Satellite data show that global warming started to run out of steam two decades ago, but the U.K. Met Office’s record of surface temperature from 1975 was boosted by 14% at the end of 2020. At the same time, the period between 1880-1975 was cooled. The move accentuates the rise in the global temperature recorded in the 1980s and 1990s that forms the basis of much of the current hysteria about the so-called climate emergency.
The disclosure of the apparent warming and cooling is contained in the latest State of the Climate report from Emeritus Professor Ole Humlum of the University of Oslo, and published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Professor Humlum says the post-1975 warming is about +0.1°C and the pre-1975 cooling about -0.1°C. The version-change to the fifth HadCRUT Met Office database “conveys the impression of a somewhat more rapid global temperature increase following the relatively cold period terminating around 1975”. When the Met Office first announced the change in December 2020, it admitted to 0.16°C extra warming, although it didn’t give specifics about cooling and warming either side of the 1975 mark.
Professor Humlum also draws attention to significant retrospective changes in the American GISS surface temperature record. The graph below shows the effect of the changes made since May 2008 on the monthly temperature record, with increases in red and decreases in blue. As with HadCRUT, the changes warm the early part of the record, cool the period from 1900 to 1970, and heat up the later recordings.
Humlum notes that the changes in annual values are often quite substantial, ranging from about +0.15°C to −0.15°C. He goes on to note that the temperature difference between 1915 and 2000 increased from 0.45°C to 0.67°C. “This represents an increase of about 49% over this period, meaning that about half of the apparent global temperature increase from January 1910 to January 2000 is due to administrative adjustments to the original data made since May 2008,” he writes.
Recent boosts to global temperatures databases are of course very helpful to activists in the media and politics keen to report ‘record’ warm years at a time when accurate satellite data reveal a pause of 88 months (and counting). In addition, work continues across a number of fronts to promote the climate emergency agenda, including extreme weather events.
Last week, the BBC reported that southern African storms were fuelled by climate change. According to the BBC, the results of a study from the World Weather Attribution group show that damage inflicted by storms in the region was exacerbated by global warming. According to the press release, the group used “computer simulations” to arrive at its findings. The BBC ran the scare story, without a byline, despite noting that “the precise contribution of climate change to the event could not be quantified, due to the absence of comprehensive historical records of rainfall in the region”.
In fact, attributing single episodes of bad weather to long-term changes in the climate is highly unscientific, since it is just an opinion. In 2014, Associate Professor Jennifer Fitchett from the University of the Witwatersrand published a paper in which she said she found “no statistically significant trends in the frequency of tropical cyclone landfalls over Madagascar and Mozambique over the past six decades”. Furthermore, much of the perceived changes in storm numbers could be attributed to recent improvements in storm detection methods.
Professor Humlum’s excellent and measured climate report provides further context in which to evaluate the constant media scare stories about hurricane and cyclones.
The above graphs plot accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), as used by the U.S.-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Humlum notes that ACE gives a measure of the damage potential of an individual storm or a season. If climate change is affecting the southern hemisphere, and causing more severe problems in southern Africa, the trend does not yet appear to have shown up in the actual data. Overall, Humlum notes, “existing records do not suggest any abnormal cyclone activity in recent years”.
Another fashionable scare story is the loss of snow, particularly in the Alps, a favoured winter holiday destination of many Guardian, BBC and Extinction Rebellion supporters. In 2017, the Guardian reported that according to “experts” Alpine ski resorts could lose up to 70% of their snow cover by 2100. Last year, Justin Rowlatt reported on Panorama that snowy U.K. winters could become a thing of the past.
Back on Planet Reality, the thin blue lines above, show weekly northern hemisphere snow data, while the thicker blue line shows a 53 week average. There is practically no change going back 50 years
Humlum concluded: “A year ago, I warned that there was great risk in using computer modelling and immature science to make extraordinary claims. The empirical observations I have reviewed show very gentle warming and no evidence of a climate crisis.”
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor
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Keep teaching, anonymous. The “education system” is not for you.
Have you read “Deschooling Society”, by Ivan Illich?
What does school really teach children?
1. Truth comes from authority.
2. Intelligence is the ability to remember and repeat.
3. Accurate memory and repetition are rewarded.
4. Non-compliance is punished.
5. Conform – intellectually and socially.
Your story resonates with much of my own experience as a university lecturer. Of course, almost all of our teaching moved to zoom but I made a point of telling my students that in my view they weren’t receiving a fully developed education as a result. When we were permitted to return to in person teaching, I too wore an exemption lanyard and refused to enforce mask wearing in class. I too left our union, the UCU, for the same reasons you left yours – the perverse, ever escalating obstacles to us going back to in person teaching including the risible demand that we be issued with personal CO2 monitors, be given the right to cancel lectures at the moment they gave a reading over a certain level, to enforce the personal sanitisation of desks by students and the rest of the nonsense. All of this went beyond the legitimate purpose of a trade union and veered into an assault on our professional and ethical responsibilities to our students. I spoke up to colleagues in online forums but, with a couple of exceptions, like you was met by silence. It struck me that many of them were not simply happy to stay at home but that compliance was their creepy, overriding goal. What our political, public health and education classes did to the population is unforgivable but that so many were complicit in their own oppression is chilling.
Thank you for your post.
Best wishes.
Possibly the most chilling comment I heard from a colleague was during a zoom staff meeting in the early stages of the first mask mandate. This person proclaimed to us proudly in terms that made clear he was signalling perceived virtue, that he, a 30 something bloke built like a rugby forward, had ‘challenged’ (bullied) an elderly, maskless woman in his local supermarket. Again, only I spoke up, saying, quite mildly, ‘come on. Don’t be that guy. That’s not you’. Thing is, maybe I was wrong. It was likely him – lockdown brought out the inner fascist bully in far too many of us.
Dear Anonymous
You sound to me like an educator; someone who wants to develop and bring out the best possible results in your students. It is encouraging that the “teaching profession” still retains some people like you within its ranks.
However, you really do have no future in the State Indoctrination System and I believe you have made the right decision in leaving it.
I hope you find your rightful place as an educator in a facility that appreciates your abilities and values.
Good luck.
Seconded.
I wish I had a helpful response.
Hopefully things will improve for you.
All the best.
Whoever the lame arse doing the downticking is I believe you need some help because you are seriously not well. Have a go at me personally by all means but criticising all the other uptickers, which you are doing indirectly by downticking me and RTSC, and others, shows you lack intelligence as well as guts.
You are a coward and cowards do not belong on this site.
Furthermore, a teacher makes a post from the heart, somebody who is having their life destroyed by the madness enveloping us and you cannot lend at least the tiniest bit of support by way of a few kind words. You are as rotten and evil as our oppressors. What warped logic keeps you on this site?
A miserable example of humanity you must be.
Hear hear! It’s clearly someone with a warped mind and they are obviously in dire need of help.
Thank you Epi.
We need to fight this corrupt evil with every tool we have. Maks wearing is so inhuman and unnatural. That is why the globalist like it. You still see people wearing maske the their haunted faces.
They never seems ask themselves “how come all these people aren’t dropping dead when they are not wearing masks?” or “how come this flimsy mask protect me from the deadliest disease in history?”
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Best wishes
I work in a school and empathise I have been asked to stay silent by the head “rists slapped” as I said babies did not need assigning in a lesson! about my concerns over this gender ideology.
I am staying for now to try and push back but it is as you say tiring.
During the latest news that there is an increase in cases our Head, emailed revised guidelines saying people can wear masks again if they like. And then it has started again, the compliant walking around in front of students with masks.
Ubelievable and unforgivable .
Sorry to be a pernickety but isn’t ‘wrists’ spelled with a ‘w’? Would have thought being in education …..
Just saying
Yes sorry rushing
I popped an s in by accident 
Friendly banter
Glad you spelt persnickety and not me
You are a Person of Principle. Well done for your bravery in leaving.I hope you find another school to teach in that you like. Avoid FE as it is as bad, if not worse, than the state education system as the Unions are in charge and as such the situation in staff rooms can be toxic if you are not a disciple.
Best wishes and good luck for the future.
Thank you, Anonymous, for sharing this with us. How hideous it has all been for us all (those of us who have seen events for what they really are), but to be asked to delete emails about a child’s change of gender so that the parents wouldn’t see them is so appalling that I am dumbstruck! It is evil beyond measure. If only parents talked more to their children, took meals with them, stopped them having so much screen time, etc etc. Imagine not realising that your precious child is going through such a life-changing event without even realising – and the school to be aiding and abetting is beyond evil. You will be an enormous loss to that school (for those few students who you might have been able to help or encourage, eg the one who smiled at you – you probably were a great encouragement to her too), but I understand how you cannot agree to such betrayals of parents’ trust any more. I pray that you find a fulfilling job for the future.
I am so sorry for what you have experienced. For people who actually think the last two years have indeed been utterly exhausting. I wish you all the best for the future.