By Issues & Insights Editorial Board | December 11, 2024
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A report from a group of international researchers shows that temperatures in Greenland aren’t cooperating with the alarmists’ doomsday predictions. In fact, “most areas are cooling.” This is inconvenient for the climate harpies who have designated Greenland as an indicator of what man-made carbon dioxide emissions are doing to the planet.
Not three months ago, the World Economic Forum eagerly mentioned a study that predicted that a “total collapse” of Greenland’s ice sheet “could happen by 2025.” Last year, a Washington Post scare-’em-all headline declared “Greenland glacier’s rapid melting may signal faster sea level rise.” In another of the many examples we could cite, AZoCleantech.com has claimed that Greenland’s changing landscape signals a global threat.
Now back to the researchers: Using satellite readings, they determined that “the ice-free sub-regions of Greenland are warmer than the ice-covered sub-regions,” which they attribute “to population density.” Overall, though, there was no significant change in Greenland’s temperature for the period studied, 2000 to 2019. They further noted that “in coastal southern Greenland, the temperature during 1958-2001 showed a significant cooling.”
And those ice-covered sub-regions they studied? They found “no evidence of warming over” ice-covered areas. Yes, this thrusts another deep gash into the politically spun global warming yarn.
Following are a few more examples that indicate the alarmists’ narrative is unraveling:
- A map in Newsweek that purports to show which U.S. cities could be underwater in 2050 due to rising sea levels includes “the same cities that were supposed to be under water by 2000 and 2020.” — Derek Hunter
- A “massive coverup” by United Kingdom’s Met Office has been set in motion “to hide its 103 non-existent temperature measuring stations.” — Watts Up With That?
- “Despite record emissions, record atmospheric carbon dioxide and 90 years of urban heat island effect, the summer of 2024 was cooler than the summer of 1934 in the U.S., where we have the best temperature records. If every emission causes warming and drives more warming, how can any part of summer 2024 be cooler than summer 1934?” — Steve Milloy, Junk Science
And from the Heartland Institute’s Climate Realism project:
- “Check Your Facts, PBS News, Climate Change Has Played No Role in Northeastern Wildfires.”
- “Global Warming is Not Making Record Typhoons, South China Morning Post.”
- ‘No, Atlanta News First, Climate Change is Not Threatening the ‘Way of Life’ of Georgia Farmers.”
- “The Guardian is Flat Wrong About Blaming Climate for Extreme Weather.”
- “Despite Media Panic, There Is No Reason to Think 2024’s Warming Is Disastrous.”
- “Facts show that weather disasters aren’t increasing amid climate change, nor has farm production declined.”
With Donald Trump moving back to the White House, this country has a chance to move beyond an unhealthy and entirely unnecessary obsession with a phenomenon that exists only in the minds of true believers, grifters, and the decent but credulous.
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