The State of Maine has a climate science dashboard. An official repository for climate fearmongers and their water carriers. I stumbled on it after reading a story about scallops endangered by rising sea-water temperatures.
Is it supposed to be funny because it looks like a joke?
They have plots that include computer model projections. The ones that have been wrong since the Cult started using them. This one claims to show state-wide temperature trends and projections. It looks like this.
It looks scary, and there has been a long trend of rising surface temperatures in Maine, but it peaked in 2010, just a few years before the end of the last solar maximum. For the past twelve years, the trend has declined.
It might be temporary, but with CO2 concentration continuing to rise a decade-plus long decline – which happens to match the national and global trend – matters, especially when you go back and look at the model projections out to 2100.
Nothing there begins to adopt what has been going on in recent years, probably becasue the driver of the model is CO2, and there’s no evidence the two things are connected. They are not. There is evidence that following spikes in CO, the earth endures cooling. No one argues that we’ve entered a solar minimum, though there is debate about the sort and duration.
To that point, we should also take note of the map of Maine with these scary temperature rise figures.
Those numbers are based on the 1900-2000 average temperature trend. As we’ve pointed out, recent data suggests the winds are changing. And while an actual 100-year average (1922-2022: 40.7 deg F., not 40.1) still results in Maine warming, it provides a more realistic look at trends and suspects as drivers.
You don’t have to be a climate scientist to figure it out. The Climate Cult has been suppressing research that suggests the current solar minimum may be a grand minimum. They are unwilling to brook dissent on any terms but their own to control the narrative. And by doing this, they hope to advance a specific controlling and limiting political agenda with no evidence it can reduce anything but comfort and prosperity.
I don’t expect Maine to adjust their model to account for new factors. Democrats run the place. They are no different than the Maldives, who, upon discovering the global clamor about sea level rise, did everything in their power to get billions in foreign aid to help their island nation. They got a lot of help, including a few more highly-rated island resorts from which to milk tourists and taxes.
Maine is as motivated by truth or science as the Maldives.
The perception of crisis creates the potential for more money, and they don’t care what printing it does to the US economy or the people of Maine. As long as they can hand some of it out like candy-like the recent heating assistance money few, if any, would need if they hadn’t meddled in the energy sectors- it’s all good.
Bread and Circuses. Or maybe we should say graft and climate models.
