THE UK Met Office, fond of repeating itself as ever has announced that this yeaer is set to be the warmest on record and that for the previous warmest yeasr on record, 2024 the mean global temperature was 1.53 ± 0.08°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.
In that statement the number of the year is probably the only piece of true data. Claiming that we can measure the mean temperature of the entire earth and its oceans for a whole year to that level of accuracy is questionable, surely. And what, exactly, is that ‘pre-industrial’ average? How was it measured? Even if we accept tht the industrial ersa becan in 1850 (it actually began about 100 years earlier. In 1709 Abraham Darby demondtrated the firt coke fuelled blast furnace and in 1712 Thomas Newcomen invented the first steam engine for use in mining. Withinin a few decades these technologies were in widespread use and had inspied many other industrial asdvances. So the start of the era canot be specificaly defined but industrialisation was widespread by 1850.
Another highly suspect point about Met Office figures: Actual temperatures are never quoted, we are given only anomalies. Annual figures are always related to the average of global temperatures during that critical 1850-1900 pre-industrial period. We are never given the actual global mean temperature, something around 15C, because that would not be sufficiently worrying. We also never see screaming headlines assuring us that many respected scientists disagree with the CO2 hypothesis and dismiss the climate change scare as a scam.
When it comes to discussions about climate, any change is always
attributed to CO2 generated by burning fossil fuels - despite CO2 being less than 1/20th of 1% of atmosphere currently and is essential for the continuance of all life forms.. No other factors are mentioned that
affect our climate/planet - nor is the fact that measurements of
atmospheric CO2 which satisfy exacting modern scientific requirements
were only first taken in 1958. Any measurements before that date must be
considered suspect at least, if not dismissed totally as inaccurate.
Ice-core and deep geological samples show CO2 was at 2000 ppm for most
of the past 600 million years, and has been as high as 9000 ppm. And
temperatures were much lower than today during many of these periods. To draw attention to these points would not serve the Net Zero / Climate Catastrophe narratives so you will not see or hear much about them in mainstream media.
Global
temperatures do fluctuate over very long periods of time. Some time
ago mainstream media featured a story about an archaeological dig in
Northern Greenland and analysis of fossils showed the temperature there
2.6 million years ago - before the onset of the current ice-age - was 19
deg C HOTTER than today. And yes, we ARE in an ice-age - large
ice-sheets in the polar regions prove this. These sheets haven't always
been there - fossils discovered near the North Pole show animals such as
camels and sloths once lived there. That should be considered in the context of tectonic plate movement of course. But even at a sped of four or five centimetres a year a landmass can cover a fair distance in a million years.
When it comes to global
temperature variations we must also consider planetary movements. The Earth
rotates on it's axis once in 24 hrs - a speed of 1000 mph. The Earth
orbits the Sun once in 365.25 days - a speed of 66,000 mph. The Earth's
orbit is not circular, nor is it regular. The orbit is elongated - an
elipse - and at the furthest distance from the Sun in summer ( northern
hemisphere ) this is called "aphelion".
When the Earth is closest to the
Sun in winter ( northern hemisphere ) this is called " perihelion". The
Earth is tilted on it's axis at an angle that varies between 21 deg and
24 deg from the vertical over 44000 yrs. This tilt is what gives us
seasons. This does change - a process called " the precession of the
equinoxes" which is caused by the Sun's gravitational pull on the Earth
causes the Earth to be forced "backwards" against the direction of
rotation ( anti-clockwise). Over 26500 yrs, the Earth completes once
full rotation "backwards".
During this process, the Earth changes the
way it faces the Sun - so that half-way through the precessionary cycle,
summer and winter " change places". The summer solstice in the northern
hemisphere will be in December and the winter solstice in June. This
means, because of the way the Earth faces the Sun, northern hemisphere
winters will be VERY cold and summers will be North-African HOT.
In
addition to all this, the gravitational effects of other planets -
mainly Saturn and Jupiter - plus our moon, Luna, and the Sun itself, all
exert a "push and pull" on Earth's orbit around the Sun - the path of
orbit can vary by as much as 5 million kms. And if we move nearer to the
Sun, the Earth gets hotter. Simples, as they say. They there are
variations in the Sun's output - solar maximums and minimums - more heat
or less heat in other words.
All these things affect Earth's temperature and climate and must be considered when it comes to discussing "change".
So as the MET Office does not consider any of these factors we may as well stop worrying because nobody really knows what is going on, but on a global scale even small changes take centuries.
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