One of the fun things about science is if you allow it to happen, questioning theory, inquiry, data, analysis, and observation, the results tend to destroy the scientism peddled by the proglodytes. Who doesn’t want to do that? It’s fun. They get all spittley and hysterical and then call you names like denier. Yes. I deny your scientism in favor of actual science.
Given that it is still summer and, therefore, the hottest time of the year, today’s lesson is (again, sorry) heatwaves. Many parts of the US have been warmer, which causes climate fundamentalists to rant obsessively about planetary menopause brought on by a decline in poverty that is only possible thanks to cheap, abundant energy. A pox on that, they say, and what else would you expect from elites obsessed with depopulation (they can’t call it the master race; Hitler wrecked that, but it is what they mean). And their policies are all about that.
Abortion, assisted suicide, medical cures with higher rates of death than the disease, offshoring poisonous mining operations to third world countries to reduce their emissions. It’s quite a scam, as is the perennial heatwave rhetoric. This summer has been warmer than some, making the climate fundamentalists hot under the collar and rabid in their parroting of ignorant narratives that destroy the foundations of their false accumulated -CO2-based-faith. To quote Chris Martz.
An analysis that Richard Lyon and I completed today of USHCNd stations with ≥100-years of daily Tmax / Tmin data shows that the trend is down slightly since 1895, with a maximum during the 1930s. How did that happen 1.6 trillion tons of CO₂ emissions ago?
I borrowed (stole, which on the internet translates to shared) the graph of my featured image above with a sloppily added trend line for effect. But it is effective. There is no denying that the government data (science!) proves that rising CO2 results in fewer heatwave days, but why stop there? The data has more to tell us.
U.S. “all-time” record high maximum temperatures by state. 38/50 states (76%) recorded their high temperature records before 1955. 43 states measured theirs in or before 1985. Think this summer has been hot? It has been hotter before.
Another blow to the CO2 warming crowd, thanks to data, analysis, and science, is that we have similar declining trends (because of rising CO2?) across the spectrum of fearmongering from forest fires to tornadoes to hurricanes to deaths from severe weather. But they never give up. Yahoo! News shared a human interest story about an 11-year-old boy in Barcelona, Spain, who has Xeroderma Pigmentosum. He has to wear protective gear so the sun doesn’t burn his skin, and their best outside time begins at sunset. It’s actually a great piece about coping with such a thing and how the family adapts until you get to the end (where it gets stupid).
As heatwaves become more frequent and intense and spread across seasons due to climate change, the risks to Pol and others like him increase.
“The more hours of sunshine, the more solar damage. Therefore more illness,” said Asuncion Vicente, a pediatric dermatologist at Barcelona’s Sant Joan de Deu hospital.
Sadly, neither Yahoo!, Reuters, nor the author is admitting that the sun is a driver of climate. That sort of honesty is painfully absent among Climate fundamentalists, so no surprise there. It has to be that 3% of the 0.04 percent of CO2 in the atmosphere, to which they added a sidecar for methane in an effort to make the original premise seem less absurd.
But heatwaves are more common when there are more daylight hours (fewer of them in winter, yes?), but it is daylight, not heat, that is the threat to Pol, and despite all the articles about how climate change is slowing the rotation of the earth, the difference between now and 100 years ago is about 1.7 milliseconds which human beings are incapable of noticing without high-tech equipment. I doubt Pol, despite his sensitivity, can either.
But since it’s so damn important to Yahoo!/Reuters, we should remind readers (they didn’t) that geologic and astronomical factors affect the rotation of the earth. Millions of years ago, the Earth’s core was denser (so they say), and the moon was closer, so the Earth’s day was shorter (at least in theory). If cow farts and SUVs are swelling the Earth’s core and pushing the moon away, what was causing that for the millions of years when neither of those things was present?
And why might those forces not still be doing it now?
