The BBC's Cherry-Picked 1.5C Breach 'Year'

They couldn’t wait to get their ‘1.5C limit breached for a whole year’ headline in, so they picked the months starting February 2023 to the end of January 2024 to claim:

Which is really, really bad news of course and means we’re headed for Thermageddon and climate breakdown much sooner than even rabid climate alarmists anticipated:

For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU's climate service.

World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to help avoid the most damaging impacts.

This first year-long breach doesn't break that landmark Paris agreement, but it does bring the world closer to doing so in the long-term.

Urgent action to cut carbon emissions can still slow warming, scientists say.

"This far exceeds anything that is acceptable," Prof Sir Bob Watson, a former chair of the UN's climate body, told the BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.

"Look what's happened this year with only 1.5C - we've seen floods, we've seen droughts, we've seen heatwaves and wildfires all over the world."

The period from February 2023 to January 2024 reached 1.52C of warming, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. The following graph shows how that compares with previous years.

OMG, Prof Sir Bob Watson says: "Look what's happened this year with only 1.5C - we've seen floods, we've seen droughts, we've seen heatwaves and wildfires all over the world." We never saw those in other years of course and shrill climate doomsters like Watson never attributed any droughts or heatwaves, floods or wildfires which happened in previous years to climate change, did they? No siree, it’s just this last 12 months where the magical 1.5C ‘dangerous’ global warming threshold has been breached when we are now seeing all this extreme weather happening. It’s idiotic beyond belief. It’s ‘mainly’ due to climate change of course, with just a little bit on top attributable to El Nino:

Why has 1.5C been broken over the past year?

The long-term warming trend is unquestionably being driven by human activities - mainly from burning fossil fuels, which releases planet-warming gases like carbon dioxide. This is also responsible for the vast majority of the warmth over the past year.

In recent months, a natural climate-warming phenomenon known as El Niño has also given air temperatures an extra boost, although it would typically only do so by about 0.2C.

Even climate scientists themselves now admit that it’s extremely unlikely that ‘climate change’ or El Nino had anything to do with the sudden jump in global temperatres beginning early summer 2023:

But the Disinformation BBC is obsessed with plugging this false narrative to their readers. They also are obsessed with ignoring the Hunga Tonga elephant in the room. Back in November 2023, I was pointing out that climate scientist Myles Allen was predicting that the 1.5C threshold would be breached because of the eruption of Hunga Tonga. It’s just happened rather sooner than he was expecting:

Couldn’t be much clearer than that could it? Rather than affecting global temperature by ‘a few hundredths of a degree’, radiative forcing from the Hunga Tonga stratospheric water vapour perturbation could be significant enough in the next few years to bump up global mean surface temperatures temporarily beyond the 1.5C [OMG - run for the hills!] limit. The authors admit that the press will go nuts with the news and probably blame it on man-made global warming, not Hunga Tonga. They already are. This is a peer reviewed paper published in nature, by scientists who are not known for their sceptic views on global warming - Prof Myles Allen is in fact a fully paid up climate alarmist with hundreds of climate change papers to his name, yet here he is, telling us that Hunga Tonga might increase global temperature beyond 1.5C very soon. Why is his paper being largely ignored?

It’s still being ignored by the likes of the BBC. They have a narrative to push which fits their agenda, so be damned with actual science and actual facts.

With most of the water vapour from Hunga Tonga still up there in the stratosphere and with El Nino only now beginning to make a modest contribution to global warmth, we could see ‘global simmering’ for quite a few months yet, which will give the climate disinformers in the lame stream media even more opportunity to plug their mendacious ‘climate crisis’ warnings. It was all so bloody predictable.