Posted on 08/01/2021 4:22:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Every year, climate-change enthusiasts tell us the earth is getting hotter.
Every year, climate-change enthusiasts tell us the earth is getting hotter. Phys.org warned the world, “New 'hottest year on record' likely to occur in the next five years.”
C2ES informed readers, “It’s certain: The Earth is getting warmer, and human activity is largely to blame.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ headline read, “Broken record: The planet is getting hotter. And hotter. And hotter.”
But are we really observing record hot years consecutively? While global warming is real and has been happening since the end of the Little Ice Age in the 18th century, the claims surrounding unprecedented temperatures are, at best, highly dubious.
Reality and some climate-change claims differ as much as day and night. Here are two examples.
Strange Things: Readjusted Data Points
A few official agencies across the globe that are widely considered “leaders” or “authoritative” in disseminating climate data.
Among them are the Met Office in the UK and top U.S. state agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
However, these agencies have used their near-invincible status to adjust climate data points as they please, often resulting in an exaggerated warming trend.
NASA has been found to have adjusted past temperature data downward in order to make the present temperature levels look comparatively warmer.
In July 2021, geologist Roger Higgs demonstrated how NASA lowered the 2016 data point for annual global mean temperature. NASA carried out the supposed downward shifting of data points so that the temperature levels for 2020 (which were about the same as 2016) would now appear more extreme. Higgs revealed the downward shifting on Researchgate.
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“Ok...is that good or bad?”
Depends what part of country. In my area it is good. Out West and down South with crops burning from heat not so much.
Then somebody discovered that it just so happened to coincide with the start of The Industrial Age, and sold the snake oil to convince people that somehow the two things were related.
Not to mention all the stations that started out in the middle of fields and are now surrounded by asphalt, or the ones right next to an A/C condenser unit.
No, since the end of the last BIG ice age, about 12,000 years ago.
Nothing in the earth’s atmosphere controls climate.
Climate is a function of solar radiation heating the earth’s surface. And the circulation of the ocean currents disperse the heated water from the equatorial regions towards the polar regions. So the moon plays a critical part in climate.
The atmosphere? Nothing. Nothing at all. The atmosphere merely converts climate into weather and puffs it around the world.
It really isn’t complicated.
Earth, or at least the northern hemisphere, has been getting gradually warmer at a steady rate since the last ice age. Man is to blame because there were men existing during the last ice age. Before that ice age was global cooling also caused by men because they were not using enough paleolithic fossil fuels.
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