{"id":414236,"date":"2025-11-22T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414236"},"modified":"2025-11-22T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:21:12","slug":"from-1-5c-to-2-5c-the-guardian-moves-the-global-temperature-goalpost-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414236","title":{"rendered":"From 1.5\u00b0C to 2.5\u00b0C, The Guardian Moves the Global Temperature Goalpost Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"419\" data-attachment-id=\"414248\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=414248\" 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723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2025\/11\/from-1-5c-to-2-5c-the-guardian-moves-the-global-temperature-goalpost-again\/\">ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/author\/awatts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"747\" data-attachment-id=\"414240\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=414240\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-372.png?fit=705%2C747&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"705,747\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-372.png?fit=705%2C747&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-372.png?resize=705%2C747&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A news article from The Guardian discussing the urgency of global warming talks at COP30, highlighting concerns that global temperatures could rise to 2.5C.\" class=\"wp-image-414240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-372.png?w=705&amp;ssl=1 705w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-372.png?resize=283%2C300&amp;ssl=1 283w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-372.png?resize=640%2C678&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recent article from&nbsp;<em>The Guardian<\/em>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/live\/2025\/nov\/17\/cop30-belem-brazil-global-warming-latest-news-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cop30: calls for new urgency to talks as studies show global warming may reach 2.5C \u2013 latest updates<\/a>,\u201d by Nina Lakhani and Ajit Niranjan, presents a rolling narrative suggesting that the world is heading toward 2.5\u00b0C of warming and that extreme weather linked to fossil fuels is already causing increased damage. This is highly misleading if not outright false. Historical and present-day data show no increase in severe weather due to climate change having breached the previous target of 1.5\u00b0C of warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Guardian\u00a0<\/em>says, \u201cextreme weather supercharged by the burning of oil, gas and coal is causing death and destruction in communities across the world,\u201d and that \u201cstudies show global warming may reach 2.5C.\u201d It also frames every flood, drought, storm, and humanitarian crisis as evidence of an accelerating climate emergency tied directly to fossil fuel emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Observational data tells a more restrained and far less apocalyptic story. NOAA tide-gauge records, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/ipcc-attributions-climate-and-extreme-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AR6 report on risk assessment<\/a>&nbsp;both show that while the planet has warmed, the evidence for worsening trends in many extreme weather categories remains weak or regionally mixed. A copy of the table published in that report is shown below, with the highlighted yellow areas showing where climate change has not materialized as worsening events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"698\" data-attachment-id=\"414242\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=414242\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-373.png?fit=848%2C819&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"848,819\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-373.png?fit=723%2C698&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-373.png?resize=723%2C698&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Table summarizing climatic impact-driver types, their emergence, and confidence levels regarding changes due to climate change.\" class=\"wp-image-414242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-373.png?w=848&amp;ssl=1 848w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-373.png?resize=300%2C290&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-373.png?resize=768%2C742&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-373.png?resize=640%2C618&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hurricanes have not experienced a long-term increase in landfalls or intensity in the United States according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/news\/historical-hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NOAA\u2019s historical database<\/a>, and the IPCC AR6 report expresses&nbsp;<em>low confidence<\/em>&nbsp;in any global increase in hurricane frequency. Readers can verify this themselves in&nbsp;<em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-hurricanes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Climate at a Glance \u2013 Hurricanes<\/a><\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Floods, too, show no global increasing trend; the IPCC AR6 report explicitly states low confidence in a global signal for flood frequency or magnitude, contradicting the article\u2019s implication that every major rainfall event is \u201csupercharged.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tide-gauge data show&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-sea-level-rise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">steady, modest sea-level rise of about one to three mm per year<\/a>, a rate that predates the industrial era and is not accelerating into the runaway scenarios often used in media reporting.&nbsp;<em>Climate Realism<\/em>&nbsp;has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/category\/extreme-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly documented these discrepancies<\/a>, such as in its analyses where overstated claims about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/?s=floods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">floods<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/?s=storms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">storms<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/?s=heatwaves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">heatwaves<\/a>&nbsp;are systematically compared to real measurements rather than model projections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most notably,&nbsp;<em>The Guardian<\/em>&nbsp;silently moves the goalposts. For years, activists and aligned media insisted that surpassing 1.5\u00b0C would trigger catastrophe\u2014crop failures, explosive storm activity, \u201cunlivable\u201d regions. Yet when the world has briefly touched that temperature anomaly in certain datasets,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2024\/07\/media-reports-earths-1-5c-temperature-limit-was-breached-for-12-months-in-a-row-nothing-bad-happened\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">none of the promised apocalyptic benchmarks materialized<\/a>. The limit was nothing more than a political talking point from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/climatechange\/paris-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2015 Paris Climate Conference<\/a>, as described in this&nbsp;<em>Associated Press<\/em>&nbsp;(AP) article:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/climate-science-business-scotland-europe-7b282af7df95b55dff2630e158631a73\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The magic 1.5: What\u2019s behind climate talks\u2019 key elusive goal<\/a>. The AP admitted, \u201cin a way both the 1.5 and 2 degree C thresholds are somewhat arbitrary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of acknowledging the political nature of the temperature goal posts and the failed predictions of disaster that were supposed to flow from it, Lakhani and Niranjan simply move the goal post, claiming 2.5\u00b0C as the new threshold of climate driven doom, as if simply shifting the goal post to a new supposed tipping point will keep the narrative afloat. This shameless pattern of&nbsp;<em>\u201c<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gzeromedia.com\/graphic-truth\/the-graphic-truth-the-earth-is-getting-hotter-and-its-our-fault\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>the world is getting hotter and it is your fault\u201d<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;has been repeated over and over again by the media for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article also refuses to admit an inconvenient truth:&nbsp;<em>There have been 30 COPS to date, and not one has reduced either global temperatures or carbon dioxide emissions or even slowed their trajectory.&nbsp;<\/em><strong>See the two graphs below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"414243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=414243\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-374.png?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-374.png?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-374.png?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Graph comparing global temperature anomalies from NOAA against United Nations COP climate conferences from 1980 to 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-414243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-374.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-374.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-374.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-374.png?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-374.png?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-374.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 1. Plot of all U.N. Climate Conferences from 1992 to 2025 with global annual temperature. Base graphic from NOAA, annotation by A. Watts Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/access\/monitoring\/climate-at-a-glance\/global\/time-series\/globe\/land_ocean\/tavg\/12\/12\/1980-2024?filter=true&#038;filterType=binomial\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/access\/monitoring\/climate-at-a-glance\/global\/time-series\/globe\/land_ocean\/tavg\/12\/12\/1980-2024?filter=true&#038;filterType=binomial<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"414245\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=414245\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-375.png?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-375.png?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-375.png?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Graph showing the trend of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration over time, with markers indicating United Nations COP climate conferences.\" class=\"wp-image-414245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-375.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-375.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-375.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-375.png?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-375.png?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-375.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 2. Plot of all U.N. Climate Conferences from 1992 to 2025 with global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. Base graphic from NOAA, annotation by A. Watts Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/gml.noaa.gov\/ccgg\/trends\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/gml.noaa.gov\/ccgg\/trends\/<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These conferences and the agreements that flow from them are the supposed vehicles for planetary salvation. Based on the data shown above, thus far,&nbsp;<em>they have a perfect record of failure.&nbsp;<\/em>This is okay because there is no real-world evidence that rising CO2 levels or modest increases in temperature pose an existential threat to human prosperity or existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Temperatures today correlate with natural variability, the long-term recovery from the Little Ice Age, and regional land-surface warming influenced by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-urban-heat-islands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">urban heat-island effects<\/a>\u2014none of which are discussed in&nbsp;<em>The Guardian<\/em>&nbsp;article. Simply convening diplomats to issue increasingly dire communiqu\u00e9s has never altered these underlying drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this points to what&nbsp;<em>The Guardian<\/em>&nbsp;ignores.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-weather-vs-climate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Weather is not climate<\/a>\u2014one month of rain in Gaza, a drought in Tehran, or a storm in Wales does not constitute a global climate trend. Infrastructure failures, deforestation, population growth in floodplains, and political conflict often explain weather-related damage far better than a mild increase in the made-up metric of global average temperature. The Gaza flooding described in the article&nbsp;<em>stems from war<\/em>; destroyed drainage systems, razed farmland, and shattered housing\u2014not from marginal changes in global average temperature. The same applies to drought vulnerability in Iran,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.water-alternatives.org\/index.php\/alldoc\/articles\/vol11\/v11issue3\/461-a11-3-14\/file#:~:text=Technological%20and%20infrastructural%20bias,use%20of%20sanctions%20and%20incentives.&amp;text=29%20of%20Iran's%20constitution%20considers,government%20is%20committed%20to%20provide%22.&amp;text=that%20the%20poor%20were%20much,Iran's%20agriculture%20policy%20in%201980s.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">where water mismanagement and over-extraction have been well-documented for decades<\/a>. Yet the authors of&nbsp;<em>The Guardian<\/em>\u2019s article consistently attribute all hardship to climate change, erasing institutional and government policy failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakhani and Niranjan also fail to mention the century-long decline in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-temperature-related-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">temperature-related deaths<\/a>\u2014as well as decline in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-deaths-from-extreme-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deaths from extreme weather<\/a>. Both are a direct result of fossil-fuel-powered resilience\u2014and it ignores the benefits reliable energy brings to developing nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By stitching together a tapestry of unrelated disasters and labeling them all \u201csupercharged by fossil fuels,\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Guardian<\/em>&nbsp;grossly misleads its readers about what observational data actually show. Moving the catastrophe threshold from 1.5\u00b0C to 2.5\u00b0C without acknowledging the previous failed predictions attached to the former temperature target only underscores how bogus the climate narrative is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After three decades and 30 COP conferences, global temperatures remain unmoved by policy declarations, yet&nbsp;<em>The Guardian<\/em>&nbsp;continues presenting these conferences as if success at these conferences puts humans in control of a planetary thermostat. Readers deserve reporting grounded in measured evidence and proof, not a never-ending escalation of dramatic claims that shift whenever reality refuses to cooperate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article from The Guardian, \u201cCop30: calls for new urgency to talks as studies show global warming may reach 2.5C \u2013 latest updates,\u201d by Nina Lakhani and Ajit Niranjan, presents a rolling narrative suggesting that the world is heading toward 2.5\u00b0C of warming and that extreme weather linked to fossil fuels is already causing increased damage. This is highly misleading if not outright false. Historical and present-day data show no increase in severe weather due to climate change having breached the previous target of 1.5\u00b0C of warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":414248,"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":"Explore how media narratives misrepresent climate data and the misleading claims surrounding extreme weather and global temperature goals.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Debunking The Guardian's Alarmism on Climate Crisis and Warming","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvY2xpbWF0ZS1zY2llbmNlLnByZXNzXC93cC1jb250ZW50XC91cGxvYWRzXC8yMDI1XC8xMVwvMEFRT3hpQXN5OGMtQk1mVkJZdHowNTB2cTRJaGNEYnpWQVhqU2hMbEZLSFBsUHdVS3hXOWlSb0RIRkphRkRPeEdNRWlDek9UMmt5TEptaEJTeGRZM2NucGpNZE1xQnBkdlhVczhJbkI5OHNXeUJlaDNxMDdNMkJXSEp3bGliNXVILTEtMTAyNHg1OTMuanBlZyIsInR4dCI6IkZyb20gMS41XHUwMGIwQyB0byAyLjVcdTAwYjBDLCBUaGUgR3VhcmRpYW4gTW92ZXMgdGhlIEdsb2JhbCBUZW1wZXJhdHVyZSBHb2FscG9zdCBBZ2FpbiIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiaGlnaHdheSIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNTU4MTI0NDl9.k4d3ZXbB-nsvirn3KfMoJBmazqiw5sqMD6InBMWEJYUMQ"},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691839767,691829997,691818514,691818087,691820922,691818262],"class_list":{"0":"post-414236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-30-cop-conferences","9":"tag-carbon-dioxide-co","10":"tag-extreme-weather","11":"tag-global-warming","12":"tag-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-ipcc","13":"tag-the-guardian","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQOxiAsy8c-BMfVBYtz050vq4IhcDbzVAXjShLlFKHPlPwUKxW9iRoDHFJaFDOxGMEiCzOT2kyLJmhBSxdY3cnpjMdMqBpdvXUs8InB98sWyBeh3q07M2BWHJwlib5uH-1.jpeg?fit=2520%2C1460&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1JLe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":249423,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=249423","url_meta":{"origin":414236,"position":0},"title":"Media Regurgitates IPCC\u2019s \u2018Final Warning\u2019 on Climate Change \u2013 Without Realizing We\u2019ve Already Passed 1.5\u00b0C","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"24\/03\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the\u00a0final part of its sixth assessment report\u00a0(AR6) on Monday, March 20. 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