Global cooling is a sign of global warming?

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https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2022/02/02/cooling-is-a-sign-of-warming/

"It is an established principle that all climate news is bad, and all bad news is climate.

But still, Wired magazine takes it up a notch by wailing that “The World Was Cooler in 2021 Than 2020.

That’s Not Good News”. Author Matt Simon, a “science journalist“ with an AB in “English, communications”, explains that it was La Niña plus the lockdown and anyway it’s still really hot.

As for El Niño having created the spike La Niña is now erasing, um, never mind that silly old current. ...

How reliable is the rule that all climate news is bad?

Well, a new study says that the ocean surrounding Antarctica contains a surprising amount of CO2, perhaps half of the total in all the world’s oceans,

and storms cause it to fizz especially hard, which you might think is a natural process that might possibly be driving atmospheric CO2.

But you’d be wrong, because “There has been a lack of knowledge about these complex processes” according to study co-author Sebastiaan Swart of the University of Gothenburg and co-author of the study.

But of course although we don’t know, we do: “climate change is expected to result in more intense storms in the future.” ...

Speaking of oceans, let scientists discover a pristine new coral reef off Tahiti, suggesting the warmer waters are full of such wonders unharmed by climate breakdown,

and as Climate Realism points out, CNN duly retorts yeah well climate change will soon do it in unless we repent and change our sinful ways.

And if you’re wondering about the lockdown, well, Wired explains that it’s all bad news too.

It’s not that we produced less CO2 and got a break.

“The pandemic-based drop in carbon dioxide production didn’t have a cooling effect.

Human civilization produces so much of the planet-warming gas every year, and it persists so long in the atmosphere, that the pandemic didn’t even register as a blip.”

Which is an interesting way of saying that atmospheric CO2 seems not to be correlated with human emissions after all, without any hint that natural forces might be at work instead.

So what does seem be the lockdown problem?

... Simon assures us that we resumed our polluting ways in 2021, cranking out aerosols that cool the planet which is just as bad as cranking out GHGs that warm the planet, or worse because apparently they don’t.

Meanwhile at CDN we recently cited a study showing that as aerosol production is much higher in the northern than southern hemispheres, if they had a strong cooling effect we’d see the south warming a lot faster which it’s not.

But such things do not distract our intrepid author.

Instead he says the last eight years were the hottest on record, using NASA’s sanitized data to prevent the 1930s from usurping that title, and ignoring the record prior to 1850 totally.

As we noted last year, there is an almost perfect 20th-century correlation between rising atmospheric CO2 and NASA fiddling temperature upward.

And by the way, it seems the Australian Bureau of Meteorology has been up to similar tricks, making technical adjustments to the raw data that steadily, gosh what a coincidence, increase the rate of warming.

Jennifer Marohasy recently warned that in consequence “It could be that the last 26-years of temperature recordings by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology will be found not fit for purpose” ... although we add snidely that it rather depends on what your purpose is.

In any case yes, it’s hotter than it was as long as you change the data to indicate that it’s hotter than it was.

Simon also complains that despite all that helpful smog, “2021 managed to overcome these cooling effects and still tally the sixth-highest temperature.”
Hey wait a minute. Sixth-highest?

You mean there’s been a cooling trend that had 2021 tied with 2018?

So it’s not just getting hotter and hotter as atmospheric CO2 rises?

Well, no.

... See, “last year 1.8 billion people lived in places that experienced their hottest temperatures ever recorded, according to a report released today by Berkeley Earth.”

And Zeke Hausfather, helpfully chimed in that where you live is warming faster than average.

How can we say so, especially when our readers and viewers span the globe?

... Hausfather explains, “most of the globe, two-thirds of it, is ocean, and no one lives in the ocean—or very few people at least.

And land areas, on average, are warming much faster than the rest of the world.”

Not just faster.

Much faster.

Not sure why those dumb oceans aren’t boiling, since it’s also often claimed that the reason the land isn’t heating like an oven is that the excess heat is hiding in the sea.

But apparently it’s somehow hiding from the thermometers too.

Bottom line?

It’s not warming but it is, and we are all in the process of dying.

“Humanity is on course to reach 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above pre-industrial levels—the optimistic limit set by the Paris Climate Accord—in a decade.

By 2059, we’ll hit 2 degrees Celsius, the agreement’s upper limit.”

So you see that 2021 being cooler than 2020 indicates a warming trend.

There is no good news."