Further evidence that surface temperatures across Greenland have been cooling for around 20 years has emerged with the recent publication of findings from a group of Thai scientists and mathematicians. Processing 31,464 satellite recording from 2000-2019 over the entire area, they found that the average temperature fell by 0.11°C. This is said to indicate a “non-significant change in LST [land surface temperature]”. The latest evidence of actual cooling over a significant area of the Arctic will not be news in scientific circles since it backs up previous findings of recent temperature falls. But the information is of course kept out of the mainstream since it casts doubt on the key Net Zero scare about soaring sea levels caused by the catastrophic melting of the Greenland ice sheet.
There are some crumbs of comfort for alarmists since the Thai authors found that the ice-free sub-regions of Greenland are warmer than the ice-covered sub regions. But perhaps not – the authors attributed it to “population density”. Urban heat yet again corrupting the temperature data, even in Greenland. The illustration below charts the temperature record for all areas of Greenland.
The World Economic Forum recently reported on a study that predicted a “total collapse” of the Greenland ice sheet within a few months. This suggestion is only slightly more ludicrous than the scares routinely published to induce mass psychosis in populations with the aim of promoting a collectivist command-and-control Net Zero solution. The recent farce around the COP in Baku showed the conspiracy operating in plain sight. Stop the developing word developing with hydrocarbons, then invent a number of fake scares such as island states disappearing beneath the waves. Everyone knows this and most of the other scares are false as scientists have shown on numerous occasions, but no matter. Invent some ridiculous composite figure – say $250 billion a year, or $1.3 billion by 2035 – then pretend your taxpayers can be rinsed even though the only country that could conceivably afford it is leaving the party in January.
All of this means that genuine attempts to explain the science around the climate changing are stuck in a ‘settled’ narrative hellhole. The corals can grow like topsy in record amounts on the Great Barrier Reef and the Arctic sea ice can show a small decade-long recovery. Meanwhile, mainstream media and politics prefer to take their cue from characters like ‘Jim’ Dale, who points out of the window and attributes every puff of wind to a human cause.
Nowhere is this lack of scientific inquiry more evident than at the two Poles of the Earth. Antarctica has barely warmed during 70 years of detailed observations, while the situation in the Arctic, as we can see, is complex and open to many interpretations. The Thai mathematicians stick mainly to their statistics and find “no evidence of warming over ice-free and ice-covered areas”. But they do note earlier work by a group of Japanese scientists (Matsumura et al. 2021) that suggested the Central Pacific El Niño Southern Oscillation teleconnection played a “key role” in recent summer Arctic climate change.
The Matsumura team found a recent slowdown in Greenland ice loss and warming. The El Niño role is also thought to have helped the recent overall Arctic sea ice recovery. Changes around Greenland can be attributed to “natural variability, rather than anthropogenic forcing”, note the scientists. “Most climate models were unable to reasonably simulate the unforced natural variability over Greenland,” they added.
As we can see, Antarctica is another difficult place to get a good scare going due to a decades-long lack of any warming. Fears of a ‘tipping point’ are often heard after natural melting and ice breaks in western Antarctica. But late last year, the Daily Sceptic highlighted a paper by a group of international scientists that found significant recent cooling across the entire area. The paper was published by the American Meteorological Society and it observed a 2°C fall in the 20 years to 2018. During the spring season, the fall was a massive 1.84°C every decade, while the winter reduction came in at 1.19°C over the same time period. As is usual when temperatures drop, the carbon dioxide blame game is laid aside and answers are sought in natural climate variations. In this case it was noted that temperatures in the eastern Pacific equatorial region had dropped over the last 20 years under review.
Again don’t expect the climate models to have much idea about what is happening in the real atmosphere. There is said to be “no robust agreement” among the models on the important sea temperatures driving the western Antarctica air temperature.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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FFS even you’re peddling this shite about “two waves” now.
Waste of time coming to this site anymore.
The simpler reason is that the most vulnerable died in early 2020, don’t forget that the mortality in the previous few flu seasons were reduced.There was no second wave, it was the natural cycle for a corona virus. We never refer to multiple waves of any other respiratory virus infection when they’re known to be seasonal. There will be an increase in “cases”, possibly hospitalisations and deaths starting late August/early September. What must be avoided at all costs is closing in September/October or more likely not reopening the country on 21/6, that would be catastrophic.
Fair point about the most vulnerable dying in the spring. I have updated the post in response to your comment.
Wow, reader democratic input. I love LS.
Reduced morality between the two waves? The deaths in April 2020 were probably due to patients actually having CoViD19 related pneumonia, don’t forget there is/was no definitive diagnosis for a SARS-CoV-2 infection, being discharged to make space for the expected epidemic (a self fulfilling prophecy)
But boris said we need to lock up the young to save the old. He said it was impossible for vulnerable people to remain at home and be safe whilst young people went out socialising (I mean, they went out to work every day but that’s ok, Covid only kills granny if you’re out of the home for pleasure). Another absolute shocker. Who could have seen this coming?
Second Wave….Third Wave…..there was no f**king First Wave!!!! The whole thing has been a load of bollocks from the start!
I wonder who many waves we will have to have had before the great British public wake up to this nonsense.
Actually, the bar chart for the autumn is consistent with a phase of totally normal mortality, followed by a post-jab surge in ‘vulnerable’ deaths.
I don’t think we should start saying that care homes have been doing a good job. They sound like they’ve become the most soulless hellholes I’ve ever heard of. I’d honestly rather just top myself than go there and never see a human face or touch ever again. Nothing short of torture.
Yes, when my time for this comes I plan to take a pack of sandwiches and die quietly down an old mineshaft in the Pennines rather than go to the old folks death camp. If I can remember to do that, of course.
No doubt they’ll have been paid handsomely to take the dischargees, since many are privately owned or in the third sector these days and can say no thanks to the local Council and NHS Trust.
You’re also absolutely correct about them becoming soulless hellholes, see if you can find information about their self-isolation protocols following positive test results, it’s a shocker. My grandma currently resides in a large one due to fairly advanced dementia, and has on several occasions over the past 16 months been locked in a room not much bigger than a prison cell 24 hours a day for 2 weeks at a time.
They are basically torture camps and prisons. What is worse, letting an old person live to the full and enjoy their lives and accept that there is a risk they will get ill and die (As let’s face it is inevitable for all of us) or attempt to keep them alive forever but in doing so condemn them to a living hell?
To take the point further rather then accepting we are here temporarily and that death is inevitable we as a society now treat death as a horrific event which can and must be avoided at all costs. In doing so we are condemning ourselves to a life locked up in the house, miserable and not living only to find that we end up dying anyway.
I suppose what I am getting at is that there are lots of horrible things we can die of, with Covid been just one of them, also that death is unavoidable so we should all get out there and get living and making the most of the short time we are all here rather than cowering in terror under the kitchen table listening to the doom and gloom prophecies of scientists and politicians whose only aim seems to be to make everyone’s lives as sad and miserable as theirs are.
My dad died in one four years ago. I will NEVER allow anyone to put me in one of those hell – holes. I will see myself off before crossing the threshold of any “care” home.
My thoughts exactly. Doing minor research into the best, most painless ways. My insurance policy.
Second wave – third wave … blow wave – microwave – new wave.
They’re all stark waving mad.
Demi wave
Radio wave
Second Wave!?!?
A virus doesn’t travel in ‘waves’, who writes this shit?
I find myself wondering if the care home fatalities in March/April 2020 were possibly not so much about the dreaded lurgy, just that hospitals rushed the discharge of patients who weren’t likely to survive much longer anyway and covvie the least of their problems. Cue spike in deaths of care home residents. Hospitals then had lots of bed spaces for patients that never materialised – probably because everyone was told not to bother the health service unless they couldn’t breathe, by which point it was likely too late. Hospitals wouldn’t have been able to send patients requiring ventilation (and with low chance of survival) to most care homes, so lo and behold the Nightingales were built – basically sending people away to die. However, those patients didn’t materialise either and the spaces were not suitable for provision of general hospital services.
Got to wonder exactly who the hospital folk thought they’d be treating when they decided to clear the wards…if anyone…
Well don’t forget, this was something of a coordinated effort – certainly all across Europe and the US, from east coast to west, the strategy was prevalent across the world in care home facilities; if you were related to a Democrat lawmaker in places like Pennsylvania you actually had a chance of making it out, before they put thousands of covid patients in.
Why do people persist with this fantasy that it was covid that killed all the care home residents in “the first wave”. It was kicking seriously ill and frail people out of hospital and then denying them all medical care that caused their death, not “COVID”. Government and NHS decided to collude in an act of genocide, then a bunch of trained monkeys stood banging pots and pans and clapping the murder. Stop lying about it being covid and call it what it was. A deliberate cull of an unwanted class of people. Or keep telling yourself whatever makes you feel comfortable.
No mention that the excess care home deaths in Jan/Feb coincided with the vaccine rollout?
Anecdotally, deaths ‘with Covid’ followed shortly after vaccination – because natural immune systems were suppressed – but there will never be an investigation of course, as this conclusion would be off-narrative. Very easy to audit, though, if any journalist could be bothered.
“The reduction in morality”: great typo! Morality was chucked out of the window right from the start of this sh*tstorm!