This is the Satellite Temperature Graph Google Doesn’t Want You to See

This is the latest January temperature record produced by satellites accurately taking global measurements on a 24 hour basis. It shows barely any deviation last month (0.03°C) from the 1991-2020 average as shown by the blue line. The 13 month red line average reveals movement of just over 0.1°C. Furthermore, the satellite record is now revealing no global warming for seven years and three months.

The data is compiled by Dr. Roy Spencer from the University of Alabama, who was kicked off Google Adsense recently for publishing “unreliable and harmful claims”. The move demonetised Dr. Spencer’s monthly satellite update page by removing all Google-suppled advertising. Google says it will ban all sites that are sceptical of “well-established scientific consensus”.

Dr Spencer has been compiling satellite temperature data for 43 years and has received awards for his work from NASA and the American Meteorological Society. He is currently working with NASA on the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on the Aqua satellite.

Satellite data shows less warming than surface measurements, which are prone to the bias caused by urban heat distortions. In the U.K., many of the recent “records” arise from city-based recorders. In July 2019, a U.K. record hot day of 38.7°C was produced in the middle of Cambridge, a city that has grown by 40,000 people over the last 40 years. The U.K. Met Office seems particularly keen on promoting its thermometer readings at Heathrow airport, a massive industrial estate with acres of concrete and tarmac and constantly moving jet aircraft. Needless to say, the surface measurements are the record of choice for media and political thermogeddonites.

However, not all surface measurements accord with the well-established scientific consensus. The recent news that the South Pole had its coldest six month winter since records began was largely ignored by mainstream media. In the world of green political activism, all surface temperature measurements are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Away from the surface distortions, satellites take constant measurements as they circle the globe. The seven-year standstill is graphically shown by further work from the University of Alabama, below.

Over a seven year period the trend is zero. Over 100 years the extrapolated trend is +0.01°C. Margin of error stuff of course, but probably nothing much to worry about. If temperature keep on rising at this rate, we will hit the 2°C ceiling rise set by the Paris climate conference around the year 3000. Back of an envelope calculation, we should hit the Net Zero 1.5°C target in about 400 years’ time.

This complex modelling of course assumes that global temperatures never fall again – a first for Planet Earth.

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itoldyouiwasill
itoldyouiwasill
4 years ago

Before this pandemic, I’d seriously never questioned climate change. I pretty much believed what the experts told us, probably because I was too idle to look into it in any kind of depth.
This pandemic has made me question everything, it has completely eroded my trust in public institutions, scientists, governments etc. It has also made me realise the modern left are basically evil (and I am as left-wing as they come).
So with the climate change thing, I am starting from scratch with an open mind. Happy to listen to what more knowledgeable folk on here have to say on this issue.

Londo Mollari
4 years ago

Actually, what you said applies to me as well. However, every time I come back to global warming i come to the same conclusions as before. I seldom comment on this issue, just everything else, because it creates a very unpleasant atmosphere.

Cue 30 downticks for my post below.

cornubian
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

We are in the middle of a war, the elite together with their Leftist useful idiots, are intent on tearing down our civilisation and replacing it with corporate feudalism where we own nothing and the elite own everything.

Please forgive us if our resitance to this dystopian agenda creates an ‘unpleasant atmosphere’.

WEF Own nothing.png
rational
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

I think you are confused..

Why would leftists be championing corporate success. That’s the pro-business view of the righties….

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

And yet, when the evidence suggests otherwise, someone with a scientific mind would go back and review the basic assumptions.

Maybe large corporations and socialist governments have more interests in common than you think.

Mark
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Why would leftists be championing corporate success. That’s the pro-business view of the righties….”

Wow, someone just stepped out of his time machine to comment here! Perhaps look around a bit, before you travel back to the 1970s?

crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Because corporate forces have captured the environmental movement for their own benefit, and many on the so-called ‘left’ haven’t noticed. cornubian isn’t confused at all.

LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

I’d say it’s the other way around. The corporations are being forced to meet international standards around diversity, equity, environmental standards, otherwise they lose investment. It’s the ESG standards.
Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance is an evaluation of a firm’s collective conscientiousness for social and environmental factors.”



Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

I’m not convinced that’s all it is. That may be a factor for senior management but not the owners; Blackrock, Vanguard etc. They are closely tied to central banks and they control governments.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

ESG is a total scam – please ask yourself if investment firms:

  • filter for criminal prosecutions under “G”?
  • filter for Court mandated fines under “S”?

A coach and horses can be driven through this rubbish; if ESG was a litmus test of the “worth” of a business/corporation ask yourself this – how and why do Amazon/Microsoft populate many investment funds? Why do Meta/Alphabet exist in some funds given their criminal association with Big Pharma seen “recently.

One question investment firms don’t like answering is how do you filter Pharmaceutical or “green” energy businesses?

The devil is totally with the detail and the detail is made deliberately dense…

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Confused? No – just as susceptible to irrational bending of reality and confirmation bias as any Covid fanatic – and just as bereft of logic.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

It’s called fascism. The left’s concept of political leaders profiting handsomely from partnerships with selected industrialists to enrich themselves, whilst reducing their citizens to poverty.

LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Because there’s an unholy alliance between the woke corporations and the radical Left who just want power and to control everyone.
The Left are not the ones championing the working classes any more, or free speech, or personal rights, except for supposed minorities in an effort to put people against one another. It’s why former classic liberals have more in common with classic conservatives.

The Left aren’t championing corporate success as such. Small businesses are being destroyed, with only the very big corporations untouched and getting more powerful (e.g. big tech)
It’s probably more akin to fascism than old-fashioned communism/socialism, not forgetting that the so-called far right, the fascists, were socialists/collectivists.
Then again, the socialists/communists never championed ordinary people except as a means to an end, i.e. power for those in charge, none for everyone else. That’s why they’re so annoyed at the trucker movement in Canada. The working class and ordinary people are uniting…against the lunatic Left “Liberal” Trudeau.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Left / right just labels. It doesn’t matter where authoritarianism comes from the outcome is the same. Deprivation and misery for all but a few. The motivation is the same; power, control and wealth. How many dictators and party elite do you know living frugally like peasants?

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA – best laugh I have had all week.

Ever heard of a bloke named Soros?

chris-ds
chris-ds
4 years ago

Don’t listen to anyone, understand the science and the data and work it out for yourself. when people come to their own conclusions it’s clear to see. case in point is that this planet had a CO2 saturated atmosphere until plants converted that to oxygen rich and biomass (soil), plants consume CO2 when they photosynthesis sunlight to energy and expel oxygen. a slight increase in CO2 supports more plant life. that carbon emitted by “fossil fuels” is returning to the atmosphere where it was extracted from, millions of years ago by plants. the other point is that the global temperature has always changed, we’ve only been capable of directly measuring temperature for the last few hundred years, with older measurements not being very accurate. ice cores give an indication of previous historical temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels. But we know this planet has undergone ice ages where ice covered most of the planet. Areas like New York where covered in ice up to a mile thick. Just google “ice age how far south” you’ll find stuff like this. At its maximum extent it spread as far south as latitude 37° N and covered an area of more than 13,000,000 square… Read more »

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  chris-ds

Hmmm.

All very well, but the human race should be interested in the trend and effects around now when we are using earth as a place to live.

“There were ice ages” is hardly an argument for making it a worse environment to live in.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Why do you assume warmer is worse?

Nessimmersion
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Rational is opposed to marginally higher CO2 * a slight bounce back from the Little Ice Age as it will be easier for poor people to feed themselves.
The Minoan, Roman & Medieval Climate Optimums where life became easier are anathema to the zealots.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  Nessimmersion

Unless those poor people live in an increasingly arid zone, or one that will be under water.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

two thirds of the planet has water on the surface
a hotter planet would therefore obviously (to anyone but an idiot) more water in the atmosphere and therefore MORE rain.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Uggh.. another cliche.

Nessimmersion
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

The loon seems deliberately unaware the Sahara margins are greening according to Satellite photography.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  Nessimmersion

EXACTLY!!!!!

Dodderydude
Dodderydude
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Like the (largely flat) Maldives which, according to climate change experts in the 1980s, would be swallowed by the sea by 2018? I have to say, those invisible sea defences are brilliant.

https://www.tropicalsky.co.uk/indian-ocean-holidays/maldives

crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Still waiting for the disappearance of islands that we were told 20 years ago would be gone by now; don’t know of a single one that has.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

And whilst glaciers come and go since time immemorial, snow continues to fall – as a witness to the supposed disappearance of snow touted since the early 1980’s to my certain knowledge, try telling that to the families of the many residents of European ski resorts who saw devastating avalanches in 1999 ( Austrian from my personal knowledge) ….

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

The IPCC reliably informs the world that what warming there is will be largely restricted to the hemispheres, leaving equatorial regions largely untouched.

They also inform the world that they cannot identify any significant increase in ‘extreme weather’.

They also inform the world that sea levels are not rising any faster than as has been historically observed.

They also inform the world that what warming occurs in the hemispheres will be largely restricted to winter and overnight temperatures, which might contribute to reducing the horrendous number of deaths from hypothermia endured in the NH.

Meanwhile, NASA informs the world that the planet has enjoyed virgin greening of 14%, 70% of which is directly attributed to increased atmospheric CO2.

That’s two continents the size of mainland USA worth of new vegetation.

The world has endured 50 years of hysterical climate claims ranging from a new Ice Age to “fewer than 50 days to save the planet” (Gordon Brown) none of which have materialised.

Meanwhile, the illustration attached displays no direct relationship between atmospheric CO2 and global temperatures.

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beornwulf
beornwulf
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

NASA satellite photography show an increasing greening of arid areas in China and India snce 2000. How to explain that unless it’s actually due to the increased CO2 coming from the industrial activities in the area. Also, why are CO2 generators devices used in commercial greenhouses to foster plant growth? Figure it out – unless you’ve been totally taken in by Climategate, Al Gore, BBC etc etc.

LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Where is under water? Which island predicted to be submerged by now actually is?
is it going to be drier or wetter? What climate change predictions made 10, 20, 30 years ago have come true? What is the ideal global temperature?
if the climate on Earth has always changed, always will, how precisely do you think we can stop any change for the foreseeable future, and don’t you think it’s the height of arrogance to believe we have that kind of power?

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

Ain’t it tough being a blinkered AGW CC apparatchik?

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

I hope you don’t bet on the horses…. the bookies must love seeing you in their shops…. Take a look at recent satellite photos of ( big clue – formerly ) arid regions and see what the slight increase in CO2 over the last several decades – what do you see?

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Because he’s an idiot troll who likes to harm people.

Tony Heller said it best, the want to freeze people to save them from climate models

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ys2Hfp51ro

Old Bill
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Precisely. The world and life on it have always flourished when temperatures have been higher and vv. There is an old joke though, it goes:

Q. What is green and eats brains?
A. Environmentalism.

And that explains a lot of the virtue signalling faux morality that afflicts much of today’s society.

If you question the new religion you will be cancelled.

beornwulf
beornwulf
4 years ago
Reply to  Old Bill

Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. Whilst the climate scare is just that, concern for the planet is something else. We are capable of causing damage to it, whether that’s with the ozone layer, the seas, pollution, micro-plastics and the destruction of the tropical rain forests and the subsequent loss of animal and olant species. These are real issue and the climate con is a diversion away from more important matters. That’s what gets me mad.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  beornwulf

Precisely!! And me too – mad as hell.

tom171uk
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Trolls don’t like warmth.

Mayo
Mayo
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

What is the ideal “global temperature”?

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Mayo

COVID response is not about health, and CO2-panics are not about (the ludicrous idea of) climate stability.

mwhite
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

When the Titanic sank in 1912 the US Congress tasked the coast guard with keeping an eye on the sea ice in the North Atlantic. Next came the first world war and then the acquisition of Alaska from the Soviets.

NOAA : Hiding Critical Arctic Sea Ice Data – YouTube

Mission creep give a fair record of Arctic sea ice dating back from the mid 1920s

I’d say the trend there more to do with the Atlantic Multidecadal oscillation (AMO), not much to do with carbon dioxide.

amo.png (1024×768) (meteomodel.pl)

chris-ds
chris-ds
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

According to analysis of the previous 17 ice age events we are ~1200 years away from the next ice age, far closer to the next ice age than when the last ended.

co2 dropped from ~9000 parts per million 500 million years ago to 180 parts per million 2 million years ago.

Today we are 400 parts per million.

We are discussing tiny amounts.

no and low atmospheric CO2 is bad for plants and therefore bad for higher ups in the food chain.

keeping the same concentration of atmospheric CO2 for ever and ever is also nonsense.

LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

How is the climate warming up a worse environment? How many crops can you grow under a foot of snow and ice?
Carbon dioxide is not a driver of global temperature, it follows temperature changes, as more or less is absorbed by the oceans, i.e. Cooler oceans retain more dissolved carbon dioxide, warmer ones release it. Carbon dioxide is plant food, and it’s been acknowledged that the Earth has become more green as a result v of more CO2 in the atmosphere. If it drops below 150ppm, plants die, and everything dies. At the end of the last ice age, it’s estimated CO2 dropped to 180ppm, just 30ppm above plant death.
The measures we’re trying to take to keep CO2 levels down cause more environmental damage than if we didn’t, e.g. poisonous chemicals in batteries, unreachable solar panels and wind turbines blades.
If you’re concerned about environmental damage, I’m with you. But this isn’t solving that.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

“I’d vote for you”

annicx
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Until recently CO2 was at dangerously low levels, certainly if it had continued going lower it would have made all, (flora and fauna), life pretty difficult. Not particularly high at the moment and well below the level found in most buildings where humans seem to manage just fine.

ebygum
4 years ago

My thoughts exactly…I will never look at anything the same again. I have always been wary because several years ago the BBC…yes the BBC….said the science on climate change was ‘settled’ and they wouldn’t allow any opposing views as it was just giving a voice to climate ‘nutters’…..well we know what that meant in the terms of the pandemic don’t we?
I will need to start following climate sceptics now!!

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Don’t ‘follow us’, we are not a cult, we are individuals who have taken the time to look at the arguments countering hysterical claims of global catastrophe.

annicx
4 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Absolutely!

Fingal
Fingal
4 years ago

It’s interesting to wonder why UK spring plants are sprouting a full month earlier than a few decades ago, if nothing has changed in our average temperature. Dr Roy Spencer is a qualified scientist – but he also doesn’t believe in evolution. He believes God will sort it all out.

ImpObs
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingal

so back to sprouting the same time as they did in the 1940’s then.

colour me unimpressed.

Mayo
Mayo
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingal

Possibly – but don’t confuse regional climate variations with GLOBAL climate change.

There’s plenty of evidence which suggests the UK enjoyed a warm, benign climate in 10th to 12th centuries but this was replaced by a much harsher climate during the little ice age. (1300-1850 approx). This was a period which featured frequent crop failure and famine right across Europe. See, for example the Great Famine 1315-17

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315%E2%80%931317

Mumbo Jumbo
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingal

It is interesting that people make assertions about climate based on personal observation and anecdote. Do you have any scientific evidence for that statement?
From my personal view out of my window in Cheshire I see snowdrops in bud, not in flower. I seem to recall that February has generally been the start of the snowdrop season here, sometimes earlier and sometimes later.
I don’t see what his religious beliefs have to do with it.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  Mumbo Jumbo

Well, if religious beliefs (unsupported by anything beyond stories) allow someone to reject the theory of evolution, then judgement as a scientist is somewhat questionable.

Libertarianist
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Poor Ad Hominum attack.

Much more worrying, is a scientist who claims “the science is settled”

Aleajactaest
4 years ago
Reply to  Libertarianist

beware of the sealion
Do not engage.
Rational isn’t.

Jon Garvey
4 years ago
Reply to  Libertarianist

Poor Ad Hominum attack.

Indeed! I thought the new atheists had entirely abandoned their bedrooms a couple of years ago, but there are clearly a few left.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Classic logical fallacy. A is wrong therefore B is wrong.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

?

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Pet Irrational sealion is wrong about everything, all the time! They must read the grauniad to be this malinformed and gullible..

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Ok, I’ll spell it out for you if I must.

It is perfectly possible for a person to have religious beliefs and be scientifically accurate.

I can give you some notable examples. Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilee.

It is also possible for someone to be wrong about something and right about something else. Hopefully no examples needed.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Darwin.

Mumbo Jumbo
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

I don’t know whether you have noticed that scientists do have differences of opinion, and as you so clearly put it, evolution is a theory. Scientific theories have currency only until an alternative theory is propounded and accepted.
Anyone who accepts evolution (aka the survival of the fittest) must also accept that what man does to the planet, and its fauna and flora, is all part of the evolutionary process. If it ends up in man’s extinction then that is also a nutural evolutionary process, ditto if it wipes out some butterfly or indeed a virus. If someone wants to ascribe that to their god it changes nothing in practical terms, it just satisfies their need for an explanation.

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

“…the theory of evolution…”? Do you mean the Darwinian theory, neo-Darwinian or what? The mathematical improbability/impossibility of Darwin’s theory has been demonstrated since the 1960s.

NB You should listen to a few lectures by Dr. James Tour before you try to defend what you don’t understand.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Evolution is a real duffer, it isn’t even science, more speculation and wishful thinking for atheists than anything else.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

When has Spencer ever rejected the theory of evolution?

Darwin believed in God.

Aleajactaest
4 years ago
Reply to  Mumbo Jumbo

beware of the sealion

Do not engage.

Rational isn’t.

Hopeless - "TN,BN"
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingal

I don’t keep written records or a gardening diary, but I live in the country (now being filled up with greenfield housing) and have a good-sized garden. This year, things are early, but it is certainly not the case that the same applies every year. There have been many years in the three decades I have lived in this spot, where things have been a month or so late. In some years, such as the 2018 Beast from the East, we had arctic weather at the end of February and into March, but decent fruit and other crops, which, had they been in growth, would not have been so. The weather changes from year to year, and I think we’ve always had spells of certain types of weather (The Little Ice Age, for example) that persisted for a while and then changed to another pattern. As a youngster, the talk was always about the impending age of cold weather. As with anything so changeable, the historical stats and graphs are not always an accurate forecast of things to come, and like other data which we have been bombarded with for two years, can easily be misrepresented or reinterpreted, to suit… Read more »

ImpObs
4 years ago

Interesting that the comming ice age scare of the 1970’s was also blamed on rising Co2, until the thermometers put a dint in it, now the satelites are putting a dint in the warming propaganda, they just censor the data.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

SO you are arguing that rising temperatures are proof that temperature isn’t rising!!!

ImpObs
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

so you can’t read!!!

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Do you think ‘rational’ is a pseudonym of Cathy Newman? He sounds as dumb and uses the same strawman arguments that made Jordan Peterson laugh.

ImpObs
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

No way, Cathy Newman attended University.

‘rational’ wouldn’t pass the entrance exam.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

“Rising temperatures”, according to Spencers satellite observations fall well within the margins of error of scientific observations.

You might note that Spencers observations are below some of those detected in the late 1980’s.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

The data that gets released to the press is “modelled” i.e. temperatures are adjusted lower in the past and raised nearer today in order to lie.

Osobowy
4 years ago

Great comment! 20 thumbs up from me!

The old bat
4 years ago

I have kept a weather diary for years – it’s quite surprising how little I remember about variations/events without this aide memoir. Last spring, here in the south west, was unseasonably cold, with frosts on most nights in April and on well into May. Plants were pretty slow to emerge and I was grateful for my greenhouse. No two years are the same.
Like another poster on here, I used to believe a lot of what I was told, now I believe nothing. Covid rubbish, climate change rubbish – I have had plenty of time to read and research over the past couple of years. My eyes have been opened and my life will never be the same as I now feel rather embittered by all the lies.

SomersetHoops
SomersetHoops
4 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

Like you I once believed the BBC and other MSM propaganda, but thanks to sites such as the Sceptic variations and others I am able to research the accurate data and be enlightened to the truth. Why is it that our government and other politicians worldwide with all the resources they have cannot do the same?

tom171uk
4 years ago

Speaking of agendas, have you noticed how the vegetarians have appended theirs to the climate change narrative? We now have to stop eating meat in order to save the planet.

beornwulf
beornwulf
4 years ago
Reply to  tom171uk

I would argue that it’s not so much about eating meat per se, but the amount of it. Until relatively recently many societies considered meat a treat and it was eaten infrequently; most of what people ate was plant-based, and they were healthier for it. Now we have people basically living on burgers and fries, which is both bad for health and has caused immense damage to habitats worldwide to make way for cattle, pigs and their feed.

Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingal

I’ve been keeping a nature diary since 2010 and I’ve seen zero evidence of warming on the Northants/Rutland/Leicestershire borders.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  Nearhorburian

Brace yourself. Someone any minute now is going to tell you that you should ignore you anecdotal personal experience and consider only what the climate scientists tell you.

Because as we all know scientists are pure souls, selflessly looking to expand human knowledge. Their own personal interests never factor into their work and they are utterly incorruptible.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

A nature diary is a scientific endeavour.

cornubian
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingal

Global and local temperatures vary over time. 1000 years ago vineyards flourished in the UK. In medieval times the Thames would often freeze over. How many people know that Camels once lived inj the Artic?

Only one thing is certain, these temperature/climate variations are not driven by CO2.

10,000 years of climate change.png
SomersetHoops
SomersetHoops
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

The Thames froze over at Windsor in 1947 and it als did some few years before that, although I wasn’t alive then.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingal

Yep, the evidence of increasing temperatures is very clear.

jeepybee
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

The issue is not so much that temperatures are rising, because that’s a pattern that we’ve seen for thousands of years. The issue is that it’s being blamed on humanity. Do we blame the rapid exit from the ice age some 10,000 years ago on diesel engines too?

And the second issue, from what I can see, is that there’s an intentional drive to create the eco-disaster narrative. Which I’m sure even a person such as yourself can see the issue when this narrative gets coupled with digital IDs and passports? Do we really want governments controlling our “green footprint” on a personal level, based on yet more flaky data without allowing for debate?

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

you would, you’re immensely stupid.

Mumbo Jumbo
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

But not the reason for the increase.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Really?

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

And the biosphere loves the warmer weather.

Libertarianist
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingal

Probably for the same reason that vineyards were cultivated in Britain during the Roman occupation.

beornwulf
beornwulf
4 years ago
Reply to  Libertarianist

As far north as LIncoln.

Aleajactaest
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingal

what absolute tosh.

Play the man not the ball eh Fingal?

Where do you think the good Doctor got his Dr……? Theological Studies?

Idiot.

peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingal

Attack the man when you can’t attack what he does.
Pathetic.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

Attack what he says. That is what he does..

but he also doesn’t believe in evolution. He believes God will sort it all out.

Kevin 2
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingal

Are they? Certainly not last Spring, which was exceedingly late. During the 20th century, there were several periods of 30-40 years when temperatures fluctuated up and down. In the ’70’s the press stories were of impending mini-Ice Age. Then the narrative switched to global warming. Since the turn of the century, there has been little to no warming at all. Hence, the narrative swap, from ‘Global Warming’ to ‘Climate Change’, with every local climate extreme, being cited as evidence of man-made ‘Climate Change’. CO2 is a trace element, which helps all plants grow. And it serves to green the planet. Yes really. As even NASA attest:- https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth Due to the cycle of Solar Minimums, and the imminent arrival of a Grand Solar Minimum (once every 350 years and really kicking in by 2030), the prospect of rapid onset global cooling is real. There is a genuine possibility of calamitous cooling in as little as 10 years. There is zero prospect of calamitous warming at any time in the next century. Have a look at just this weeks climate extremes. All to do with extremely unusual cooling:- https://electroverse.net/ And another channel that cuts through the alarmism, with measured commentary:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD_QatUHUgU The… Read more »

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingal

Where has Spencer ever said he doesn’t believe in evolution?

Newton, Einstein, and, of course Darwin himself all believed in a higher order and found no contradiction in that belief with science.

Lucan Grey
4 years ago

The main thing to realise is that as with the pandemic there are wing nuts on all side.

In any reasonably complex system suffering from harmonic stress there is a period where things appear to become stable right before the system rips itself to shreds.

Hopefully this isn’t one of those cases, but we need more data that is free from ideology and belief to see what is happening. Regrettably that isn’t something that science appears to be able to provide any more.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  Lucan Grey

Satellite evidence of the warming, or otherwise, of the uncontaminated troposphere is as about as reliable and unambiguous as observational science can get.

johnthebridge
johnthebridge
4 years ago

Your attitude is correct and is an example to others. It’s simple-keep an open mind to everything, whether it be climate change, virus or what dog food you choose. Make your own mind up and don’t let pre-formed prejudices rule your decisions. As humans, we let prejudice rule our lives. What “team” we support, what political party, how we regard others, we make these judgments all the time.
Allow for another’s opinion, keep an open mind to everything, and keep asking the questions!
It ain’t easy and I certainly fail on many occasions, but you have to keep at it.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  johnthebridge

But above all, don’t look at the evidence properly….

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Tell us, what was the global temperature yesterday?

Libertarianist
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

😆

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Define “properly”.

cornubian
4 years ago

Climate change is real. If it was not, the UK would still be under a kilometre of ice and we could walk to France. What is false is the linking of CO2 emissions to climate change.

This is a political conspiracy by a psychotic corporate elite intent on destroying Western civilisation.

The Davos/Bilderberg/Chatham House/Club of Rome plotters sell their form of communism under a variety of different brands: Agenda 2030 sustainability/Great Reset/Build Back Better etc.

Whatever badge is used, the end result is the same – they will own everything and we will own nothing.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Feudalism not communism, but you can see communism as a kind of bureaucratic feudalism.

Libertarianist
4 years ago

Very timely article for me: I was driving my 7 and 9 year old to school and noticed the hazel catkins are out. This circuitously led to me trying to debunk and deindoctrinate with the simple principals –

Science can never be settled.

It’s a massive red flag when anyone claims this.

My boys grasped the Idea that if in the medieval times the authorities claimed ” the science is settled, no more can be known” we wouldn’t be driving in our car and playing on smartphones, it’s obviously a silly thing to say.
Then the usual Newton Einstein 300 year change etc ..
It’s a never ending task to keep up with the indoctrination, especially when they HAVE TO reproduce it for science exams as FACT.
Sigh….

paul parmenter
paul parmenter
4 years ago

Open minds are rare, but none the less welcome for that.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  paul parmenter

Don’t confused denial as “open minded”

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Or dogmatic adherence to one set of facts as rationality.

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Whenever I hear the word ‘denial’ I know I’m in the presence of a member of some cult or other.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Define “denial”.

CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
4 years ago

Glad to have you onboard,the covid and co2 scams are linked . This is the best UK site: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/

Libertarianist
4 years ago

I’m so pleased that you posted this, my earnest hope is that people such as yourself could see the parallels between covid agenda and climate agenda.
Because the obvious inconsistencies, lies and heavy handed censorship occurs within a short timeframe, it is easy to spot. But these exact same processes, initiated by the same people and agencies, for exactly the same end goal, hopefully can enable many many other people to question the validity of the anthropomorphic climate change scam.
With climate change, the temperature on the boiling frog was, by necessity because these things take decades to see, turned up very slowly. With covid, the stove was turned straight to Max, and a lot more frogs noticed this.
Welcome to a fellow temperature intolerant frog.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  Libertarianist

I’m so pleased that you posted this, my earnest hope is that people such as yourself could see the parallels between covid agenda and climate agenda.”

Yep… they both have deniers or conspiracy nuts, who make no sense.

Libertarianist
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

HOW DARE YOU!!!
Don’t you know it’s an emergency!!!!
😆😆😆

peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

The problem for you is that Roy Spencer is on record as agreeing that CO2 has had an effect on global temperatures and the emissions from man over the last 150 years have added to that effect. He is not a ‘denier’. However he and many other scientists like him put that into perspective and in particular look at the ability of the CO2 molecule to irradiate energy across a very narrow spectrum. The physics points to a lessening effect, the band becomes ‘full up’. A doubling of CO2 from 400ppm to 800ppm has far less effect than from 200ppm to 400ppm. Of course the ‘fudge factor’ contained in all but one of the IPCC climate models does not exist in reality. Increases of CO2 do not trigger increasing irradiation from water vapour . Without this fudge factor the models struggle to get over 1C increases, which lines up with actual outcome. Faced with the uncomfortable truth that their models are GIGO, the climate brigade have turned to promoting every slightest weather event as ‘extreme’ and a clear sign of ‘an emergency’. As many have commented, ‘covid’ has allowed people to peep under the covers at the forces imposing this… Read more »

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

We were told the ‘vaccines’ were “safe and effective”. That was proven incorrect and therefore a conspiracy theory you indulged in.

We were told “two weeks to flatten the curve”. That was proven incorrect and therefore a conspiracy you indulged in.

We were told that lockdowns worked. That was proven incorrect and therefore a conspiracy theory you indulged in.

We were told that masks worked to stop the transmission of the virus. That was proven incorrect and therefore a conspiracy theory you indulged in.

We are told that children not at risk from covid need to be ‘vaccinated’. That is proving incorrect and therefore a conspiracy theory you indulged in.

Few covid sceptics indulged in any of these conspiracy theories.

allanplaskett
allanplaskett
4 years ago

Good man! Get yourself a copy of Roy Spencer’s ‘Global Warming Skepticism for Busy Peope’. Just 130 pages, easily digestible, all you need to know, available on Kindle.

artfelix
4 years ago

Same here. I knew Covid was a scam from the start as I had prior knowledge and interest in that field, but I had never questioned the Climate Change narrative and, while always libertarian, was a left-leaning libertarian.

I now despise the left with a passion and have lost all trust in and respect for all public institutions.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  artfelix

“….while always libertarian, was a left-leaning libertarian.”

A Conservative then……

WilliamC
WilliamC
4 years ago

It’s hard being as left-wing as they come when pretty much all shades of the modern Left have enthusiastically collaborated with the class enemy. The Left has shilled for the pharmaceutical industry, cheer-led mass unemployment, defended anti-human social restrictions and slandered the global anti-fascist resistance movement as being itself fascist, when it has deigned to acknowledge it at all. What have the trade unions, the Labour Party, the Morning Star, the People’s Assembly and the Socialist Workers Party said by way of support for the NHS100k activists, the Canadian truckers or the dockworkers of Trieste? Nothing.

The ‘official’ Left has made itself irrelevant and deserves its place in the dustbin of history but if you still have an appetite for Left politics or at least want to be reassured that not every comrade has scabbed on humanity, you might be interested in Left Lockdown Sceptics. Beginning life as a website, they have developed into an activist organisation and are holding a public meeting under the title ‘Take back our lives! Reimagining the left in 2022’ on Saturday 12th February in London. 

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  WilliamC

LLS…….How interesting.

For once someone on the left actually thinking about what’s going on.

A bit confused but nevertheless welcome.

Aleajactaest
4 years ago

here you go pal….

The most successful skeptical climate site on the planet, run by the indomitable Anthony Watts.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/

annicx
4 years ago
Reply to  Aleajactaest

It is an excellent site. Also, unlike those that promote the green agenda, he allows robust debate and argument.

Bellacovidonia
4 years ago

Me too (ironically). The standard left on most spectrums for Blar-rights to faux Marxist left have become nothing but a prop to the current sources of power. Their facile :follow the science: nonsense now excludes biology and their desire to achieve change through catastrophe means they support zero covid and zero carbon as strategies for “mobilisation”. Meanwhile the real working class are delivering their shopping and selling them everything from craft beer to chemotherapy. On climate they have colluded in the annihilation of the living stands of the majority while pandering to the entitled, spoiled and unproductive youth, and self interested global tech and finance elites. However when I look at the entitled chancers who spearhead Toryism and the vindictive anti social policies of some Libertarians I realise that increasingly we need to stop believing a “movement” will represent us. Even the unions have been absolutely complicit in the Covid fear using it opportunistically, to support the ruling political elites. For my former friends and colleagues I am now right wing but I suppose it’s because scepticism is the real politics of opposition.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  Bellacovidonia

“……anti social policies of some Libertarians”

That’s interesting. What anti social ‘policies’ do ‘some’ Libertarians promote?

Which “some” would they be?

annicx
4 years ago
Reply to  Bellacovidonia

I gave your post a thumbs up because it deserves it, but as a Libertarian I must point out that ‘we’, (not that there really is a we- that’s the point really), I am not remotely vindictive- on the contrary I tolerate more than a little abuse from people simply for not agreeing with whatever the current ‘thing’ is without bitterness or anger. As for anti-social, I have no idea what I do that fits this description.

DoctorCOxford
DoctorCOxford
4 years ago

I’m a cynic and always have been (makes me a bore at parties). But I think you are in the camp of many. It doesn’t help the GW side that costs to heat our homes and energy for business has skyrocketed despite being told there would be only little sacrifices.

Has the globe sales since 1870 and the start of the industrial revolution? Yes. Much of that has to do with how cold the prior 300 years were in comparison with prior 9000, and especially prior 400 years. At the margin do we add to this? Sure, or at least we add to the heat cycle. But not one climate model has accurately hit the last 30 years nor are they backwards accurate. Models are nothing more than guesses based on what you the modeler thinks are major factors (I’ve done some in industry and, amazing the answers I could produce). We’ve just spent 2 years of seeing “experts” show us models to force change human behaviour. Their lack of accuracy hopefully will wake up people to the fact science is never settled and models are not reality.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  DoctorCOxford

All that ‘cheap’ electricity from wind turbines we all subsidise by £10Bn every year………..

I don’t hear anyone in the HoC raising this as an issue that needs to be addressed before we do anything else.

annicx
4 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

It does make me laugh when energy companies tell me that they can supply ‘cheap, green electricity’. When I ask how it gets really interesting…

miketa1957
miketa1957
4 years ago

I could have typed the same, and would have been entirely truthful.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago

All the “pandemic” was modelled into existence in order to push policies that greatly enriched certain people.
Why do you consider the whole of grant funded science to be any different?

In this era of search engines being in reality disguised censorship engines I do wonder if some “science” is being suppressed.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago

https://youtu.be/vnmzOeG_N64?t=308

A New Fraud Algorithm From NOAA
I’ve been tracking NOAA temperature data tampering for a long time, and it has gotten much worse over the past five years. The US is cooling and NOAA is trying to cover it up by altering the data.
Tony Heller
“I used to think this was the biggest scientific fraud in history until this year”

PartyTime
4 years ago

If somebody’s in a hurry, just the lack of cost-benefit analysis, or the ignoring of unfavourable cost-benefit analyses, should be evidence enough that climate change policy is a scam, just as it was with COVID. Ditto for the use of modelling to provide dire predictions, and the censorship of opposing views.

Then if you have slightly more time to dig, you can look at how the “climate emergency” is constructed by the media selectively feeding the public with out of context reports of bad weather that isn’t actually exceptional by historical standards. If there was a compelling case for action, they would present that instead; they wouldn’t waste everybody’s time with misleading weather coverage.

jos
jos
4 years ago

We’re at the beginning of a thirty year Grand Solar Minimum – why don’t the climate scientists talk about that? It will mean colder than usual temperatures and certainly a fall not a rise. What I find weird is the gaslighting when they say, for example, September 2021 was the hottest on record and as a uk resident I’m thinking ‘Where?’ We’ve had a pretty universally unimpressive 12 months with a pretty crap summer and that’s my lived experience and that of everyone I know. Of course it may have been very hot in some places but that’s always the case. They mentioned Turkey as having temperatures out of the normal range but my Turkish students say that 40 degrees (in one paper’s headline news story) happens somewhere in Turkey every year.

rational
4 years ago

Why is everything targeted at the “left”.
I thought it was all the fault of the government, or big business…

Are people confused?

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

No, you are confused. You think government and big business isn’t “the left”.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Just ignore.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

For other benefit, not our pet sealion troll.

Big Business is left facing because
its easier to bribe a single bureaucrat to spend taxpayer’s money on them, than to convince all their customers of the values of their product
The bureaucrat can regulate into existence competition destroying hurdles to deter potential competitors with regulatory costs
The government subsidises patents and other IP and taxes work, as big business is mainly about IP they are made wealthier by this effective state subsidy.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago

The government can also subsidise immigration and thus greatly lower the incomes of existing workers, which is great for exporters

In short big business has a large interest in lobbying state interference in the economy (leftism) at taxpayer expense.

annicx
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Are you seriously suggesting that ‘the left’ isn’t in charge? Surely you don’t think our woke jellyfish of a PM is right wing?

charleyfarley
charleyfarley
4 years ago

For years we have been told that there was a climate emergency requiring drastic changes to our way of life. Despite constant repetition these warnings failed to gain traction with the public. Something more frightening, and more immediate, was needed, and by accident or design along came covid.

Within two years international air travel was virtually decimated and soon may be so reduced that only the elite can afford it. Covid fearmongering has achieved more in terms of enforced lifestyle changes in two years than climate fearmongering has achieved in 30. If only people could wake up to the fact that both climate and covid narratives are essentially fraudulent we might begin to address more fundamental issues around the way so called democracy has been rigged in favour of an elite who put their own greed and ambition ahead of the needs of their countries and why the good honest people we need in politics do not (with very few exceptions) put themselves forward for election.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago

‘Happy to listen to what more knowledgeable folk on here have to say on this issue.’

I can recommend listening to Tony Heller, he is very good at exposing the climate fraud.

For example –

Climate Crisis Of 1911https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqusLrKo59s&pbjreload=102

Tony has hundreds of bite size presentations debunking the lies from numerous different view points.

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
4 years ago

I’ve always been a natural skeptic, but my skepticism went to another level when I became a big supporter of Ron Paul’s presidential bids. I now think every government and media Narrative is bogus and dangerous.

Once you start questioning A or B, you are soon also questioning C, D, E … and Z.

mwhite
4 years ago

Forest fire burn acreage since the mid 1920s in the USA

Biden Ministry Of Truth (odysee.com)

LMS2
4 years ago

For me, it was the other way around, ie, having seen the dishonesty, censorship, silencing of anyone disagreeing with the official narrative in the global warming/climate change/emergency/catastrophe/crisis/add-your-own frightening-description debate, what happened with covid came as little surprise.
It seemed to be more or less the same people pushing the narrative, originating in th transnational global community, i.e. from the UN down. It’s a socialist project, designed to destroy capitalism and capitalist countries, which they’ve admitted.
Climate change is nothing to do with the environment. They’ve said so. It’s how the global leadership redistributes the world’s wealth, mostly to them, it seems.

AN other lockdown sceptic
AN other lockdown sceptic
4 years ago

The following two books are great on the subject –

The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the obsession with ‘climate change’ turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history?by Christopher Booker

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us Allby Michael Shellenberger



annicx
4 years ago

Also worth reading is ‘Scared to Death’, which covers AGW as well as many other scares and how they were used. It should be essential reading for everyone.

AN other lockdown sceptic
AN other lockdown sceptic
4 years ago

The lecture below is excellent. In short, even if you think that we can should try and change the weather (I don’t), then the Blob’s plan simply won’t work from an engineering perspective.

2019 Annual GWPF Lecture – Prof Michael Kelly: Energy Utopias and Engineering Reality

by Prof Michael Kelly FRS FREng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXv-ugeTLlw

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago

I am similar. I thought climate change was a bit iffy but best to err on the side of caution. Now I think it’s another scam. I too don’t believe anything institutions, government or media push at me. If they’re pushing it, then it’s a lie. All working towards an authoritarian global collectivism.

It won’t be better and those convinced they know what’s best for us and that convince themselves they are good will begin to show their true tyrannical natures. Just take a look around. It’s all ready showing; Australia, Austria, France and Canada to name a few.

This is my country, my democracy, my freedom. Our leaders are there to serve us, not us them. If they win they will turn the globe into a dystopian world akin to the Soviet Union. Productivity and innovation will plummet to be followed by deprivation.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago

Dr Patrick Moore (one of the original, now disillusioned, founders of Greenpeace) has written a very readable and informative book:
”Fake Invisible Catastrophes And Threats Of Doom”.
He most definitely IS knowledgeable!

186NO
186NO
4 years ago

Your inclination is not relevant AFAIAC; I agree wholeheartedly with your comment about the modern left, equally true of many career politicians – with few exceptions they are agenda driven, control freak mad and intellectually illiterate. Why such people ignore the necessary presence of a certain level of CO2 for human existence to continue is something “they” cannot answer and be “sincere according to truth” in the same sentence. I cannot conceive that any thinking person is not actuated to support sustainable use of finite resources, development of clean energy, protect properly the environment – fauna and flora; but just like the severely compromised response to the existence of SARS COV2, if the “settled science” is demonstrably false, their “case” disintegrates and soon disappears, no matter how egregious is their continued bullshit. It is such a waste of valuable human energy that could be far better employed surely? For me, sadly, the need to understand exactly the AGWCC lobby use and abuse data and information is as key as trying to understand the “science” which is as far from being settled as I am from the Moon; to that end I recommend: NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT <comment-reply@wordpress.com>;… Read more »

Londo Mollari
4 years ago

Talk about cherry picking data!

  1. There’s a clear upward trend.
  2. If I were to similarly cherry pick by comparing, say 1985 to 2020 I’d get an increase of 0.9C

I totally condemn Google’s censorship and Roy Spencer’s demonetisation, but I don’t believe he is being honest. He would have had a great career selling mRNA quackzines.

StoppingtoThink
StoppingtoThink
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

How is he being dishonest? The data is what it is and scientists try to interpret and understand it. As more data becomes available better interpretations develop.

beancounter
beancounter
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

I think you would struggle to find satellite data from 1850, but you can certainly get data from stations on Earth that have been operating over the centuries. Maybe we could even look at ice cores, or read a bit of history eg the Romans grew vines in the area of Yorkshire 2,000 years ago because the weather was what? Cold and they wanted a challenge? Or hot, and the vines grew well in the hot environment?

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

To be honest, I thought the same. I see a gentle upward trend.

CLEARLY, from 1979 to 2000 most of the data points are below the line, From 2000 to 2015 around the line and from 2015 onwards above the line.

Who knows how reliable the data is though. Given how dishonest scientists are I’m not sure I can trust how they measure and compile their data to come up with that one single figure that represents the temperature of the entire planet.

Londo Mollari
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Key data takeaway. The temperature change from the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the Holocene was less than 2C.

That ushered in a period of unprecedented climate stability which permitted the development of agriculture. Putting that stability at risk imperils us all because we rely on food from agriculture. Having said that, i don’t have a clue what to do. Electric cars and windmills are useless – they don’t reduce carbon dioxide levels by even one part per million.

Mumbo Jumbo
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

A further key takeaway, rising global temperatures result in oceans releasing dissolved carbon dioxide. You don’t have to worry about it, because we can’t do anything about it.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

Nothing we can do in the next 10 generations will reduce atmospheric CO2, since it stays gaseous for 100’s of years before being reabsorbed.

The damage already done is here to stay, but that isn’t a reason to make it worse.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

What damage?

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I can see how CO2 has damaged rational’s rationality, but in his case the CO2 comes from being triple-masked and re-breathing his own exhalations.

TSull
TSull
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

I suspect that rationality was only ever an illusion.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Where is the empirical evidence that atmospheric CO2 causes the planet to warm?

Berkeley Earth undertook an empirical study and it failed miserably. It’s the only study of its kind to be undertaken so far.

Here’s an interesting dichotomy:

We have been told for over 40 years that atmospheric CO2 is the cause of climate change – Indeed, it’s “Settled Science”.

In which case, why did Berkeley Earth feel the need to spend millions to demonstrate the concept if it was already proven beyond doubt?

GlassHalfFull
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

Scientific papers show that increased CO2 greens the planet.
Industrial horticulturists pump CO2 into their vast greenhouses.
CO2 increases crop yields.
The climate has always had natural variability and cycles.
More people die of the cold than the warmth.
The same global elites are behind the Climate Change scam AND the Covid scam.
That should alert your scepticism.

PartyTime
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

Temperature change at what temporal resolution? There have been a number of attempts to scare people by splicing on 20th century temperature data to a much longer but lower-frequency temperature series inferred from proxies, to make it look as though recent temperature change is “unprecedented” whereas actually it may just be higher resolution data.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

What’s better for agriculture. Heat or cold?

Easy answer:

You can irrigate your way to producing food in arid areas, the ancient Egyptians did it.

You can’t irrigate frozen fields with frozen water.

TheBluePill
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

Your two points seem reasonable. The thing that strikes me is that we do not (and probably cannot) understand the climate, just like we don’t understand the immune system and viruses. Weather is chaotic and fiendishly complex and is dominated by the hydrogen reactor in the sky. There are complex overlaying cycles that interfere with each other and run over inconveniently long periods. It is all guesswork that has been intentionally skewed for a political aim.

Personally, I worry about pollution of the land, rivers and oceans, chopping down of rainforests, concreting over the planet, over-population resulting in lower quality of life, and exhaustion of resources so that every single human can own a couple of tons of new car every few years. I could not care less about CO2, it is an irrelevance.

Will
Will
4 years ago
Reply to  TheBluePill

I agree. I also think we should be looking to end our reliance on some of the nastiest regimes on the planet to fuel our cars, but not at the expense of yet more exploitation and suffering for Africa.

annicx
4 years ago
Reply to  Will

We could always use fracking as the US was doing before they elected a socialist to reduce this reliance, and of course eventually EVs will become viable- but it will be driven by market forces and not pie-in-the-sky government mandates.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  TheBluePill

So you are “green”, except for climate change?

Interesting.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Sensible, I would say.

TSull
TSull
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

And rational, unlike the one who calls himself or herself by that name.

TheBluePill
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Frack me, I gave rational an uptick! Not had your morning Victory Coffee yet?

(PS it seems posts with naughty words get autodeleted now).

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  TheBluePill

thank you.

PartyTime
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Many of those opposed to climate change policy consider themselves environmentalists. The kind of tyranny that would be brought in by governments enabled by a “climate emergency” would likely be disastrous for the environment.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  TheBluePill

“……over-population resulting in lower quality of life”

What’s the perfect population?

As importantly, what’s the perfect age demographic for the perfect population?

It’s an observed phenomenon that the more prosperous people are, the less they reproduce.

The wealthy west has a largely declining population whilst the poverty stricken developing world is increasing, yet they don’t have infrastructure comparable to the wealthy west.

annicx
4 years ago
Reply to  TheBluePill

I wouldn’t worry about exhaustion of resources or over population. The eco types have been banging that drum for over 50 years and have been proven decisively wrong. See ‘The Rational Optimist’ amongst other works for more details than I can fit here, but essentially we get better at manging resources and feeding ourselves. According to the 60s & 70s eco-warriors, we should have run out of everything and starved to death long ago.

Will
Will
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

You see, that there is a slight upward trend makes me think that the data is reliable. There really is not much to see here. And, as ebygum says, if the BBC tells me “the science is settled” it immediately makes me suspicious after the last two years.

harrystillgood
harrystillgood
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

True.

But I have a friend who operates a pro weather station for 50 years. And he comes up with similar numbers without cherry picking.

Mumbo Jumbo
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

You are right. There has been an upward trend for some time now. It started at the end of the little ice age, that is how all that ice melted and why skating on the Thames is a thing of the past.
However, I defy you to show an anthropogenic component in it.

Amtrup
4 years ago
Reply to  Mumbo Jumbo

Agreed. I too see a “gentle upward trend”. I would be denying the evidence of my own eyes if I said I didn’t. But i also agree that this is not necessarily linked in any way to human activity, and I’m inclined to think not.

cornubian
4 years ago
Reply to  Amtrup

If there was any link to carbon emissions, this graph would be off the scale post 1850.

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rational
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Why?

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

This why.

See any commonality?

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cornubian
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

Of course there is a clear upward trend – if there wasnt the UK would still be under a kilometre of ice.

The only thing new is activists blaming this rise in temperature on carbon emissions. There is no correlation whatsoever between atmospheric CO2 and climate change.

co2 and temp.png
rational
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Apart from the fact that both show rising trends. That is correlation..

You provide the information to disprove your own statement.

Now I imagine you think the bumpiness of the temperature plot is your proof. But it is not.

annicx
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Correlation is not causation. The rise in CO2 trails the rise in temperature. What is it that you wish us to do? Freeze? Starve? Live in mud huts? All three?

Spirit of the wind
4 years ago

Roy Spencer is labelled “a denier”, there are many more distinguihed scientists labelled as such, and their observations and opinions blocked by the MSM.
The reason?
The Global green economy is estimated to be worth TR $7,870,000,000,000 funded by Global corporations and billionaire speculators, it’s big money, they put their shirts on it and “you” will pay.
Chucking a few million at funding quack scientists and cranks to peddle their unscientific junk all over the airwaves who scream denier at any member of the scientific community who dares step out of line is a small investment for these Sharks.
But as we are all about to find out when Net Zero cuts in very soon, its a scam to fleece the people, a massive transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor.
Our only hope against this criminal activity is mass civil disbedience, revolutions occur only when the people start to suffer, these measures will absoloutley ensure that situation happens.

beancounter
beancounter
4 years ago

I only wish it was a transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor; I think you will find it is the other way round, rather like the past 24 months.

watersider
4 years ago
Reply to  beancounter

Speaking of robbing the poor, can some genius explain to me why is it when a power supply company boasts they are 100% unreliable – sorry I mean ‘renuable’ – then blame the 40% increase in price announced yesterday, being due to the escalating price of gas.
If the price of sunlight and wind is the same as last year why the price rise?
Boris are you there?

Mumbo Jumbo
4 years ago

It is not funded by the big bu**ers, it is our money that they have accumulated.

rational
4 years ago

You seem to be disagreeing with yourself.

Global corporations and billionaire speculators are conducting a scam for a “massive transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor”

Are you sure that’s what you think?

Deborah T
Deborah T
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

The poster made a typo.

BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago

Even if you accept the theory that CO2 drives the climate, can someone please tell me how mankind’s 3.5% contribution to the overall amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is somehow more powerful than the naturally occurring 96.5%?

Does the sun’s geo-electric/magnetic activity not feature at all…?

ebygum
4 years ago

Also, would it really be the end of the world if us ‘up north’ were as warm as them ‘darn sarf’….? I quite fancy living in a place with the temperature of the Loire Valley!

barmpot
barmpot
4 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

My wife was born in Bangalore, India. Her parents brought her here in 1962. She was 7 years old. If I said she bellyaches in my ear every winter about how cold it is in God’s own county that would be a bit of an understatement. 😂

Londo Mollari
4 years ago

You need to consider what stops us all from freezing at night when we are turned away from the sun. The earth’s atmosphere retains much of the hat received during the day and a key gas in this is CO2 (along with H2O). So, CO2 is a good thing – like water. But you can have too much of a good thing – you can drown in life giving water.

And natural processes are being drowned out by human activity. Natural processes remove about 3% of current anthropogenic emissions from the atmosphere by such mechanism as rock weathering and the carbon cycle.

eastender53
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

We don’t freeze at night because populated areas in general generate warmth. Spend a few nights in the deep desert (as I have), and you’ll see what I mean.

John
4 years ago
Reply to  eastender53

Surely it is clouds or lack of them that determine night time temperature. In the tropics it is humid and warm no significant temperature drop at night; in the deserts it is dry and cloudless, hot in the day freezing at night; in the U.K. clear skies in winter result in frost, cloudy skies less likely to be frosty.

Mumbo Jumbo
4 years ago
Reply to  John

There is good research that the effects of the sun on galactic cosmic rays and their subsequent impact on the upper atmosphere, where they initiate cloud formation, are a key driver for global climate. CERN is researching the phenomenon.
Clue: does anyone remember the Wilson cloud chamber as a mechanism for detecting sub-atomic particles from their advanced physics lessons – same effect – used to research, for example, cosmic rays?

Mumbo Jumbo
4 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

Rock weathering! Are you suggesting that it is significant in human timescales? It is green growth wot duz it.
As for CO2 effects, I suggest you research saturation effects on CO2 and its ability to “insulate”.

rational
4 years ago

It isn’t more powerful, but a small change in CO2 makes a big difference.

Just like a small change in centre of gravity can make you fall over.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

How small a change and how big a difference?

Some evidence for your statement?

Bill H
4 years ago

Absolutely.

The sun is the major contributer to the earths temperature.

And Climate ‘Science’ makes the rather surprising assuption that solar energy input is constant over time. Witout this assumption, none of their models can ‘work’.

There is plenty of evidence that solar input fluctuates in various short (tens of years) to long (tens of millions of years) cycles.

Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago

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Bolloxed Britannia
Bolloxed Britannia
4 years ago

Anthropomorphic climate change is a malevolant contrivance that starts with the Club of Rome’s “Limit’s to Growth” in 1973. The original starting gun for the contemporary “Great reset” start’s with that report in 73. Kissinger’s “Useless eater’s” are in greater danger than ever before, the time to rid ourselves of big government and meglomaniac technocrats is now!
“Two thing’s are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe”
Albert Einstein.

Laicey
Laicey
4 years ago

The opening graph shows a 0.5 degrees C increase since 1979 if you smooth out all the peaks and troughs in the rolling average. It might not be the best graph to use to defeat the climate change argument.

Mumbo Jumbo
4 years ago
Reply to  Laicey

The climate change argument is not that global temperature are rising (no sensible person denies that) but that it is caused entirely by human activity and that it is running out of control. However we don’t seem to see hockey sticks any more.

John Dee
4 years ago

When it’s a question of instrumentation, I always wonder about comparing (in this instance) temperatures recorded over a number of decades. The reason for this is that most instrumentation undergoes re-calibration on a ‘seldom if ever’ basis. Even then, the accuracy of that calibration depends on human factors (how much the calibrator drank the night before, or whether his wife just left him). Add to that technology, which must be more accurate nowadays than it used to be, and the modern proliferation of data sources (which must have grown over time) and I wonder whether any of these long-term comparisons are worth a light (low energy consumption or not).
That leads me to be sceptical of both sides in most arguments on climate change.
(I should add that some of that scepticism arrives from changes of emphasis, such as ‘global warming’ becoming ‘climate change’ to suit the purposes of one side or other.)

Amtrup
4 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

And there’s also the effect of increasing urbanisation to take into account apparently, extending ambient city warmth to instruments situated in areas that were previously cooler because less built up.

Mumbo Jumbo
4 years ago
Reply to  Amtrup

Human use of power is indisputably rising, and ultimatey all power use results in heating the environment.
Human beings are also good at converting food into heat, typically 60W per person, I think. So that’s over 10 terawatt-hours just from people every day.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  Mumbo Jumbo

You seem to be arguing climate change is real..

ImpObs
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

of course clime change is real, it never stopped changing, throughout geological time.

Climate will never stop changing.

Bill H
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

It sure is real – and has been for several billion years.

Just zero evidence that man made CO2 has anything much to do with it.

Mumbo Jumbo
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Never denied it – just look at the posts I have made on this thread alone. The bit I don’t believe is that climate change is real and caused by human CO2 emissions.
I am a true believer in the heat island effect. I see evidence every time I drive into a city or even small town from the countryside on my car thermometer, and it is confirmed when I look at the siting of modern temperature stations, airports being some of the extremes.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

You don’t say?

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rational
4 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

So you think it’s all down to drifts in thermometer accuracy, do you?

An of course, they must have been under reading in earlier times…..

Yet the boiling point of water is still 100C, at STP.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

And you imagine thermometers are used in satellites to measure tropospheric temperatures?

What do they do, drop it down on a piece of string?

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

I’m as sceptical about climate change as I am about Covid, both have the same goals. The power hungry and wealthy recruit governments to implement the plans to make them more powerful and richer and poor people much poorer. Nothing they do is altruistic, both make them billions

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

I think you will find that climate change scientists are not billionaires.
They have been fighting to be heard for decades, when the corporate establishment has been fighting to counter them. Look at the oil lobby for instance.

Stop swallowing the garbage that you read on these sites and have a think.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Where does he mention climate change scientists?

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

“They [climate scientists] have been fighting to be heard for decades”

Indeed they have, and many of them have been cancelled over the years.

Meanwhile the climate frauds have had the podium for over 50 years pushing nonsense about catastrophic change.

Or do you imagine Greta is a scientist?

annicx
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

‘Fighting to be heard’? Are you serious? When do we ever hear anything else? Their views are constantly forced on us whilst anyone with an opposing view is ‘cancelled’, as it is known these days. Why shouldn’t anyone counter them if they disagree with them? If they are so sure they are right, why do they constantly seek to silence objectors? Why not just engage and prove them wrong? I keep hearing about ‘big oil’, etc., but that pales into insignificance next to ‘big government’. As for the garbage on these sites, what about pretty much every media outlet constantly trying to terrify us with the AGW storyline, which is clearly being ‘swallowed’ by most people. What harm can a few sceptical websites do in the face of that?

ImpObs
4 years ago

Scarey average global temp graphs depend entirely on start date.

Who decides what the “perfect” average global temp is? (sponsored by the globalists) What is it?

Why are fractions of a degree rise/fall over decades, or indeed centuries, important when the DAILY swing in temp from the warmest parts to the coldest parts tens of degrees.

Looking at the data the most obvious conclusion is that the “global” warming is not global
at all. Instead, it is strongest at night, in the winter in Siberia, and
Canada. I’m pretty sure the poor people in Murmansk are not complaining
about that.

This picture tells you all you need to know about the climate change propaganda

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unmaskthetruth
4 years ago

To be honest, it’s just nice to have an open debate about something other than the scamdemic. I think the daily sceptic readers can take an interesting view on many of the ‘settled’ science of today. If only Aristotle had ‘settled’ his science we could have dispensed with cars and planes and space travel and lived in the centre of our own arrogant universe.

Hopeless - "TN,BN"
4 years ago

We now live in some sort of Parallel Universe, where every supposed Truth or “Fact” is, in reality, either a downright Lie, Distortion or “Mispoken”.

No matter what the printed musical score says, every little Tin Drummer and Trumpet Blower feels entitled to emit the cacophony of his or her choice.

Again, TN, BN. “Trust Nobody, Believe Nothing”.

TheBluePill
4 years ago

And just as Orwell predicted, truth is rewritten and no one can remember further back than a decade. We are quite close to a Ministry of Truth in the form of Google.

Mayo
Mayo
4 years ago

While I am in no way alarmed by ‘climate change’, this article is slightly misleading.

1/ There are natural fluctuations in the record which are mainly due to the ENSO cycle. The cycle is currently in La Nina phase which means sea surface temperatures will be cooler than normal.
2/ The anomaly baseline has been updated to the more recent 1991-2020 period which does mean recent readings will appear less dramatic. Note the longer GISS & Hadley records use 1961-90 baselines.

The UAH satellite linear trend is about 0.14 deg per decade over the the past 42 years which means there has been almost 0.6 degree of warming. Quite significant.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  Mayo

Sorry?

0.6ºC of a global temperature fluctuation over 42 years is supposed to be significant?

I suppose it is when you consider growing crop production and extreme poverty dropping like a stone over that period.

It also seems it’s contributed to the planet enjoying virgin greening over 35 years of satellite observations.

The IPCC seems to think it’s not bad either as it tells us there is low confidence of increased extreme weather events.

You might want to inform us all just what negative effects that 0.6ºC has had on the planet.

Steve-Devon
4 years ago

With Covid and with climate there seems to be some strange and disturbing trends and tendencies at work. There seems to be a drive to move us into a life of authoritarian, techno, bureaucratic, communitarian, collectivism. Mark Drakeford was openly talking about this the other day. The trouble is, who decides what is in the common good? Covid and the climate have given the tyrants issues on which the ‘common good’ can be flagged up as so self evident that it cannot be debated and the rules and dictats must be followed are we will all be doomed.
It seems to me that climate is a highly complex subject way beyond my pay grade as a retired agriculturalist but what I would say is that this whole issue is missing any sort of open minded, free thinking debate. Analysis of the meaning of the data in this article should be openly and freely debated not subject to censorship.

‘But you never ask questions, when God’s on your side’

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

What is being censored, exactly?

Steve-Devon
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

To quote the article;
The data is compiled by Dr. Roy Spencer from the University of Alabama, who was kicked off Google Adsense recently for publishing “unreliable and harmful claims”. The move demonetised Dr. Spencer’s monthly satellite update page by removing all Google-suppled advertising. Google says it will ban all sites that are sceptical of “well-established scientific consensus”.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

He fell asleep during that paragraph.

cornubian
4 years ago

This article says there has been no global warming for 7 years, and the article below says there was no global warming for the 19 years before that. Make of this what you will.

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rational
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Well if you look for articles like this you will find them.

Bill H
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

https://www.weather-research.com/weather-and-climate

Rational, look at this material and get back to us.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

If you don’t look for things science collapses.

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

The UK has one of the most moderate climates on the planet and the UK has some of the most extreme climate zealots.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

What makes someone a zealot?

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

person who has very strong opinions about something, and tries to force other people have them too: a fanatically committed person.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

you mean like the sort of person who’d be a sealion toll?

Johnny B Ad
4 years ago

So basically, using doom-laden terms such as “emergency”, “crisis”, and “catastrophe”, suffixed to the word “climate”, as practiced by the media, politicians, and eco activists, is an example of the following terms:

– grifting
– exaggerating
– lying
– doom-saying

And essentially: pure wankerism.

IvorMegdin
IvorMegdin
4 years ago

To be fair, it does look like an upward trend over 40 years of about 0.5 degrees. So at that rate we would reach 1.5 degrees in another 80 years assuming CO2 is the driver and it increases at the same rate that it has done. On the other hand there is some margin of error in all that and a few cold years could change the picture considerably.

John001
John001
4 years ago
Reply to  IvorMegdin

If one looks at 80-90 years of Met Office data for rural sites like Shawbury and Ross on Wye, there’s about a one deg K warming. Most of it has occurred since 1960. Not much added tarmac here, unlike Heathrow or Cambridge.

In short, there seem to be valid points from both sides. With COVID, by contrast, one side is just lying.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  John001

Somewhere on the planet has sen zero K warming. That’s what averages are for.

leek
4 years ago
Reply to  IvorMegdin

How many cold years in your opinion?

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  IvorMegdin

This is the calculation, using internationally recognised data, nothing fancy, no hidden agenda, just something we can all do by taking our socks and shoes off. Assuming increasing atmospheric CO2 is causing the planet to warm: Atmospheric CO2 levels in 1850 (beginning of the Industrial Revolution): ~280ppm (parts per million atmospheric content) (Vostock Ice Core). Atmospheric CO2 level in 2021: ~410ppm. (Manua Loa) 410ppm minus 280ppm = 130ppm ÷ 171 years (2021 minus 1850) = 0.76ppm of which man is responsible for ~3% = ~0.02ppm. That’s every human on the planet and every industrial process adding ~0.02ppm CO2 to the atmosphere per year on average. At that rate mankind’s CO2 contribution would take ~25,000 years to double which, the IPCC states, would cause around 2°C of temperature rise. That’s ~0.0001°C increase per year for ~25,000 years. One hundred (100) generations from now (assuming ~25 years per generation) would experience warming of ~0.25°C more than we have today. ‘The children’ are not threatened! Furthermore, the Manua Loa CO2 observatory (and others) can identify and illustrate Natures small seasonal variations in atmospheric CO2 but cannot distinguish between natural and manmade atmospheric CO2. Hardly surprising. Mankind’s CO2 emissions are so inconsequential this ‘vital… Read more »

rational
4 years ago

Temperature seems to have a clear upward trend.

The argument of little change from a cherry-picked reference is somewhat pathetic.

paul parmenter
paul parmenter
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

An upward trend does not prove any particular cause. This has been the great fallacy over claims of a climate “crisis”: even if temperatures are edging upwards (not everywhere and not consistently), that does not prove the case that it is all due to human-generated CO2. But climate zealots joyfully seize on every piece of evidence of warming as if they are all additional proof of that claim. They are no such thing. Every year I get more grey hairs; and with every grey hair, the world gets a little warmer. If that relationship can be shown to be precise and consistent, maybe we should start believing that it is all down to my hair?

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  paul parmenter

The upward trend does show that the article is misleading.

Now many people on here do actual admit that the upward trend is there. They may next understand that some of the opinions they are being fed are therefor incorrect.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Again, the same logical fallacy. A is wrong, therefore B is wrong.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

So you agree, the article is wrong.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

About what?

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

There is always an upward trend in global temperatures, until there is always a downward trend in global temperatures.

Jonny S.
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

The graph starts at 1979 because that is the eariest satellite data they have. You can only use the data available to you and then use it to try and predict future temperature rises or falls. For instance this graph indicates a 0.4 degree rise ove approximately 40 years meaning that the 1.5c temp rise picked out of thin air (pun intended) will not occurr for the next 150 years.

Of course there could well be other explanations for climate change than easlily taxable CO2.

See here from 2014.

https://phys.org/news/2014-08-sun-natural-climate.html

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  Jonny S.

I think thermometers were around before 1979…

Jonny S.
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

There were no thermometers measuring the global lower atmosphere before 1979.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  Jonny S.

Here is a chart including information back to 1880

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/global-temperatures

ImpObs
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

you think they had thermometers accurate to 1/1000 of a degree in 1880

LOL

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Why would that level of accuracy be required?

ImpObs
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

because the “hottest temp record” for any given area in a newspaper headline is often only 1/1000th of a degree warmer than it was in the 1940’s.

even your link claims an accuracy of .05 degrees on the graph from 1880, that 5/100th degrees accuracy.

LOL just LOL

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

You think all that data is accurate?

Jonny S.
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

From your link.

The data reflect how much warmer or cooler each region was compared to a base period of 1951-1980. (The global mean surface air temperature for that period was 14°C (57°F), with an uncertainty of several tenths of a degree.)

The temperature of the lower atmosphere is not the same as the surface air temperature.

I will say again one last time the graph starts at 1979 because that is when satellites started measuring the Global lower atmosphere.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  Jonny S.

Balloons.

realarthurdent
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

The article is about the fact that a professor who is studying and publishing this data is being cancelled. The data is of course open to interpretation but there is a clear trend in the media of preventing any data which might be used to question the narrative from even being published.

I’ve got a science degree and what’s going on here isn’t science. It’s a cult. Cults are things many of us have become much more familiar with over the past 23 months.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

But he isn’t cancelled… they just don’t want to sell advertising on the back of his stuff.

Read things properly…..

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Why don’t they want to sell advertising on his content?

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Because they don’t want to support his misinformation and enrich him.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Well that’s quite sweet. You must be quite an innocent soul, thinking Google care about misinformation and making sure only honest and accurate people make money.

leek
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

They care about perception of the google brand.
That’s the nature of business.

They key point is that not selling advertising is not the same as censorship.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

NASA is promoting misinformation?

Well, there’s an admission………

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

LOL. Cherry picked.

Being it’s the only satellite record of any consequence on the planet, it can hardly be described as a ‘cherry’.

It also correlates well with balloon data, which is also the only meaningful terrestrial, lower atmospheric temperature data the world has. Undoubtedly you would call that cherry picked as well.

paul parmenter
paul parmenter
4 years ago

I don’t understand how the science can be “settled” on a subject which is by its very nature constantly changing, to such an extent that nobody has ever been able to predict with any accuracy what it will be doing in the next day, week or year. The only thing that I would agree is “settled” on this matter is the determination to ignore all developing evidence and to stick with your prejudice. In much the same way that once you have poured concrete and let it “settle”, it ain’t gonna move until it is hit by an earthquake. But that does not necessarily mean it has been laid in the right way in the right place.

TheBluePill
4 years ago
Reply to  paul parmenter

The science is settled. Just like it was settled in Galileo’s time that the sun revolves around the earth. I know that particular example was actually religion Vs science, but that is essentially what we have now with “The science” Vs science.

GlassHalfFull
4 years ago

For the last 20 years I have been a Global Warming sceptic arguing with people on The Guardian and BBC that it is junk science, some of it natural and even if we are effecting the climate it is far from catastrophic.

The same global elites are behind the Climate Change scam and the Covid scam.

Roy Spencer has always been a voice of reason.

ebygum
4 years ago

While there may be copious arguments for and against the ‘green agenda’…..isn’t the big point here that, in this case Google, think they are the arbiters of what is right and wrong, what is true and false? And who should be allowed to speak and be listened to? just like the ‘misinformation’ supposedly being spread about Covid there are people who have serious academic credentials who are effectively being stopped from speaking? This is the real problem…..

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Google him and see what happens….

steve_z
4 years ago

The recent news that the South Pole had its coldest six month winter since records began was largely ignored by mainstream media.”

which is neither here nor there because weather is not climate

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

One data point in one location.
What’s the significance?

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

One of many data points across the Antarctic……..

iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

BUT that is ONLY applied to anything opposing the AGW insanity!!!

jeepybee
4 years ago

Like others, I never really questioned or looked into anything climate related before 3 years ago. I sort of figured that humans might be causing issues on a micro level, anecdotally spotting grim chimneys coughing out shit into the atmosphere. I had the basic knowledge that volcanos did more ‘damage’ in one eruption than humans ever had, or words to that effect, but I still assumed what ‘they’ were saying was correct and that Johnny Polar Bear was drowning. Now though, any trust I had in “The Schientists” having a level head about it all has gone out of the window. Even a quick sceptical glance gives me reason to question it. More so when you realise that the scientific method has been discarded in the same way as the pandemic malarkey. No, it’s declared to be settled, and that’s that. Personally, I can’t help but find the entire thing arrogant of the left especially; that humanity would have such a mark on the environment, especially when you look at any climate tracking graphs of even 1000 years, let alone 10,000 years. It’s a pattern that has existed since our rock started rolling around our star. Also, I’ve seen a… Read more »

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  jeepybee

Climate change freaks will have you believe that in spite of all the massive effects that non-human related factors, such as solar flares or the wobbling of the planet have, it is the relatively small effect of human activity that is the tipping point.

It’s part of the current social trend of human self loathing.

jeepybee
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Exactly that Stewart. Bunch of seawards.

Star
4 years ago

Kudos for calling Google truth suppressors.

leek
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Google “daily sceptic”

Nigel Jacklin
Nigel Jacklin
4 years ago

The chart shows that, overall, the past 7 years have been slightly warmer than the 1980’s. Nothing to report here from a temperature point of view. Obviously we may have an issue with google deciding what we can see. That can be solved by using Mojeek.com.

DThom
4 years ago

I see that Unballanced has been involved in presenting Climate change info to Johnson.
Says all you need to know!

Clunster
Clunster
4 years ago

The IPCC make SPI-M look like Nostradamus. If you want to waste a few months have a look at the early and current MAGICC emulator software that forms the basis of many IPCC reports. It’s bilge. Then look at some of the papers from Hadley, LANL and NCAR based on this piffle.

Jonny S.
4 years ago

Dr Spencer is not the first and wont be the last to be censored by Google. See here.

https://www.cfact.org/2019/03/17/greenpeace-and-google-disappear-dr-patrick-moore/

Greenpeace and Google disappear Dr. Patrick Moore

on Greenpeace and Google disappear Dr. Patrick Moore

Dr Patrick Moore broke with Greenpeace, the organization he co-founded, when Greenpeace’s mission morphed from promoting environmentalism to promoting Socialism.
Dr. Moore is a vocal critic of the propaganda techniques used by the global warming movement and recently said on television that, “the whole climate crisis is not only fake news, it’s fake science.”

Read this link to see why.

https://cairnsnews.org/2020/01/13/greenpeace-co-founder-dr-patrick-moore-says-we-need-much-more-co2-in-the-atmosphere/

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  Jonny S.

But he isn’t censored, is he….

Jonny S.
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

From here.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/censorship

a system in which an authority limits the ideas that people are allowed to express and prevents books, films, works of art, documents, or other kinds of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because they include or supportcertainideas:

I see it as censorship. You of course will disagree. Those reading can make up thier own minds.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  Jonny S.

His book is eminently readable and informative:
”Fake Invisible Catastrophes And Threats Of Doom”

rational
4 years ago

Something very odd here….The folks here seem to be objecting to the “cancellation” of Dr. Roy Spencer.

Yet you can google him and get results…. why is this???

Now go back and read what was said in the article.. It actually said

“who was kicked off Google Adsense recently for publishing “unreliable and harmful claims”. The move demonetised Dr. Spencer’s monthly satellite update page by removing all Google-suppled advertising. Google says it will ban all sites that are sceptical of “well-established scientific consensus”.

That means that Google is not prepared to sell advertising on sites that post this stuff.
To sell that advertising would be to profit from and recommend the content.

DoctorCOxford
DoctorCOxford
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

No, you are right. But denying someone the funding (via ads) to support the site is damaging. But what is more, the algorithm when you search “climate data” has made it far more laborious to find. While other media channels have censored those who question the current accepted wisdom (science never stops testing hypothesis so, why stop on this one), Google hasn’t. In part because it’s hard to censor the internet. But making it easy to find? That is another story. But you are right, he is not censored nor is he a global warming denier (which I am not either).

Jonny S.
4 years ago
Reply to  DoctorCOxford

I used the term censored, not cancelled, because as you rightly say Google are trying to prevent his work from being widley veiwed.

From here.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/censorship

a system in which an authority limits the ideas that people are allowed to express and prevents books, films, works of art, documents, or other kinds of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because they include or support certain ideas:

leek
4 years ago
Reply to  Jonny S.

Go and google him. See if he is blocked

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  leek

Blocking is not the only form of censorhip.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Jonny S.

Alphabet agency spin off go ogle is a censorship engine.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

That is absolutely hilarious.

The suggestion that Google is not prepared to sell advertising on content because it violates some scientific or moral standards is probably one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time.

DoctorCOxford
DoctorCOxford
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Anyone hit with Google ads for herbal supplements knows their fealty to science is very selective.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I’m not saying they are consistent. But that is the situation….

Go and google him and see what happens.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

A Google search isn’t going to tell me whether he has been censored or not. I don’t have an historical record of what he publishes. I have no clue either about how Google selects the information it publishes, which information it chooses to give preference to and which to omit or downgrade. And neither do you.

What I’m pretty sure about is that what Google publishes or not, what it puts ads on or not, is not decided by scientific or moral integrity.

leek
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Well you will find a link to his own site.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  leek

So?

Nigel Jacklin
Nigel Jacklin
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

It’s their policy. Demonetisation is not exactly new.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  Nigel Jacklin

For producing reliable scientific information?

He works with NASA, have they been demonetised?

Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Hi Mr Cluster B Personality Disorder,

Have a look through the attached gif and read through a list of your and easily observable dysfunctional personality traits.

Kevin 2
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

…Which amounts to totally unacceptable censorship in other words.
(If, on the other hand, Google Adsense kicked off all unreliable and harmful climate alarmism stuff, that would go a long way to to nullifying the ‘crisis’!)

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

It’s a NASA satellite Spencer collates the data for. Has Google demonetised NASA?

No.

It’s selective targeting of an individual to force him to shut his website.