Welcome to another round of overheated climate psychobabble, no doubt designed to stir up the masses. Empirical evidence of human causation of the modern warm period is, as ever, still noticeably absent but no shortage of claims.
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2023 is likely to be the hottest year in human history, and global temperatures during the Northern Hemisphere summer were the warmest on record, the EU climate monitor said on Wednesday.
Heat waves, droughts and wildfires struck Asia, Africa, Europe and North America over the last three months, with dramatic impact on economies, ecosystems and human health, says AFP (via Phys.org).
The average global temperature in June, July and August was 16.77 degrees Celsius (62.19 degrees Fahrenheit), surpassing the previous 2019 record of 16.48C by a wide margin, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a report.
“The three months that we’ve just had are the warmest in approximately 120,000 years, so effectively human history,” C3S deputy director Samantha Burgess told AFP. [Talkshop comment – show us the data].
Last month was the hottest August on record and warmer than all other months except July 2023.
“Climate breakdown has begun,” said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, echoing famous testimony before the US Congress 35 years ago, in which government scientist James Hansen declared that global warming had begun.
“Our climate is imploding faster than we can cope,” Guterres added. [Talkshop comment – something or someone is imploding?]
Also on Wednesday, the World Meteorological Organization warned that more frequent and intense heat waves are generating a “witch’s brew” of air pollution that shortens human lifespans and damages other life forms.
“Heat waves worsen air quality, with knock-on effects on human health, ecosystems, agriculture and indeed our daily lives,” WMO chief Petteri Taalas said in a statement.
Record-high global sea surface temperatures played a major role in stoking heat throughout the summer, with marine heat waves hitting the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Antarctic sea ice remained at a record low for the time of year with a monthly value 12 percent below average, “by far the largest negative anomaly for August since satellite observations began” in the 1970s, C3S said. [Talkshop comment – nothing to report from the Arctic, as summer sea ice continues its recent non-decline].
Full article here.
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Around here (Midwest USA) the hottest year was 2002 or 2003, can’t remember which. We had a week in July of record busting 105-110º with humidity upwards of 60-70%. All summer long we roasted with mid-upper 90s. I doubled the insulation in the attic to help keep the house tolerable. The following year we had several flash floods that turned the entire property into a swamp.
Knuckleheads. This year has been mild in comparison. One of the “cooler” summers we’ve had in the last decade.
It appears that the clowns at the IPCC have been drinking too much of their own kool-aid. I was reading earlier an article where a climate scientist confessed to writing reports that would be accepted by the journals by leaving out everything controversial (Patrick T. Brown at Johns Hopkins University).
From that we can see it is impossible to believe any reports showing the world getting hotter (see article in The Gateway Pundit)
A very interesting and perceptive – albeit somewhat lengthy – take on the whole AGW hoax from a completely different perspective.
If the likes of this author is on the sceptics’ side this is very encouraging indeed!
https://www.livewiremarkets.com/wires/why-value-investors-should-doubt-climate-science
That famous term, “since records began”…which obviously, is not long in the grand scheme of life on Earth. Humans couldn’t read/write for most of it.
If we have entered the era of global simmering for the last four months of 2023 then yes, it might turn out to be the warmest year in the short but reliable satellite record. Suggesting that it is due to man-made global warming is ludicrous. Something else is going on and it’s not even El Nino.
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/weve-entered-the-age-of-global-simmering
…wirh dramatic impact on economies, ecosystems and human health.”
This is simply untrue. There are literally no visible signs of that in any Western or major Eastern country. There’s some local effects of what were local events but nothing otherwise because every year has some adverse events of some kind or other. My summer in SW France in total has been cooler and wetter than last summer – the grass and vegetation are green now whereas this time last year everything was quite brown. My fruit trees are abundant whereas last year they were fruitless. These are lies based on what night be severe events but events that are absolutely local in their effects.
None of this is possible without increasing sunshine hours.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2022/clouds-and-sunshine-duration
No climate change expert will talk about this.
From cookers link…
Samantha Burgess seems to be woefully under educated, and with an obvious bias.
America’s weatherman – John Coleman and the great global warming hoax
John Coleman presentation on how we got AGW