Climate alarmists resort to the *extreme weather* excuse whenever it suits them, for example when unusually cold weather arrives somewhere. In this case a vast area of China has ‘all-time December lows’. What empirical evidence is there that supports the idea of trace gases in the atmosphere being capable of having such effects?
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More low temperature records tumbled across China on Thursday, as the country endures a persistent cold snap that has crowned a year of extreme weather, says Phys.org.
The national weather office said in a social media post that more than 20 stations posted all-time December lows in the early hours of Thursday.
They included Hohhot, capital of the northern Inner Mongolia region, where a reading of -29.1 degrees Celsius (-20.4 Fahrenheit) broke a nearly 70-year record.
Authorities have issued an alert for low temperatures across a vast area of northern, eastern and southeastern China.
The brutal cold follows a summer of record-smashing heat and devastating floods across the country’s north.
Experts warn that global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions makes extreme weather more likely. [Talkshop comment – these ‘experts’ think warming can cause cold weather records to fall?]
Full article here.
[Note – some paragraphs are duplicated].
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From Tony Heller’s blog.
https://realclimatescience.com/2023/12/a-costly-second-fiddle-to-renewables/
That reminds me of the BRANCO cartoon of Dec 2019 where mother nature is holding record breaking cold and Greta, with her stop global warming sign, is pointing and saying I hate you. https://comicallyincorrect.com/a-f-branco-cartoon-an-inconvenient-truth/
I would naturally assume that these cold temperature records will not be considered when they total the record warm records for the year. Every warmer event is publicized and pointed to as one more proof that the climate is warming out of bounds. Every colder event is publicized and pointed to as one more proof that the climate is warming out of bounds.
Go figure, just think about all this.
Beijing shivers through coldest December on record
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The Chinese capital, Beijing, has experienced its coldest December since records began in 1951.
Temperatures in the city have frequently fallen below -10C this month.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-67818872