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UN: The Climate Breakdown has Begun

Essay by Eric Worrall

According to news sources, in August we just hit 1.5C warmer than pre-industrial. Hands up who wants to surrender their automobile?

UN announces ‘climate breakdown’ after record summer heat

Scientists blame ever warming human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.

6 Sep 2023

“Climate breakdown has begun”, the United Nations chief has warned as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported that the world went through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer on record.

The WMO, citing data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), said on Wednesday that last month was the the hottest August on record “by a large margin” and the second hottest ever month after July 2023.

August is estimated to have been about 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-industrial average. It also saw the highest global monthly average sea surface temperature on record, nearly 21C (69.8F).

Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/6/un-announces-climate-breakdown-after-record-summer-heat

The full UN statement;

SG/SM/21926

6 SEPTEMBER 2023

Climate Breakdown Has Begun with Hottest Summer on Record, Secretary-General Warns, Calling on Leaders to ‘Turn Up the Heat Now’ for Climate Solutions

The following statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres was issued today:

The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting.

Our planet has just endured a season of simmering — the hottest summer on record.  Climate breakdown has begun.

Scientists have long warned what our fossil fuel addiction will unleash.  Our climate is imploding faster than we can cope with extreme weather events hitting every corner of the planet.

Surging temperatures demand a surge in action.  Leaders must turn up the heat now for climate solutions.  We can still avoid the worst of climate chaos — and we don’t have a moment to lose.

Source: https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21926.doc.htm

Strangely the UN statement did not include a pledge by all climate concerned VIPs to give up their private jets.

As I sit comfortably in a comfortable subtropical house, filled with the wonders of fossil fuel technology, including the computer I’m typing on right now, I see no climate breakdown. Nor am I likely to see such a breakdown.

Global warming is no threat to a tropical species like us humans. Last time the world was really hot, The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, 5-8C hotter than today, the species which did really well was monkeys. Our monkey ancestors colonised much of Eurasia and North America, feasting on the abundance which the PETM warmth delivered. The monkeys passed through the warm temperate forests of Greenland on their journey. Our monkey ancestors only retreated when the warm age ended, because they were driven out of their new homes by the encroaching cold.

My point is if, and this is a big if, significant warming occurs on top of the “climate breakdown” we are allegedly experiencing today, we’ll continue to thrive, just like our SUV driving monkey ancestors thrived in the warmth of the PETM, 55 million years ago.

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HotScot
September 8, 2023 2:07 am

Why is this Cnut banging on about the climate, it’s nothing to do with the UN’s stated purpose.

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

Why isn’t he working full time to stop the barbaric war in Ukraine?

Oldseadog
Reply to  HotScot
September 8, 2023 2:35 am

Not to mention the other conflicts in Aden, Myanmar, Syria, Palestine/Israel, Chad and several other African countries.
Also what is he doing to get China to stop building and using coalfired generating plants both at home and overseas?
And how about the 70+ years of cooling in Antarctica?
Etc., etc., etc..

HotScot
Reply to  Oldseadog
September 8, 2023 2:45 am

Also what is he doing to get China to stop building and using coalfired generating plants both at home and overseas?

That’s also nothing to do with the UN as it’s an entirely peaceful endeavour.

Oldseadog
Reply to  HotScot
September 8, 2023 5:20 am

But I thought the UN was all against gorbull warming.

Reply to  Oldseadog
September 8, 2023 7:07 am

conflict is good.

China and coal

hey old dog. let me teach you a new trick. its called check your facts.
real skeptics check themselves

https://chinadialogue.net/en/energy/9636-china-s-coal-consumption-drops-for-third-year-in-a-row/?gclid=CjwKCAjwjOunBhB4EiwA94JWsLxeN5kn-snicjoqNL2a8viv0xWpsZmaV7vyDetyvNL2Hd1G1OPSmxoCqDYQAvD_BwE

mkelly
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 8, 2023 7:30 am

Mosher your link was dated in 2017 not very up to date. It didn’t mention Chin building plants overseas nor the cooling in Antarctica. Maybe it is you who needs to check facts. Also here is an update on China coal.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/environment/coal-07282023072108.html#:~:text=Global%20coal%20demand%20is%20set%20to%20remain%20at%20record%20levels%20this%20year.&text=This%20photo%20taken%20on%20May,in%20China%27s%20eastern%20Jiangsu%20province.

MarkW
Reply to  mkelly
September 8, 2023 9:37 am

Like most warmunists, steve considers a “fact” to be anything that supports the positions he is paid to take.

Streetcred
Reply to  MarkW
September 8, 2023 11:45 am

Yeah, since weed was decriminalised his comments have become even more bizarre.

CD in Wisconsin
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 8, 2023 9:10 am

China approves more than 50GW of coal power in 2023 despite climate concerns | E&T Magazine (theiet.org)

“China has approved more than 50 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power in the first six months of 2023 despite commitments to reduce its carbon emissions, research from Greenpeace has shown.

The charity reviewed project approval documents, finding that 20.45GW of new coal was approved in the first quarter of 2023, which more than doubled to 50.4GW by the end of the second quarter.”

I can’t speak for mkelly, but I don’t think I need to say anymore.

Oldseadog
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 8, 2023 10:46 am

I didn’t say anything about the amount of coal used in China, I was talking about the fact that they are building lots of coal fired generators for use both at home and abroad.

sherro01
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 8, 2023 4:32 pm

Steven, my old friend, this comment of yours is embarrassing. Your earlier work shows you are far better than this. Geoff S

HotScot
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 10, 2023 10:46 am

Just had you a** handed to you again Mushy, by everyone here.

Bob B.
Reply to  HotScot
September 8, 2023 3:06 am

Doncha know, all wars are caused by climate change.

Reply to  Bob B.
September 8, 2023 7:09 am

thats a ray bolger right there

Streetcred
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 8, 2023 11:46 am

I learned a great word in Africa … doos!

bnice2000
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 8, 2023 5:31 pm

That’s a moosh moment just there.

ie FAILED again !

bnice2000
Reply to  HotScot
September 8, 2023 4:44 am

Why isn’t he working full time to stop the barbaric war in Ukraine?

Because that war is exactly what they want.

PA Dutchman
Reply to  HotScot
September 8, 2023 6:28 am

You ask – Why is this Cnut banging on about the climate, it’s nothing to do with the UN’s stated purpose. My thought is that the “elites” aka communists want to restore serfdom to the proles. The “elites” lackeys, aka, MSM and government stiffs, letter behind the name does not matter, will always lick their boots just for the scraps and to keep out of the ghettos. Those are the people that wonder why a simple youtube song, Rich Men North of Richmond” became a huge success. It spoke the truth. Sadly, I doubt many will people will bring the head up out of their distractions to make a difference.

As for the temperature change, there is no man made climate change other than UHI and certainly no silly global temperature derived from models and proxy readings. Any warming is the natural response to the last ice age. We humans are nothing but a pimple on this planet and know very little of how the climate actually works. I would like to see some real SCIENCE occur. How about stop ignoring the ocean hot spots?. Maybe look at under water volcanic activity to see if that is causing an increase in water vapor, a real GHG, into the the atmosphere. You know SCIENCE – theory, observation, conclusion and then re-check for verification before making statements.

I know that is a lot to ask since it might destroy the narrative and stop money being poured into the trough.

barryjo
Reply to  PA Dutchman
September 8, 2023 7:15 am

BINGO!

Reply to  PA Dutchman
September 8, 2023 7:25 am

youre on a computer, that makes you elite.

Those are the people that wonder why a simple youtube song, Rich Men North of Richmond” became a huge success.

huge success?????

60 million views??? 60 million is NORMAL

try 115 million views in 24 HOURS!!!!

MarkW
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 8, 2023 9:41 am

So little steve wants us to believe that what is normal for one of the hottests bands in the world right now, is to be the measure against which all other artists are to be gauged?

I’m wondering if steve still has the key to the lock box where his integrity has been stored.

Brad-DXT
Reply to  MarkW
September 8, 2023 11:03 am

I think that box was put into the ceremonial pyre to Gaia long ago.

Streetcred
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 8, 2023 11:48 am

LOL, ever walked around amongst the poor in the street ? … everybody has a smart phone (which is a mini computer). Doos.

PA Dutchman
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 8, 2023 12:25 pm

IMO, having a computer is not being elite since many billions have one at least in their hand. Affluent is a term that I could agree to. I could travel less than a mile from my house, driving of course as Americans are want to do, and find someone that does not have enough to even afford a smart phone. As to the judgement of success, yes 115 millions is impressive. My point was, not so clearly implied, that a person filming a simple song in his yard had gained the attention of the U.S. MSM is successful. That song touched many people and and many people agree with the sentiment the song implies. My perspective is provincial, I understand and do forget that WUWT is a global environment.

IMO, I would say the Davos attendees consider themselves to be the elite and in their minds our betters.

Lastly, If that is K pop then sorry even that does not fit my eclectic music tastes. Maybe you can listen to it like all the elite North of the 38th are doing. That seems to be the place Klaus has in mind for all of us proles.

bnice2000
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 8, 2023 5:34 pm

What a moronic load on incomprehensible moosh garbage.

Obviously moosh ever learnt to right actual coherent English ?

Disputin
Reply to  bnice2000
September 11, 2023 3:22 am

Or spell?

Disputin
Reply to  Disputin
September 11, 2023 3:24 am

I see that the “edit” function has now gone, too.

More Soylent Green!
Reply to  HotScot
September 8, 2023 6:47 am

Herbert’s Law – Bureaucracies always expand their missions beyond their charters.

Reply to  HotScot
September 8, 2023 7:04 am

war?
war is nothing new!
there have been wars before, there are always be wars,
wars are beneficial, how dare you stop wars before its time.
only a socialist wants to stop wars.

you’re still paying taxes to build weapons, hypocrit.

when you disarm yourself, i’ll think you take war seriously

More Soylent Green!
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 8, 2023 7:23 am

The problem with online sarcasm and satire is it is so hard to know when somebody is joking, somebody is being serious or somebody is just being an ass.

BTW — I see Trump wants to stop war. Are you MAGA 4EVA?

Streetcred
Reply to  More Soylent Green!
September 8, 2023 11:49 am

You can be sure that mosher is just being an ass, it is all that he has.

MarkW
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 8, 2023 9:42 am

I know that steve goes out of his way to be nonsensical, but today he’s in rare form.

Brad-DXT
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 8, 2023 11:00 am

You must be on good drugs today or have forgotten to take your meds to make statements like this:

“when you disarm yourself, i’ll think you take war seriously”

If you disarm yourself, you’ll become a subject to those that haven’t disarmed.

“only a socialist wants to stop wars”

National Socialist German Workers’ Party of the ’30s and ’40s would disagree with that statement.

wars are beneficial, how dare you stop wars before its time.”

Wars are beneficial to stop tyranny. Since you are probably in the employ of wannabe tyrants, you must be against wars.


Is this your idea of being funny or are you truly demented?

Streetcred
Reply to  Brad-DXT
September 8, 2023 11:50 am

I think that every despot around the world would agree with you … they love a disarmed nation.

bnice2000
Reply to  Brad-DXT
September 8, 2023 5:46 pm

or are you truly demented?”

That is pretty close to the mark

Mental deranged for certain.

bnice2000
Reply to  Steven Mosher
September 8, 2023 5:35 pm

Learn to write English.. not moosh-talk.

Rod Evans
September 8, 2023 2:27 am

In another part of the planet and a more positive story. The latest UK offshore wind build out auction has attracted zero bidders. You could say net zero has arrived earlier than expected.
The guaranteed price for electricity offered by state contract was £44/MW or $55/MW in US money.
That was deemed too low for anyone to take up the challenge.
So much for low cost wind eh?

Phillip Bratby
Reply to  Rod Evans
September 8, 2023 3:04 am

But, but, but, we were told that wind is 9 times cheaper than gas.

Ben Vorlich
Reply to  Phillip Bratby
September 8, 2023 3:25 am

Just as well we’ve got 9x more expensive gas today

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Rod Evans
Reply to  Ben Vorlich
September 8, 2023 4:03 am

Not to mention the Ratcliffe on Soar coal fired power station currently providing essential energy. That is one of only two coal power stations left that the Eco Luddites have not yet managed to blow up. They are planning on doing that next year I understand.

Tom Abbott
Reply to  Rod Evans
September 8, 2023 3:35 am

Net Zero bids.

No low-cost wind. Wind started out needing taxpayer subsidies in order to “compete” and now even those subsidies are not enough to keep wind economically viable.

I think the best laid plans of the Climate Alarmists are starting to go awry.

This was all predictable, btw. And we can predict that things will get even worse if the Climate Alarmists continue down this wind and industrial solar path.

Climate Alarmists’ only viable option is to build nuclear powerplants.

John XB
Reply to  Tom Abbott
September 8, 2023 6:36 am

In the UK the price per MW is calculated according to the highest contributing energy source into the mix in a given period. This invariably is gas – the highest price – since coal is no more, nuke is a minor contributor and wind is ‘now and then’.

The consequence being that all suppliers get the per MW price so calculated. This is why although wind is supposedly contracted at £44 per MW, it actually has been charging same as gas, around £150 per MW.

The formula was worked out when coal provided around 50% to 60%, nuke and gas roughly the same to make up the balance. Coal then was most often the decisive factor for price. Coal prices were low and stable. Now that coal is no more, gas and its volatile market prices determines price per MW – which is why all the blather about ‘renewables’ being cheaper than dirt (if you believe the propaganda), is nonsense.

barryjo
Reply to  John XB
September 8, 2023 8:23 am

Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.

More Soylent Green!
Reply to  Rod Evans
September 8, 2023 5:57 am

Free power from the wind!

JohnC
September 8, 2023 2:33 am

We’ve just returned from a cruise round Munch’s home country, and during one of the talks it was mentioned that Norway had had a Mediterranean climate in the past.

Disputin
Reply to  JohnC
September 8, 2023 3:22 am

In the past, yes, but how far in the past?

Joseph Zorzin
Reply to  Disputin
September 8, 2023 3:56 am

The time is not what’s relevant- what’s relevant, maybe, is- what was the level of atmospheric CO2?

Tommy2b
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
September 8, 2023 12:05 pm

And which lifeforms were responsible for burning all that coal and oil and natural gas at that time to cause a ‘climate breakdown’!!!
They need to pay us ‘climate reparations’!

strativarius
September 8, 2023 2:43 am

This is very funny stuff. And just as the washout UK finally gets a few decent warm days to enjoy…

“UN: The Climate Breakdown has Begun”

Well, where else was there to go from global boiling? 

In the UK context ‘climate crisis’ and ‘climate emergency’ feature here and there, but they really don’t cut the mustard when the evidence of one’s eyes refutes it hands down. Current [alleged ‘record’] temperatures have been credited to Northolt – a major RAF airfield not that far from Heathrow airport.

“On Thursday at 1pm, the temperature in Northolt was 30.2C (86F), which makes it the fourth day in a row where the 30C mark was breached.”
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-weather-this-heatwave-is-very-unusual-heres-why-12956665

So, now you could argue that they’re baking in UHI, I guess they have to. They can’t risk taking it out now. I’d say this development makes Mr Watts’ study on stations all the more pertinent – and potentially damaging to the cause.  

Extraordinary claims need busting – extraordinarily. A weatherman explained on BBC radio (Inside Science programme) yesterday (Thursday) that they take temperatures 1.5m above ground in a Stevenson screen. He didn’t mention the tarmac, concrete, hot aircraft etc in the vicinity. Well, why would he when the idea is to convey fear and alarm?

“Hottest Summer on Record” This just invokes guffaws of incredulity. Because it just isn’t true.

“Climate Solutions”
If it’s raining…. take an umbrella etc.

When this idiotic monicker ‘climate breakdown’ has worn out – and their half lives seem to be shortening rapidly – what will be next?

Zombie climate?

Rich Davis
Reply to  strativarius
September 8, 2023 3:01 am

No wonder CO2 is rising. It’s all the gaslighting!

Rich Davis
Reply to  Rich Davis
September 8, 2023 3:10 am

For three days we’ve had an extreme heat warning. Three of the nicest days of the summer and three nights where I slept comfortably with just a window fan in the bedroom window.

There’s a C A T E G O R Y F I V E ! ! ! hurricane in the Atlantic. Where’s it going? Um, open ocean. So it’s cat 5, really? Well, it’s gonna maybe be!

Ben Vorlich
Reply to  Rich Davis
September 8, 2023 3:35 am

We haven’t needed a fan at any time this year, it’s been in a corner gathering dust all summer feeling very unloved.
It was a typical high pressure September morning today, a bit chilly, no wind and the trees beginning to look a bit autumnal in places. My favourite conditions when I was a youngster grouse beater and ponyman. Walk up through the mist to the high tops and sunshine, to see the other mountain tops above the cloud inversion, sun shining not a cloud in the sky and promise of a hot day (22’C) later. Happy days doing something I enjoyed.

strativarius
Reply to  Ben Vorlich
September 8, 2023 3:47 am

A real contrast to last year. Natural variation is big, as Douglas Adams might say

alastairgray29yahoocom
Reply to  Ben Vorlich
September 8, 2023 4:28 am

Me too Glen Lyon, Mar Lodge, Corgarff-now owned by the idiot formerly known as Prince. Happy Days

Joseph Zorzin
Reply to  strativarius
September 8, 2023 3:58 am

climate apocalypse?

strativarius
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
September 8, 2023 4:58 am

Media meltdown

Joseph Zorzin
Reply to  strativarius
September 8, 2023 7:06 am

Climapocalypse 🙂

Tony_G
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
September 8, 2023 9:25 am

climate apocalypse?

They need to be careful, they’re going to run out of words.

ThinkingScientist
Reply to  strativarius
September 8, 2023 5:46 am

For those of us who lived through it in the UK, nothing in the last 60 years even remotely compares to the summer of 1976.

The ice age scare was prominent in the MSM at the time. With the hot summer of 1976 seeming to counter that, the response I distinctly remember being quoted (“scientists say”) was that we should expect an increase in extremes just before plunging ino the ice age.

Funny how familiar all that seems now “global boiling” has arrived.

The more the alarmists ratchet up the rhetoric the less the general public believes it. Bring it on!

strativarius
Reply to  ThinkingScientist
September 8, 2023 5:56 am

“”nothing in the last 60 years even remotely compares to the summer of 1976.””

I couldn’t agree more, a great summer

Joseph Zorzin
Reply to  strativarius
September 8, 2023 7:09 am

That summer I spent a couple of months driving all over America’s southwest. It was awesome. For the first time in my 26 years, my sinus alergies went away thanks to warm dry air and low pollen count. I hiked and backpacked in many national parks.

John XB
Reply to  ThinkingScientist
September 8, 2023 6:43 am

And that 8 weeks of heat waves and drought was followed by 8 weeks of torrential rain and floods. And… that was during the 1970s climate-scare-du-jour, our descent into a new ice age unless we covered the polar ice caps with soot and dud other idiotic stuff.

All this can be traced back to the closure of lunatic asylums, replaced by ‘care in the community’, allowing the lunatics to roam freely among us, nobody making sure they took their tablets, and getting into government and other institutions and the media.

Brad-DXT
Reply to  John XB
September 8, 2023 11:30 am

The three largest mental health providers in the U.S. today are jails.

We need more jails.

In 1963 there were over 500,000 people in locked mental health asylums. Today, with double the population, there are only about 100,000.
I think the democrats depend on their votes and the chaos they spread so that there is a crisis they can exploit.

TheFinalNail
Reply to  ThinkingScientist
September 8, 2023 7:21 am

For those of us who lived through it in the UK, nothing in the last 60 years even remotely compares to the summer of 1976.

According to the UKMO, as far as maximum temperatures (Tmax) go, 1976 remains the warmest summer on record for the UK. But for average temperatures, there have been four warmer summers, all of them since 2003, with the warmest being 2018.

Summer 1976 was exceptionally sunny (sunniest on record, actually). The heat was therefore concentrated during daytime. It seems that a lot of it radiated off to the clear skies overnight though, because 1976 doesn’t even make the top 20 warmest Tmin summers in the UK.

strativarius
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 8, 2023 8:46 am

“According to…

In other words You have no idea on it

TheFinalNail
Reply to  strativarius
September 8, 2023 2:30 pm

Well, I looked it up and provided a link. It’s called skepticism. Try it.

bnice2000
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 8, 2023 5:49 pm

You have never been the least bit skeptical of your anti-CO2 AGW cult brain-washing.

Just follow the mantra… is all you are capable of.

Skepticism requires the ability for rational thought…

… which you have never shown yourself to be capable of.

TheFinalNail
Reply to  bnice2000
September 8, 2023 6:08 pm

You have never been the least bit skeptical of your anti-CO2 AGW cult brain-washing.

So I am skeptical then? Oh, dear, I’m confused, lol!

bnice2000
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 9, 2023 2:34 am

Yes, you are Confused.. always

Skeptical .. never. !

Drake
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 8, 2023 8:51 am

Nice info.

BTW, how much of the increase in Tmin is from the UHI effect?

TheFinalNail
Reply to  Drake
September 8, 2023 2:36 pm

According to IPCC, all of it. Tmax has also increased linearly, even though 1976 has not yet been surpasseed in Tmax to date. It was just an exceptionally hot summer on the UK. At least during daytime. It was very unusual compared to other summers around that time. These days, warm Tavg summers are normal.

Tom Abbott
September 8, 2023 3:10 am

From the article: “According to news sources, in August we just hit 1.5C warmer than pre-industrial.”

Well, that’s a lie.

NOAA claims the year 2016, the warmest year in the satellite era (1979 to present) was 1.2C warmer than pre-industrial. The current temperature is not quite up to the 2016 level, if you go by NOAA’s claims, so we are not at the dreaded 1.5C yet..

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strativarius
Reply to  Tom Abbott
September 8, 2023 3:20 am

The ‘political’ margin of error is getting the sack.

Tom Abbott
September 8, 2023 3:23 am

From the article: “Our planet has just endured a season of simmering — the hottest summer on record. Climate breakdown has begun.”

Not around my neck of the woods. It was a rather moderate summer around here. Not abnormally hot, and we had plenty of rain.

As for record heat, it was not even close around here. We had about 20 days that were over 100F. In some of our hotter years, we had 65 days over 100F with temperatures topping out at 120F, and that’s not a heat index figure.

The UN Chief would go insane with his weather-phobia if he lived in the 1930’s. He would claim it was the end of the world. Like he’s doing now with much milder weather.

There was a bigger “climate breakdown” in the recent past, but humanity survived it just fine, and it wasn’t caused by CO2, nor is this current-day temperature caused by CO2. At least, noone can show CO2 is causing any of this. Just saying it is so, doesn’t make it so.

TheFinalNail
Reply to  Tom Abbott
September 8, 2023 7:33 am

Why do so many people here struggle with the concept that the weather where they live isn’t necessarily representative of global conditions?

You literally just posted UAH’s chart showing August 2023 the hottest August on their global record. It was also the second warmest month in the record in absolute terms. The warmest was July 2023.

Much of north-east North America and much of California appear to have been average to cooler than average in August. That didn’t stop it being the warmest August in the UAH record.

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Walter
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 8, 2023 8:06 am

That graph shows that most places were only marginally above normal with a handful of places well above normal. Not very concerning.

TheFinalNail
Reply to  Walter
September 8, 2023 2:42 pm

Yet it was by far the warmest August in the UAH global record.

So it serves to underline the point. Even in record-breaking warm months globally, large areas of the globe can/will be cooler than normal for that month.

What is it about this simple concept that is so hard to grasp?

Walter
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 8, 2023 2:55 pm

It’s not hard to grasp. The point I’m making is that despite the record warm August, most places in the world were only 0.5C (0.9F) above average. That’s something most people wouldn’t even notice. An anomaly of 1.5C is also just an above average month. It’s happened before and it will continue to happen.

bnice2000
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 8, 2023 5:52 pm

Actually, it is totally unimportant, and probably a good thing.

The time period is meaninglessly small…

… and started at a very cool period at the end to the global cooling scare. The coldest point in time since the warm 1930s,40s.

Most of the last 10,000 years have been warmer than now.

Richard Page
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 8, 2023 12:44 pm

Because if you get enough people together talking about the weather where they live then it becomes representative of global conditions. Why do you struggle with that concept?

TheFinalNail
Reply to  Richard Page
September 8, 2023 3:06 pm

What do you mean? Seriously. Are you saying that a few people complaining about the weather in the locality where they happen to live trumps global temperature averages? Look at the UAH temperature chart. If you were in a white or blue region then you were in the minority of the global temperature experience in August. That’s really all there is to it. There’s nothing special about you or me or where we happen to live.

bnice2000
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 9, 2023 2:39 am

Only complaint I ever hear are about the COLD.

People have rejoiced in the absolutely gorgeous winter we have been lucky enough to have down here for the last 2 months.

That’s all there is.

You are a “Special” little child. !

bnice2000
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 9, 2023 2:42 am

Look at the UAH temperature chart.”

Yes. It shows that the only warming has come at El Nino events.

It shows a fraction of a degree of beneficial warming since the new-ice-age scare of the late 1970s.

There is absolutely no evidence of any warming by atmospheric CO2 in the UAH data.

Is that what you were trying to say ?

Walter
Reply to  Richard Page
September 8, 2023 3:46 pm

Exactly Richard! I’ve looked at rural stations around my area. One station with no changes in location, measurement, etc. show that from 1975 onward, the rate of warming per decade is 0.2C. There’s so much natural variability you’d have to look into the data to see for yourself what’s changing. That’s rate of warming is consistent with what Anthony found and what the UAH measurements are for land in the Northern Hemisphere.

johnesm
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 8, 2023 4:49 pm

Looks like that Antarctic “heatwave” from earlier in the year is starting to break…

TheFinalNail
Reply to  johnesm
September 8, 2023 6:12 pm

Looks like Antarctic sea ice extent continues to be at record low levels for the time of year.

johnesm
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 8, 2023 7:13 pm

Not sure what point you’re trying to make. I just said that the “heatwave” is -starting- to break. I never suggested that the Southern Ocean will be flash frozen or anything.

bnice2000
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 9, 2023 2:49 am

You forgot to mention…. Gaining rapidly..

So absolutely NOTHING to do with human causation.

bnice2000
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 9, 2023 2:47 am

Notice that the only strong anomalies are above Siberia, (oh what a pity !)

… and well down below the south of South Africa, near Antarctica, where nobody lives

Maybe a bit of a +ve anomaly in the Peruvian winter.. Hooray ! say the Peruvians. !

The rest is a great big nothing-burger. !

michael hart
September 8, 2023 3:26 am

“Climate breakdown…”
“Surging temperatures…”

How about endless, hot, uncontrollably spurting temperatures?

Climate porn abuses the English language.

Joseph Zorzin
Reply to  michael hart
September 8, 2023 4:03 am

it should be a new channel on pornhub.com

ThinkingScientist
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
September 8, 2023 5:38 am

I don’t know what pornhub is let alone what channels are on it…….

Joseph Zorzin
Reply to  ThinkingScientist
September 8, 2023 7:12 am

Of course not- nobody here would look at that stuff including me. But, I’ve read that it’s the world’s biggest online porn site- perfect for climate porn! 🙂

I’ve also read that it’s loaded with malware so nobody go there out of scientific curiosity. 🙂

Bill Powers
September 8, 2023 4:58 am

“Climate Change has begun” As the climate has always been changing WTF is that suppose to even mean?! And of course the most significant aspect of that idiotic statement is that it was delivered by a bureaucrat.

scvblwxq
Reply to  Bill Powers
September 8, 2023 10:50 am

They redefined climate so it is only 30 years now. That’s why it is always changing.

I guess we have to use the phrase geological climate to refer to the long term climate of from thousands to millions of years that most of us learned about in school.

observa
September 8, 2023 5:00 am

Here was me petrified it was a boiling ball and turns out it’s only a simmering season. Ah well back to the footy finals and real life and death.

Chris Bird
September 8, 2023 5:54 am

Eric, I share the points of your post. But, if I am right, the DNA of humans is closer to the DNA of pigs than of monkeys. So your explanation why humans should be ready for a quite warmer climate than today is much even more difficult to follow – or to imagine – than the climate breakdown. Or was it THAT hot that even the monkeys lost their “contenance”…?

Brad-DXT
Reply to  Chris Bird
September 8, 2023 11:39 am

You are incorrect to state the DNA of humans is closer to pigs than monkeys. The last I heard, chimps and bonobos are the closest relatives to humans.

Some humans have porcine traits though. Climate alarmists love feeding at the taxpayer trough.

Richard Page
Reply to  Chris Bird
September 8, 2023 12:51 pm

Bonobo’s and chimpanzee’s are our closest living relatives, sharing the largest amount of dna between our species. However, pigs are physiologically the closest animal to humans which is why we have transplants from pigs not monkeys.
Another weird but true fact.

David Kamakaris
September 8, 2023 6:01 am

Oh merciful heavens. Maybe someday it will be warm enough for spruce trees to force their way through the Arctic Tundra’s permafrost as they did during the mid-Holocene.

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Tom Abbott
Reply to  David Kamakaris
September 8, 2023 10:52 am

Love that evidence! 🙂

Mumbles McGuirck
September 8, 2023 6:12 am

just like our SUV driving monkey ancestors thrived in the warmth of the PETM, 55 million years ago.

From my commute this morning, I think some of them are still driving around…

John XB
September 8, 2023 6:26 am

So… too late to do anything. Let’s just get on with the rest of our lives, which apparently won’t be for much longer.

EastDevonOldie
September 8, 2023 6:42 am

Got to keep the climate alarmism going to support the case for, the UN Agenda for ‘Climate Reparations’ i.e classic socialist wealth redistribution. Former UN Climate Envoy Christiana Figueres told us what thge great CC scam is really about with this little gem:
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 – you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.”

The UN is out of control. aided and abetted by the WEF, wait until UN Agenda 2030 kicks in,

Kevin Kilty
September 8, 2023 7:38 am

“…Scientists say…” Indeed.

strativarius
Reply to  Kevin Kilty
September 8, 2023 8:49 am

Men in white coats…. With a few trans maids in tow…

Tom Halla
September 8, 2023 7:45 am

Or we can all recognize 1.5C was totally pulled out of their metaphoric nether regions, and ignore it.

doonman
September 8, 2023 9:16 am

Forty years of fighting “climate change” and nothing done so far is working. At all.

So lets keep doing the same failed thing over and over (raising prices) before the big boogyman finally gets here.

scvblwxq
Reply to  doonman
September 8, 2023 10:53 am

The Global Cooling movement started in 1945. Seventy-eight years ago.

rbcherba
September 8, 2023 9:41 am

Aside from the fact that the 1.5C made-up number was derived from the 2.0C made-up number, I’m not impressed by the hottest-ever pronouncements by any governmental organization. I live in Tucson, AZ, where is is warm/hot every summer. It’s interesting to me that our past winter (according to data on my electric bills) was significantly cooler than average, but nobody seemed to notice. Our average monthly highs were 10 to 20F below average from Oct’22 through Jun’23, without a peep from national/local weather people. Our usual 110F days, which usually arrive in June, didn’t arrive until July. July, August and September have been warm, and maybe the heat is sticking around a little longer than usual, but it’s hardly anything to write home about. But . . . the National Weather Service, local and national media act as though we’re on fire, with multiple extreme heat warnings for temperatures that were no problem a few, short years ago. Bah, humbug!

moringa man
September 8, 2023 9:42 am

We go back and forth about this issue but instead we are on a merry-go-round rehashing the same old. The truth is in the predictions they have made for over 50 years with not one ever coming true and that is a fact. This issue has nothing to do with CCBS it has to do with power and depopulation and that is the main thrust of the marxists. We have proven our point over and over and they still just kick the CCBS can down the road to the latest article of fear. How do we stop this, God only knows but if you find out let me know and I will help bring back what has been lost, love of humanity and a search for truth and knowledge that can benefit all of mankind.

scvblwxq
Reply to  moringa man
September 8, 2023 10:55 am

The mantra of the new outlets is: If it bleeds it leads.

ResourceGuy
September 8, 2023 10:11 am

Act now with more special funding so we can give promotions and award more travel funds.

scvblwxq
September 8, 2023 10:12 am

Yes, Solar Maximum does heat up the concrete and the asphalt.

Bruce Cobb
September 8, 2023 10:55 am

Would a climate breakdown be like a climate hoedown? I’d like to see that.

Tony_G
Reply to  Bruce Cobb
September 8, 2023 11:57 am

Only if Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles are involved.

ResourceGuy
September 8, 2023 11:30 am

Move the UN headquarters to Odessa. It has a history of meetings of the major powers and is closer to reality for UN staff and leadership.

Streetcred
September 8, 2023 11:42 am

Siting here in Honolulu surveying Waikiki surf from my hotel suite balcony … the hightide is in the same place it was yesterday, the wave are rolling in the same and the surfers are still riding like they did yesterday.

Tommy2b
September 8, 2023 12:08 pm

Too many kids having grown up staring at their devices all day in air-conditioned homes.
They think a thunderstorm is ‘climate breakdown’.

Tommy2b
September 8, 2023 12:12 pm

As for the UN – they’ll promote anything that will give them power/funding.

Leaders must turn up the heat now for climate solutions. We can still avoid the worst of climate chaos — and we don’t have a moment to lose.’

Translation: “We want more money. You’ll die if you don’t send it. Now!”

Bob
September 8, 2023 1:51 pm

We need to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.

Gunga Din
September 8, 2023 1:56 pm

It used to be CAGW but nature didn’t cooperate.
So now they call this particular lever to power “Climate Breakdown”.
How different labels have they used?
Years ago I remember hearing that in training agents to recognize counterfeit money, they don’t focus on the latest techniques. They focus on the recognizing the genuine first.
If I was a counterfeiter with influence, I’d work to change that.
Where is the scientific method in “climate science”?

morton
Reply to  Gunga Din
September 8, 2023 3:34 pm

don’t know if it’s been suggested before,
but I’m hanging on for

SUPERmegaEXTREME CLIMATE

Mike
Reply to  morton
September 8, 2023 7:16 pm

I like ”climate collapse” You know, that’s when there finally is no more climate.

TheFinalNail
Reply to  Gunga Din
September 8, 2023 6:20 pm

It used to be CAGW but nature didn’t cooperate.

The only time I’ve seen the term ‘CAGW’ used it’s been on silly websites like this. It’s just AGW, or man-made ‘climate change’.

How different labels have they used?

Let’s see; the IPCC was set up in 1988 and the ‘CC’ part then stood for ‘climate change’.

It’s still called the IPCC and the CC part still stands for ‘climate change’; so that’s… one.

Mike
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 8, 2023 7:15 pm

The only time I’ve seen the term ‘CAGW’ used it’s been on silly websites like this.

Does that mean we should expect your imminent departure? Or do you wish keep contributing to the silliness? Idiot.

bnice2000
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 9, 2023 2:53 am

It’s just AGW, or man-made ‘climate change’.”

Meant to be from human released CO2

So… since there is no evidence that human released CO2 causes any change in the global climate…

… the whole “climate change” nonsense is a total FAKE.

Certainly all the other cretinous wordings they have tried are even more nonsensical.

bnice2000
Reply to  TheFinalNail
September 9, 2023 3:00 am

I hope to see you roundly criticising any journalist, politician, self-style “climate scientist”, that uses any term apart from “climate change”.

But I bet you won’t… !

Come on, Foolish Nit-wit.

Let’s see you criticising the head of the UN for his comments.

Let’s see you arguing against the use of terms like “climate emergency”.

Bring out that skepticism you mouth-off so proudly about. 😉

Sunsettommy
Reply to  bnice2000
September 9, 2023 8:57 am

Yeah, he is profoundly inconsistent in his complaints but that isn’t surprising.

johnesm
September 8, 2023 4:53 pm

Well, I survived the hottest Northern Hemisphere summer evah without air conditioning in my home in Colorado. Granted, we aren’t Arizona or Texas, but no A/C was no fun. Tomorrow will be our last unusually warm day, then everything changes on Sunday, and won’t look back…

Machnee
September 9, 2023 9:27 am

We must have passed the critical threshold.
We had 60% more potatoes this year and the corn was larger with no worms.
We had more Monarch butterflies this year than ever before.
Should I blame “climate change”.

lawrence
September 12, 2023 3:44 am

its funny the MSM in early spring were warning of scalding heatwaves, in the UK the net zero bill is going through Parliament with its draconian and straitjacket laws with other countries following suit. In the UK by 2035, combustion engines will no longer be made and all domestic heating and cooking will switch from gas to electricity. This will be nigh on impossible without ripping up the national grid and enormously expanding its capacity and the same for every domestic household.

The combination of renewable energy meeting an exponential rise in demand will as Obama said when President “necessarily cause prices to skyrocket. This disaster on the western world is being instigated not by the left wing nutters who are Renfield’s and useful idiots but the globalist cabal, the people who ensured COVID shut down the western economy, the people who ensured Trumps presidency and Brexit both massive symbols of good people having enough and speaking out, well both were conveniently scuppered by that man made gain of function virus and again globalist led government gleefully increased unbearable debt burdens. The COVID disaster is now being exposed and the penny dropping about the corruption and the role of NATO in Ukraine, so time to accelerate on the Climate Disaster front. and hey presto right on time we have a NH out break of arson masquerading as ‘global Boiling’ and July and August’s satellite temperature data show out of the blue heat hikes. In the light of all the drive towards epic impoverishment of the global population is it just possible , just feasible that the satellite data has been hacked. I did ask this of Dr Roy Spencer but my message wouldn’t deliver to his email. However with such high stakes at play is it beyond the realms of sensibility that just as we saw i the ‘climategate’ scandal that data is being made to fit the agenda. Sorry folks obviously I’m not a scientist but as a UK citizen I am very aware financially of my governments eargerness for net zero, 15 minute cities, ultra Low Emmision Zones and now talk of a vehicle mileage levy and how like Hitler needed the Reichstag the globalist needed a record high setting NH summer to push through their agenda. That’s it I’m now off for my medication

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