Guest Post by: The Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Heartland Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate.
Editor’s note: This summary serves as a fact check on the biggest false claims made in the media in August, 2023.
August 2023 was the warmest August since the satellite record began in 1979. But it still is not the largest monthly temperature anomaly or deviation from an estimated “average global temperature,” the controversial metric invented for the global warming controversy. That record is still held by February 2016.
Another way to consider “average global temperature” is presented by Temperature.global, which uses unadjusted actual surface temperatures collected and calculated on a real-time basis going back to 2015. This data set shows there has been global cooling from January 2015 through August 2023.
Which is better representation? Does that even matter? Remember that the key global warming claim is that every emission warms the planet. While both data sets indicate that August was a relatively warm month, neither supports the notion that emissions have anything to do with that.
Here are 10 other fact checks for claims made in August.
Links: Associated Press article, Maui land map analysis, August 2018 fire, water release delayed, failure of warning, evacuation, and lack of emergency response, utility mitigation plan proposal, Gov. Green admits problem with water plan, Gov. Green admits personal incompetence, The Washington Post editorial board comments.
Links: Los Angeles Times article, National Hurricane Center acknowledgement.
Links: NBC Connecticut article.
Links: Bloomberg article, Nature study, Nature study showing lack of warming, Climate Realism analysis.
Links: The Washington Post article, read more here and here.
Links: CBS News article, Iliad, Greek wildfires don’t correlate with emissions, spike in fires, arresting arsonists.
Links: The Washington Post article.
By the way, NASA has reported a decline in global wildfire.
Links: The Associated Press article.
Links: The New York Times article.
Links: The Associated Press article, Current Biology study.
We’ll close out this month with a final laugher from the Los Angeles Times: “How climate scientists feel about seeing their predictions come true.”
The article mentions no “dire prediction that has come true.” Not one. There is a passing general reference to James Hansen’s 1988 Senate testimony, but none of that came true either as detailed in “Wrong Again: James Hansen 1988 Senate Testimony Edition.” For more predictions that never came true, check out: “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions” and “Wrong Again: 2020’s Failed Climate Doomsaying.”
Until next month…
“Climate Change” doesn’t really refer to actual climates changing. The cold places on Earth, like Antarctica and the Arctic, are still cold. The warmer places on Earth, like the tropics, are still warm. The rainy places, like rainforests, are still rainy and the dry places on Earth, like deserts, are still dry. About the only place that has really changed is the Sahara desert which has greened so much, due to increased CO2, that an area the size of Germany and France combined is now green, which is a good thing.
The climate “scientists” have had the word “climate” redefined, so that now around 30 years is the “climate”, so it is always changing.
The “climate change” articles don’t mention that the geological climate of the Earth is still a 2.58-million-year ice age named the Quaternary Glaciation. The Earth is in a warmer, but still cold, interglacial period that happens about every 100,000 years and lasts about 10,000 years which alternates with a very cold glacial period that lasts about 90,000 years. The Earth still has around 200,000 glaciers and 11 percent of the land is permafrost. The ice age the Earth is in won’t end and the climate won’t officially change until all the natural ice melts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation
Permafrost covers 11% of the world’s land surface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permafrost
Glaciers cover 10% of the world’s land surface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier
Very few climate stories are even mentioning the Grand Solar Minimum that the Sun has entered.
Solar physicist, Valentina Zharkova, discovered how two magnetic dynamos at different depths in the Sun give the 11-year sunspot cycle and another cycle of around 400 years. She says that the Sun is going to be cooling enough to lead to a mini-ice age for around 40 years with probable crop failures starting in a few years.
‘Modern Grand Solar Minimum will lead to terrestrial cooling’
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7575229/
NOAA agrees, and forecasts that the Sunspot Number currently around 100-200 will start dropping starting in 2025 and reaching single digits in 2031 and zero in 2040 when their forecast ends. The cooler sunspots are associated with hotter areas that increase solar output and fewer sunspots will reflect a lower solar output leading to terrestrial cooling.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/predicted-sunspot-number-and-radio-flux
The Grand Solar Minimum is also associated with increased volcanic activity, earthquakes, and more high clouds as the magnetic field of the Sun is reduced allowing more cosmic rays to strike the Earth.
Earthquakes seem more intense after cosmic ray strikes. Scientists say this is why.
https://www.space.com/earthquakes-cosmic-radiation-link-found
Do Cosmic Rays Trigger Earthquakes, Volcanic Eruptions?
https://principia-scientific.com/do-cosmic-rays-trigger-earthquakes-volcanic-eruptions/
‘The Approaching New Grand Solar Minimum and Little Ice Age Climate Conditions’
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284205134_The_Approaching_New_Grand_Solar_Minimum_and_Little_Ice_Age_Climate_Conditions
Here are a few other links you might be interested in. Feel free to do whatever you wish with the links and comments I am sending in.
This recent study shows that the cold weather we have every year causes about 4.6 million deaths a year globally mainly through increased strokes and heart attacks, compared with about 500,000 deaths a year from hot weather. We can’t easily protect our lungs from the cold air in the winter and that causes our blood vessels to constrict causing blood pressure to increase leading to heart attacks and strokes.
‘Global, regional and national burden of mortality associated with nonoptimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study’
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00081-4/fulltext
This article from 2015 says that cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather and that moderately warm or cool weather kills far more people than extreme weather. Increased strokes and heart attacks from cool weather are the main cause of the deaths.
‘Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multi-country observational study’ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)62114-0/fulltext
Bloomberg’s green-energy research team estimated it would cost $US 200 Trillion to stop Global Warming by 2050.
There are about 2 billion households in the world, that is $US 100,000 per household.
Ninety percent of the world’s households can’t afford anything additional. That means about $US 1 million per household in developed countries or about $US 33,000 per year for 30 years. Even the working people of developed nations can’t afford anything near that.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-07-05/-200-trillion-is-needed-to-stop-global-warming-that-s-a-bargain#xj4y7vzkg