The attempt to weaponise the summer in support of global warming propaganda has reached a fever pitch. They are becoming very desperate to sell their climate crisis and I think (hope) this will be their undoing.
These people will be feeling sad because lots of people didn't die in a record breaking 48 deg heatwave. These people are longing and wishing for other people to suffer and to die, just to prove a pointl.
For the stupid, intentionally ignorant, anti-science, fasco-Marxist wokesters, some actual science from climatologists
The truth is, there has been global warming recently – but it started around the time of the Revolutionary war, and today we are still BELOW the average of the past 3,000 years. And this is not just for Europe, Greenland and North America, yet another red herring that has recently been thrown out by the desperate global warmers. The universality of the Viking and Mediaeval climatic optimums is written about by Kegwin, who wrote in Science, 1996:274:1504-1508, the mean surface temp of the Sargasso Sea (which lies roughly between the West Indies and the Azores), which was obtained by readings of isotope ratios in marine organism remains in sediment, shows we are, today, below the three thousand year average, and far below the Medieval Climatic Optimum, albeit far above the LIA. Civil Defense Perspectives, Mar. 2007, Vol. 23, #3, p. 1, notes that evidence for this climatic optimum has been found in all but 2 out of 103 locations where it was examined for, including Asia, Africa, South America and the western U.S. The following graph of temperature in the Sargasso Sea tells you all you need to know (note: that big horizontal line running across the page is the 3,000 year average!), Interestingly, the warmer times coincided not only with the best harvests, but also the least amount of major storm activity.
Incidentally, when I was in Death Valley, approx. 1996 or so, when I entered, the ranger warned us the temp was 129F. I can't remember the exact date, but could look it up.
Mowat, the noted Canadian leftist and Greenpeace activist, and whose house my wife used to walk by regularly as a kid in Port Hope, ON., wrote in his book West Viking (written while we were still in the global cooling scare) that there were probably at least dwarf forests growing in Greenland when the Vikings arrived in 985 AD and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History reports “… Erik the Red discovered two areas of southwest Greenland which were suitable for farming, with grasslands and small stands of alder and birch.” You will note that it is too cold today for any type of forests to grow in Greenland, and there is zero ability to farm, unless modern technologies are utilized – and even then, crop selection is very minimal. Mowat also reported the Arctic pack ice was much less in that Viking discovery era than today. Dr. Fred Singer writes that when the Vikings first settled Greenland, they grew vegetables, and it was warm enough to allow the population to grow to 3,000 people and by 1100 AD the place was thriving enough that they had their own bishop and twelve churches. Nature reported in a 2010 article that clamshell studies also confirm Norse records. Meanwhile, the Archeological Survey of Canada has also noted around “A.D. 1000, a warmer climate resulted in the tree line advancing 100 kilometres north of its present position.” The results of this? Especially in northern Europe, “the period between 1150 and 1300 was truly a flowering period, for population reached unprecedented levels that were never to be seen again until the late 18thcentury in many countries; the English population experienced a staggering threefold increase in its population during the last century since the Domesday Survey in 1086”. [11]
This climate optimum (also called a climate anomaly) coincided with a period of increased solar activity (see below). Farming of various crops extended hundreds of kilometers farther north than it is possible today.
Yet, in the 1100s, Greenland cooled dramatically, briefly stabilized, and then dropped even further in the 1200s to the early 1400s. Sirocko (2010) places the earlier event at the beginning of the 1310’s, while a more commonly accepted time frame for the first cold phase is the coinciding solar minimum called Wolf minimum from 1280-1350. There were repeated cold snaps and advancing glaciers and sea ice from that time onward, but it was not until the early 1600’s that the most devastating effects of the Little Ice Age began to set in, which is the more commonly used date for its beginning. As Dale Mackenzie Brown writes “An ice core drilled from the island's (Greenland’s) massive icecap between 1992 and 1993 shows a decided cooling off in the Western Settlement during the mid-fourteenth century.” But the recent recovery in temperatures is only putting us back to the average temps from an earlier age!
Indeed, when I was visiting Iceland at Skaftafell Nat'l Park a few years ago, Icelandic historians know from extant deeds – and have put in the displays at the park - that somewhere around FORTY old Viking era farms are currently buried under the Vatnajokull glacier system (the largest in the world outside of Greenland and Antarctica). In other words, it was simply much warmer in the Icelandic settlement era than it is today. We are routinely informed of the melting of Greenland glaciers today at lower altitudes, but demonstrably there are at bare minimum low altitude glaciers in roughly the same geographic area that had seen more melting and more pronounced glacial recession one thousand years ago than we see today. Al Gore may want to visit Skaftafell National Park in Iceland on one of his many jet-setting, carbon burning trips to check the facts himself. More evidence: There are records of grape growing occurring in places in northern Europe back during this optimum where they can't grow today. Gregory McNamee, in the Weather Guide Calendar (Accord Publishing, 2002) noted that wine connoisseurs might have gone to England for fine vintages (can’t grow fine vintage grapes there today!), that heat loving trees like beeches carpeted Europe far into Scandinavia, and Viking ships crossed iceberg free oceans to ice free harbors in Iceland…”. Art Horn writes that “In the winter of 1249 it was so warm in England that people did not need winter clothes. They walked about in summer dress. It was so warm people thought the seasons had changed. There was no frost in England the entire winter. Can you imagine what NOAA would say if that happened next year?
I wonder what the effect of ever-increasing areas covered with wind turbines extracting ever-increasing quantities of kinetic energy from the climate system, coupled with fields of solar panels causing static columns of rising hot air is likely to have on these systems...
The latest apologists for the inconsistencies of regional warming are now apparently claiming that the cooler areas are demonstrating ""Asymptomatic Warming!" 🤣
Jul 22, 2023·edited Jul 22, 2023Liked by Jaime Jessop
Your phrase “They’ve blown their cover” referring to Covid is very powerful. I’ve used the similar phrase “They’ve shown their true colours” several times myself. The problem is that a large percentage of the population still don’t realise that they had a “plandemic” inflicted on them because they swallowed the fearmongering and propaganda hook, line and sinker, just as they have on climate change.
Post the Uxbridge by-election some are calling on Sunak to tone down his eco-crusading. I predict that he won’t do anything to tone down on Net Zero because such a decision is beyond his pay grade. That will be yet more proof that the whole thing is a scam orchestrated by globalists who think that the real enemy is humanity itself.. Kamila Harris recently blurted out the ulterior depopulation agenda: https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1679970911829491712?t=HgNH4WNw3l0mAyfhsCwjMg&s=19.
I think far too much significance is being read into the Uxbridge by-election result. ULEZ is, after all, not a net zero policy, but ostensibly a policy to tackle urban air pollution. In reality, it is just part of the ongoing war on the motorist waged by politicians from all parties, plus the temptation to view the long suffering motorist as a convenient cash cow, and this latest blatant attempt at unjust taxation was voted down by drivers when they got the opportunity. That is all.
I think the British people are instinctively phlegmatic about the weather and are less likely to be taken in by the apocalyptic stories on the BBC than they were about a virus.
Is that a 'senior extreme heat advisor' or an extreme heat advisor for seniors? As we know, older people are vulnerable to the heat - and they are 10 or 20 times more vulnerable to extreme cold. So do WMO have a senior extreme cold advisor too I wonder?
"Bringing this discussion up to date using the latest observations, we note that the 1990–2005 tendency toward a weaker jet stream and negative NAO has reversed in recent years. The last decade was dominated by a stronger jet stream and a more positive NAO, with the 11-year period from 2010 to 2020 featuring the strongest jet of any 11-year period over the past 70 years. The relatively weak winter North Atlantic jet observed in the 2000s, which motivated the debate on the influence of the Arctic, was not particularly unusual in the longer context."
"Our results suggest that projections of winter atmospheric circulation and associated precipitation over Europe may be unreliable because they fail to capture the response to human emissions or underestimate the magnitude of multidecadal-to-centennial time scale internal variability."
It's very unlikely the former. Scientists have seriously underestimated the impact of internal variability over all time scales.
Absolutely underestimated. It was something Lamb used to write on and the need to explore the record to better understand climate ameliorations as he deemed them. Instead the money went on modelling, which we've seen is often just an elephant trunk wiggling exercise with the parameters (and assumptions) and a hail mary clause of "climate change" inserted so it passes the admin team - failing that always Fredi to express attribute it all to cow farts and SUVs. As shown by today's BBC article highlighted in a comment above they say "It is hard to immediately link these events to climate change because weather - and oceans - are so complex.
Studies are under way, but scientists already fear some worst-case scenarios are unfolding."
They'll find the fingerprint damn it! They know. They fear. It's always the same with narcissists.
Thank you Jamie for all of your excellent work. I know it is past it's best before date, but did you see The Guardian's "World experiences hottest week ever recorded and more is forecast to come" published 16th July? It includes a "What is supercharging the global heat? – video explainer." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/16/red-alert-the-worlds-hottest-week-ever-and-more-is-to-forecast-to-come
The catastrophic climate psychopaths appear to be getting off on their fear mongering as they blame everything on fossil fuels.
The attempt to weaponise the summer in support of global warming propaganda has reached a fever pitch. They are becoming very desperate to sell their climate crisis and I think (hope) this will be their undoing.
These people will be feeling sad because lots of people didn't die in a record breaking 48 deg heatwave. These people are longing and wishing for other people to suffer and to die, just to prove a pointl.
For the stupid, intentionally ignorant, anti-science, fasco-Marxist wokesters, some actual science from climatologists
The truth is, there has been global warming recently – but it started around the time of the Revolutionary war, and today we are still BELOW the average of the past 3,000 years. And this is not just for Europe, Greenland and North America, yet another red herring that has recently been thrown out by the desperate global warmers. The universality of the Viking and Mediaeval climatic optimums is written about by Kegwin, who wrote in Science, 1996:274:1504-1508, the mean surface temp of the Sargasso Sea (which lies roughly between the West Indies and the Azores), which was obtained by readings of isotope ratios in marine organism remains in sediment, shows we are, today, below the three thousand year average, and far below the Medieval Climatic Optimum, albeit far above the LIA. Civil Defense Perspectives, Mar. 2007, Vol. 23, #3, p. 1, notes that evidence for this climatic optimum has been found in all but 2 out of 103 locations where it was examined for, including Asia, Africa, South America and the western U.S. The following graph of temperature in the Sargasso Sea tells you all you need to know (note: that big horizontal line running across the page is the 3,000 year average!), Interestingly, the warmer times coincided not only with the best harvests, but also the least amount of major storm activity.
Or let’s put it another way, from the Dansgaard & Johnson study, here on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-near-surface-temperatures-of-the-northern-hemisphere-during-the-past-11000-years_fig5_313127868
Incidentally, when I was in Death Valley, approx. 1996 or so, when I entered, the ranger warned us the temp was 129F. I can't remember the exact date, but could look it up.
Mowat, the noted Canadian leftist and Greenpeace activist, and whose house my wife used to walk by regularly as a kid in Port Hope, ON., wrote in his book West Viking (written while we were still in the global cooling scare) that there were probably at least dwarf forests growing in Greenland when the Vikings arrived in 985 AD and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History reports “… Erik the Red discovered two areas of southwest Greenland which were suitable for farming, with grasslands and small stands of alder and birch.” You will note that it is too cold today for any type of forests to grow in Greenland, and there is zero ability to farm, unless modern technologies are utilized – and even then, crop selection is very minimal. Mowat also reported the Arctic pack ice was much less in that Viking discovery era than today. Dr. Fred Singer writes that when the Vikings first settled Greenland, they grew vegetables, and it was warm enough to allow the population to grow to 3,000 people and by 1100 AD the place was thriving enough that they had their own bishop and twelve churches. Nature reported in a 2010 article that clamshell studies also confirm Norse records. Meanwhile, the Archeological Survey of Canada has also noted around “A.D. 1000, a warmer climate resulted in the tree line advancing 100 kilometres north of its present position.” The results of this? Especially in northern Europe, “the period between 1150 and 1300 was truly a flowering period, for population reached unprecedented levels that were never to be seen again until the late 18thcentury in many countries; the English population experienced a staggering threefold increase in its population during the last century since the Domesday Survey in 1086”. [11]
This climate optimum (also called a climate anomaly) coincided with a period of increased solar activity (see below). Farming of various crops extended hundreds of kilometers farther north than it is possible today.
Yet, in the 1100s, Greenland cooled dramatically, briefly stabilized, and then dropped even further in the 1200s to the early 1400s. Sirocko (2010) places the earlier event at the beginning of the 1310’s, while a more commonly accepted time frame for the first cold phase is the coinciding solar minimum called Wolf minimum from 1280-1350. There were repeated cold snaps and advancing glaciers and sea ice from that time onward, but it was not until the early 1600’s that the most devastating effects of the Little Ice Age began to set in, which is the more commonly used date for its beginning. As Dale Mackenzie Brown writes “An ice core drilled from the island's (Greenland’s) massive icecap between 1992 and 1993 shows a decided cooling off in the Western Settlement during the mid-fourteenth century.” But the recent recovery in temperatures is only putting us back to the average temps from an earlier age!
Indeed, when I was visiting Iceland at Skaftafell Nat'l Park a few years ago, Icelandic historians know from extant deeds – and have put in the displays at the park - that somewhere around FORTY old Viking era farms are currently buried under the Vatnajokull glacier system (the largest in the world outside of Greenland and Antarctica). In other words, it was simply much warmer in the Icelandic settlement era than it is today. We are routinely informed of the melting of Greenland glaciers today at lower altitudes, but demonstrably there are at bare minimum low altitude glaciers in roughly the same geographic area that had seen more melting and more pronounced glacial recession one thousand years ago than we see today. Al Gore may want to visit Skaftafell National Park in Iceland on one of his many jet-setting, carbon burning trips to check the facts himself. More evidence: There are records of grape growing occurring in places in northern Europe back during this optimum where they can't grow today. Gregory McNamee, in the Weather Guide Calendar (Accord Publishing, 2002) noted that wine connoisseurs might have gone to England for fine vintages (can’t grow fine vintage grapes there today!), that heat loving trees like beeches carpeted Europe far into Scandinavia, and Viking ships crossed iceberg free oceans to ice free harbors in Iceland…”. Art Horn writes that “In the winter of 1249 it was so warm in England that people did not need winter clothes. They walked about in summer dress. It was so warm people thought the seasons had changed. There was no frost in England the entire winter. Can you imagine what NOAA would say if that happened next year?
Extensive discussion on what the upper reaches of the northern hemisphere was really like a while back. Very informative . Well done.
I wonder what the effect of ever-increasing areas covered with wind turbines extracting ever-increasing quantities of kinetic energy from the climate system, coupled with fields of solar panels causing static columns of rising hot air is likely to have on these systems...
They will certainly create their own microclimates.
How many microclimates make a macroclimate?
Let's hope we don't need to find out.
The latest apologists for the inconsistencies of regional warming are now apparently claiming that the cooler areas are demonstrating ""Asymptomatic Warming!" 🤣
If asymptomatic warming is as contagious as asymptomatic Covid then we've got nothing to worry about - climate crisis cancelled!
It’s still raining in Manchester
https://twitter.com/miller_cricket/status/1682654188088557571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1682654188088557571%7Ctwgr%5E1a70795a71288c60a8264f0ddcb9874a42ab5e6c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espncricinfo.com%2Fseries%2Fthe-ashes-2023-1336037%2Fengland-vs-australia-4th-test-1336046%2Flive-cricket-score
Your phrase “They’ve blown their cover” referring to Covid is very powerful. I’ve used the similar phrase “They’ve shown their true colours” several times myself. The problem is that a large percentage of the population still don’t realise that they had a “plandemic” inflicted on them because they swallowed the fearmongering and propaganda hook, line and sinker, just as they have on climate change.
Post the Uxbridge by-election some are calling on Sunak to tone down his eco-crusading. I predict that he won’t do anything to tone down on Net Zero because such a decision is beyond his pay grade. That will be yet more proof that the whole thing is a scam orchestrated by globalists who think that the real enemy is humanity itself.. Kamila Harris recently blurted out the ulterior depopulation agenda: https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1679970911829491712?t=HgNH4WNw3l0mAyfhsCwjMg&s=19.
I think far too much significance is being read into the Uxbridge by-election result. ULEZ is, after all, not a net zero policy, but ostensibly a policy to tackle urban air pollution. In reality, it is just part of the ongoing war on the motorist waged by politicians from all parties, plus the temptation to view the long suffering motorist as a convenient cash cow, and this latest blatant attempt at unjust taxation was voted down by drivers when they got the opportunity. That is all.
Don’t ruin it for us straw-clutchers!
I think the British people are instinctively phlegmatic about the weather and are less likely to be taken in by the apocalyptic stories on the BBC than they were about a virus.
I agree. Probably MUCH less likely, although it's concerning that kids have been brainwashed at school.
Wow! So the World Meteorological Organization has a 'senior extreme heat advisor' (and presumably some junior ones too).
Is that what's meant by climate extremism?
Is that a 'senior extreme heat advisor' or an extreme heat advisor for seniors? As we know, older people are vulnerable to the heat - and they are 10 or 20 times more vulnerable to extreme cold. So do WMO have a senior extreme cold advisor too I wonder?
BBC headline today
Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory - scientists
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66229065?app=news.science_and_environment.story.66229065.page
Clearly the voters in the Uxbridge by-election aren’t listening
Uxbridge by-election: Khan defends Ulez after Starmer blames it for poll setback https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66264893
"Bringing this discussion up to date using the latest observations, we note that the 1990–2005 tendency toward a weaker jet stream and negative NAO has reversed in recent years. The last decade was dominated by a stronger jet stream and a more positive NAO, with the 11-year period from 2010 to 2020 featuring the strongest jet of any 11-year period over the past 70 years. The relatively weak winter North Atlantic jet observed in the 2000s, which motivated the debate on the influence of the Arctic, was not particularly unusual in the longer context."
Blackport and Fyfe 2022
"Our results suggest that projections of winter atmospheric circulation and associated precipitation over Europe may be unreliable because they fail to capture the response to human emissions or underestimate the magnitude of multidecadal-to-centennial time scale internal variability."
It's very unlikely the former. Scientists have seriously underestimated the impact of internal variability over all time scales.
Absolutely underestimated. It was something Lamb used to write on and the need to explore the record to better understand climate ameliorations as he deemed them. Instead the money went on modelling, which we've seen is often just an elephant trunk wiggling exercise with the parameters (and assumptions) and a hail mary clause of "climate change" inserted so it passes the admin team - failing that always Fredi to express attribute it all to cow farts and SUVs. As shown by today's BBC article highlighted in a comment above they say "It is hard to immediately link these events to climate change because weather - and oceans - are so complex.
Studies are under way, but scientists already fear some worst-case scenarios are unfolding."
They'll find the fingerprint damn it! They know. They fear. It's always the same with narcissists.