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 September, 2023.
Was September 2023 the warmest month on record? Based on NASA satellite data, September 2023 had the highest temperature anomaly (i.e., difference from average) on record. It was 0.9C warmer than the 1991-2020 average.
In contrast, the Temperature.global compilation of actual temperature measurements from surface stations has September only slightly warmer than the average monthly temperature of the past 8 years and 9 months, and far from the warmest month since January 2015.
Which temperature data is more accurate? NASA admits the surface stations are. There has still been no global warming since January 2015.
Reminder: Regardless of data set used to calculate it, “average global temperature” is not an actual physical metric. It is a flawed notion contrived by and for global warming alarmism. Its “calculation” is fraught with problems. We only discuss it because the alarmists do.
Let’s get to September’s fact checks.
Links: The New York Times article, rainfall records.
Links: The New York Times article, warm air and rainfall relationship.
Links: The Associated Press article, ice-free Alps article, Little Ice Age paper, recent warming video, mountain glaciers and sublimation.
Links: The Washington Post article.
Links: The Washington Post article, sea ice thickness, sea ice volume, Antarctic temperature record.
Links: The Guardian article, The Washington Post article, Read more.
Links: The Washington Post article.
Links: The Washington Post article, National Climate Assessment.
Links: The New York Times article, Jotunheimen mountains ice research.
Links: The Guardian article, The Washington Post article.
We’ll close out this month’s Climate Fact Check with new analysis from Drs. Roy Spencer and John Christy at the University of Alabama-Huntsville about the urban heat island effect (UHIE), the manmade warming of urban areas caused by concrete, asphalt and waste heat. Spencer and Christy estimated that the UHIE is responsible for more than half the observed “global warming” since 1895.
If we then add to the UHIE the significant warming caused by the series of El Niños observed since 1980, we are left with the question: Have fossil fuel emissions warmed the planet to any discernible extent at all?
Until next month…
Originally from JunkScience.com, reposted with permission.
the satellite data also shows no significant change from 2015. you should have compared apples to apples and shown the surface measurements back to 1979.
Ignore common sense and your own senses and 99.9% of the scientific community and believe this lying grifter