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Another Glorious Day for the Climate Alarmists to Scare Us All to Death

by Chris Morrison
18 July 2022 3:06 PM

Already the official forecasts of temperatures reaching over 40°C have started to drop. The forecasts are the work of super computers and climate models, and their work is done. Population scared and headlines of imminent climate Thermageddon written. But let us now return to Planet Reality. The temperature might top 40°C somewhere this Monday or Tuesday. No doubt some thermometer blasted by jet exhaust, or conveniently sited in an urban setting with lots of reflecting glass and stone, can be found to produce the magic number. But, as ever, the response is – so what? A hot day is a product of meteorological events. There is not one paper in the science world that has conclusively linked single weather events to long-term climate change.

Climate change is like capitalism. It is the aggregation of countless events and transactions. You can pick one single capital transaction and argue capitalism is doomed or evil. You can pick one heatwave and argue, as London mayor Sadiq Khan did, that it is a “very serious consequence of climate change”. But you don’t have science on your side – it is mere personal political opinion.

Any serious scientific discussion of climate change has to focus on long-term trends. The last significant heatwave scare in the U.K. was in July 2019, when an alleged record of 38.7°C was claimed in the middle of the City of Cambridge. The record is constantly publicised, although some doubts remain about its validity. Less well reported is the fact that the 9.17°C average temperature in the 2010 decade in the U.K. was colder than the previous 10 years at 9.31°C. And as we have seen in numerous articles in the Daily Sceptic, this is just one indication that global warming has been running out of steam for over 20 years.

In fact, the average temperature in England for the month of July 2019 at 17.5°C was comparable to the 17.2°C in both 1900 and 1910, and actually colder than the 17.6°C of 1911 and 17.7°C of 1921.

Looking in detail at the average maximum temperature in July, it is difficult to discern a long-term march towards Thermageddon. Since the ending of the ‘mini ice age’ around the beginning of the 19th century, temperatures have probably risen about 1°C. We must say ‘probably’ these days, because the uncertainties of surface global measurements are becoming all too obvious. Given the generally helpful 1°C rise, it would be expected that average maximum temperatures would rise by a similar amount, and over 130 years this is what appears to have happened. But the record also shows that slightly higher maximums started to be seen during a period of global cooling in the mid 1970s. That noted, similar highs, as we have seen, were recorded in the early part of the century. Remove about a dozen of the high outliers spread over the entire period, and the record becomes much more consistent.

Now let’s take a look at the days of sunshine recorded in July. This is relevant since the sun is generally at its hottest when it is unobscured by clouds. There have been a few more hours of sunshine of late, but the record going back to the 1920s shows that the current amounts we see were not uncommon at that time. And again we can see that a trend towards slightly higher amounts started in the late 1960s, when the Earth was cooling slightly and carbon dioxide levels were lower. If the current heatwave is caused by climate change, how do we explain the glorious summer of 1976?

On Sunday, Toby reported on a recent survey in the Lancet Planetary Health which noted that between 2000 and 2019 there were an average of 65,000 excess deaths every year in England and Wales associated with cold, but fewer than 800 a year associated with heat. In other words, he noted, 80 times more annual deaths were associated with cold than heat. He also noted that these excess heat deaths were blamed  on ‘climate change’ in general, but nothing was said about the likelihood of the 65,000 figure increasing next winter as a result of rising energy bills – a consequence, in large part, of the fanatical push for Net Zero.

Weaponising weather is now the main armament in the fight to promote the command-and-control Net Zero project. It is highly emotional, has a superficial ‘ring of truth’ about it, and seems to speak to a deep need within the human psyche to take seriously warnings of impending doom. Whatever happens in the near future, come rain or shine, the climate alarmists will be there to remind us we are all going to hell in a handcart.

Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor

Tags: Climate AlarmismClimate changeExtreme weatherHeatwaveNet ZeroWeather

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Claphamanian
Claphamanian
2 months ago

Powerful evidence that should prevent any merger of Reform UK with the ‘Conservative’ Party.

Though the greatest puzzle is why so many people still vote Tory.

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klf
klf
2 months ago
Reply to  Claphamanian

Indeed. The Tories must never be trusted with power again.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
2 months ago
Reply to  Claphamanian

Good enough for my father and his father before him.

Seriously, I was brought up to think that The Conservatives were the right party to vote for – and indeed did so for many years. Cameron/Clegg put a dent in that for me and then Cameron with his reluctant Brexit referendum. It slowly dawned on me that recent PMs are barely tolerated by their party for a while and that the idea of a united Party backing certain policies (even if they’re in the Manifesto) is a pipe-dream – and to Hell with what the electorate want.

I know most here will realise but I think it worth repeating that the 2016 Brexit referendum was only the third time a UK-wide referendum had been held. The first was about staying in the EEC, the second about the voting system to elect ‘our’ MPs and the third about staying in the EU. Note there was never a referendum about joining the EEC or EU.

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Gezza England
Gezza England
1 month ago
Reply to  soundofreason

The pro-EEC campaign led by the government spouted a mass of lies that led one minister to hope that the people never found out or they would be toast. Moving forward to the 2016 the Call Me Dave government which should have stayed out of campaigning spaffed £9m of taxpayers money on a propaganda booklet full of lies sent to every household. The establishment went full on Remain and I think that won the vote for Leave, given their campaign was woeful, as people wanted to give them two fingers.

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sskinner
sskinner
1 month ago
Reply to  Claphamanian

It is the Civil Service that run the show. They are mostly OxBridge and the same Universities that Russia recruits it’s anti-western spies.

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Smudger
Smudger
1 month ago
Reply to  Claphamanian

Puzzle too is why the article title wasn’t headed ‘Tories use tax payer money to promote pro immigration charities’

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Jeff Chambers
Jeff Chambers
2 months ago

Our money being spent on the Establishment’s project of The Great Replacement. This must be the first time in history that a people has had to pay for the invaders who are being imported specifically to replace them.

Last edited 2 months ago by Jeff Chambers
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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
2 months ago

Labour is Marxist
Tory was Labour
Reform is Tory
Far Right a figment.

Hoolie blowing through open Left Overton Window for decades. Lord Cameroon threw away Right Window key, Mrs Maybee boarded Right Window up, Mrs & Mrs De Pfeffel climbed in through Left window and commissioned ruinously-expensive designer-makeover of soft furnishings.

Meanwhile, Tommy’s window has bars.

Last edited 2 months ago by Art Simtotic
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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
2 months ago

We Got a Problem; The Lie That Never Dies. Hits the nail on its head in his usual blunt way:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXNe1Vc6dKk

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 month ago

Meanwhile, back in the real world ( and well away from the ‘NIMBY’ peeps ), what happens if these migrants abscond from their digs? Are they actively monitored in any way? I guess they need a fixed address in order to get their handouts but they’re also ripe for getting involved in gang life and other criminality, which I presume pays more than the state;

”The quality of life is rapidly degrading in the country, attributed often to mass immigration. A follower tells where absconding migrants end up & what they get up to.

“Hi David I was speaking to two men a few weeks ago that work for a major car park company in the north who came to collect materials from my work I give away for free to local garage’s etc. for soaking oil spills.

“They came to collect some for wait for this, Mopping up urine, faeces & vomit from 5 car parks in the north that are overrun with migrants who sleep in the car parks at night & defecate in stairwells lifts etc every night.

“They told me around 15 are in each carpark on a nightly basis and they are ones that have run away from hotels, He said they beg on the streets during the daytime and shoplift etc.

” They told me the police aren’t interested and border force have been told but nothing has happened 2 years into it starting. The police told them it’s a civil matter because it’s on private property.”

“Keep up the good work”

https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1905583016572842443

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sskinner
sskinner
1 month ago

All intentional for the great revolution? The following must be recognisable in today’s Britain, or any Western nation.

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”
Lenin

“The best way to destroy the capitalist system [is] to debauch the currency.”
Lenin

“There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.”
Lenin

“It is acceptable to suffocate democracy for the sake of socioeconomic equality”
Lenin

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth”
Lenin

“To speak the truth is a petit-bourgeois habit, a luxury of worry-free and aimless people. To lie, on the contrary, is often justified by the lie’s aim”
Lenin

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
1 month ago
Reply to  sskinner

“To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.”
Solzhenytsin

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