Essay by Eric Worrall
Send money – the UN wants “increasing investment in the basic global observing system” to monitor the global warming they expect will show up any day now.
WMO releases ‘tell-tale signs’ of extreme weather conditions around the world
From extreme floods to heat and drought, weather and climate-related disasters have affected millions and cost billions this year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday, describing the “tell-tale signs and impacts” of intensified climate change.
The clear need to do much more to cut greenhouse gas emissions was again underscored throughout events in 2022, said the UN weather agency, advocating for strengthened climate change adaptation, including universal access to early warnings.
“This year we have faced several dramatic weather disasters which claimed far too many lives and livelihoods and undermined health, food, energy and water security and infrastructure”, said WMO chief Petteri Taalas.
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While the persistence of a cooling La Niña event, now in its third year, means that 2022 will not be the warmest year on record, its cooling impact will be short-lived and not reverse the long-term warming trend caused by record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.
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Early warnings
Early warnings, increasing investment in the basic global observing system and building resilience to extreme weather and climate will be among WMO priorities in 2023 – the year that the WMO community celebrates its 150th anniversary.
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Read more: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/12/1131992
I’m surprised the WMO article forgot to mention all the global warming induced extreme cold the USA is experiencing this Christmas. Maybe they were worried that reminding people how cold it is might confuse their pitch for more “investment” to monitor global warming.
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From the article: “From extreme floods to heat and drought, weather and climate-related disasters have affected millions and cost billions this year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday, describing the “tell-tale signs and impacts” of intensified climate change.”
There is no evidence of “intensified climate change”. This is “business as usual” where it concerns the Earth’s weather. Earth’s weather IS extreme weather.
These alarmists tryng to convince us there is something they can do to change the way the weather unfolds is a joke and a lie.
From the article: “While the persistence of a cooling La Niña event, now in its third year, means that 2022 will not be the warmest year on record, its cooling impact will be short-lived and not reverse the long-term warming trend caused by record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.”
So you claim, with no supporting evidence. Alarmists are infamous for making claims that turn out not to be true. La Nina is messing up their CO2 delusions, isn’t it.
Or maybe it is the cyclical nature of the Earth’s climate (Mother Nature) that’s doing it: Warms for a few decades, and then cools for a few decades. Of course it wouldn’t cool for a few decades if CO2 were the driving force, so we shall see if temperatures climb or fall in the future.
Currently, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is climbing, yet the temperatures are cooling. It’s not looking good for the Alarmist Team.
We can count on the Alarmist Team to tell us it will start warming any day now. That’s what they are doing with the “wait until La Nina is over” claim. Whether it warms or not, is another question.
I think the same argument was made about temperatures following the 1998 El Niño, after which global temperatures fell, relative to that high, for a few years. However, the long term warming trend remained fairly constant.
The same is now being said of 2016 and for the same reasons. History seems destined to repeat itself.
It’s true that the long-term warming trend continued, but that was only because of the (truly heroic) efforts of the BOM, Met Office and NOAO to manipulate and outright falsify their records to create said trend.
I take it NASA, Berkeley Earth and the Japenese Met Agency are also in on the big conspiracy? How about UAH? These data sets all show statistically significant long-term global warming trends. What’s the aim of this conspiracy, by the way? World domination by a cabal of meteorologists?
Climate Change was foisted into the popular vernacular during the pause after the solar minimum of the 23rd SC. The rumblings of “Global Warming” returning to push “Climate change” into the background of popular vernacular maybe shorted lived especially if a new post SC minimum pause lasts long enough to reach back and hold hands with the previous pause. I hope this does not happen I prefer warming.
To paraphrase, “I’ve been cold, and I’ve been warm. Trust me, warm is better”.
Leftist desperation.
Perhaps we can now call the ‘Gore effect’ to the ‘Taalas effect’ as weather operates chaotically in spite of WMO alarmism.
Very few climate reports mention that the geologic climate that the Earth is in is a 2.588 million-year ice age named the Quaternary Glaciation(fourth ice age), in a warm interglacial period that usually lasts about 10,000 years(it’s been 11,700 years). 11% of the Earth is frozen permafrost and there are still over 200,000 glaciers. The geological climate of the Earth won’t change from the ice age it is in until all the natural ice on Earth melts.
Back in the 1970ies I laid my hand on a little booklet ‘secrets of the earth’. It was a collection of essays on things we didn’t know about the workings of our planet. Factional, no fancy theories. One was about the El Nino phenomenon. First documented by Jesuit priests in Peru in the 16th century. Curiously the writer suggested that scientist should hurry in studying it because it ‘appeared to be on the way out’. They got that one wrong as we know. However, the crux of the report was the typically 7 years between El Nino events in the past, each lasting about a year. That means that historically the La Nina phase could be anything up to 6 years. We may have a long wait before this one is done.
From the link to the story
“In East Africa, rainfall has been below average throughout four
consecutive wet seasons.”
So how much below average were they? Cue the standard photo of dry river beds and cattle skulls. OK, no dead cows, but that’s the usual norm.
Kenya’s annual precipitation is between 30 and 50 inches Source so if those four years were over 30 but less than 40 inches … or were maybe 29 inches. It’s really difficult to know when the story doesn’t provide any numbers.
“Sea levels, which have doubled since 1993…”
What was the number in 1993 that was doubled? The statement makes no sense.
I see that you’ve spotted the usual yellow dog journalism at work. Scare the bejeezus out of everybody with extremely selective quoting of facts.
An unusually wide atmospheric river is approaching Los Angeles.
Here’s how it works. The Ice Bomb in Buffalo is a direct result of human induced climate change destabilising the polar vortex. Had that not happened it would have been human induced climate change that caused the unseasonably warm temperatures in Buffalo.
The Earth will be in this 2.588 million-year ice age named the Quaternary Glacial until all naturally melts. We are in a warm interglacial period between glacial periods, but it is still not warm enough to melt the 11% of the Earth that is permafrost or all of the glaciers and other ice and snow.
Most of the areas outside of the tropics are too cold to live in during the winter without technologies like clothes, shoes, coats, buildings, heating, and the like.
There’s not much wiggle room left-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/weather/topstories/the-forecast-for-2023-is-hot/ar-AA15IiHq
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/wiggles/images/2/2d/Wiggles_big_red_car.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130413005135
High SOI values.
https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/soi/