Thursday morning climate rap

Since I became interested in climate science, back in 1997, I've found far too few articles looking at where, and when, the actual warming since the 1970s happened.

On this blog, for the past seven years, I have argued that a single global average temperature is a statistic, not a temperature that anyone lives in.

If climate change was ever a problem for people, it would be from large changes in their local climate -- not some global average.

I added that the actual "global" warming since the 1970s was mild and harmless, completely unlike the predictions of rapid, dangerous warming -- predictions that seemed to have started in the late 1950s.

In addition, the actual warming 

since the 1970s, was:

(a) Mainly in the northern half of the Northern Hemisphere, ( see warming latitude chart at end of this article )

(b) Mainly in the six coldest months of the year, and 

( see chart below, for the best example of winter warming )

(b) Mainly at night.

 

Based on the locations, and timing, with the most warming, it was actually beneficial warming.

And that's even better than looking ONLY at what a single global average temperature suggests  ( mild, harmless warming ).

We have had mild warming here in southeastern Michigan since the 1970s, although NOT so far in 2021. 

More noticeable because we've lived in the same home since 1987, and four miles south of here from 1980 to 1987.

If you move frequently, it's much harder to notice a small change in the climate over 40 years.

We loved the mild warming in Michigan, mainly noticed in the winters. 

And we want more warming. 

So I admit to being biased in favor of more warming. 

I love global warming.

If I allowed comments here, the green zealots would plaster the article with false comments, and their deluded green visions of climate doom. 

They would say:

-- CO2 is the temperature control knob,  and

-- A climate crisis is coming (the same malarkey we've been hearing for the past 64 years, since oceanographer Roger Revelle started the warnings).

Of course Revelle was a scientist in the good old days, when scientists had uncertainty. 

 

Back in the 1950s, scientists didn't wave their arms wildly, to get attention from the mass media, while predicting climate doom ... that will never happen. 

 

Global warming since 1880 (first chart) and global warming by latitude (second chart):