Maine is getting colder. It’s a fact. There’s been no warming in the past decade. They’ve recently experienced record-setting cold, which won’t help the trend, but hey, stop that. Warming! Look at the Gulf of Maine!
The Portland Press Herald just had the journalist equivalent of unprotected sex a the Climate Cult narrative. “Last year was second warmest on record in Gulf of Maine.” If you visit the Gulf of Main Research Institute, which likely gets more money (or the appearance of relevance) from grants in the wake of climate fearmongering, they insist that climate change is a threat (and hey, how about a donation so we can keep saying that).
“It may be startling to realize that the last two years were the warmest on record,” Reidmiller said. “It’s even more sobering to recognize that they’re likely to be among the coolest ones we’ll experience for the foreseeable future.”
Is it? Warming. It sure as heck fire is, but that’s about as meaningless as that recent record-setting cold without some context. First, and Mainers know this for a fact, climate activists and the government are the biggest threat to Maine seafood production and the jobs and prosperity it creates. Second, if you ignore the headline and look at history, this “almost record” is neither strange, exceptional, nor caused by your advanced western lifestyle.
Notice anything not remotely alarming in the temperature trend history? The Gulf of Maine gets warmer and then colder without any consideration at all toward the narrative fashion of “scientists” freaking out to scare people and politicians into giving them more grant money.
The 150-year trend, a much more reliable indicator of ‘Climate,’ is flat. As for CO2 at that 1930s peak – see also a previous hottest year on record for the Gulf of Maine – global CO2 emissions were measured at just under 310 ppm. As CO2 rose, the temperature fell, then rose, then fell.
We’re over 420 ppm, assuming that’s accurate, and along the way, the Gulf cooled to a near-record low which, if you are an actual scientist, suggests the temps are probably due to plummeting sometime in the next ten years.
That’s not what they are selling, but odds are good we’ll be here to check the shelf life on the expert commentary that these record-warm years are “likely to be among the coolest ones we’ll experience for the foreseeable future.”
