Posted on 09/06/2023 5:46:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Heatwaves, droughts and wildfires struck Asia, Africa, Europe and North America over the last three months, with dramatic impact on economies, ecosystems and human health.
The average global temperature in June, July and August was 16.77 degrees Celsius, smashing the previous 2019 record of 16.48C, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a report.
"The three months that we've just had are the warmest in approximately 120,000 years, so effectively human history," C3S deputy director Samantha Burgess told AFP.
"Climate breakdown has begun," said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
"Scientists have long warned what our fossil fuel addiction will unleash," he added. "Our climate is imploding faster than we can cope, with extreme weather events hitting every corner of the planet."
The C3S findings came from computer-generated analyses using billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world.
Proxy data such as tree rings and ice cores allow scientists to compare modern temperatures with figures before records began in the mid-19th century.
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So, a 0.29 degree Celsius (or about 1/2 a degree Fahrenheit) is a major change, proof that the earth is hotter than ever? These temperature changes touted as absolute proof that humanity is causing the planet to cook are so small as to be buried in background variation. How am I supposed to believe that a tiny fluctuation in temperature is real, or that background variation is so small that 0.29 degrees is a clear unambiguous increase?
"The three months that we've just had are the warmest in approximately 120,000 years, so effectively human history
So, then, the earth was hotter more than 120,000 years ago. I seriously doubt that we have the ability to measure temperatures in the past with such granularity. We can say that the earth was warmer in the time of the dinosaurs, but that is a qualitative statement, not quantitative. There is no way to measure or derive an exact temperature that occurred in the past. Even comparing temperatures recorded during history with current temperatures is problematic. They didn't have accurate thermometers hundreds of years ago, and I don't think they calibrated them since the technology for doing so did not exist.
I wonder why these doom-and-gloom claims are only based on northern hemisphere measurements?
And, finally, where is the evidence that humans can alter the entire global temperature? While removing vegetation does create hotspots (such as in cities), does that really affect areas that are not near the cities? Why should I believe that long-term changes in earth temperature are caused by anything other than natural cycles, such as solar activity and variations in earth orbit?
Yep.
Thats the first I’ve heard of that.
Large explosive undersea volcanoes in the South Pacific blow off on a fairly regular (geologic) basis. That one last year was an amazing demonstration of how insignificant humans are when it comes to affecting the climate. It’s as if the planet said, “Hold my beer and watch this.”
Take a look at the videos from space on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hunga_Tonga–Hunga_Haʻapai_eruption_and_tsunami
It’s funny, we have these types in the South Pacific—and the smokey ones in Iceland. It’s almost as if the planet “self regulates.” Imagine that. LOL
Hot? We’ve already had snow on the nearby mountains, I’ve had to turn the heater on several times during the past week.
Considering the very wet summer we’ve had, which some attribute to that volcano, I am beginning to suspect we’re going to have an incredibly wet and snowy winter, at least out west. Right now, we’ve already had snow on the mountains, no fires this year as there’s been so much rain, everything is green, there are flowers blooming in the desert.
Obviously no one is looking at the the 1930s when in the US temperatures soared and prolonged drought created a dust bowl in the Midwest. My mother remembered the summers of 1933 and 1934 as being especially hot with daytime temperatures frequently over 120 degrees in South Dakota. My father remembered being in Omaha when the dust storms blocked out the sun so that the street lights were needed in mid day. Somehow the climate catastrophe of the Dirty Thirties always seems to be ignored
It’s all about control and we did it very well.
Skiing was still going on July 4th near Reno
IF a major amount of this is really due to the Tonga Volcano-—WAIT until 4++ more volcanoes join the party.
That's cute. Funny how that works. Meanwhile, your parents were making sure you were safe.
Different times. Today's parents are encouraging their children (Munchausen by proxy) to get physically mutilated to change gender.
Much of the natural warming is due to water vapor in the atmosphere ... not a whole lot you can do about that!
Man has been scientifically recording earth temps for a few hundred years.
Actually, I think the first effort at a global understanding of temperature started in 1979 with the arrival of weather satellites. The US National Weather Service didn’t start until 1890.
5 will get you 10 that next year we’ll have a record or near-record cool summer.
>>>2023 likely to be hottest year humanity has experienced
Here comes the BS!
This may be true.
Here's a history of thermometer use from its infancy: https://www.thoughtco.com/the-history-of-the-thermometer-1992525
2023 likely to be hottest year humanity has experienced
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Prove that.
Show me the detailed records for the past 6,000 years.
Isn't every Summer, (according to MSM brainwashers), the hottest one "humanity" has ever experienced?
Speaking of "humanity" -Isn't it Winter in the southern hemisphere now? Are they included in this hot "humanity" ?
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