Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

A scientist at the Copernicus C*****e C****e Service (C3S) reported that the Earth may have passed the supposedly catastrophic 2°C threshold that climate alarmists tell us will result in a disastrous future for the planet. Luckily for us, the supposed global average temperature didn’t remain above 2°C for long, and Friday ended at a mere 1.17°C above the alleged 1850-1900 pre-industrial average temperature — cooler, but still reportedly a record.

C3S Deputy Director Samantha Burgess notified the world of the milestone on X on Sunday.

“Provisional ERA5 global temperature for 17th November from @CopernicusECMWF was 1.17°C above 1991-2020 – the warmest on record,” Burgess reported. “Our best estimate is that this was the first day when global temperature was more than 2°C above 1850-1900 (or pre-industrial) levels, at 2.06°C.”

Absent from the alleged “2°C over pre-industrial limit” milestone were the worldwide emergency sirens and the complete breakdown of society that we’ve been told to expect should that limit be reached.

But climate hysterics tell us that the brief period for one day that the global mean temperature exceeded that 2°C threshold doesn’t mean too much, except that it tells us that the globe is warming faster than we thought. Only when the threshold is reached for a period of decades will the worst of c*****e c****e be realized.

The dataset that came to the 2°C threshold comes from ERA5, a climate “reanalyzer” similar to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer that gave us pronouncements of the “hottest day ever” in July.

For that reason, the new record of 1.17°C above pre-industrial times is considered provisional.

Climate researchers claim that a strong El Niño in the Pacific Ocean is adding to the warming allegedly brought on by mankind’s emissions of trace atmospheric gases, which had led to an incredibly warm 2023.

Is there any credibility associated with this claim? Probably not, according to Dr. H. Sterling Burnett, a climatologist with the Heartland Institute.

“According to the Berkeley Earth record the average surface temperature for Europe has already passed the 2.0 degree Celsius mark, yet European’s aren’t dropping like flies from the heart or migrating to flee flooding, rising tides, storms, or crop declines,” Burnett said.

“People typically experience more than a 2.0 fluctuation in temperatures daily with no ill effects,” Burnett noted. “(M)any more people retire to sunny, hot locations nearer the equator, than they do to colder regions nearer the poles.”

Indeed. So, what makes 2°C warmer so important? The t***h is, it’s not important. It’s an arbitrary number chosen by politicians and bureaucrats at the United Nations based on the work of William Nordhaus, an economist at Yale, who theorized that such a temperature increase would push global conditions past any point that any human civilization had ever experienced.

If you’re surprised that a supposed scientific 2°C limit was the brainchild of an economist and not a climate scientist, you shouldn’t be. The climate cult is all about economics — the destruction of economies, more specifically.

“(There) is not now, nor has there ever been any verifiable proof that 2.0 serves as some kind of tipping point for civilization’s collapse,” Burnett said. “Human civilization and ecosystems evolved over long periods of time and have adapted to much larger changes to the climate than we are experiencing now.”

He added: “In t***h, I’m far more worried about a global average 2 or 3 degree decline in temperatures, signaling a possible coming ice age, than I am about a modest rise in temperatures, well within historic norms.”

Oh, no! Not g****l c*****g again!

But Dr. Burnett, of course, was not predicting such a thing. He was only pointing out that g****l c*****g would be a far greater tragedy than g****l w*****g. The world already has evidence of this sort of c*****e c****e, known as the Little Ice Age.

Lily

To quote AuntiE; ”I care not a bloody farthing!”

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Economists running the c*****e c****e agenda and unelected bureaucrats telling us how to live. Democrat Nirvana.

federally indicted mattoid

Hope you two don't have grandkids

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Why? Because they live in fear and have snowflake disorder from listening to snowflakes like you.

federally indicted mattoid

No, but nice guess.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

I know what you were getting at. Same all you fools whine about. You are willing to give your kids and grandchildren a much worse quality of life by giving the government more control over their lives in the guise of stopping man made c*****e c****e. Even if you don’t think MMCC is a crock, as I do you clowns can never give a workable solution. Especially, when you consider the two biggest polluters in the world, China and India could care less about the issue.

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

You had me going there for a few minutes. Can you imagine obliterating the northeast seaboard from Washington to Boston, most of the Ivy League, MIT, San Francisco, Stanford, Cal GTech, Oakland, LA, what's left of the Kennnedys, etc? I mean, WOW!!!

GO GLOBAL WARING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

federally indicted mattoid

Rather fatalistic, JFlo

I wish our grandkids would inherit as wonderful of a climate as we've had in our years on earth (on average).

F.D.R.

SORRY EVERYONE, that's my fault. Even though I live in South Florida I've been running the space heater in my room for most of this past month, seems I'm always cold, or maybe I'm dead and don't know it. I may have to move further south, I've actually been eying a small town in Panama that hasn't been 'gringoized' yet.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Haven’t noticed much change in my 68 years. What’s your solution?

federally indicted mattoid

Sequester carbon as quickly as possible. Full steam, so to speak

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

What the hell do you mean by Sequester carbon and how? Just making yourself look more foolish.

federally indicted mattoid

Your answer speaks volumes.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

So does your non-answer.