Here in Michigan USA, last year (2018 / 2019) was an unusually cold winter.
This year (2019 / 2020), so far, we’ve had an unusually warm winter.
In January 2019, we used 23.7 thousand cubic feet (McF) of natural gas to heat our home.
In January 2020, we used 16.0 thousand cubic feet (McF) of natural gas to heat our home, a 32.5% reduction year over year.
Our home thermostat was set at 68 degrees F. both years, and there is no other explanation for the large reduction EXCEPT that the month January 2020 was much warmer !
We love that !
Because global warming is good news.
+1.5 degrees C. is good news.
+2.0 degrees C. is better news.
+3.0 degrees C. is the best news.
+2.0 degrees C. is better news.
+3.0 degrees C. is the best news.
Our planet supports the most life when it is warm, and has high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Only fools would want a colder planet, with less CO2 in the air.
Global average temperature guesses for the 1700′s and 1800s will have large margins of error — at least +/-1 degree C.
And those wild guesses are being used to set government policies ?
Hard to believe human beings could be so dumb, or so brainwashed.
The real debate, completely ignored, is whether global warming is good news or bad news.
There has been lots of global warming since the 1690s, during the Maunder Minimum.
Probably at least +2 degree C.
I say that was 100% good news.
Has anyone been hurt by the slight warming ?
I say no one — please submit specific names if you think a few degrees C. of warming since the 1690s has hurt any actual people.
So why would a continuation of that 325+ years of intermittent warming suddenly become bad news?
Or a climate crisis?
Or a climate emergency?
Or a climate catastrophe?
It would not.
It would not.
The only REAL existential threat is a gross over-reaction to a non-existent climate problem.
We live in a wonderful climate, that people living in the 1690s prayed for.
Yet we don’t even appreciate living in the best climate for humans, animals and plants in 800 to 1,000 years, since before the Little Ice Age centuries !
The next major climate change is very likely to be the end of the current, warm Holocene interglacial.
When that happens, people will look back at today’s climate, and correctly see “the good old days”.