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.
And they say we are about to get a new ocean as the African rift valley opens up.
ReplyDeleteWhen that happens, they'll be BEGGING for sea level rise!
That is one heck of a large scale chart! Be tough to mark human history on it as anything but a dot on the line.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the one that goes back 7000 years has much more interesting details in it. The link at the end of the second paragraph. That points out a lot of familiar points in history.
DeleteSorry, no. I believe that chart as much as I believe global warming is real. How can they possibly know what the temperature was at any PRE historic time? They do not know what other factors may have influenced what they are using to interpolate the temperature data.
ReplyDeleteI never saw anything about how the chart was derived, but I'm sure it was presented as being as "sciencey as anything", which is actually a selling point. If people realize the Michael Mann "Hockey Stick" is fabricated (or from data cherry-picked to show what he wants, much like Ancel Keyes' 7 Country Study chart about cholesterol vs. heart attacks) maybe the whole thing goes away.
DeleteThere is a LOT of money in man made global warming these days...
DeleteRob, money is not made by global warming or whatever euphemism it is given now. Money is simply extracted from productive activities and diverted elsewhere through nonproductive activities.
DeleteThe point isn't the climate, it remains that they use climate for control.
ReplyDeleteI believe I saw a chart where this planets free CO2 has been progressively turned into Calcium Carbonate on the ocean floors.
ReplyDeleteOnce enough has been precipitated most life will go extinct.
Srsly? I'm guessing that was a chart done by contestants from the Special Olympics wing of the climastrology religion.
DeleteAnyone with an understanding of basic chemistry, biology, and physiology knows why that's about one of the most retarded statements ever typed, unless you want to show your formula and extrapolate it out 500M years, and explain what happens when Earth's normal geologic behavior pushes former sea floor back into the atmosphere, like it does.
Maybe Google the calcium carbonate from undersea life currently found above the snow line in the Rockies and Sierra Nevada, let alone on the plains around them, and rethink that alleged equation.
Much like gender dysphoria, climastrology is a mental defect, and should probably be treated with heavy doses of antipsychotics and seclusion therapy, rather than catered to by society at large. I would also not rule out serial treatments with ECT.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, with the later, the voltage should be successively stepped up with no upper limit, until the problem fully resolves.
Bonus points if they'd televise that. I think that would cause the delusion to fade away like mist on a July day after the sun comes up, in fifty states and seven US territories.