Funny how they never want to predict anything before a year starts
This year ‘virtually certain’ to be warmest in 125,000 years, EU scientists say
This year is “virtually certain” to be the warmest in 125,000 years, European Union scientists said on Wednesday, after data showed last month was the world’s hottest October in that period.
Last month smashed through the previous October temperature record, from 2019, by a massive margin, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said.
“The record was broken by 0.4 degrees Celsius, which is a huge margin,” said C3S Deputy Director Samantha Burgess, who described the October temperature anomaly as “very extreme”.
The heat is a result of continued greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, combined with the emergence this year of the El Nino weather pattern, which warms the surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Globally, the average surface air temperature in October was 1.7 degrees Celsius warmer than the same month in 1850-1900, which Copernicus defines as the pre-industrial period.
The record-breaking October means 2023 is now “virtually certain” to be the warmest year recorded, C3S said in a statement. The previous record was 2016 – another El Nino year.
So, pretty much natural variability during a Holocene warm period combined with a short term El Nino, but, it’s still all your fault.
This post-prediction is being repeated across the Credentialed Media, with many pushing for more government control of your life, obviously.
But none are asking the scientists to actually show hard measurements over the last 125K years, nor are any of the 15 or so articles I perused mentioning that most of that time period the Earth was in a glacial period, so, yeah, we would be warmer than that. Funny how inconvenient facts are avoided in favor of scaremongering.
I hope they’re right. My checkbook could use the help.
The data regarding the temperatures going back to only 2000 BC shows that it was warmer, at times much warmer, between about 1800 BC and 400 AD, than today. And during the middle ages, around 1000 AD it was warmer again. This was the period that the IPCC report did away with when the infamous “hockey stick” graph was fabricated to fit the narrative.
We are coming out of the coldest period in the previous 10,000 years between 1200 to about 1800 AD so yeah, we’re in a warming period. It’s cyclic and has happened repeatedly over the last 800,000 years. During that time the rises in carbon dioxide during the warm periods are an effect, not the cause. This data has been available for decades and I absolutely guarantee the people telling this 125,000 year lie are well aware of it.
Does human activity contribute to the CO2 in the atmosphere? Yes, of course, about 3% of the total CO2 content or approximately 0.000012% of the current atmosphere.
The math associating human caused CO2 with any rise in global average temperatures has never worked and never will.
I’m sure they will find a way to torture the data to make it so.