0.35°C higher, that is likely in the realm of natural variance.
- As of yet, there is no empirical evidence that the powerful 2015-16 El Niño event resulted in any long-term climatic changes.
- There is empirical evidence that this recent major El Niño temperature anomaly pattern of up/down and warming/cooling characteristics are similar to past natural El Niño events.
- This NOAA article provides contextual evidence as to why the 2015-16 El Niño was so powerful.
Additional global warming charts.
Note: Excel use to plot and calculate trends for the 2 charts using the published February 2018 global HadCRUT 4.6 dataset (as of March 30, 2018).
Prediction FactCheck: Consensus Experts & Climate Models Predicted Higher CO2 Levels Would Result In More Forest Fires
Does the empirical evidence support the belief that human CO2 emissions released into the atmosphere will directly cause an increase in forest fires from global warming?
As the above plots show, whether it's the U.S. national forests or the state owned properties in fire-prone California, the number of fires incidents has significantly declined starting with the 1980s. This has taken place during 50 years of the largest growth of atmospheric CO2 levels - the largest possibly for millions of years.
The chart plots are from the recent extensive peer-reviewed study published by forestry researchers.
"Both USFS and Cal Fire protected lands had the lowest number of fires in the early record but ignitions began to increase in the1960s and peaked between 1970 and 1990, subsequently declining on both USFS and Cal Fire lands. ... Major fires are dependent on the juxtaposition of such weather events with anthropogenic ignitions. Future fire regimes will be less affected by global warming than by other global changes, in particular population growth, because over 95% of ignitions are due to humans. As populations increase we expect a greater chance of ignitions during severe fire weather conditions."
In addition, the subject of forest fire devastation was recently re-analyzed using entirely different data. And further back, 'C3' and others have published multiple examinations of the available empirical evidence - here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
Prediction FactCheck Verdict: Fail
The expert and climate model predictions of CO2 and global warming wreaking fire havoc upon forested areas is absolutely without convincing empirical evidence. All facts point to an overall improvement in the count and extent of forest fire destruction since the peak destruction experienced during the early decades of the 20th century.
Additional fire and other weather phenomenon charts, failed-prediction articles, and peer-reviewed articles.
Note: Decade-end atmospheric CO2 levels superimposed on graphs from the 2017 Keely & Syphard study.
The Empirical Evidence Answers: What Is The Correlation Between CO2 & Climate-Related Deaths?
The empirical evidence strongly indicates an inverse correlation between CO2 levels and deaths from climate.
The adjacent chart superimposes annual atmospheric CO2 levels onto a chart that Bjorn Lomborg produced on his Facebook page. H/T
Since 1920, while climate-related deaths have plummeted, the deaths from non-climate related natural events has essentially hovered in a narrow range.
Yet, from 1920-2017, the atmospheric CO2 levels has grown an exceptional amount at an exceptional speed. A growth that has primarily attributed to the modern industrial/consumer combustion of fossil fuels.
That is the undeniable empirical evidence that lays total waste to the anti-science beliefs and doomsday claims of celebrity-seeking individuals who populate Washington D.C., Hollywood, ivory towers, and etc.
It's just another example of 'elites' failing to connect the real science dots.
Simple Summary: The trace greenhouse gas CO2 should not be feared as some sort of death-machine unleashed by humans. Instead the empirical evidence suggests it is an indication of civilization advancement and the life-saving achievements it produces.
Long live the CO2-savior!
Additional charts of interest.
ScienceFactCheck: Does Ocean Acidification Dissolve Starfish?
The case of the dissolving starfish: Often, the actual science regarding research studies is misreported by the institutions - i.e. academia - that publish press releases on studies they have sponsored, which then the journalists spread and propagandize for their readers and viewers
A recent example of misreporting are the "scientific" news stories based on a study's press release that increased ocean acidification, presumably from human CO2 emissions, was dissolving the poor coastal starfish population.
Turns out, per an analysis of what this latest starfish scientific study actually stated, the research said nothing of the sort.
The news stories about the dissolving starfish represent reporting practice that is frequent and purposefully designed to mislead the public and policymakers.
In contrast, when ocean acidification research is well-conducted and well-reported, the opposite conclusion about the impact of lower pH levels is usually the result.
An example is a recent ocean acidfication study of the impact on a starfish relative, the lowly sea urchin.
"In light of these several findings, the Australian, New Zealand and U.S. researchers felt safe in stating that the sea urchins "did not only persist but actually 'thrived' under extreme conditions." And why was this so? Uthicke et al. opine that it was because (6) "increased algal productivity under increased pCO2 [Ed: increasing water acidification] provided more food at the vent, resulting in higher growth rates." And in light of this likelihood, they conclude their paper by stating that the processes they studied "are best identified in natural settings ... where ecosystems and individuals are exposed throughout their life to conditions similar to those in future oceans.""
Unfortunately, the journalistic practice of relying on questionable press releases is widespread, thus leading "journalists" to embellish and promulgate fake science and, of course, leading to ludicrous fear-mongering. The case of the "dissolving starfish" is a classic example.
Previous articles about peer-reviewed science and articles about questionable journalism.
The Climate "Tipping Point" Revisited: A Further Analysis
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Per our prior article, an examination of the empirical evidence for atmospheric warming was done to determine if Earth had crossed the 'tipping point' red line. This article drills down further to look at specific data points.
The adjacent chart - using the same information as before - narrows the focus down to a few specific markers of both short-term and long-term global warming acceleration.
Besides showing the cumulative CO2 growth, this chart depicts the plots (pinkish circles sans the connecting curve lines) of the 12-month, 24-month, and 36-month rolling per century warming acceleration trends
[For those counting: the count of their respective calculated trend points are as follows: 459 calculated points; 447 calculated points; 435 calculated points.]
On the chart, the 12-month first and last calculated trend points are marked as red dots; for the 24-month first and last, the representation marks are the blue dots; and for the 36-month first and last, those are designated by the two bright green circles.
Clearly, despite the substantial increase of atmospheric CO2 levels from 1979 to 2018, all the ending acceleration trend points of February 2018 are actually lower than the very first trend points for each short-term period.
Moving on.
The chart's aqua colored trend line is constructed using the 240-month rolling calculated trends (the count of calculated trend points making up the aqua line is 231). The aqua colored triangles mark the first, last, and highest calculated warming trend points.
For the long-term, the empirical evidence confirms that the February 2018 acceleration trend of 1.17°C per century is lower than both the beginning trend value of 1.74°C and the highest trend value reached way back in April 2004 of 2.52°C per century.
One could surmise that this result is climate evidence of a long-term atmospheric negative feedback mechanism in play.
Conclusion: For a tipping point and/or runaway warming to be reached, and then survive, the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis demands that the lower troposphere warms in a consistent and accelerating mode, due to the hypothetical positive atmospheric feedbacks supposedly produced from fossil fuel CO2 emissions. As this analysis substantiates what the prior article had found, the current climate "tipping point" claims and/or concerns are completely without empirical evidence merit or, if you prefer, categorically factless.
Additional global, regional, and historical temperature charts.
Note: This analysis of the empirical data from January 1979 through 2018 is about the past, and it should not be interpreted as a future prediction of climate change/response. Excel was used to calculate and plot the multiple rolling/moving LT temperature trends and monthly CO2 cumulative totals.
Tipping Point Revisited: Are Global Warming Temps Accelerating To The Point of No-Return?
Every time there is a "hottest" day, a "warmest-than-ever" month, or an extended period of quickly rising global temps, there are many who instantly claim that the world has reached a runaway climate change condition, or a global warming tipping point, or a soon to be doomsday, a no-return cascade turning Earth into the next Venus.
Hyperbole or fact?
The adjacent graph is one that we have produced in the past. Every few months it is updated in the quest of finally identifying the no-return doomsday tipping point that so many celebrities, journalists, and politicians fear and speak of.
The graph contains simple plots exhibiting the constant linear growth of cumulative CO2 levels in the atmosphere and multiple temperature trends.
The per century trends plotted are derived from the gold-standard NASA satellite atmospheric - i.e., lower troposphere (LT) - temperature measurements. The measurements are produced by two organizations - RSS and UAH - and the graph's trend plots represent a 50/50 average of those RSS/UAH published datasets since 1979.
As the plots make abundantly clear, since the inception of satellite measurements, LT short-term temperature trends go up and then they go down. The LT temperatures regularly have an acceleration spike and then a subsequent deceleration spike follows.
These acceleration and deceleration trends obviously follow some sort of cyclical pattern that are completely divorced from the incessant growth of atmospheric CO2 and/or other human-based activities.
Those are the stubborn facts, with the end result being that nature totally trumps human influence in regards to climate.
Conclusion? And the "tipping point" remains nothing more than factless hyperbole.
Note: This analysis of the empirical data from January 1979 through 2018 is about the past, and it should not be interpreted as a future prediction of climate change/response. Excel was used to calculate and plot the multiple rolling/moving LT temperature trends and monthly CO2 cumulative totals.
CO2 Impact Analysis: Will Increased CO2 Be of Harm or Benefit To Major Grain Crops?
What does the science say in regards to the effect of elevated CO2 on major food sources across the globe?
It is well known that airborne CO2 acts as a vegetation fertilizer, which fortunately for the world, has produced a vast 'greening' of nature. Some 70% of greening is attributed to increased CO2 fertilization say the NASA researchers.
In regards to agriculture crops, a new study has again determined that increased CO2 will produce greater yields.
This peer-reviewed study focused of rice and maize.
"Rice is the most consumed staple crop in the world and maize is close behind in rank as the third most important cereal crop. Their annual yields are consumed by billions of persons worldwide.....Pingale et al. report that elevated CO2 positively influenced the growth and productivity of both crops. Plant growth and yield parameters such as leaf area, stem dry weight, panicle dry weight, cob dry weight and grain number per cob were all significantly increased under elevated CO2. And the end result of these several enhancements was a CO2-induced increase in both rice and maize grain yield."
The included column chart from the study depicts the yield increases for both crops.
Prior articles regarding peer-reviewed studies and greenhouse gases.
A Consensus Update: Per The Latest Scientific Evidence, Are Doctors & Dietitians Promoting Advice That Works?
Similar to the current "expert" climate/energy policies being pushed on the unsuspecting citizens of multiple countries, the expert health policies pushed on the masses for the last 50+ years have been based on a dogmatic, consensus belief in a questionable hypothesis.
More on that specific hypothesis later.
In the U.S., starting with the 1970s, the air and water quality has been dramatically improving; the number of people who smoke has dropped like a stone; the pharmaceutical/medical/health care research complex has produced wondrous solutions for communicable diseases; and yet, despite all that good news, the overall health of Americans and their lifespans have in some respects actually declined.
As the chart depicts, the U.S. growth trend of chronic diseases (cancers, diabetes, heart disease, brain dysfunctions, stroke, and etc.) is at unsustainable levels, and it's just as bad all across the globe:
"While international agencies have been spending their funds in controlling infectious diseases, evidence of non-communicable [chronic] diseases reveals an alarming global pandemic and associated fatalities" (Strong et al, 2005)
Now, combine that with the chronic obesity epidemic - here and across the world. Is it any wonder that health care expenses are causing havoc for even the stoutest of economies?
Where did this explosion in growth of global chronic diseases come from?
Well as the latest scientific evidence is revealing, this unstoppable growth of chronic diseases is most likely a direct result of U.S politicians and government bureaucrats - during the '70's decade - accepting and promoting a very weak speculative research hypothesis. A hypothesis that had not been validated by any rigorous scientific evidence*.
That hypothesis, in it's most simplest terms, was the notion that eating fat and cholesterol killed people.
This acceptance and promotion of an unproven hypothesis lead to a dogmatic, consensus belief by doctors and dietitians that everyone needs to replace fats with carbohydrates.
And that became the foundation of the well promulgated high-carb and low-fat food pyramid concept, resulting in "experts" actually believing a breakfast of Pop Tarts and orange juice was more "healthy" than eggs, bacon, and black coffee.
The unintended consequence of this highly speculative hypothesis is our global epidemic of poor health and overweight. This epidemic was first identified around 1980 and by 1988 the CDC started the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Yet the vast majority of doctors and dietitians still push on their patients the orthodox treatments and recommendations based on a bogus hypothesis, or if you prefer, junk science. (Go here to read about how wedded and malevolent the medical and dietitian establishments are in regards to protecting their consensus anti-science.)
The history, the politics, the narrative, and the lack of robust, proven scientific research supporting the entire consensus nutrition/diet framework is frankly eye-opening.
And surprise, it has an incredible amount of similarities with the consensus narrative, politics, advocacy, and policy tactics based on the unvalidated and unproven CO2 hypothesis of global warming and climate change.
Two recent excellent reads on the unscientific diet/nutrition science, and the biased politics involved, can be read about here and here.
Not to be forgotten, the consensus politics of climate science is also very vitriolic and intimidating.
*The recent recommendations of America's 'Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee', in regards to both dietary cholesterol and fat, substantiates that the original research behind the consensus health/nutrition policies was neither robust nor statistically/clinically significant.
Prediction Review: Has Modern Climate Change Negatively Impacted Bird Populations?
Expert predictions about the negative impacts of climate change on bird populations are assessed in this study.
The scientists investigated the bird species that populate the mountain habitats of the Pacific Northwest. These habitats are considered by wildlife experts to be "among the most immediately susceptible to [the] effects of climate change."
Was the "expert" prediction correct that modern climate change (i.e., global warming) would have a significant negative impact on bird specie populations?
In fact, this peer-reviewed analysis determined that modern climate change was not negatively impacting these vulnerable habitats and bird populations.
".....the team of ten researchers conducted a total of 8404 point-count surveys at 3177 distinct survey point locations across the three parks during the breeding seasons of 2005-2014. From those surveys, 39 species (24 migratory and 15 "residents" that overwinter in the parks) were identified for population stability analyses."....."all but one species were either stable or increasing across the sampled points in the three parks" throughout the period of study (see Figure 1 below). Furthermore, the authors say they "found little evidence for upslope range shifts across the sampled region," adding that "no species increased at higher elevations while declining at lower elevations."
Based on this study's results, one could surmise that modern climate change has been of benefit to the bird species in the Pacific Northwest.
Facts Don't Lie: Unprecedented Climate Change
There was climate change.
There is climate change.
And there will be climate change.
This peer-reviewed study produced the adjacent charts for the regional area of the American Southwest.
Although the study was primarily about climate modeling for future climate variability, it was focused on the severe climate variation of the Little Ice Age (LIA).
The charts provide ample factual proof, along with the study's own premise, that our modern climate change is not unprecedented.
Whether it be drought conditions or temperature extremes, the past climate was anything but stable.
Note that the bottom chart shows the modern recent warming (RW) finally returning to the levels of around 1000AD and the extended Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) period.
Simply stated: facts don't lie, and there is nothing humans can do to stop natural climate change; and, the extremes it produces without any help from CO2.
Additional historical charts.
ScienceCheck: Global Warming Increases Hailstorms' Frequency & Intensity
China must not have gotten the climate model memo that all hailstorms were ordered to be more severe and to produce a greater amount of damage.
Those "expert" climate models tell us what is supposed to happen in the world's climate due to the impact of human-induced global warming. Yet it seems that the models as climate soothsayers of severe weather events are essentially worthless.
Case in point, a new peer-reviewed study has examined the factual evidence regarding the increased frequency and increased intensity of hail storms that CO2-centric, global warming climate models predict; and the study has found the predictions to be without merit.
"A test of this model-based hypothesis was recently performed by Ni et al. (2017) for China. Using data from 2,254 locations that they obtained from the Chinese National Meteorological Information Center, the eight researchers examined trends in both the occurrence of hail days (frequency) and the mean size of hail (intensity) over the period 1980-2015"..."Ni et al. conclude that these observational changes "imply a weakened [frequency and] intensity of hailstorms in China in recent decades." And that finding does not bode well for climate models, which predict that just the opposite should be occurring."
The study's graphs depict that over the last 35 years the large-sized hail stones that wreak the most havoc on property and agriculture have been trending smaller, not larger across all recorded storms from the reporting 2,254 weather stations.
In addition, during the same extended period, the proportion of all hail storms that produce the extremely large stones has been clearly trending down.
ScienceCheck Conclusion: Climate models can't predict squat.
Evidence: Global Warming's Impact On Science
The opinions on climate change from analysts, researchers, and academics continue to change as the evidence of global warming - or lack thereof - is presented.
This recent article reminds readers that global warming is not a 'global' phenomenon since many areas of the world exhibit cooling, as the adjacent image reveals.
Then there is this recent article that refers to a published peer-reviewed study by a group of climate scientists who have found the current land-based temperature measurement capabilities to be less than stellar and even unsatisfactory in many cases. The scientists go on to suggest an alternative measuring methodology being deployed globally that the U.S. has already developed.
Finally, there is this recent article indicating the forever changing "settled science" in regards to the predicted influence of CO2 on global warming. As the evidence grows that global warming has not been as great, nor as fast, as the climate models predicted, the experts (and the IPCC) have been continually forced to reduce their estimates of climate sensitivity to CO2.
Conclusion? Much to the dismay of many, the actual "global warming" is having a significant impact on science in a way they did not want. It's just another case of those stubborn facts that so often plague the elites.
Or, to put it another way: climate doomsday is delayed for another millennium.
Fact Check: China's Modern Climate Change Evidence
China is the 4th largest country in terms of geographical size and the largest in population size. Accordingly, human-induced climate change from greenhouse trace gases would be of major concern to China's leaders. So, what does a fact check reveal of China's modern climate change due to human Co2 emissions?
Frankly, little, if any, emission impact on present climate change based on new Chinese peer-reviewed research.
The chart on the left represents a 341-year proxy temperature reconstruction for the southwest region of China.
Clearly, unprecedented temperatures occurred during the mid to late 1700s. This record shows that modern temperatures, which supposedly have been influenced by human emissions, are yet to rival temperatures from much earlier periods.
Also, one can discern a cyclical pattern that the study's scientists attributed to nature climate oscillations - trace greenhouse gases do not explain this periodical climate pattern.
The chart on the right represents a 500-year streamflow analysis for a western region of China.
Again, a pattern of constant change, from low to high to low, appears to be due to natural climate variations. The late 20th and early 21st century observations seem remarkably similar to those in the distant past, suggesting that Co2 emissions are not a factor influencing streamflow.
Fact Check: As these two studies from China indicate, modern industrial/consumer emissions from fossil fuels are not a major component of climate change. This research adds to the huge compilation of prior peer-reviewed studies that confirm modern climate change is not out of the ordinary, and highly likely due to natural causes, not human-induced as speculated my many.
Review: 2017 Empirical Evidence of Catastrophic Global Warming Per The Gold-Standard Science
Satellites, the advanced gold-standard technology that humanity has used to explore the moons, the planets, the solar system and beyond, are also widely deployed to explore Earth and its atmosphere. A key empirical satellite measurement that especially interests the scientific community is the global warming of the lower troposphere (LT) . This empirical evidence is critical to determine if catastrophic global warming beliefs are rational and deserving a response.
The widely held global warming belief is that human Co2 greenhouse gases will soon cause, via a positive feedback loop, a rapid tipping point warming of the lower atmosphere, resulting in a destruction of Earth's surface and an eventual decimation of civilization. Many who believe in this catastrophic global warming scenario even speak of the potential of Earth becoming another uninhabitable Venus.
As it turns out, satellites are situated perfectly to be the premier 24/7 monitoring system of the atmosphere, thus allowing scientists to measure and watch for a constant warming acceleration - i.e., indicating the existence of the hypothetical tipping point.
Over the last 3 full years, the satellites have measured a lower atmosphere (aka LT) temperature that has exceeded past temperatures of the previous 36 years. The same 3-year warmest temperature phenomenon has also been experienced on Earth's surface.
In the case of the lower atmosphere, the temperature rise has been about a half-degree Celsius - that's during almost 4 decades of satellite measurements. The increase possibly has raised the absolute lower atmosphere temps to about -4.0°C, which is still significantly below zero.
Conclusion #1: The absolute temperature of the lower atmosphere has not been raised significantly despite multiple decades of human Co2 emissions. The current level of LT temperatures are not likely in the least to produce an imminent global warming catastrophe, nor a feared "tipping point."
The included chart plots both the temperature anomalies (column plots) over the last 3 warm years and the moving 36-month (3-year) per century warming/cooling rate of the LT.
The global warming catastrophe premise requires that trace Co2 gases produce a positive feedback loop that creates the rapid and runaway tipping point of accelerating temperature increase.
Yet, despite the last three years being the warmest in terms of satellite measurements, the plot of the rate of global warming per century has collapsed over the last three years. Instead of the proposed positive feedback producing ever faster atmospheric temperature increases, the plot reveals a very strong warming trend that accelerated during the 2015/16 El Nino phenomenon, which then quickly decelerated to a per century trend of 4.3 degrees Celsius - and, in the recent past, similar deceleration patterns have lead to outright negative per century cooling trends.
Conclusion #2: There is absolutely zero empirical evidence from the most advanced and sophisticated scientific technology available that Co2 emissions produce a constant positive atmospheric feedback leading to an ever faster acceleration of global warming. The familiar strong acceleration and then strong deceleration repeating pattern is representative of natural climate variation, not of a human-induced runaway overheating of the climate.
Conclusion #3: Since Conclusions #1 and #2 are derived from the actual empirical science evidence, policymakers at the national, state, and local levels have no rational basis to make large expenditures and impose unnecessary regulations in an attempt to stop what has now become a fact-less, irrational, anti-science belief of human-caused catastrophic global warming and climate change "tipping points."
Notes: In the earlier version of this article, the wrong chart was used. The satellite temperature anomalies and 3-year warming trends calculated and plotted using Excel; datasets used to produce monthly anomalies in an equal-weighted combination of two satellite datasets - RSS and UAH. From Dec. 1979 to Dec. 2017, the LT anomaly increase of the combined average dataset was +0.54 degree Celsius. The satellite acceleration/deceleration climate pattern in the past has ranged from a +24.0ºC to a -23.1ºC per century trend for 36-month periods. Observed measurements represent scientific empirical evidence. Climate models are not scientific empirical evidence but instead just formula-based speculative prediction/forecasting tools that are unable to accurately portray future climate conditions. At best, climate models are 'what-if' scenario generators that are not capable of identifying the actual future 'what-if' real-world outcome.
Global Warming Temperature Change: Today vs. Yesteryear
Early 20th century global warming climate change greater during a low atmospheric CO2 environment.
The CO2-centric global warming "theory" has serious issues, including:
==> 1. it can't be proven in the real world, it's simply not verifiable
==> 2. climate models using this theory as a foundational element have proven to be unreliable
==> 3. it can't account for the the wide variation in temperature levels and changes across the globe, whether the period is short-term or long-term.
And that's not even considering all the failed catastrophic predictions that the "theory" inspires in abundance, yet never seem to come about.
In regards to bullet point #3 above, two prior posts (here and here) provide the indisputable empirical evidence that CO2 growth has not produced a constant, runaway global warming acceleration - not even close.
Then there is the salient point that the September 2017 average monthly global temperature is similar to some observed during the 1997-99 period, as noted in this article.
Clearly, CO2 is not the powerful accelerant, nor determinant, that is going to overwhelm natural warming and cooling cycles as hypothesized.
Which leads to another observation about natural global warming and climate change: past empirical evidence from earlier in the 20th century confirms that Earth's natural climate oscillations can produce periods of significant temperature change increases that even exceed the most recent temperature climate change.
Case in point: September 1944 versus September 2017, as seen on the adjacent chart.
Certainly, there is no disagreement that in 1944 the atmospheric levels of CO2 were significantly lower (311 ppm) than now (407 ppm). The amount of yearly CO2 emissions per year prior to 1944 were a fraction of today's consumer/industrial annual production of emission tonnes.
Yet the earlier global temperature changes exceed the September 2017 measurements.
For example, as the chart depicts for the 240-month (20-yr) period ending September 2017, the global temperature change was +0.08°C. In other words, after 20 years of massive CO2 emissions that's all the global warming that took place.
In contrast, the 240-month (20-Yr) period ending September 1944 was a +0.58°C global temperature change - substantially greater than recent warming.
That +0.58°C warming over the earlier 20-year period was produced by natural climate change drivers, not CO2 emissions.
As the chart reveals, every single medium and long-term period ending at September 1944 had global warming changes that exceeded their respective spans ending in September 2017. (Although not shown on the chart, this was also true for the short-term periods of 1-Yr, 2-Yr, and 3-Yr.)
And, there are other earlier extended periods prior to the 1960's, where global temperature warming change is greater than relevant recent periods.
The science is settled?
Not very likely, since it is without question that this and other climate science empirical evidence does not support, nor validate, the foundational Arrhenius greenhouse global warming theory that dominates the consensus orthodoxy.
Simply stated, it's a dog theory that has gone dogmatic without a bone of evidence. And another admission to a collection of 'those stubborn facts.'
Prior global temperature charts.
Note: Source of HadCRUT global temperature data. Excel was used to calculate/chart for the various periods of temperature change based on month endpoints of September 1944 and September 2017.
Al Gore's Apocalypse Mentor Stumbles, But Don't Fret ... End of World Just May Be Tomorrow, Maybe
Al Gore, and other shallow celebrity "intellects," have a penchant for doomsday and apocalypse predictions that today's less gullible public fall for.
That's the probable reason Gore's latest documentary failed miserably at the box office versus his first 2006 climate documentary. People have grown weary of the never ending apocalyptic scenarios that the real world reality constantly slaps down.
Unfortunately, current journalism keeps spreading this anti-scientific nonsense, such as the "Nibiru Apocalypse" which has no valid beneficial public purpose. Only the doomsday perpetrators and publishers seem to benefit.
Trump Policies Begin To Lower Obama's Unprecedented Global Warming Acceleration
'Winning': Trump team goes to work to save the planet!
The Trump administration inherited a climate change situation from the Obama presidency of an unprecedented 5-year global warming rate for the period since 1950.
During the modern era, Democrat presidencies have endangered the world with policies that boost acceleration of climate temperatures. And it's always the GOP saving the day by ushering in energy/climate policies that lowers the Earth's climbing fever.
Obama not only destroyed U.S. health care with his policies, but also came damn close to boiling the whole freaking planet, no?
And due to an unexpected electoral victory, Trump and his team will continue that long Republican tradition of "hitting the ground running," which, as the graph above shows, climate-healing has already started!
'Winning,' ain't it grand?
Prior global temperature charts.
Note: Source of HadCRUT global temperature data. Excel was used to calculate 5-year slopes (Excel slope function) for each month; then used to produce moving 10.0 year averages of the 5-year slopes.
Fact Check: Does Latest Empirical Evidence Indicate CO2 Warming Will Soon Turn Earth Into Venus?
The 'Venus' prediction - quackery or a valid climate science prediction?
There are climate doomsday proponents and alleged "experts" who fear that Earth is warming so fast that it will soon reach hothouse Venus-like temperatures, primarily due to humans continuing global emissions of CO2, a trace greenhouse gas.
To summarize this alarmist position, the feared extreme global warming and climate change would result in the demise of all humans and civilization. More recent claims of similar outcomes, include: the '6th great mass extinction' and the one referred to as the 'human extinction'.
Indeed, Venus is quite uninhabitable for humans with surface and lower atmospheric temperatures in excess of 800°F (+400°C). This planet is an extreme hothouse that had a runaway warming tipping point in its past.
But.....do the scientific facts and latest empirical evidence indicate that sort of "runaway tipping point" and extreme warming fate is even remotely possible for Earth in the future?
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As a starting point, the above chart plots the gold-standard satellite warming measurement trends of Earth's lower troposphere, and plots the cumulative CO2 increase, since 1979. (These are the rolling per century temperature trends by month.)
None of the current trends, as of the end of September 2017, reveal a significantly high acceleration of lower atmospheric warming that would indicate a Venus tipping point of runaway global warming is imminent, despite the growing amount of CO2.
From the chart, it is clear there are very abrupt changes in acceleration and deceleration of temperatures, which strongly suggest powerful natural climate factors are in the driver's seat, not human CO2 emissions. The chart depicts short-term warming trend peaks that correlate well with recent and prior El Niño warming periods.
Focusing just on the above chart's 12-month (bright red curve) and 24-month (bright blue) and 36-month (bright green) trends, one can visualize the quick shifts in atmospheric temperature direction, from warming to cooling and then back to warming.
Again, these abrupt trend changes are associated with known short-term natural climate forces.
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The long-term 20-year acceleration shown alone in this above chart confirms that the short-term changes in acceleration/deceleration are somewhat reflected in the longer trends but with a much reduced variation - i.e. - a smaller trend range.
Instead of a huge trend range of +80 degrees per century acceleration or a -80 degrees per century acceleration, the 20-year trend variation is much narrower, from +0.5 to +2.5 degrees per century.
And this satellite 20-year trend evidence confirms that the longer temperature trend has actually declined since a March 2004 peak, indicating that its relationship with the steady growth trend of atmospheric CO2 is rather weak, at best. One could surmise it's more of an inverse relationship during this time span.
Or, one could surmise that this reflects the proven and much investigated 'pause' in global warming.
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Going back again to shorter term trends, this above graph represents the moving 12-month trends over the critical 31 months for the last 2 major El Niños: 1998 and 2016. The 16-month mark is the peak 12-month trend for each event. Plus, each temperature trend plot includes the 15 months prior to the peak, and after the peak.
Based on the gold-standard empirical evidence, it can safely be said that the increased atmospheric CO2 levels of 2016 had little acceleration impact, if any, since the earlier period - at a much lower level CO2 - exhibited greater atmospheric temperature acceleration.
Fact Check Conclusion: Large increases in atmospheric CO2 levels, be they from natural or human sources, are not turning Earth into the next Venus. The prediction of a Venus-like runaway warming future is quackery.
In the scheme of important global priorities and concerns, the accelerated warming of Earth due to CO2 emission should not even rank in a list of priorities, per the real empirical evidence.
(It truly does make one wonder why really smart people would be tempted to utter such anti-science 'Venus' nonsense. Or, why they choose to ignore the known empirical evidence and scientific research challenging the wrongheaded Gore orthodoxy.)
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Okay, this one last chart to put the entire Venus vs. Earth comparison into proper context.
On an annual basis, Earth's lower troposphere (5km high) averages around -4.25°C. In contrast, the Venus lower troposphere (5km) temp is around +430°C. The above chart reveals the gigantic difference in these temperature levels.
Obviously, Earth's LT temps are not accelerating to match the outlandish Venus temps, even after 30 years of large scale industrial/consumer CO2 emissions.
One reason that we are not becoming the next Venus is that its atmosphere is 96% CO2. In comparison, our atmosphere is less than one-tenth of 1% composed of CO2. And even if our CO2 levels doubled, it would still be less than one-tenth of 1% of the atmosphere.
The actual known laboratory physics indicates Earth's temps will only increase between 1-2°C after a CO2 doubling - not some 400+ degrees.
In addition, Venus is a lot closer to the sun and its rotation is 243 Earth days, not 24 hours - it is basically baking in the solar furnace all the time.
And Venus has an atmospheric pressure that is some 90 times greater than Earth's, which is going to create incredible hot temperatures on its own.
Simply stated: Earth will not turn into Venus unless a major catastrophic event (asteroid, comet, an alien 'tractor' beam weapon, etc.) changes Earth's position in the solar system.
Note: Excel used to calculate averages, rolling month trends, the resultant per century trends, and to chart the dataset plots. Lower troposphere (LT) temperature satellite datasets - RSS and UAH - an equal weighting monthly average dataset used in chart's plot; NOAA's atmospheric CO2 dataset. For Earth vs. Venus comparison: a 30yr baseline was calculated from this UAH file of daily Kelvin temps and then monthly UAH LT anomalies applied to result in absolute temps for each month from 1979. Venus 5km LT absolute temps found on this web page.
'The Federalist' Embraces Doomsday Rhetoric: Proves That It's Not Only Greens & Lefties Pushing Global Alarmism
"Journalist" Julie Kelly of The Federalist must have been trained at Al Gore's alarmist knee by predicting that a ban of Monsato's Roundup® 'could lead to a global food crisis.'
In her article, she provides zero empirical evidence for her claims about the future, much like the shameful and egregious tactics of Master Gore himself.
Other than using hearsay and anecdotal evidence and selective opinions, there's not much substance to her entire article's body, including the last paragraph of pure speculations:
"...destroying the livelihood of European farmers, disrupting the international food supply, and potentially causing a food crisis in Europe."
And like the really ugly side of Gorism, she ladles her article with smears of persons and organizations, instead of just sticking to a factual account of what is being alleged.
And, she could have added some real value to the debate if she had actually spent some time discussing the contested scientific viewpoints in a manner that did not represent her obviously shallow, very one-sided representation.
After 8 years of Obama-science and mainstream media press release science reporting, one gets awful tired of seeing this type of claptrap.
I consider 'The Federalist' a worthy conservative voice that brings some much needed rational discussion to a wide variety of subjects. Unfortunately, this article is well below their standards.
Conservative outlets preaching alarmism and doomsday-crap is not in the least helpful when skeptics are constantly battling the greens' penchant for doing so on an almost daily basis.
Study Debunks "97% Consensus" Scare: Corals Prosper In Conditions of Warming & Acidification
"Reef-building corals thrive within hot-acidified and deoxygenated waters".
That is the title of a recently published peer-reviewed scientific study.
And that title pretty much sums up the study findings that corals exposed to greater natural extremes prosper as well as those exposed to less harsh conditions.
Be it extreme water temperatures, extreme acidity, and/or extreme deoxygenation, corals exhibit a real world adaptability to survive and thrive that is in contrast to long-held dogma of laboratory researchers.
CO2science.org has an informative write-up of the study, including the adjacent charts and the below summation.
"Consequently, in light of all of the above, it would be wise for policy makers to give more consideration to the impacts of ocean acidification and warming as observed from natural environment analogs as opposed to more restrictive laboratory based analyses. And when such consideration is given, it appears that corals are well equipped to deal with future changes in their environment, be they naturally or anthropogenically induced."
Of course, popular doomsday prophets continue to badger policymakers and the public with frightful scenarios that human CO2 emissions will destroy, or already have destroyed, the planet's coral reefs.
Yet, the growing volume of actual scientific research, such as this highlighted study, clearly refutes the falsity of such alarmist prophecies.
The below link list of coral reef articles, which examine recent research and empirical evidence refuting the popularized orthodox doom-dogma; and have been completely ignored by MSM fake-news operations since they prove the fear-mongering is nothing more than that.
- "Scientists surprised that reef that survived the hotter holocene is already recovering from 2016 bleaching"
- "How climate scientists mislead the world about the great barrier reef"
- "The End of the Ocean Acidification Scare for Corals"
- "Scientists are stunned by corals as big as cars and thriving marine life at Bikini Atoll site where 23 atomic bombs were dropped"
- "University researcher makes deep-sea coral reefs discovery in depths of the North-Pacific"
- "The Future Fate of Coral Calcification in a CO2-Enriched World"
- "Corals Found Deep in The Ocean Produce Their Own Sunlight to Survive"
- "Great Barrier Reef: 2016 Coral Cover Loss and Local Sea Level Fall"
- "Coral Reef Sophistry"
- "Coral Reefs, Temperature and Ocean pH"
These listed reviews of scientific research and analyses indisputably destroy the "97% consensus" alarmism that anti-science prophets of doom spew, including that of Al Gore, Cameron Diaz, Bill McKibben, Emma Watson, Obama, Leo DiCaprio, Chuck Schumer, Jessica Alba, Mark Ruffalo, Pharrell Williams, Michael Mann, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and many other celebrities.
In essence, these celebrity "experts" essentially repeat simple scare-mongering of global warming and climate change without the merits of any known empirical evidence research. Again, they actually spew anti-science.
Besides the selection of 2017 article titles noted above, there is an abundance of peer-reviewed studies stretching back over the years in regards to coral scientific research that debunks coral reef alarmism.
Additional 'C3' articles of peer-reviewed research.
2017 Hurricane Season: Empirical Evidence Confirms Activity Not Unprecedented - Overall, Close To Average
2017 saw the first major hurricanes strike the continental U.S in Texas and Florida in almost 12 years, with multiple Caribbean islands, including Puerto Rico, suffering major hurricane damage. Certainly hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria will be long remembered by residents of the respective devastated areas.
Although the lengthy span of no major hurricanes was quite unexpected and unusual for many weather observers, has that now somehow made the 2017 hurricane season 'unusual' and 'unprecedented' in the scientific context?
The factual answer to that is simple: 'no'.
The 2017 season has not been very exceptional when compared against the historical empirical evidence, as hurricane science expert, Philip Klotzbach, clearly documents - see the adjacent table images.
As the top table shows, so far the very busy 2017 season in the Atlantic basin does exceed the 1981-2010 median of various measurements; but the last 2 columns of the table depict a 2017 season (so far) that is not very 'unusual' or 'exceptional' when compared against the hurricane season activity records stretching back to 1851.
To summarize, the 2017 season in the Atlantic region is not even ranked among the top 5 historically in 6 of 7 key metrics (so far) through mid-October.
In the bottom table, Klotzbach depicts the entire Northern Hemisphere's 2017 tropical cyclone activity versus the activity for the 1981-2010 period.
Two words to describe the 2017 Northern Hemisphere's season in historical context: rather mundane.
"While Atlantic has obviously had very active #hurricane season, N. Hemisphere has experienced average TC activity by most metrics to date."
Unfortunately, despite this clear empirical evidence, the climate change and global warming doomsday alarmists attempt to portray the 2017 season as a sign of CO2-induced climate catastrophe - and that is not being well accepted by the actual hurricane experts (here, here, here) who have been on the front lines of tropical cyclone activity and impact research.
It's another case of 'those stubborn facts' deflating the typical over-the-top hyperbole and exaggerations from 'greens' who represent the extreme loons and left-wing fringe anti-science ignorance and/or propaganda.
Of course, this not the final word on the 2017 season. It is not over and could make those above 'so-fars' quite irrelevant.
Climate Doomsday Science: Study Finds That Worm Farts Could Be The Tipping Point
Worm greenhouse emissions (primarily methane) from our global ocean sediment buddies could lead to that proverbial tipping point - initiating a runaway global warming and catastrophic climate change scenario.
"The findings, which have been published in the journal Scientific Reports, point to a so far neglected source of greenhouse gases in the sea and could have a profound impact on decision makers."
One wonders if this is the missing causal link that climate models need to incorporate in order to address their continued prediction failure?
Included in this simply remarkable study are the methane emissions of clams. Certainly, the gaseous output from these two sea creatures will be disastrous for the world.
It should be obvious that these scientists need a lot more $$$ funding to determine the total extent of global ocean farting, which as they say:
"...implying that globally, apparently harmless bivalve animals at the bottom of the world’s oceans may in fact be contributing ridiculous amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere that is unaccounted for.”...“These small yet very abundant animals may play an important, but so far neglected, role in regulating the emissions of greenhouse gases in the sea.”
And then there is certainly the expensive research needed to determine if land-based worms, as pictured above, are another doomsday greenhouse culprit. If yes, big monies will be required to fund Monsanto so that a new class of global-warming pesticides can be brought to market in time to save civilization and our human species.
Or, like so many other climate "science" studies, maybe this one also isn't worth a fart.
Catalonia: New Study Confirms Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Events During Cold Weather
Yet another study confirms the increased heart risk due to cold weather spells.
The study reviewed Catalonia emergency room admissions of those with cardiovascular events during both heat waves and cold waves. The total number of heart incidents was substantially higher during periods of cold versus warm/hot weather.
Per the study's analysis:
"...they used the self-controlled case series statistical methodology to assess the relative incidence rate ratios (IRRs) of hospitalizations during the hot and cold waves in comparison to reference time periods with normal temperature exposure. Heat waves were defined as a period of at least 3 days in July and August in which the daily maximum temperatures were higher than the 95th percentile of daily maximum temperature for those two months. Cold waves were similarly defined as periods of at least 3 days in January and February when daily minimum temperatures were lower than the 95th percentile of daily minimum temperatures for those two months. IRRs were adjusted for age, time interval and air pollution. The number of hospitalizations due to cardiovascular diseases during January and February over the period of study was 22,611, whereas there were only 17,017 during July and August."
The red outline rectangle in the above image reveals the much reduced number of cardiovascular events during warmer weather.
Couple the increased cardiovascular incidence during the cold months along with the increased incidence of influenza/colds/pneumonia during the same periods, it becomes overwhelmingly obvious that any type of global climate warming brings welcome relief from major health concerns and potential death due to the hands of colder temperature weather.
"And this being the case, perhaps we should all pray for a little global warming."
Additional peer-reviewed studies regarding health benefits of warmer weather and climates.
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- 4 Modern Temps: Accelerating, Dangerous or Not?
- 5 Modern Temps: Unprecedented or Similar To Past?
- AGW: Alarmism, Doomsday Cult, Hysteria
- AGW: Atmospheric, Ocean Oscillations
- AGW: Diseases, Poverty, Starvation, Death
- AGW: Drought, Flood, Crop Failure, Forest Fires
- AGW: Dust, Sandstorms, Desertification
- AGW: Earthquakes, Volcanos, Tsunamis
- AGW: Geoengineering, Carbon Sequestration, etc.
- AGW: Glaciers, Polar Ice Sheets, Sea Ice, Permafrost
- AGW: Global Cooling, Pause, Hiatus, Plateau
- AGW: Greenhouse Gases CO2, Methane, Water Vapor
- AGW: Heat Wave, Cold Wave, Temp Extremes
- AGW: Hurricanes, Tornados, Cyclones, Typhoons
- AGW: Oceans Rising, Warming, Acidifying
- AGW: Positive & Negative Feedbacks, Sensitivity
- AGW: Rain, Snow, Wind, Hail, Fog
- AGW: Severe Weather Events
- AGW: Species Extinction, Polar, Coral, etc.
- AGW: Sun, Solar, Cosmic, UV, Orbital
- AGW: Temperature - Instrumental Records
- AGW: Temperature - Proxy Records
- AGW: Terrorism, Wars, Riots, Rebellions
- AGW: Tropical & Boreal Forests, Tundra
- Big Government Control, Regs, Taxes, Subsidies
- Charts/Images/PDFs/EmbedVids
- Climate Change History
- Climate Change Models, Computer Simulations, Scenarios
- Cronies, Politicians, Partisans, Hacks, Politics
- Deceivers, Deniers, Hypocrites, Liars, Shills
- Democrats, Elites, Progressives, Liberals, Socialists
- Energy Savings: Electric Vehicles, Batteries & Other
- Energy: Fossil, Nuclear, Hydro, Other Power
- Energy: Green Renewable, Intermittent Power
- Failed Predictions, Guesstimates, Forecasts
- Greens: Religion, Authoritarian, Fascism, Totalitarianism
- Harm To Science Credibility/Reputation
- Hockey-Stick Science, Cherry Picking, Fabrication
- Mainsteam Media Bias/Distortion/Deceit
- Non-Climate Issues
- Public Polls, Surveys
- Republicans, Conservatives, Libertarians
- Topical Headlines
- UN/World Govt: Agenda, Propaganda, IPCC, Treaties
- Videos/Podcasts
- Xtra Catg: Are Coral Reefs Dying/Endangered
- Xtra Catg: Are Ice Sheets Going To Disappear
- Xtra Catg: Are Leftists/Elites/Libs Violent, Repressive, Deceitful, Corrupt, Stupid
- Xtra Catg: Are Oceans Becoming Acidic
- Xtra Catg: Are Oceans Rising
- Xtra Catg: Are Oceans Warming
- Xtra Catg: Are Polar Bears At Risk
- Xtra Catg: Are Wealthy Investors Global Warming Hypocrites/Liars/Crooks
- Xtra Catg: Bad Science, Quackery, Unicorns
- Xtra Catg: Big Govt
- Xtra Catg: Can CO2-Based Energy Be Easily Replaced
- Xtra Catg: Can Global Temperatures Be Reduced or Controlled
- Xtra Catg: Can Scientists Predict Climate Results
- Xtra Catg: Cancun/Copenhagen/Durban Global Warming Fiascoes
- Xtra Catg: Cap & Trade/Carbon Offsets/Carbon Taxes
- Xtra Catg: Climate Fraud/Lies, Climategate, Fakegate
- Xtra Catg: Connect The Dots
- Xtra Catg: Developing Nations/Impoverished Peoples/Poverty
- Xtra Catg: Does the public accept/reject alarmism
- Xtra Catg: Global Warming: Black Carbon/Soot/Aerosols
- Xtra Catg: Global Warming: Evidence-Facts Vs. CO2-AGW
- Xtra Catg: Global Warming: Geoengineering
- Xtra Catg: Global Warming: Jobs/Profits/Taxes/Reparations
- Xtra Catg: Global Warming: Kyoto/Regulations/Sustainability
- Xtra Catg: Global Warming: Non-CO2 Climate Change Causes
- Xtra Catg: Global Warming: Science Corruption/Censorship/Deceit
- Xtra Catg: Global Warming: Science Error/Speculation/Fiction
- Xtra Catg: Global Warming: Science Fact/Evidence
- Xtra Catg: Global Warming: Urban Heat Island Bias
- Xtra Catg: Green Idiocy/Fraud/Crony/Shill
- Xtra Catg: Hysteria: Climate Tipping Points, Alarmist Predictions
- Xtra Catg: Obama's America
- Xtra Catg: Science / Academia Journals Bias/Distortion
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