Climate Non-Hysteria, January 5, 2024

As readers know, I am fond of finding research that debunks the lies told by climate hysterics.  The presumption is that anything they say is false.  One of their favorites is that storms, in particular hurricanes (referred to as cyclones in the Asia area) are getting more frequent and stronger.  Here is research published in Nature of all places (that magazine is fully woke and committed to spewing whatever garbage supports the climate hysteria) and the headline pretty much tells you what you want to know.  “Decreasing Trend of Destructive Potential of Tropical Cyclones in the South Indian Ocean Since the mid-1990s”.   The researchers actually looked at hurricanes in all ocean basins and found NO trend in ANY except the South Indian Ocean, where both lower frequency and shorter duration of storms was detected.  The authors of course assume that the climate is warming, although it is clear from the text that they saw multiple natural cycles in various areas, which is a far more likely explanation of variation in storms from decade to decade or even century to century.    (Nature Article)

And then one of my favorite little tweaks at the hysterics is to point out the enormous amount of evidence that both the Arctic and Anarctic regions were far warmer in the past than they are today.  It is a source of some embarrassment to the hysterics that when they scream about glaciers melting or the ice on Greenland disappearing, as it does, signs of past animal and plant life emerge.  Greenland has a large reservoir of ice.  It hasn’t always been there.  This article reports a study in which the till under the ice sheet was examined and found to contain plant and insect residues, indicating a far warmer climate in the past, long before humans could have possibly had an impact on climate.  While the authors aren’t precise about dating, the last interglacial was about 120,000 years ago so this is a likely time for lack of ice on Greenland.  What this research really tells us is that there are alternative explanations to human activities for any unusual warmth we are currently experiencing.  (PNAS Article)