Back in September, a cascade of news sources produced a graph that disappeared
into the background very quickly. It's a graph from research paper
started by the Washington Post (of all places) aiming to show the most
accurate reconstruction of global temperatures for the last half a billion
years. To everyone's surprise, it totally flew in the face of
conventional wisdom, so nobody knew what to do about it, and consequently
virtually no one talked about it. Here's the graph - and, yes, it
doesn't say "half billion years", it says the last 485 million, 15 million
short of a half billion. I'm rounding it a bit - 15 years out of 500 is 3% -
just so I can write or say, "half billion" instead of "four hundred and
eighty-five million." ;-)
I got this plot from Watts Up With That? (WUWT), probably the best site for truth about climate change, and I've been meaning to share this for at least a month. The yellowish circle at the very right is now - the "current geological stage"). We are at the coolest point in the last half billion years (maybe tied with a low around 330 million years ago). Also pretty evident is that since a short-duration temperature peak 50 million years ago, Earth has been in a cooling period. If you want to see a zoomed in plot showing just the last 7000 years, I posted that at the end of July, 2023.
It seemed disingenuous to compare current temperatures to the coolest point in
the last 7000 years, so comparing it to the coolest temperatures in the last
half billion years takes disingenuous to a whole new level.
It's not strictly true that no other outlet than the Washington Post covered
this;
ZeroHedge covered it and their coverage by "Tyler Durden"
is what WUWT based their reporting on. Go read ZeroHedge's coverage, there are
several tweets in there that are worth the time to read.
To borrow the quote from ZeroHedge:
Maybe, just maybe, the level of human-caused global warming doom porn pushed by the Government, corporate media outlets, global NGOs and far-Left billionaires is not as apocalyptic as they make it sound.
Maybe, just maybe, the world was starting to recover from whatever dropped the
temperature to the half billion year low and it would have started warming no
matter what people were doing. Maybe we have nothing to do with the
temperature changes. If they're even real and not just made up.
One telling thing which to me tells a more valuable story is about how percentage of CO2 effects plant growth, where only a single rise in its percentage in the atmosphere has orders of magnitude increase in crop production, plus in conjunction with that presently Earth's atmosphere is not only containing one of its lowest levels of CO2 ratios, it is estimated that if that ratio continues to decline the drop in growth rates reaches a point its not enough to sustain and provide enough food for the world. It only needs to go up such a relatively small level to double and more food production. Fascinating. Guess it makes sense why always heard people who grow hi grade marijuana like to pump CO2 into their grow area.
ReplyDeleteWhat Anony said above about CO2. We actually need a higher level to encourage plant growth which encourages herbivore growth which means more steak! YAY!
ReplyDeleteWhat no 'Climate Change' article ever talks about is the effect of water vapor. The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano explosion tossed enough water vapor into the upper atmosphere to raise world-wide temps by about 2-3 degrees.
Dust from a land volcano, on the other hand, tends to lower world-wide temps. It's what led to the French Revolution. Icelandic volcano blows its top, world, especially France, cools off, crops don't grow well, famines, French Revolution.