by Vijay Jayaraj
The mainstream media (MSM) wants the world to believe that climate change has turned us into rotisserie chickens. However, real-world temperatures are not warming to dangerous levels, nor are they going to.
Australia’s ABC news, for example, tells its readers that the “influence of climate change ensures nearly every season is now warmer than normal.” Yet, in 2022 Australia experienced the coldest spring in 30 years! Major cities like Melbourne, Adelaide, and Canberra recorded their coldest maximum temperatures.
This mismatch between reality and the MSM narrative has been widening in recent years. Computer models are becoming increasingly erroneous in their predictions of future weather and misleading policymakers into believing that doomsday is imminent.
The danger of cold weather is seldom acknowledged by an MSM that has sold its soul to the apocalyptic narrative. For the common people in the Northern Hemisphere, cold events pose more of a risk because the entire policy framework emphasizes addressing a supposedly warming world than being prepared for frigid spells.
As a result of the replacement of fossil fuels with ineffective wind turbines and solar panels, Northern Europeans approach winter with increased energy costs and the prospect of regional blackouts – all in the name of averting a fabricated climate emergency.
In the UK, the Met Office has issued a level three warning as cold Arctic air is set to sweep across the nation. A severe cold weather alert included forecasts of -10 degree Celsius (14 Fahrenheit) in some parts.
“Look out for friends and family who may be vulnerable to the cold, and ensure they have access to warm food and drinks and are managing to heat their homes adequately,” advised the Met Office. “Avoid exposing yourself to cold or icy outdoor conditions if you are at a higher risk of cold-related illness or falls and stay up to date with the latest weather forecasts.”
Rather than ensure adequate energy supplies, the British government adheres to a cultish climate orthodoxy as it speaks to citizens as though they are children.
Bloomberg energy analyst Javier Blas worries about a complacency regarding the European energy crisis:
“The astronomical winter doesn’t start until Dec 21. Ahead lie the 100-plus coldest days of the year. And we simply don’t know whether the season will be normal, mild or bitingly cold…. The reality is: Energy prices remain extremely high, the continent is at the mercy of the weather, the cost of subsidies is rising at an unsustainable pace, and companies are warning of deindustrialization.”
Northern Hemisphere snow accumulations and Greenland ice mass are at historic highs. Satellite temperature readings of the Arctic show no major warming since 2014. Data illustrate a dynamic climate system with the likelihood of all types of weather, not a planet uniformly and disastrously overheating.
The challenges of winter weather would have been much more manageable if European leaders had not shifted their economies away from coal, oil and natural gas in favor of expensive and unreliable green technologies. Of course, the damage of this folly has been compounded by the disruption of energy markets by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
Human progress in the last two centuries has been phenomenal, and one of the greatest achievements has been the development of electricity and fossil fuels to fend off the cold of harsh winters. We are now undoing this feat and putting millions at risk of freezing in the name of a faux climate emergency. Society’s most vulnerable will suffer most as political elites remain comfortable in plush abodes.
This commentary was first published at American Thinker, December 9, 2022, and can be accessed here.
Vijay Jayaraj is a Research Associate at the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, Virginia. He holds a master’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia, UK and resides in India.
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Frost in Ireland, England, France and Germany will not stop. The snow cover will increase.
Strong winds and lots of sunshine are needed.
This is the forecast of a polar vortex in the lower stratosphere for Christmas.
Temperature forecast for the US for December 23.
Another wave of snowstorms will pass over the Great Lakes.
“The danger of cold weather is seldom acknowledged by an MSM that has sold its soul to the apocalyptic narrative.”
What is even less often acknowledged is the benefits derived from a warmer climate and the CO2 enrichment of the atmosphere.
What is consistently stated is that climate change (AKA global warming) is the reason for any unusual or extreme weather event. There is never any evidence provided as to a direct connection. A heat or rain event is global warming, a cold or snow event is climate change.
Conveniently forgotten is past predictions of the end of snow or coastlines obliterated. But it will happen, it will just be another 10 or 12 years until it is another 10 or 12 years.
Great importance is attached to the melting back of most mountain glaciers. Forgotten is the fact that they have been melting back for millenia with occasional spurts of advance.
Ocean acidification, a misnomer designed to create concern, is assumed to be fact. Nobody, however, has a ladle big enough to stir the ocean into a consistent state or the ability to take the billions of samples necessary for a measurement with any chance of accuracy.
The earth was once flat. Of course it was, because that is what most believed. The sun, at one time rotated around the earth. That is the only thing that can explain night and day on a flat earth. Of course there could be more complicated theories such as a giant hand methodically adjusting the heavens.
Imaginative scenarios and model outputs are viewed, and presented as fact, rather than as the improbable guesses that they are.
“Northern Hemisphere snow accumulations and Greenland ice mass are at historic highs.”
Not according to the Rutgers site.
Did you forget the sarcasm tag?
(If not, try the Danish Meteorological site. Closer to Greenland than Rutgers.)
Rutgers northern hemisphere snow accumulation shows this year (week 48) to be rather average for the last 10 years, certainly not a ‘historic high’. The GRACE data shows the the Greenland Ice mass to have been steadily decreasing over the last 20 years by a cumulative total of ~4,500 GT. The PROMICE program has shown the the Greenland ice mass has declined every year over the last 26 years. No sarcasm tag needed.
For summer, it has been very cold here in Aus, Sydney. In fact some days felt like winter. I am having to wear a jumper.
One would have an easier time arguing the veracity of the virgin birth with an Evangelical than refute the climate gospel of the Church of Warming.