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by
I&I Editorial Board
April 05,
2023
from
IssuesInSights Website
Satellite Data
Shows
No Global
Warming
for Eight Years,
Nine Months...
Yet again, the society of climate alarmists tell us we have
little time left to address 'global
warming'...
It's a sign of
desperation...!
What else can the
merchants of madness do when
we're now closing in on nine years of a warming pause?
Last month the New York Times published an article that we
swear we have read before.
"Earth is
likely to cross a critical threshold for global warming within
the next decade, and nations will need to make an immediate and
drastic shift away from fossil fuels to prevent the planet from
overheating dangerously beyond that level"
the
Times' climate scribe wrote,
...citing
a "major new report" issued by
the United Nations'
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The IPCC paper
reveals that,
"there is still
one last chance to shift
course."
But it will...
naturally,
"require
industrialized nations to join together immediately to
slash greenhouse gases roughly
in half
by 2030 and then
stop adding carbon dioxide
to the atmosphere altogether by
the early 2050s."
How
many other times have we
heard that we were either
approaching our last chance to save ourselves from
global warming, or that our opportunity to do what is
"right" had already passed us by?
So many deadlines,
so many "now or nevers"
have come and gone that it's
almost impossible to track them all.
The
climate cranks are like the
doomsday cultists who have the
end of the world marked on their
calendars and when it doesn't arrive they say,
"Whoops,
my math was bad. Let me recalculate and
I'll get back to you with a new
date."
While the
international hotheads are
screeching about impending doom, levelheaded observers
point to data that clearly show a
pause in warming, which has been mild and as likely natural
as it is human-caused, has
now reached eight years and nine
months.
There has been
no rise in global temperatures
from July 2015 to March 2023.
This
fact-based claim draws on
satellite readings
from the University of Alabama
in Huntsville that measure
temperatures in the troposphere, a much
more accurate method of keeping
score than the shoddy records produced by ground-based
weather stations.
Source
"The
start and end dates of the
New Pause
are not cherry-picked,"
writes Christopher Monckton, an adviser for Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher who now consults with the
Heartland Institute on climate policy.
"The end date
is the present; the start date is the farthest back one can
reach and still find a zero trend.
It is what it is..."
But why not go back
further, maybe to the beginning of the satellite measurements? What
do the data say then?
Not much, at least
not anything to be alarmed by.
"The
entire dataset for 44 years
four months since December 1978," says Monckton, "shows
a less than terrifying long-run warming rate equivalent
to 1.3 degrees/century,
of which 0.3" degrees has
already occurred, leaving
a single degree "to go (on the
current trend) until 2100."
Of course, the
warming racket will either ignore the pause or
attack the messenger.
Fact-checkers will skip the
truth whenever possible and
bend it when they can't.
And the
cycle of fearmongering will
roll on...
The
benefits that accrue to the
political left,
-
an
explosion of progressive policies
-
greater
opportunities for graft
-
a constant
upgrade in social status
-
more
control over the masses,
...are
just too juicy to give up.
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