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Cheap fakes of climate science.
by John Klar
Scathing summer heat has fueled incendiary headlines attributing record-breaking temperatures around the world to climate change. The presumption that individual weather events such as hurricanes, storms, or wildfires can be traced to greenhouse gas emissions displays the shoddy ideological fearmongering employed by climate alarmists in lieu of credible scientific fact. Noticeably omitted from assumptions that the current heat wave is attributable to climate change is a discussion of the better-understood warming impacts of the world’s recent El Niño event.
Claiming the current heat wave is caused by anthropogenic climate change is a double deception. It is scientifically impossible to precisely establish that any individual storm, heat wave, drought, or flood is conclusively linked to global warming, let alone to human action. Additionally, ignoring the recent El Niño cycle and its expected warming impact on oceans and summer weather is to act as if that elephant in the climate room were somehow extinct.
El Niño Cancel Culture?
El Niño is a long-studied natural climate pattern marked by warming influences on ocean temperatures. The world is supposedly in a “neutral phase” at present — between one of the strongest El Niños on record in 2023 and the cooling La Niña expected to follow this summer. CNN frankly explained the powerful impact of these patterns on world temperatures:
“La Niña summers following strong El Niño winters have historically been some of the hottest on record in the US. This summer could be no different, even before La Niña is entrenched.
“The loss of El Niño will also have major ramifications in the Atlantic Ocean and is one major reason experts are calling for a hyperactive hurricane season.
“The Atlantic Ocean’s record-breaking water temperatures could also act like food for storms, helping them to form, strengthen and survive … Over the past year, El Niño helped drive global average ocean temperatures to record-breaking levels … Most notably, El Niño helped push both air and ocean temperatures to record levels globally. Every month from June 2023 to May 2024 was the world’s hottest such month on record, CNN previously reported.”
Compounding climate science with global warming ideology, CNN asserted the odd argument that the “transition to La Niña isn’t the only factor influencing temperatures during the hottest time of the year. They are always on the rise in a world warming due to fossil fuel pollution.” This logic must be reversed for histrionic a priori claims that fossil fuels cause every storm, flood, heat wave, or drought: “Fossil fuel pollution isn’t the only factor influencing temperatures. They are always on the rise (or fall) due to El Nino and La Nina and other natural influences.”
Heat Wave Mania
This clear science does not prevent climate alarmists from clouding the skies with fear. Climatologist Judith Curry, famed initially for her research suggesting hurricanes were increasing due to climate change, came to reconsider her work and challenge many of the science-abusing assumptions employed by biased alarmists who often lack relevant scientific credentials. Curry has become a leading voice not in so-called “climate denial” but common sense, claiming, “Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change.” Natural climate variability includes powerful gravitational and thermodynamic forces and measurable events such as El Niño and La Niña. Curry criticizes scientific assertions that ignore these other potent forces and argues that “climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales.”
If models can’t reliably predict weather over decades, they cannot pinpoint the causes of specific droughts, storms, or floods. Yet recent headlines championing climate doom due to summer heat will be joined by a cacophony of cries of climate chaos when there are blizzards in winter and heavy rains in monsoon season. Wildfires lit by arsonists are blamed on climate change. Reuters recently reported:
“Climate change is driving dangerous heat waves across the Northern Hemisphere this week and will continue to deliver dangerous weather for decades to come, research shows.
“In New Mexico, officials are responding to multiple weather events, including a dust storm, flooding and two wildfires.”
Arsonists Fueling Ideological Fires
The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for lighting fires now labeled “weather events.” Any time an arsonist throws a match in the summer in New Mexico, the fiery event is linked to claims of global peril and end times disaster. To the extent New Mexico’s fires are a consequence of weather, is that climate change, an El Niño winter, or is it just especially hot this year in the desert? When a heat record is broken in Boston because it hits 98 degrees, was the 1923 record of 96 degrees attributable to El Niño, while the current spike was from car exhaust fumes? Where is the science?
Meanwhile, the observable positive benefits of global warming – whether human-caused or otherwise – are adroitly sidestepped. Russia, Canada, Rwanda, Central Madagascar, and Kenya are experiencing improved crop conditions with longer growing seasons and expanded areas of arable land. Regions of Africa will benefit from greatly increased rainfall. Deaths from winter cold will decline around the world. True science evaluates both pros and cons: Climate science is anthropogenically flawed.
It is hot this summer, that much is clear. Whether the heat wave is caused by El Niño, Americans driving gas-powered cars, or some combination of these and other natural factors is much less certain. Claims otherwise are simply cheap fakes of climate science.
The author is a Brookfield best-selling author, lawyer, farmer and pastor.
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How about Hegelian dialectics:
Create the problem; create the solution: aka geoengineering.
Look up.
Zeroengineering, our geoengineering, and Dane Wigington are all white-paper dense with how far back manipulating the weather is historically.
Now, disastor capitalism (yipeee electric rates go up when people need to use it to: stay cool or stay warm with electricity [electrification], drive cars, and replace all those batteries [but where do we dump them?], oh yeah… filthy lucre abounds, abounds, abounds in Hegelian dialtectics. The fascists running our government want you to think its NOT the sun, or naturally occurring (in a homeostatic – meaning it self-regulates) in an adjustment thta may be more extreme because we disrespect God’s creations and think mans’ devices are superior to anything God can create – and yeeee hawwwwww! Filthy lucre, filthy lucre, filthy lucre!
Hegelian dialectics in play: qui bono? who benefits?
Our weather is normal. Well within long-term averages.
The sun has the largest effect on our climate. By far.
Geoengineering can (and does) cause and steer extreme climate events.
More people die from excessive cold that excessive heat by a wide margin.
“Climate Science” is like “Military Intelligence” – an oxymoron. I don’t care how powerful your computer is – there are far too many variable inputs to develop any predictive model worth a horse’s behind.
Think it’s hot now? Look up the Summer of 1934!
Facts are stubborn things.
What never gets spoken about is the Earth’s rotation. When it spins, there is wobble although none of us will ever notice it. It wobbles up and down at the equator just enough to change climate on about a 10,000 year cycle. Currently, it is about half way through this cycle. The last time it was at it’s end/beginning, there was an ice age. Funny how no one EVER talks about this since it doesn’t fit the Leftist agenda.
The January 15, 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano released huge amounts of water vapor into the atmosphere.
https://research.noaa.gov/2023/12/20/hunga-tonga-2022-eruption/
And how much did it contribute to the warmer oceans? Why didn’t it make front page news worldwide?
Volcanoes and earthquakes and wildfires are kinda hard to collect taxes and fees on… Indoctrinated and gullible humans are much easier.
Right on Tyler; here’s another article on the Tonga volcano: https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/tonga-volcano-contributed-global-warming-not-cow-farts-or-taylor-swifts-private-jet
Perhaps someone should consult the tribes who still exist in and with the elements with no modern conveniences or conjured expectations. Of course, they may put a dart through your noggin trying to get close to their territory – they are smarter, wiser and uneffected by Bill Gates, Rothchilds, Rockefellers, et al for a reason.
What’s causing this heat wave, it’s called ” SUMMER “, for all the whiners or all the snowflakes………,,….. it’s hot during the summer months, so stay in your basements, in a few months you’ll be crying because it’s too cold, and to much snow
Or today get into your air-conditioned car, and go by a construction site, or some roofers, maybe even some road workers, yeah it’s hot but they deal with it every day
so you can whine………… it’s so hot, ask them if their work truck has air ???
Look back at history, yes it was hot back then also, and the horses & buggies had no air-conditioning….. yes they made it, or how about the American Indians on the plains, who today are still dealing with the heat………… and your whining, how pathetic.
Maybe the air is changing, due to all the hot air from the left’s ” climate czars” flying around in their ” Lear Jets ” …………. calling them hypocrites is being kind, and all you fools listen to them as gospel !!!
Everyone keeps forgetting that the Hunga-Tonga volcano explosion of Spring, 2023 was the largest ever recorded and put 10% of the normal water vapor content into the upper atmosphere. Water vapor is a way more potent greenhouse gas than any theoretical carbon efffect, and it would be expected that this will have impacts for the next few years.
Why aren’t scientists looking at the relationship between more and longer droughts and more and larger solar fields, some miles long. Historical evidence proves such a relationship. Researchers have written the results of studies which expose how large solar installations can raise the local atmospheric temperature as much as 3° C on a cloudless day. If researchers know this, then RE Industry scientists knows it, just as tobacco industry scientists knew that their product caused cancer but would not admit they knew.
Ice cores from Greenland and at the Univ of NH shows the cycle patters over a million years. They see the patterns related to warm and cold cycles including volcanic activity. Past Volcanic eruptions are seen in soil samples, there are videos on this and I believe NOVA (PBS) has such programs. The sun has 11 year cycles effecting an utopia temperature. Certainly El Nino & La Niña are infelicitous, but driven by cycles.
Climate Change, Global Warming, CO2 problems are strictly money makers for individuals and state coffers all in the name from alarmists. “The Sky Is Falling”, jump on Halley’s Comet and save yourself, the world is flat, no place to hide. No one has blamed all that trash circulating in the Pacific Ocean absorbing the sun’s heat and warming the oceans resulting in “Global Warming” huh, huh?
The East coast, especially Northeast, has been locked in this hot and humid weather due to the classic “Bermuda High” pressure parked in the mid-Atlantic sucking moist, hot air up from the Gulf. The added water vapor from the volcanic activity may have added some warming the last year+ and monthly temperatures are now declining.
Re: “Climate Change, Global Warming, CO2 problems…”
Climate change may be a problem. Global warming may be a problem. But, according to the World Climate Declaration by nearly two thousand scientists and researchers, CO2 isn’t a problem. Even the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report says nothing that specifically counters the World Climate Declaration.
So, what’s causing this brutal heat wave? Well, it’s not CO2.