{"id":339910,"date":"2024-08-18T09:37:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T07:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339910"},"modified":"2024-08-18T09:37:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T07:37:47","slug":"this-summer-celebrate-our-warm-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339910","title":{"rendered":"This Summer Celebrate Our Warm\u00a0Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Science Matters <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Legacy and social media keep up a constant drumbeat of warnings about a degree or two of planetary warming without any historical context for considering the significance of the alternative.\u00a0 A poem of Robert Frost comes to mind as some applicable wisdom:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The diagram at the top shows how grateful we should be for living in today\u2019s climate instead of a glacial icehouse. (H\/T Raymond Inauen)\u00a0 For most of its history Earth has been frozen rather than the mostly green place it is today.\u00a0 And the reference is to the extent of the North American ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).<\/p>\n\n\n

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For further context consider that geologists refer to our time as a \u201cSevere Icehouse World\u201d, among the various conditions in earth\u2019s history, as diagramed by paleo climatologist Christopher Scotese. Referring to the Global Mean Temperatures, it appears after many decades, we are slowly rising to \u201cIcehouse World\u201d, which would seem to be a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead of fear mongering over a bit of warming, we should celebrate our good fortune, and do our best for humanity and the biosphere.  Matthew Ridley takes it from there in a previous post. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background from previous post The Goodness of Global Warming<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n
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As noted in other posts here, warming comes and goes and a cooling period may now be ensuing. See No Global Warming, Chilly January Land and Sea.  <\/strong><\/a>Matt Ridley provides a concise and clear argument to celebrate any warming that comes to our world in his Spiked article Why global warming is good for us.<\/strong><\/a>  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change is creating a greener, safer planet.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global warming is real. It is also \u2013 so far \u2013 mostly beneficial.<\/strong> This startling fact is kept from the public by a determined effort on the part of alarmists and their media allies who are determined to use the language of crisis and emergency.<\/strong> The goal of Net Zero<\/strong> emissions in the UK by 2050 is controversial enough as a policy because of the pain it is causing. But what if that pain is all to prevent something that is not doing net harm?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The biggest benefit of emissions is\u00a0global greening,<\/strong>\u00a0the increase year after year of green vegetation on the land surface of the planet. Forests grow more thickly, grasslands more richly and scrub more rapidly. This has been\u00a0measured using satellites and on-the-ground recording<\/strong>\u00a0of plant-growth rates. It is happening\u00a0in all habitats<\/strong>, from tundra to rainforest.\u00a0In the four decades since 1982<\/strong>, as Bjorn Lomborg points out, NASA data show that global greening has added 618,000 square kilometres of extra green leaves each year, equivalent to three Great Britains. You read that right: every year there\u2019s more greenery on the planet to the extent of three Britains. I bet\u00a0Greta Thunberg did not tell you that.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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The cause of this greening? Although tree planting, natural reforestation, slightly longer growing seasons and a bit more rain all contribute, the big cause is something else. All studies agree that\u00a0by far the largest contributor to global greening<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 responsible for roughly half the effect \u2013\u00a0is the extra carbon dioxide in the air.<\/strong>\u00a0In 40 years, the proportion of the atmosphere that is CO2 has gone from 0.034 per cent to 0.041 per cent. That may seem a small change but,\u00a0with more \u2018food\u2019 in the air, plants don\u2019t need to lose as much water through their pores<\/strong>\u00a0(\u2018stomata\u2019) to acquire a given amount of carbon. So\u00a0dry areas<\/strong>, like the Sahel region of Africa, are seeing\u00a0some of the biggest improvements in greenery<\/strong>. Since this is one of the poorest places on the planet, it is good news that there is more food for people, goats and wildlife.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But because good news is no news, green pressure groups and environmental correspondents in the media prefer to ignore global greening.<\/strong> Astonishingly, it merited no mentions on the BBC\u2019s recent Green Planet series, despite the name. Or<\/strong>, if it is mentioned, the media point to studies suggesting greening may soon cease.<\/strong> These studies are based on questionable models<\/strong>, not data (because data show the effect continuing at the same pace). On the very few occasions when the BBC has mentioned global greening it is always accompanied by a health warning in case any viewer might glimpse a silver lining to climate change<\/strong> \u2013 for example, \u2018extra foliage helps slow climate change, but researchers warn this will be offset by rising temperatures\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another bit of good news is on deaths.<\/strong> We\u2019re against them, right? A recent study shows that rising temperatures have resulted in half a million fewer deaths in Britain over the past two decades. That is because cold weather kills about \u201920 times as many people as hot weather\u2019, according to the study, which analyses \u2018over 74million deaths in 384 locations across 13 countries\u2019. This is especially true in a temperate place like Britain, where summer days are rarely hot enough to kill. So global warming and<\/strong> the unrelated phenomenon of urban warming relative to rural areas,<\/strong> caused by the retention of heat by buildings plus energy use, are both preventing premature deaths on a huge scale.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 8: Warming in the tropical troposphere according to the CMIP6 models.<\/strong>
Trends 1979\u20132014 (except the rightmost model, which is to 2007), for 20\u00b0N\u201320\u00b0S, 300\u2013200 hPa.\u00a0 Source John Christy<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Summer temperatures in the US are changing at half the rate of winter temperatures and daytimes are warming 20 per cent slower than nighttimes<\/strong>. A similar pattern is seen in most countries. Tropical nations are mostly experiencing very slow, almost undetectable daytime warming (outside cities), while Arctic nations are seeing quite rapid change, especially in winter and at night. Alarmists love to talk about polar amplification of average climate change, but they usually omit its inevitable flip side: that\u00a0tropical temperatures (where most poor people live) are changing more slowly than the average.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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My Mind is Made Up, Don\u2019t Confuse Me with the Facts. H\/T Bjorn Lomborg, WUWT<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

But are we not told to expect\u00a0more volatile weather as a result of climate change?<\/strong>\u00a0It is certainly assumed that we should. Yet there\u2019s\u00a0no evidence<\/strong>\u00a0to suggest weather volatility is increasing and\u00a0no good theory<\/strong>\u00a0to suggest it will. The decreasing temperature differential between the tropics and the Arctic may actually diminish the volatility of weather a little.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indeed, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) repeatedly confirms, there is\u00a0no clear pattern of storms growing<\/strong>\u00a0in either frequency or ferocity, droughts are decreasing slightly and floods are getting worse only where land-use changes (like deforestation or building houses on flood plains) create a problem.\u00a0Globally, deaths from droughts, floods and storms are down by about 98 per cent over the past 100 years<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 not because weather is less dangerous but because shelter, transport and communication (which are mostly the products of the fossil-fuel economy) have dramatically improved people\u2019s ability to survive such natural disasters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The effect of today\u2019s warming (and greening) on farming is, on average, positive: crops can be grown farther north and for longer seasons and rainfall is slightly heavier in dry regions. We are\u00a0feeding over seven billion people today much more easily than we fed three billion in the 1960s<\/strong>, and\u00a0from a similar acreage of farmland.<\/strong>\u00a0Global cereal production is on course to break its record this year, for the sixth time in 10 years.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Nature, too, will do generally better in a warming world. There are more species in warmer climates,<\/strong> so more new birds and insects are arriving to breed in southern England than are disappearing from northern Scotland. Warmer means wetter, too:<\/strong> 9,000 years ago, when the climate was warmer than today, the Sahara was green. Alarmists like to imply that concern about climate change goes hand in hand with concern about nature generally. But this is belied by the evidence. Climate policies often harm wildlife:<\/strong> biofuels<\/strong> compete for land with agriculture, eroding the benefits of improved agricultural productivity and increasing pressure on wild land; wind farms<\/strong> kill birds and bats; and the reckless planting of alien sitka spruce trees<\/strong> turns diverse moorland into dark monoculture.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, real environmental issues are ignored or neglected<\/strong> because of the obsession with climate. With the help of local volunteers I have been fighting to protect the red squirrel<\/strong> in Northumberland for years. The government does literally nothing to help us, while it pours money into grants for studying the most far-fetched and minuscule possible climate-change impacts.<\/strong> Invasive alien species are the main cause of species extinction worldwide (like grey squirrels driving the red to the margins), whereas climate change has yet to be shown to have caused a single species to die out altogether anywhere.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course, climate change does and will bring problems as well as benefits. Rapid\u00a0sea-level rise<\/strong>\u00a0could be catastrophic. But whereas the sea level\u00a0shot up between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago,<\/strong>\u00a0rising by about 60 metres in two millennia, or roughly three metres per century,\u00a0today<\/strong>\u00a0the change is nine times slower<\/strong>: three millimetres a year, or a foot per century, and with not much sign of acceleration. Countries like the Netherlands and Vietnam show that it is possible to gain land from the sea even in a world where sea levels are rising. The land area of the planet is actually increasing, not shrinking, thanks to siltation and reclamation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Environmentalists don\u2019t get donations or invitations to appear on the telly if they say moderate things<\/strong>. To stand up and pronounce that \u2018climate change is real and needs to be tackled, but it\u2019s not happening very fast and other environmental issues are more urgent\u2019 would be about as popular as an MP in Oliver Cromwell\u2019s parliament declaring, \u2018The evidence for God is looking a bit weak, and I\u2019m not so very sure that fornication really is a sin\u2019. And I speak as someone who has made several speeches on climate in parliament.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No wonder we don\u2019t hear about the good news on climate change.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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