From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
This article sums up just how hysterical some so-called experts have become:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66042272
Take this comment, for instance:
Many flowering plants, including orchids, wilted in the high temperatures, meaning insects like bees and butterflies that feed on nectar and pollen will have less to eat, Ali Morse from the Wildlife Trusts told BBC News.
Species with short lifespans are particularly badly affected. Many butterflies are adults for only a short time, and if they cannot access food in that period, it stunts the population.
These impacts are more surprising considering the wet and cold spring and are earlier than last year, Ms Morse added.
“Every month seems to be the hottest, the driest, the wettest, or whichever record-breaking event it is. If we have a one-off pollution event or a wildfire, then there is normally time for nature to bounce back, but now it seems to be continually pounded by extreme weather,” she added.
“Every month seems to be the hottest, the driest, the wettest, or whichever record-breaking event it is.”
Really, Ms Morse?
If you really believe that, you are living in a fantasy world! I suggest you get back in touch with reality, and check what the facts say.
First, temperatures:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-and-regional-series
There is a cluster of coldest months in the early record, and another cluster of hottest towards the end, just as you would expect in a gradually warming climate. However, there has only been one, solitary record since 2015, and that was of course last month.
And rainfall? Again, just one monthly record since 2014; that was February 2020. In total, just four records since 1997, which is about average:
In short, we have had just two monthly records for temperature and rainfall in the last eight years; that is hardly “every month”, Ms Morse!
Indeed two in eight years is pretty much what you would expect. With 48 records up for grabs over a period of 187 years for rain and 140 years for temperature, the law of averages say you will get one every three years.
Sadly this hysteria is not confined to the odd buffoon, like our Ms Morse.
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The New Zealand government is going full ahead on student indoctrination into the warmunist agenda. This in one of the rags this morning “The so-called “fast draft” said science would be taught through four contexts – the Earth system, biodiversity, food, energy and water, and infectious diseases.” No physics, chemistry or astronomy. They are playing the long game. Totally disgusting.
I trust everyone dressed appropriately for 17.01C instead of 16.92C on July 3 this year-
World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 3 (msn.com)
High time only the UNIPCC issues the daily global temperature forecast so folks don’t get caught out inappropriately attired and doomed. This scattergun approach must stop with global experts and settled science.
They expect us to believe that they collected all the Weather station data from all over the world and calculated the temperature the next day.
Where was all the Quality checks carried out by each Met office?
How did they get the data from 3rd world countries.
This is obviously a scam.
LOL, despite all the hype and rabid exaggeration of temperatures..
June UAH is a MASSIVE 0.01ºC warmer than May was.
From the article: “Many flowering plants, including orchids, wilted in the high temperatures, meaning insects like bees and butterflies that feed on nectar and pollen will have less to eat, Ali Morse from the Wildlife Trusts told BBC News.
Species with short lifespans are particularly badly affected. Many butterflies are adults for only a short time, and if they cannot access food in that period, it stunts the population.”
This heat wave only lasted one day, didn’t it? What was the “record” high temperature, 82 F?
I’m having a hard time taking this seriously.
Some butterflies don’t even have mouth parts or digestive systems so they don’t eat at all ever. This could also stunt the population if they don’t breed in that time. Which of course is what they are supposed to do. Is that temperature dependent?
Record temperatures are no more than slightly interesting trivia.
The recorded incidence may have only been for a few seconds, a few minutes or a few hours which would make it insignificant.
A recorded maximum or minimum is only valid if the exact same measuring method is used for the entire relative period. This means there are no temperature records valid for periods of significant length. A record for the year, decade, or century has little meaning other than something slightly unusual may have happened.
The use of record readings or even, daily maximum or minimums, is to me the most ridiculous way to describe climate. They impart no logical or useful data. There are no consistent means of measurement or consistent environmental locations for measuring. There is no logical means of comparison to past conditions or any basis for prediction. The available data is less valuable than anecdotal musings by seniors recollections..
Pure specious sophistry using made up alarmist claims.
Plants produce nectar so long as they have the nutrients, water and sunlight. A little wilting neither prevents nectar production nor impedes insect access or utilization.
Orchids, especially the UK’s native terrestrial orchids often use trickery to force visiting bees to carry pollen to other orchids. A day’s temperatures do not affect either orchids or insect pollinators.
So this morning on Bloomberg, they started hyping this article. I watch it for the charts and news items with no sound. They had an expert CEO on to substantiate their report. It went terribly wrong. Their premise for the article was that climate change was going to cause agriculture problems. Unfortunately, they had not told him that. His first truth telling was that this was weather, not climate. He also made the point that weather is local and much of agriculture will be helped with El Nino. They kept trying to bring him to heel but each time he would revert to the effects of weather and El Nino being good for ag. I almost turned on the volume but continued with the CC.
Being able to report a new extreme event every single week is expected even if there is zero long term variability.
There are about 7,900 million people on the planet. If weather extremes were evenly distributed, that’s 79 once-in-century hottest months that affect a million people each year. Add in coldest, driest,, wettest, and windiest and you’ve got a new different once in a century event every single day of the year. Go by individual months (hottest June, July etc), and that goes up by a factor of 12. Alarmists will say ‘The UK has a lot more than a million people”, when you run the math it still comes out to 70 once-per-century events each year affecting a population the size of the UK.
Joe Bastardi illustrated it perfectly in his Saturday summary,
Says that the first week of July equaled the record for the lowest tropical storm activity at zero!