{"id":255685,"date":"2023-05-02T21:10:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T19:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=255685"},"modified":"2023-05-02T21:10:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T19:10:31","slug":"scientists-employ-wit-to-highlight-the-lack-of-climate-trends-across-greece-since-the-1800s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=255685","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Employ Wit To Highlight The Lack of Climate Trends Across Greece Since The 1800s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By\u00a0Kenneth Richard<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/em>1. May 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The accumulation of over two centuries of precipitation records across Greece indicates there have been overall slightly declining trends in precipitation extremes across the region and \u201cnegligible climate variability.\u201d This supports a new study\u2019s tongue-in-cheek title referencing a \u201c404 Not Found\u201d climate crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight scientists have published a new study<\/a><\/strong>  examining the popularized conceptualization of an anthropogenically-induced climate change that has increasingly become \u201cthe post-modern scapegoat for which every disaster is blamed.\u201d The authors point out, for example, that even the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic has been blamed on a human-caused warming climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study utilizes detailed precipitation data available for Greece, as these climate records often extend to the early 1800s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scientists tendentiously searched for climate-related (i.e., 30+ years) trends that might confirm there is a \u201cclimate emergency, climate crisis, etc.\u201d in the works linked to an anthropogenic influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, no trend consistent with any anthropogenic climate influence could be found in the records. Hence, the wit-intended \u201c404 Not Found\u201d study title (which one of the 3 peer-reviewers recommended be kept in the final publication<\/a><\/strong> rather than discarded).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe current period can be characterized as normal without notable climatic events.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe overall period does not show a linear trend or appreciable difference in the two 30-year climate periods.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026precipitation did not linearly change during the past 7 decades.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analyses of precipitation extremes may even support a \u201cdecreasing, albeit slightly\u201d trend over the two centuries, as the record average and maximum rainfall depths occurred in the 1800s or early 1900s.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In anticipation of the timeworn, \u201cBut Greece is not the globe!\u201d criticism, it should be noted that comprehensive analysis of global-scale precipitation data in the satellite era also do not support detection of intensifying trends associated with the timing of the sharp rise in anthropogenic CO2 emissions or a warming climate.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The accumulation of over two centuries of precipitation records across Greece indicates there have been overall slightly declining trends in precipitation extremes across the region and \u201cnegligible climate variability.\u201d This supports a new study\u2019s tongue-in-cheek title referencing a \u201c404 Not Found\u201d climate crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":255690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691819270,691818102,691818152,691819271],"class_list":{"0":"post-255685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-anthropogenic-co2","9":"tag-climate-crisis","10":"tag-climate-emergency","11":"tag-greece","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/019.jpg?fit=1920%2C1117&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-14vX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":218591,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=218591","url_meta":{"origin":255685,"position":0},"title":"Wrong, CNN, Climate Change Driven Extreme Weather Not Behind Declining River Levels","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"12\/09\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"In short, CNN\u2019s story is more an indictment of its own biases concerning the dangers of purported human-caused climate change than it is a report documenting the dangers of climate change itself.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-628.png?fit=1200%2C798&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-628.png?fit=1200%2C798&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-628.png?fit=1200%2C798&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-628.png?fit=1200%2C798&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-628.png?fit=1200%2C798&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":400049,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=400049","url_meta":{"origin":255685,"position":1},"title":"Stop Promoting Attribution Studies, Associated Press, Europe\u2019s Wildfires Aren\u2019t Worsening","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"04\/09\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Associated Press (AP), via ABC News, claims that climate change is responsible for the intensity of European wildfires in a story titled \u201cClimate change made deadly wildfires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus more fierce, study finds.\u201d This is false. 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