Did You Know the Greatest Two-Year Global Cooling Event Just Took Place?
Would it surprise you to learn the greatest global two-year cooling event of the last century just occurred? From February 2016 to February 2018 (the latest month available) global average temperatures dropped 0.56°C. You have to go back to 1982-84 for the next biggest two-year drop, 0.47°C—also during the global warming era. All the data in this essay come from GISTEMP Team, 2018: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP). NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (dataset accessed 2018-04-11 at https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/). This is the standard source used in most journalistic reporting of global average temperatures.
The 2016-18 Big Chill was composed of two Little Chills, the biggest five month drop ever (February to June 2016) and the fourth biggest (February to June 2017). A similar event from February to June 2018 would bring global average temperatures below the 1980s average. February 2018 was colder than February 1998. If someone is tempted to argue that the reason for recent record cooling periods is that global temperatures are getting more volatile, it’s not true. The volatility of monthly global average temperatures since 2000 is only two-thirds what it was from 1880 to 1999.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-shames-greta-thunberg-and-her-handlers-over-environmental-agenda
Too bad we can’t gift-wrap Trudope with Adam Schiff’s tongue around his neck and throw him to Uncle Vlad.
The second video is well worth your time. I, for one, was totally sold on acid rain being the result of power plants. And in fact, until I watched the 2nd video had never heard why lakes and streams were being acidified by changes in logging. Funny how the whole power plant thing was so front and center and the logging was never explained…
To be honest though, the acid rain hypothesis did cause power companies to put scrubbers on their stacks, which was a good thing overall to reduce pollution.
I have often wondered (not really) why these global environmental orgs don’t pick the low hanging fruit. By that I mean PAY to install scrubbers on power stacks in China, India and elsewhere where we know the majority of pollution is taking place. The same could be said of plastic pollution in our oceans. Why doesn’t Greenpeace and Friends of the Planet propose to China, India, etc. to build 1st world refuse facilities so plastic is not causing ocean pollution.
I think we all know that it is a lot easier to take away 1st world’s plastic bags and straws than it is to tackle the real problem. Hell, China can’t even supply potable water to their major cities. They need help saving the planet.