Posted on 07/24/2023 6:43:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The hysteria was started when climate sensationalist media outlets in Germany and elsewhere, like the Relotius Spiegel, uncritically cited a sloppily and manipulatively formulated July 13 report from the European Space Agency (ESA), that first referred to “air” temperature:
"Temperatures are sizzling across Europe this week amid an intense and prolonged period of heat. And it’s only just begun. Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland are all facing a major heatwave with air temperatures expected to climb to 48°C on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia – potentially the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Europe.”
The original ESA report continued, only later specifying that it was in fact referring to surface temperature (emphasis added):
"The animation below uses data from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission’s radiometer instrument and shows the land surface temperature across Italy between 9 and 10 July. As the image clearly shows, in some cities the surface of the land exceeded 45°C, including Rome, Naples, Taranto and Foggia. Along the east slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily, many temperatures were recorded as over 50°C.”
Meant here were not the standard temperatures recorded at 2 meters above ground level that we always here in daily weather reports, which are much cooler, but rather those right at the ground surface. That crucial difference went totally unnoticed by media and journalists, who reported of new record high temperatures. By the time the ploy was exposed by careful readers, the news had already gone around the world.
Yesterday, the ESA issued a (vague) clarification explaining the difference between surface and air temperature at 2 meters above ground, yet continued to mislead:
"Land surface temperature is how hot the ‘surface’ of Earth feels to the touch. Air temperature, given in our daily weather forecasts, is a measure of how hot the air is above the ground.”
The ESA did not bother to mention how the surface temperature is much hotter than the 2 meter air temperature.
SNIP
Meat Prices Will Triple in the Coming Weeks as Grocery Stores Struggle With Shortages.
All they do is destroy their own credibility in all other matters.
The sun will be getting hotter for the next two years and will likely take another couple years to cool down again. It's likely it's going to be hotter over the next few years. The climate alarmist will use this to their advantage to spread climate hysteria.
The “experts” say if you get rid of your gas generators and stoves, drink cockroach milk and eat cricket powder the sun won’t be so hot.
It’s science.
Has anyone noticed that the daylight hours have been getting longer? My scientific® model predicts that within less than 1 year we’ll be in permanent sunlight!!!
(For our southern hemisphere friends; You have a whole different problem.)
Pretty sure I heard this theory from Rush.
That’s 118.4 degrees in American.
Never going to happen; did not happen.
I lived 2 years in the Apulia province in Italy (San Vito dei Normani Air Station). It can get near 100-105 on some Summer days, which is NORMAL.
It’s the well documented 11 year Solar Cycle.
The Canadian wildfires are dumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere as well as other greenhouse gases not to mention making breathing difficult in large parts of this country. However, the climate change cult seems strangely silent despite the atmospheric pollution being visible. Could it be that socialist PM Trudeau is beyond criticism because of his support of the radical climate change cult?
Was it Algore that had a map saying a part of a Great Lake was 500C ,LOL
A surface temperature would depend on whether or not the sun was hitting it and its color. Go to a parking lot and feel a white car and feel a dark colored car. Huge difference.
Is there enough sun spots now that the Amateur Radio 10M band is open now?
I let my Radio license lapse, this may get me to take the tests again.
And just in time. The marxists can grab all the power while the sun warms up ban everything they want, then, when it cools, they can say “behold, we have cooled the planet,” and take even more freedom.
Wait so pavement is hotter than the surrounding air? No way.
Shocked...shocked I tell you.😱
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118 degrees CAN happen, if you measure the surface temperature of asphalt.
They were dinged for changing how they measured temperatures, “surface temperature” vs the prior standard of “2 meters above surface”.
Much of the presently-reported “warming” is due to urban expansion that puts monitoring stations that used to be over grass, now over concrete. WattsUpWithThat documented that decades ago. The response of the government was to make private the locations of monitoring stations.
Thanks. I go to WattsUpWithThat every day! Great site, and Anthony is a treasure!
One of the articles I’m talking about, showing placment of temperature monitoring station on asphalt.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/11/how-not-to-measure-temperature-part-90/
ESAD
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