From THE DAILY SCEPTIC

by Chris Morrison

Stand by for another bout of ‘Hottest Year Evah’ stories as the mainstream media pursues its campaign to induce mass climate psychosis and prepare the ground for the oncoming Net Zero catastrophe. Alas, enjoy it only a little while longer since this story may have to be retired after putting in such a sterling propaganda shift. Global temperatures are falling like a stone, while the oceans are cooling at a remarkably rapid rate. In the U.K., the year is likely to show a second annual temperature fall since the alleged ‘record’ year in 2022.

Only last May, Matt McGrath and Justin Rowlatt at the BBC were claiming that “fuelled by climate change” the world’s oceans had broken temperature records every single day over the past year. Planet-warming gases were said to be “mostly to blame”. Three days were singled out when the previous highs were beaten by 0.34°C. Inexplicably, the story, a matter it might be thought of some ongoing concern, was not followed up. The graph below, compiled from data supplied by the U.S. weather service NOAA, might help explain why.

Over a period of just a few months after the article was written, the global sea temperature over a large area of the world’s oceans has shown a dramatic reduction of 0.5°C. It is now back to the level seen in 2015. Consider what that means. Two years of relentless scare mongering about uncontrolled ocean warming from UN chief Antonio ‘boiling’ Guterres to media climate comedy turn Jim “jail the deniers” Dale has been suddenly thrown onto the ever-expanding scrapheap of failed climate scares. Further temperature reductions are highly likely in the next few months, particularly if a natural La Nina cooling variation develops as expected. In the Pacific, temperature anomalies in the Nino areas are now in negative territory. This fact and the graph above also signals an end to much of the twaddle written by the Guardian. Before we move on and reclaim sanity, who can forget this bilge from its environment editor Damian Carrington: “‘Astonishing’ ocean temperatures in 2023 supercharged ‘freak’ weather around the world as the climate crisis continued to intensify.”

Land temperatures are also falling with the UAH satellite record recently showing some significant monthly falls. Except for satellites accurately measuring the atmosphere near the Earth, we must treat most land surface temperature numbers with caution if not cynicism given how much we have recently discovered about urban heat corruption, invented data, retrospective adjustments and scandalously lax station siting policies. Nevertheless, it would appear that land temperatures are starting to fall and cooler oceans will hasten this process. 

The last couple of years have seen a temperature spike and some scientists have sought to provide explanations. A recent paper from the EU weather service Copernicus argued that the warming spike was driven by a strong naturally occurring El Nino. This natural variation originates in the Pacific and transfers heat around the globe affecting weather patterns and temperatures. Interestingly, Copernicus noted that the 0.29°C spike was not unprecedented in the observation record since a slightly larger rise occurred in 1976-77. Other suggestions to explain the short temperature spike include recent reductions in atmospheric particulates caused by cleaner marine fuels, increased solar activity and the 2022 Hunga Tonga volcanic boost to water vapour in the upper atmosphere. Meanwhile, a new paper published this month in Science states that warming since 2013 and the spike in 2023 was helped by a reduction in cloud cover. This meant that more solar radiation reached the Earth’s surface.

What this latest episode of climate hysteria shows is that despite vast amounts of computer power and a huge pool of money, most climate science is stuck in a ‘settled’ dark age. Any departure from a climatic norm is seen by activist scientists and their faithful media messengers as a linear progression to Armageddon. The role of natural variation is constantly downplayed, scientists who depart from the ‘settled’ narrative of humans controlling the climate thermostat are cancelled while press-released pseudoscience is disseminated to persuade unquestioning journalists to attribute individual weather events to humans. All the while the Net Zero zealots prepare their battleplans to command and control every aspect of human existence. One such potential strike is currently passing through the British Parliament in the form of a private member’s bill that appears to have the support of almost a third of the House of Commons. Recently in the Daily Sceptic, Paul Homewood presented a worrying analysis of the hideous proposals contained in the Climate and Nature Bill. He concluded:

Net Zero is already doing great harm, but if this bill becomes law, the country will be unrecognisable in 10 years’ time. There will be energy and food shortages, industry will be decimated, private transport and foreign holidays a thing of the past. What we take for granted today will be unaffordable for most. And there will be nothing we can do about it.

Want to know why you have been fed a diet of runaway temperatures and boiling oceans of late? Look no further than the current antics of virtuous clueless fools indulging their luxury middle-class beliefs while determined to pursue a collectivist agenda whatever the human cost.

Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.