Climate Change & Climate Variability (part 1)
Hot weather is due to CO2. Cold weather is due to CO2. Heavy rain is due to CO2. Drought is due to CO2. Today I look at the variance inherent in the HadCRUT5 global mean temperature.
It’s a funny old world. As a young thing the big climate scare hitting the front page of all the important publications was an impending ice age. Scientists were pretty certain about this and they blamed the beginnings on instability of the jet stream. Yep, that’s right, the same instability that they have recently adopted to explain global warming. Global warming didn’t pan out as planned despite some very good efforts at data tampering, and so we got lumbered with the catch-all of Climate Change.
This was a very shrewd move because pretty much anything and everything could be blamed on what are essentially unpredictable weather events. In the near future I’m expecting UK folk to put their umbrellas up and exclaim that it is climate changing a great deal today! Equally, those managing to find a spot on Blackpool sands on a sunny August bank holiday will be rubbing sun tan oil into torsos and exclaiming that it is climate changing a great deal today!
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