Last week, the BBC reported that seawater along the tip of Florida had exceeded “hot tub” temperatures of 37.8°C (100°F) in recent days, “making it potentially the hottest ever measured”. The Guardian was in fine alarmist form noting that the Florida recording posed a threat to human food supplies and the livelihoods of those working in the water. Similar hysteria was to be found across most of the mainstream media. Alas, curiously missing from all this excitable coverage was a note that just 48 hours later the temperature plummeted to around 85°F.
The reading was taken from a buoy in Manatee Bay which is managed by the Everglades National Park, and located north of Key Largo. The upper left graph below shows that the temperature moved between 90-101°F on consecutive days, then fell away rapidly to around 85°F.
Examining the ‘record’ on the climate site Watts Up With That?, the former ecology lecturer Jim Steele observed that water temperatures were being driven by dynamics other than rising CO2. Steele noted that the Manatee Bay buoy measuring the water temperature was in a small embayment surrounded by landform and this forms a natural hot tub. Low winds and a high pressure system further helped heat the bay, while muddy waters darkened the water enhancing solar heating.
Steele noted that the science of solar ponds has shown that when fresh water overlayed saltier water, heat gets trapped, and temperatures can be as much as 60°F hotter than the surface at depths between five and 10 feet.
To maintain the “crisis hoax”, Steele suggests it’s also important to ignore conflicting data. Southern Florida has several buoys, some measuring water temperature, some air and some both. Just 56 miles to the south-west of Manatee Bay, the VAKF1 buoy measured water temperatures that were 10°F lower than Manatee Bay on those same days, as shown in the lower left graph (above), which then cooled to 86°F. Manatee Bay lacked air temperature data but VAKF1 reported a high air temperature of 91°F (lower right graph) which then cooled to the low 80°Fs, even dipping to 76°F. “These air temperatures don’t even approach being unprecedented,” said Steele.
Jim Steele has a lifetime’s experience in working for environmental education projects. For 25 years he ran the Sierra Nevada Field Campus for San Francisco State University. As part of one monitoring project, he studied the effect of regional climate change on bird populations in the Sierra Nevada.
Mainstream media are now clearly in the grip of a climate catastrophisation mania where activists scour the world for any unusual weather event or recording. Normal reporting standards seem to have been abandoned in the rush to scare populations to comply with the collectivist Net Zero agenda. Top level politicians encourage widespread panic with Al Gore ranting about “boiling oceans”, while a deranged Antonio Guterres claimed earlier this week that we live in an age of “global boiling”. At a stroke, the UN Secretary General seems to have retired the Guardian’s ‘Global Heating’ invention. Last year’s Nobel Physics Laureate Dr. John Clauser says the climate narrative has corrupted his beloved science. Meanwhile, global boiling is promoted as global surface temperatures are retrospectively adjusted upwards by state-funded bodies, while the accurate satellite record shows a near nine-year pause. In the U.K., the Met Office happily uses corrupted station temperature data that the World Meteorology Organisation states has a error estimate of up to 2°C. The British weather service still seems inordinately proud of its 60-second U.K. heat record last year, despite evidence that three Typhoon jets were landing around the time on the runway next to the measuring devise at RAF Coningsby.
On Wednesday, the BBC’s Georgina Rannard wrote a story asking if the Gulf Stream could collapse by 2025. This is pure Day After Tomorrow sci-fi territory, promoting fears of catastrophic cooling in the northern hemisphere, with widespread impacts across the planet. Again the story was all over the mainstream media with USA Today reporting the Atlantic Ocean currents could soon collapse, adding, “how you may endure dramatic weather changes”.
The story originated from a recently published scientific paper and was pure clickbait for impressionable activists. The claims are based on limited observation evidence producing computer model projections. The authors state “with high confidence” that the change will occur between 2025-2095. However, the paper does contain this massive caveat, which went unreported in any of the media coverage: this prediction is only valid “under the assumption that the model is approximately correct, and we of course, cannot rule out that other mechanisms are at play, and thus, the uncertainty is larger”.
Needless to say, the story went around the world and was reported in blazing headlines. However, it seems eyebrows are starting to be raised about this sort of guff, even in alarmist circles. The climate alarmist’s climate alarmist is Professor Michael ‘Hockey Stick’ Mann of Penn University, but rerunning the Day After Tomorrow script was not wholly to his taste. According to USA Today, he said: “I’m not sure the authors bring much to the table other than a fancy statistical method. History is littered with flawed predictions based on fancy statistical methods; sometimes they’re too fancy for their own good.”
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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“Gender-affirming care” is the exact opposite of what it’s meant to mean. It means encouraging people to think they can change their sex and encouraging them to get themselves mutilated and take drugs they don’t need. The use of the word “care” is also a lie because if you cared for someone you would not encourage them to go against nature irrevocably.
If I identify as a millionaire will the NHS help me become one.
You can be whatever you like, faffor, the world is your oyster.
Sadly no Marcus. I contacted the Pensions Minister to tell him I self-identify as an 85-yr old woman and am therefore owed 20 years backdated State pension, which I wanted paid as a lump sum.
But self-identification doesn’t apply to age.
If you have a ready supply of PPE equipment, they will.
“We try to talk about it, but most of the kids are nowhere in any kind
of a brain space to really talk about it in a serious way. That’s always
bothered me, but we still want the kids to be happy, happier in the
moment, right?”
Hey – that tramp is an alcoholic. Buy the guy a drink, somebody, so he’s happy in the moment.
I missread that, I thought is said WARPATH!
same thing I suppose 🤔
On a slight tangent, if it’s potentially illegal to point out that men pretending they think they are women are actually men, is it also illegal to call a man a woman, or vice-versa? If not, why not? Illegal to tell the truth, but fine to lie.
And if you call this person a bloke you’re a ”misogynist”! lol No, but seriously, this apparently is a woman, just with an extremely warped body image. ‘Body dysmorphia’ on steroids;
https://twitter.com/NataliyaAmazon3/status/1759552677975892039
She’s on Only Fans and has a solid fan base, and as you can see from the comments below these posts, men apparently dig the ‘big’ look 😮 No doubt she would have an awesome physique ( and still a solid fan base ) had she stayed natural;
https://twitter.com/AmazonkaNa13845/status/1760636092099821740
Yeah that’s a bit weird to me. I don’t mind a muscly look on blokes or women – actually think it looks better than being slim or weedy looking (or fat) – kind of how our bodies are meant to look. There’s a spectrum from normalish to pretty muscly (heavyweight boxed/rugby player/actor who plays Reacher) that works for me but those body builder people of both sexes who really push it to the max look a bit grotesque to me and it looks like the fitness isn’t functional either – not flexible or athletic.
I do think more people should lift especially as they get older, and women are often apparently reluctant to lift because they think they will get muscly but the brutal truth is most people don’t train hard enough or eat enough protein to get muscly in a “manly” way.
No offence intended to any Arnie clones on DS – whatever floats your boat!
The most caring way of helping a confused child/teenager is to explain, very gently but firmly, that no-one is born in the wrong body. And it is impossible to change your sex/gender.
And they should be given psychological help to deal with the “disappointment” they may feel at not being the sex/gender they would prefer …. but will NEVER be.
It doesn’t matter what I or we believe. It matters what they who control believe, and they seem to worship one thing.
https://youtu.be/PdzPy7cspK0?si=bVEWOPY2WRVi44DR&t=83
Is the answer to this everyone finding a relationship with God? Definitely worth considering.