{"id":327807,"date":"2024-05-11T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=327807"},"modified":"2024-05-11T16:51:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T14:51:03","slug":"climate-fact-check-april-2024-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=327807","title":{"rendered":"Climate Fact-Check April 2024 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Steve Milloy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest Post by: The Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Heartland Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Editor\u2019s note: This summary serves as a fact check on the biggest false claims made in the media in April, 2024. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 2024 was the warmest month in the\u00a0NASA satellite record<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n

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But real-time global surface station data report that the cooling trend since January 2015 remains intact, despite about 500 billion tons or so of emissions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As usual, we warn that these and other \u201caverage temperatures\u201d are highly uncertain guesstimates that have no physical meaning and were exclusively invented for the global warming con. Our take on the apparent slight warming that has occurred since 1980 is that it has been driven by the natural phenomena of periodic El Ni\u00f1os, one of which we have been experiencing since mid-2023. On to this month\u2019s fact checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Links: The Associated Press\u00a0article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Links:\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Links:\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0article<\/a>, Great Barrier Reef\u00a0coral extent<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Links:\u00a0The Los Angeles Time<\/em>s\u00a0article<\/a>,\u00a0Nature<\/em>\u00a0research\u00a0article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Links:\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0article<\/a>, Bengal Basin\u00a0subsiding<\/a>, Bangladesh land\u00a0accretion<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Links:\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0article<\/a>, rainfall\u00a0study<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Links:\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0article<\/a>,\u00a0European scientists<\/a>, James Hansen\u00a0comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Links: The Associated Press\u00a0article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Links:\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0article<\/a>, Gavin Schmidt\u00a0comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Links: The Washington Post<\/em> article<\/a>, Saudi Arabia research paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll close this month with a lesson in \u201cglobal temperature.\u201d The Associated Press reported in\u00a0\u201cBroken record: March is 10th straight month to be hottest on record, scientists say\u201d<\/a>\u00a0that: \u201cMarch 2024 averaged 57.9\u00b0F, exceeding the previous record from 2016 by 0.18\u00b0F.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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But in March 1996, then-NASA chief climate scientist James Hansen claimed the global temperature was 59.7\u00b0F during December-January-February of 1995-1996:<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cGlobal temperature\u201d for December-January-February is not the same as March, but March is always warmer than December-January-February. So March 1996 must have been warmer than 59.7\u00b0F. Now, if every emission warms the planet, then March 2024 (57.9\u00b0F) should certainly have been warmer than March 1996 (59\u00b0F). But that does not appear to be the case. Something is clearly amiss with global temperature guesstimating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until next month, check out these additional great fact checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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