Bloomberg produced this drama story, Earth's Temperature Just Shattered the Thermometer.
Haha, the earth is 4.6 B years old, and the UN and others' baseline is the past 140+ years only? Clever starting point because that was also the end of the little ice age (LIA). Global temp has no way to go but up.
Honest research should go back to temp records over the past 2,000 years, 400,000 years, 1 million years, 1 billion years, etc. There are many paleo-climate data that are freely available on the web.
Plato was born nearly 2,500 years ago (424 BC). He was older than the medieval warm period (MWP), the Roman warm period (RWP). What was the global temp during his time compared to current global temp.? Much warmer. See the start of the graph, on the left.
Climate change (CC) is true, it has happened in the past, happening now. But CC is mainly natural (nature-made, not man-made) and cyclical (not 'unprecedented"). Climate changes from warming to cooling to warming to cooling to .... endless cycle. Now, big El Nino is fading, so what's next? Big La Nina. Like this El nino- La Nina cycle since 1950.
The last big El Nino was in 1997-98, Presidential election period too. I heard that many farmers in Mindanao were even selling their votes for as low as P50/head because they were so desperate. But at least no road occupation then, unlike the recent Kidapawan road occupation.
We still need environmental protection -- like converting
low-lying areas into lakes, man-made lakes. For the rivers of Bulacan and
Pampanga in particular, they need lots and lots of huge and sustained dredging,
will require tens of billions of pesos perhaps, as we prepare for rising rivers
and lakes, not rising ocean.
Here's the latest projection for La Nina -- by mid June
this year or two months away. For how long, until 2017 or even beyond.
Yesterday, "Earth Day" and many government leaders in NYC were saying "we need more money to fight man-made warming and CC" by signing the Paris COP 21 agreement. More money, more UN power, more environmental regulations and energy taxation/subsidies. More carbon confusion and simply more government.
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See also:
Climate Tricks 48, Denying climate cycles, January 13, 2016
Climate Tricks 49, No extreme weather, no severe storms in the past? January 14, 2016
Climate Tricks 50, Letter to the US HOR Committee on Science, Space and Technology, January 30, 2016
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