Climate alarmists
have been telling us,
for many years, that
almost every year
is the hottest year
“on record”.
They fail to mention
our planet has had
repeated multi-hundred
year cooling trends
followed by
warming trends,
based on studies of
Antarctica ice cores.
They fail to mention
that surface temperature
measurement records
started in 1880,
DURING a warming
trend, that began
in the 1690s.
That means ALL global
average temperature
statistics were compiled
DURING a warming trend.
And what should we
expect to happen
during a warming trend,
until it ends, and a cooling
trend begins ?
What should happen
is that we should have
repeated years that are
"hottest years on record".
Hottest year records
ONLY tell us the
warming trend since the
1690s is still in progress !
Since it was very cold
in the 1690s, global
warming since then
is very good news !
Based on long term
temperature data
from Central England,
the global average
temperature
has increased
by at least
+2 degrees C.,
since the 1690s.
A higher level
of CO2 in the air
can not explain
most of that
harmless global
warming.
And that 325 years
of global warming
does NOT support
the common claim
that CO2 levels are
the "control knob"
of the global average
temperature.
The contiguous
United States,
has the best
surface weather
station records.
Yet last year
was not very
impressive:
2019 was only the
11th warmest year
out of the past
16 years !
Real science
is complicated.
Real science depends
on testable hypotheses,
and unbiased, accurate
data.
Many questions
lack answers.
Real science has
nothing to do with
who shouts loudest,
makes the scariest
predictions, and gets
the most attention
from the mass media.
The climate alarmists
prefer simple narratives
-- junk science --
blaming all the warming
on CO2, and related gases.
Then claiming
a good guess
about the future
CO2 level
is all they need
to predict the
future climate.
That's malarkey,
but so is the claim
that AFTER having
325 years of mild
global warming,
that was 100%
good news,
SUDDENLY
any additional
global warming
will be 100%
bad news !
In plain English,
that's what we
have been told
... since the 1980s !
It's unfortunate
that so many
leftists believe
their fairy tale.
They believe
having leftist
governments
is the ONLY way
to save us from
the coming
climate change
'hell on Earth',
that only exists
in their overactive
imaginations.
Of course leftists
wanted to govern
the entire planet
long before
they invented the
CO2 boogeyman.
They can now say
they don't WANT
lots of political power
simply because they
are smarter than you,
so you need them
to micromanage
your life.
Now they virtue
signal, saying
that they NEED
lots of political power
to "save the planet
for the children" !
Emotional propaganda.
Our planet
does not
need saving
-- that's just
a self-serving
leftist drive
for more
political power.
If leftists really
cared about
the environment,
they would focus
on real pollution
in China, India,
and many other
Asian nations,
that they
currently
could not care
less about !