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 December, 2023.
December ended with the so-called “newspaper of record” running with this graph of infamy:
This graph is artwork, not science. First, there is no such record of “global temperatures.” Because there is no physical meaning to the notion of “global temperature,” it cannot be
measured. At best, this is a graph of fantasy guesstimates. These guesstimates have absolutely no basis in reality before 1979, when the satellite era started. Note, for example, that the New York Times graph begins in 1850. But check out the sparse and hardly “global” surface temperature station coverage as of 1885.
Moreover, the New York Times’ claimed spike in “global temperature” for 2023 is not evident in the “global temperature” as calculated from today’s global network of surface temperature stations that measure actual temperatures and report them in real time.
2023 does seem to have been a relatively warm year, as we predicted would happen in the event of an El Niño. And guess what? That’s what happened.
Since El Niños are natural phenomena that have nothing to do with emissions, the New York Times claim (on the graph) that, “Searing heat across the globe in 2023 suggests a possible acceleration in the effects of human-induced climate change,” is also without a basis in reality.
Now, on to the December fact checks.
Links: The New York Times article, cooling research, volcanic activity.
Links: The Washington Post article.
Links: Reuters article, Nature article.
Links: The Associate Press article, Read more.
Links: The Washington Post article, historic drought in Zimbabwe, elephant deaths, drought and emissions.
Links: The Washington Post article, contrail information.
Links: Reuters article.
Links: The Washington Post article, Marshall Island land gain, crash landing.
Links: White Christmases in New York.
Links: The Washington Post article.
We’ll close out 2023 with this Associated Press photo advertising its climate coverage for 2023. You decide what the image of sheep heading off into the sunset means for media climate coverage.
Until next month and for more great climate fact checks from December 2023, check out:
ClimateRealism.com
• Sorry, USA Today, Weather Isn’t Getting Weirder or More Extreme
• Wrong, CNN, Climate Change Isn’t the Cause of Rising Bear Attacks in Japan
• No, Media, ‘Catastrophic Climate Tipping Points’ are Nothing to Worry About
• Wrong, Washington Post, Warming Hasn’t Harmed African Crop Production
• Wrong, USA Today, a 1.5° Temperature Rise Is Not a Scientifically Established Climate Threshold
CO2Coalition.org
• Natural Disasters Are Not Increasing — Really
• Brewing Truth: Climate Doomsayers’ Cooked up Coffee Crisis
• Al Jaber Is Right: There Is No Science Showing a Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Will Achieve 1.5C
WattsUpWithThat.com
• Voices Of CO2 Doom Dishonestly Alarm Unthinking Worshippers with Correlations – While Downplaying Proven Causations
• Hottest in 125,000 Years?
• Antarctic Sea Ice Volume Greater Than The Early 1980s
• VOX: Winter Has Disappeared Thanks to Climate Change
• Whatever happened to the Siberian permafrost “tipping point” from 2005?
Originally posted at JunkScience.com, reposted with permission.
Great debunking the myths and dire predictions of climate catastrophe! As if the climate is a force unto itself that wields disproportionate influence over global doom! Climate is what we observe over time and the influences are arbitrary guesses at best and can’t be proven without the passage of time! What this shows is that variability in temperature and other factors is very complex and not subject to one specific factor! Nobody has a crystal ball 🔮 to measure and prove that things will get progressively worse or better! Best we enjoy the moment and know that the rest is not worth waiting forever to occur!