We not only have to pay steep taxes, but we also need to buy our carbon credits from Al Gore.
I’m remiss in my duties. I never bought my carbon credits.
Heck I never even contributed to the Clinton Foundation. I’m in big trouble with the powers that be.
It will always be record warm somewhere so these stories can be churned out until there is no further interest in the subject. But average temperatures are only creeping up very slightly, so the actual impacts are smaller than claimed.
Higher temperatures in places like India and Pakistan are not that surprising given the rapid growth in population and urbanization. The urban heat islands are fuelled not only by human energy use but also by changes in the surface albedo, as formerly green spaces become paved.
I think the truth lies somewhere between the alarmist global warming theory and the “sun only driver” camp which fails to understand second order variations. The sun is not the only driver of temperature trends, it depends on air mass distribution, changes in the circulation. But the sun’s contribution is large and right now is somewhat negative compared to the period 1981-2010 which forms the basis of our “normal” climate.
It’s interesting also that cloud cover has increased due to jet contrails. Where I live, the sky today would be almost 100% clear in this weather situation fifty or a hundred years ago, but instead there is about a 20-30 per cent high overcast from old contrails that have spread out (I am watching them doing that, not just a guess). Those can reduce the temperatures slightly although it’s probably not much of a factor overall.