There has been no temperature warming for at least 17 years across the United States, according to results from a rarely referenced dataset that was designed to remove all urban heat distortions. The dataset, compiled by the Natural Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the U.S., shows oscillating temperature changes, but very little evidence to indicate a warming trend. In fact, the above graph clearly shows the United States to be cooler in May 2022 compared to May 2005.
The information is contained in the latest survey of all NOAA’s weather stations by the U.S. meteorologist Anthony Watts. The data is compiled from a select group of 114 stations across the country that have been specifically sited away from urban development. Called the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN), NOAA started it in 2005 and noted that it was aiming for “superior accuracy and continuity in places that land use will not likely impact during the next five decades”. Representative pictures of the weather stations, as seen in this 2013 science paper, show there is no sign of any urban development. In his latest survey of U.S. “Corrupted Climate Stations”, Anthony Watts notes the existence of USCRN, adding: “It is free of localised heat biases by design, but the data it produces is never mentioned in monthly or yearly climate reports published by NOAA for public consumption.”
The USCRN disclosures are the latest evidence suggesting global warming started to run out of steam over 20 years ago. Local temperature measurements by the U.K. Met Office show that the average temperature across the U.K. fell to 9.17oC in the 2010s, compared to 9.31oC in the 2000s. Meanwhile, global datasets run by NOAA, the Met Office and NASA continue to show substantial warming since 2000, helped by regular ‘adjustments’ that mostly warm the recent record and depress earlier readings. As a result, surface global datasets show an increasing disconnect from accurate satellite and meteorological balloon records, both of which point to a lengthy pause from about 1998-2012, and a current one that has lasted almost eight years. The only significant temperature rise during this period occurred around 2016, and was caused by a powerful, and natural, El Nino oscillation.
State-funded weather services around the world have become increasing politicised in recent years, and they offer strong support for the command-and-control Net Zero project. With global warming currently dying on its feet, they have increasingly turned to the promotion of what used to called ‘bad’ weather, but has now been re-branded as ‘extreme’. Datasets that continue to show some warmth are used to proclaim records, and promote the political view that one-off events are caused by man-made climate change, i.e., burning fossil fuel. Having bet the ranch on global warming, any suggestion that the current warming phase, seen countless times in the paleoclimatic record, is pausing, or even stopping, is a major blow to the elite backers of the trillion-dollar Net Zero project. Without warming, the need for Net Zero, and the economic and societal devastation it will cause, disappears.
Specific mention of NOAA’s urban heatless data – showing the absence of domestic warming for at least 17 years – was missing from its recent 2021 climate report. North America was said to have had its seventh warmest year on record, with nine of the 10 warmest years having occurred since 2001.
These ‘official’ U.S. temperatures and records arise from a much larger set of weather stations across the country that have been criticised for incorporating massive heat inputs due to being sited in urban areas. Anthony Watts has drawn attention to this problem in the past. His latest nationwide study “follows up widespread corruption and heat biases found at NOAA stations in 2009, and the heat bias distortion problem is even worse now”.
Describing the U.S. surface temperature record as “fatally flawed”, Watts found about 96% of U.S. temperature stations failed to meet what NOAA itself considered to be acceptable and uncorrupted placement standards. Watts defines ‘corruption’ as caused by the localised effects of urbanisation, producing heat bias because of a close proximity to asphalt, machinery, and other heat-producing, heat-trapping, or heat-accentuating objects. According to Watts, data that had not been corrupted by faulty placement showed a rate of warming in the U.S. “reduced by almost a half compared to all stations”.
As we noted recently, atmospheric scientists Professors William Happer and Richard Lindzen are unimpressed with NOAA and NASA’s more conventional temperature collecting activities. They told a U.S. government inquiry that for several decades “NASA and NOAA have been fabricating temperature data to argue that rising CO2 levels have led to the hottest year on record”. They described what they identified as false and manipulated data as an “egregious violation of scientific method”.
Watts notes that the corruption of data “strongly undermines the legitimacy and the magnitude of the official consensus on long-term climate warming trends in the United States”.
Using urban heat-affected data is now a regular feature of reporting the so-called climate emergency by both the Met Office in the U.K. and the BBC. The four highest temperatures of around 40oC during the recent heatwave were claimed by three airports, including Heathrow, and a measuring device in Kew Gardens next to the giant 16,000 pane greenhouse, known as the Palm House. Within a few days, the BBC was reporting that a group called World Weather Attribution said the high temperatures were “basically impossible” without climate change. Dr. Friederike Otto of the green billionaire-funded Grantham Institute at Imperial College claimed the temperatures were up to 4oC higher as a result of human climate change.
The BBC did not query the near instant verdict, reporting that the academics had used “complex mathematical models” to come to their conclusion.
There is no scientific evidence that proves conclusively single event weather is related to humans changing the climate by burning fossil fuel. The heatwave in Britain, and parts of Europe, had a logical meteorological explanation that also saw below average temperatures on either side of the localised event. Such explanations for ‘extreme’ weather are little more than opinions, and, one can argue, highly political ones. And of course, the 4oC warming attributed to humans in the heatwave is around the figure often quoted for the contribution of urban heat.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor
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Every voter should ask their MP to comment and at the next election as every candidate to do so. Maybe Daily Scepotic will send out the emails to save the busy MPs a lot of time.
Our local authority has declared the district will be Net Zero by (oh I don;t know – soon). It reminds me of the adjacent authority that declared itself “nuclear free” during the cold war.
I noticed #climatescam was trending on Twitter earlier with 17k mentions.
The large majority are just taking this as read, but slowly and surely, more people are asking the awkward questions.
Its a house of cards. When people realise there is a lie, and then see another lie and another, than they will understand that there is just one big lie and we have been made to be fools. The whole thing will collapse. It has to. There is nothing holding it up but lie upon lie.
Can take a while, Neil. Heck, billions of people think Jesus of Nazareth came back to life after the Jews nailed him through his wrists and ankles to a massive wooden cross, stabbed him in the abdomen and left him there to bleed to death, and that his mother had never had sex.
I used to work hard to establish whether Christians thought the Resurrection to be a symbol, a metaphor – but no, the majority were dead set on it being real.
Not saying I know for sure that he didn’t “rise again” and that his mum was not a virgin, but on the balance of probabilities, it seems a stretch.
I mean, so many of the images and icons even show the nails as being through the middle of his palms. That is obviously wrong and/or made up, and stigmata is ridiculous.
Its a fair point about what we consider science and what we consider faith. The difference is that we are clearly living and experiencing climate, in a way that we could never conclusively prove that Jesus existed, or that he was the Son of God.
Every day, there are more and more contradictory studies and evidence appearing, but they are not being considered in any way by those pushing the central premise of climate emergency. Men of Science have abandoned the Scientific Method, of retesting and re-evaluating hypotheses when the data changes. This is what will eventually bring this crashing down. There is no real justification for food shortages, and 70% hikes in energy costs. We live in an affluent and abundant world, but ideology is trying to force us to solve problems that dont exist, with solutions that are poorly thought out and make no positive difference.
I saw a clip from the Australian Question Time, in which an Eco lobbyist spoke for 5 minutes painting this grim picture of everything. The question was given to a SkyOz journalist also on the panel journalist who asked her, ‘How much CO2 is in the atmosphere, and how much of that is man-made’. (0.043% and 3% of that) Her answer.? ‘I don’t know, I’m not a scientist..’. Seemed to sum up the entire thing in 5 seconds. They know the words and the narrative, but can’t back it up with anything more than feelings, their own insecurity, fragility and guilt for things they are not responsible for.
We also ought to remember that Climate Emergency appears to be something the G7 has its knickers in a twist about, but large parts of the world aren’t reacting to it. Almost as if they know something we don’t, eh..?
On your deathbed, you will cry out in shame and regret for those words.
So that’s that settled, then.
Strange thing to ‘work hard’ on. Even if people do hold what is in your eyes a misguided view, how is it harming anyone/anything?
There are more important things to worry about than this.
I used to, when I was a young lad, singing in the church choir.
Then my “faith” broke, along with my voice!
Most people decried the hocus-pocus of christianity when first it was promulgated. Within a few decades it was a crime punishable by ‘burning to death with fire’ to contradict or openly doubt it.
It’s more like within more than 1000 years.
I wish I had your confidence.
I’d love to ask ” Big Ears” Windsor to give us a measurement of the carbon emissions from the the carbon footprint of his properties……crickets….
Oh, it’s definitely man-made climate change. Prince Charles, that highly qualified meteorologist, told me that 3 hot days means he’s right
Government funded agencies are becoming an increasing problem as their bureaucratic management overstep their mandates and become driven by politics. In many cases they bring in rules that have significant affect on people’s lives. They operate outside of elected government and are accountable to nobody. Elected governments are losing power and their ability to control and direct government policies, as a result. This is happening across all Western Countries. Just look at the covid response, all driven by public health officials and government agencies.
The temperature in my garden shed reached 45 C last Tuesday, and I can show anyone the read-out from the SensorPush thermo-sensor to prove it. A few feet away, outside the shed, away from all the metal implements, tin-cans and glass, the temperature was 39 C.