State Of The Climate Report
THE global warming climate change scare has almost nothing to do with the environment or “Saving The Planet”. Rather, its roots lie in a misanthropic agenda engineered by the environmental movement of the mid 1970’s, who realised that doing something about claimed man-made “global warming” would play to quite a number of the Left’s social agendas.
IN THEIR (IPCC) OWN WORDS:
ENERGY rationing and the control of carbon dioxide (the direct byproduct of cheap, reliable energy) has always been the key feature of the Left’s misanthropic agenda of depopulation deindustrialisation. Enforced through punitive emissions controls, protected under the guise of human-induced climate change.
STANFORD University and The Royal Society’s resident global warming alarmist and population freak Paul R. Ehrlich spelled out, in 1976, the anti-energy agenda that still underpins the global warming scare…
“Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the
equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”
– Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University/Royal Society fellow
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THE creator, fabricator and proponent of global warming alarmism Maurice Strong, founded UNEP and ‘science’ arm, the UN IPCC, under the premise of studying only human (CO2) driven causes of climate change.
STRONG and the UN’s charter and agenda was clearly laid out before the ‘science’ of climate change was butchered and tortured to fit the global warming narrative…
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about?” – Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing – are not sustainable.” – Maurice Strong, Rio Earth Summit
“It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature.“ – Maurice Strong, first Secretary General of UNEP
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FORMER Australian PM Julia Gillard, who implemented Australia’s ruinous and politically destructive 2011 carbon tax, was open in expressing its core function to ‘drive substantial changes in patterns of energy production and energy use.’
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THE climate fix was in from the start, and now we’re paying for it, big time, in the form of unreliable energy, skyrocketing power bills, energy poverty, economic ruin and death…
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STATE OF THE CLIMATE
CLIMATE catastrophists blame humans and their use of fossil fuels for the purported destruction of climate with “tipping points” and “runaway global warming” some of the emotional descriptors driving the narrative.
LET’S check out the most well known environmental metrics used by the Climate Crisis Industry to push their global warming scare and see exactly what damage fossil fuels and harmless byproduct CO2 are doing to Gaia…
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ANTARCTICA
ANTARCTICA, the ‘inconvenient’ pole, the naughty child, has been gaining ice mass and cooling for decades, despite a 20 per cent increase in atmospheric CO2, and model predictions to the contrary.
2017 Study
From the abstract :
Mass changes of the Antarctic ice sheet impact sea-level rise as climate changes, but recent rates have been uncertain. Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) data (2003–08) show mass gains from snow accumulation exceeded discharge losses by 82 ± 25 Gt a−1, reducing global sea-level rise by 0.23 mm a−1.
Mass gains of the Antarctic ice sheet exceed losses | Journal of Glaciology | Cambridge Core
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ARCTIC
OVER the past decade, the Arctic has seen a huge increase in multi-year, thick sea-ice.
SEA ice volume is fourth highest since 2003, and melting very slowly.
Arctic sea-ice is about the same as 1971.
AUSTRALIA’S professional warming alarmist, Tim Flannery, believes we will “see an ice-free North Pole in 2018”.
ARCTIC temps have been below the 1958-2002 average nearly everyday during the summer melt period.
SEE more :
- ICE, ICE BABY! Huge Expansion Of Thick Arctic Ice Over The Last Ten Years | Climatism
- GLOBAL WARMING SMACKDOWN! Tankers Trapped In Midsummer Arctic Sea Ice | Climatism
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GREENLAND
OVER the past 20 months, more than one trillion tons of new ice has formed on Greenland’s surface.
2017-18 ice accumulation is well above the 1981-2010 average.
CLIMATE ‘scientists’ driven by government grants believe that we need to spread “reflective material” over Greenland to stop it from melting…
“Jason Box, a glaciologist with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, began advocating for covering sections of the Greenland ice sheet with reflective material as early as 2009.”
SWISS Residents Are Wrapping Glaciers In Blankets To Keep Them From Melting!? | Climatism
CONGRATULATIONS Jason Box! Those reflective materials are working a treat…
GREENLAND’S surface is rapidly gaining ice, and the largest glaciers are growing and also expanding.
PETERMANN GLACIER – Expanding and Growing
OF COURSE, the fake news media reports the exact opposite of the truth.
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POLAR BEARS
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DROUGHT
IN August 1934, when CO2 was at ‘safe’ levels, severe to extreme drought covered around 80% of the entire US. Such conditions endured for most of the decade known as the “Dust Bowl” era.
CURRENT U.S. drought conditions under Donald Trump’s reign of climate “denial” terror.
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200-YEAR “MEDIEVAL MEGA DROUGHT” WHEN CO2 WAS AT “SAFE” LEVELS…
SEE more :
- TOP 10 Climate Change Alarmist Myths Unearthed : #1 DROUGHT | Climatism
- DROUGHT : Data Doesn’t Lie, Climate Ambulance Chasers Do | Climatism
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EXTREME WEATHER
HEATWAVES
ACCORDING to the EPA, the low-CO2 1930s had (by far) the worst heatwaves in US history.
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CYCLONES
AUSTRALIAN tropical cyclones are declining in both, intensity and frequency as CO2 increases.
SEE more : OPEN Letter To The Bureau Of Meteorology – Tropical Cyclone Trends | Climatism
NO trend in Global Tropical Cyclone Frequency as CO2 increases.
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HURRICANES
GLOBAL Major Hurricanes are declining in frequency as CO2 increases.
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TORNADOES
2018 is shaping up as one of the least active US tornado years on record, despite record and rising CO2 emissions.
Note: The US represents about 75 percent of the world’s recorded tornadoes:
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GLOBAL WEATHER DISASTERS
GLOBAL weather disasters as a percentage of global GDP are declining as carbon dioxide emissions are increasing.
Through 7 months of 2018 weather disasters as % GDP are on record (low) pace…
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WHAT THE LAST IPCC (AR5) REPORT FOUND
Official IPCC Words from SREX report released 2012 : “We Do Not Know If The Climate Is Becoming More Extreme”
No steel roof required: IPCC dials back the fear of extreme weather…
Pielke Jr. Agrees – ‘Extreme weather to climate connection’ is a dead issue
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GLOBAL FOOD PRODUCTION
BARACK OBAMA 2017 : “Our changing climate is already making it more difficult to produce food…”
REALITY 2018 : Famine Forecasts Foiled – Climate Increasing Global Food Production
AS with most climate scare-mongering that is primarily driven by emotion, ideology, politics and/or climate models, the rhetoric and fear-mongering never seems to stack up against observed reality, data or actual facts. Global food production another classic case in point.
WHAT’S really going on with your food via Ron Clutz’ Science Matters …
Famine Forecasts Foiled: Climate Increasing Food Production
Gregory Whitestone has the story at CNS Famine Forecasts Foiled: Climate’s Projected Food Production to Increase
The latest dose of “fake news” about global warming comes from two forecasts of faminedue to human activity. Both drew on estimates of extremely high temperatures predicted by the same flawed climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to predict other climate calamities. The climate models used in the studies are estimated tooverpredict temperature by 2.5 to 3 times as compared to actually measured temperatures, and both rely on the highest estimates of maximum temperature increase.
The first of the reports warned that future production of vegetables and legumes would decrease by more than 30 percent with an expected rise of 4C. Even the alarmist IPCC says that the most likely case is a rise of about half that.
The primary reason for the prediction of famine is a sharp decrease in wateravailability, even though recent reports indicate that previously arid portions of the Earth are experiencing a significant net increase in soil moisture due to a combination of increasing precipitation and CO2 fertilization — both effects of our changing climate.
Buried in the report is an admission that contradicts the hysteria engendered by the headlines. According to the authors, a 250-ppm increase in CO2, without the exaggerated temperature increase, would boost crop production by an average of 22 percent!That’s correct, more food as a result of increasing CO2.
The second report projects decreases in corn (maize) production due to increasing heat waves. This increase in extreme heat was based on the same exaggerated 4oC increase in temperature as the first study.
According to the USDA, corn is the largest component of the global grain trade, and the United States is the world’s largest producer. Corn is thus one of the country’s most important agricultural products, processed as sweet corn, cornmeal, tortillas and, thankfully, bourbon. It also is the primary feedstock to fatten cattle, chickens and hogs.
Fortunately, despite a continuing rise in temperatures, the world and America have set new corn records on an annual basis. The world’s remarkable ability to increase food production year after year is attributable to mechanization, agricultural innovation, CO2 fertilization and warmer weather. World grain production figures show that crop and food production has steadily increased, with only positive effects from our changing climate.
Historically, crop growth has ballooned in times of high temperatures and declined drastically during cold periods. Over the last 4,000 years we find that previous periods of…
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SEA LEVELS
GLOBALLY, seas have risen 400 feet, 120 metres or 120,000mm over the past ~15,000 years, since the end of the last Ice Age.
Over the past 200 years seas have been rising at a relatively steady rate.
According to NOAA the current rate of global sea-level rise is 2.8 ± 0.4 mm/year:
Climate change and sea level rise over the past 20,000 years…
Climate change and sea level rise over the past 20,000 years
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SEA-LEVEL RISE ACCELERATION?
SEAS have not stopped rising since the end of the last great Ice Age ~20,000 years ago. However, what is pertinent to the sea-level rise debate is whether SLR is accelerating due to human CO2 emissions.
Dr Judith Curry…
“Sea level has been rising for the last ten thousand years, since the last Ice Age…the question is whether sea level rise is accelerating owing to human caused emissions. It doesn’t look like there is any great acceleration, so far, of sea level rise associated with human warming. These predictions of alarming sea level rise depend on massive melting of the big continental glaciers — Greenland and Antarctica. The Antarctic ice sheet is actually growing. Greenland shows large multi-decadal variability. …. There is no evidence so far that humans are increasing sea level rise in any kind of a worrying way.” — Dr. Judith Curry, video interview published 9 August 2017
“Observed sea level rise over the last century has averaged about 8 inches, although local values may be substantially more or less based on local vertical land motion, land use, regional ocean circulations and tidal variations.“
(Climatism bolds)
Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Projections for the 21st century | Climate Etc.
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EMPERICAL “PEER-REVIEWED SCIENCE” Re SLR ACCELERATION:
THE key finding from the paper is that long-term observations from tide gauges reveal a “recent lack of any detectable acceleration in the rate of sea-level rise“. The modern rate of sea level rise acceleration – 0.002 mm/year² – is so negligible it falls well below the threshold of measurement accuracy.
PERHAPS at some point “consensus”-based climate science will jettison its focus on models and projections of perilous future climate states directly caused by anthropogenic CO2 emissions and instead embrace the observational evidence that may undermine the alarm.
UNTIL then, we will likely need to continue learning about how many millimeters we humans raise sea levels for each kilometer we drive in our fossil-fuel-powered vehicles. Because that’s how “consensus” climate science works.
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ACCORDING to “the science” there has been no stat-sig or relevant acceleration of sea-level rise since industrialisation.
That said, something other than essential trace gas carbon dioxide caused seas to rise, at the current steady rate, around 1790:
(NOTE that 85% of man-made CO2 was emitted after 1945.)
RECAP – What we know about sea-levels :
- Seas have been rising for the past 20,000 years, since the end of the last Ice Age.
- Sea-levels both rise and fall depending on where you are on the planet. Absolute sea-level varies from negative to positive to stable depending on a range of regional factors including: local vertical land motion, land use, salinity, regional ocean circulations, ocean heat content and tidal variations.
NEGATIVE CHANGE (Sea-level decline)
Mean Sea Level Trend
040-081 Narvik, Norway
Mean Sea Level Trend
050-141 Stockholm, Sweden
Mean Sea Level Trend
Juneau, Alaska
- Something other than CO2 caused seas to rise at the current steady rate around 1790.
- No statistically-siginificant acceleration since ~1790.
SEE more :
- TOP 10 Climate Change Alarmist Myths Unearthed : #2 SEA LEVEL RISE | Climatism
- PICTORIAL Guide To Sea-Level Rise Alarmism And Observed Reality | Climatism
- THE Guardian Spewing Out More Man-Made Sea Level Rise Vomit | Climatism
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GLOBAL GREENING
THE world has more natural carbon dioxide absorbers in the shape of trees than was thought, to the tune of an extra 2.2 million kilometers² relative to 1982.
NATURE STUDY : Global Forest Loss Over Past 35 Years More Than Offset By New Forest Growth
MORE forests globally and “deserts greening” will, no doubt, come as unwelcome news to the environmental movement who rely on doom and gloom to drive their misanthropic, anti-capitalist climate change agenda.
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GLOBAL TEMPERATURE
GLOBAL temperatures simply have not been rising in accordance with UN IPCC climate model predictions that underpin the global warming scare.
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THE (inconvenient) Global Warming “PAUSE” / “Hiatus”…
BETWEEN the start of 1997 and the end of 2014, average global surface temperature stalled. This 18-year period is known as the global warming “pause” or “hiatus” and has been the subject of much research and debate in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
THE rise in global temperatures that alarmed climate campaigners in the 1990’s had slowed so much that the trend was no longer statistically significant. This despite one-third of Man’s entire influence on climate since the Industrial Revolution occurring since February 1997.
THE pause took a pause during the 2015/16 super El Niño which was the strongest such event in recorded history and helped to make 2015 and 2016 the warmest years in the modern warm period. However, 2017 witnessed the biggest drop in global temps in recorded history, seen across most data sets, bringing temps back inline with 1997-2014 averages, rendering “the pause” alive and well, to date.
THERE has been a recent surge in media reports aiming to debunk and bury the inconvenient hiatus, not predicted by any climatologist, science agency, government body, media outlet or UN computer model.
A few of the latest attempts by the mainsteam media at re-writing climate history…
READ on : THE Great Global Warming “Pause” | Climatism
SEE more :
- 100% Of Climate Models Prove that 97% of Climate Scientists Were Wrong! | Climatism
- GLOBAL WARMING THEORY CHECK : Global Temps Continue Century-Record Plunge, Despite Rising Emissions! | Climatism
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UPDATE – GLOBAL TEMPS (Aug, 2018)
LOWER troposphere global temperatures continue their decline off the 2015/16 Super El Niño highs.
AUGUST temps plunged off the July bump of +0.32 deg. C, cooling back to +0.19 deg. C above the long-term average, which drops temps back to 2002 levels…
CONCLUSION
FOR so long, climate ‘sceptics’ have been labeled climate/science “deniers” in crude reference to those who deny the holocaust, with the pejorative used in a broader effort to shut down debate and silence dissent. However, when hard evidence is laid out over alarmist rhetoric, it’s not hard to see who in fact are the real deniers of history and indeed, deniers of science.
EVEN when hard data, “the science” and empirical evidence completely contradicts alarmist predictions and forecasts peddled by the mainstream media and grant-driven ‘scientists’, alarmists continue to double down on their fear-mongering instead of evaluating their theory and admitting that they might just have got it all wrong.
GLOBAL WARMING dogma has ruinously snowballed into a TRILLION dollar religion to be defended at all costs by alarmist ‘scientists’ and the fake news media in order to protect egos, jobs, reputations and access to limitless taxpayer ‘eco’-funds.
THIS is not ‘science’, it is zealotry run amok.
IT’S time to count the shocking price we’ve paid for listening to global warming scaremongers like Tim Flannery.
SEE now what their panic-making has inspired – global warming schemes that have hurt us infinitely more than any slight global warming could ever do.
IT has been estimated that globally, warmists burn collectively more than a $billion dollars a day. But, what are we trying to stop, anyway? Recent scientific papers confirm there’s been much less warming over the past two decades than predicted …
AS egg-on-face moments go, it was a double-yolker. Last week a group of climate scientists published a paper that admitted the estimates of global warming used for years to torture the world’s conscience and justify massive spending on non-carbon energy sources were, er, wrong. | THE TIMES
SEE more : 100% Of Climate Models Prove that 97% of Climate Scientists Were Wrong! | Climatism
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MARK Twain explains why it is so difficult to end the man-made climate change scam…
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Alan Stewart
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Kudos Jamie, this is the most comprehensive and precise compilation I’ve had the pleasure to read. Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!
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T.L. Winslow (@historyscoper)
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Sorry, the Twain quote is incorrect, see Wikiquote.
I linked to this article in my new climate historyscope, best on the Net and getting better, containing everything worth knowing about the subject, arranged chronologically for ease of reference.
http://www.historyscoper.com/climatescope.html
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