Celebrities Blind To Climate Facts, Cold, And Snow
Hollywood actor Rainn Wilson, famous for his role in “The Office,” has changed his Instagram profile name to ‘Rainnfall heat wave extreme winter Wilson,’ in what he calls a move to make people more aware of the dangers of climate change.
He could have used instead the word “weather.”
He has even suggested other actors do the same, offering names like Leonardo Di-Polar Ice Caprio Are Melting, Cardi The Arctic B Melting, Amy Poehler’s Bears Are Endangered, and Harrison Why Not Drive An Electric Ford.
It is sad that celebrities are intentionally promoting a false narrative or are being misled about climate by a few elite groups of politically driven pseudoscience organizations and the mainstream media.
Real-world data indicate no dangerous or unprecedented warming. There even has been a pause in the warming rate during short periods in the last two decades.
The past seven years have been very interesting. In 2016, El Nino, which is a weather phenomenon emanating from the Pacific Ocean, increased global temperatures.
Despite the increase in ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions from sources such as power plants, agriculture, and combustion engines, various regions have had a pause in warming.
This hiatus has been marked by instances of very heavy snow accumulation and an increase in the levels of sea ice in the Arctic.
The gold standard of satellite temperature data at the University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAH), shows that the Arctic has in fact been cooling (or at least displaying an observable pause in warming) since 2015.
In the graph below, one can easily comprehend the lack of warming and the spike in temperatures during the El Niño year.
Data source: University of Alabama, Huntsville. https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6.0.txt
The MSM consistently fails to report on the historically high ice mass levels in the Arctic region.
The Greenland ice sheet is one of the key subjects of discussion in the global debate on ‘climate change’. For decades, the MSM claimed that Arctic Sea ice, including Greenland’s, could disappear as a result of increasing temperatures.
However, anxiety about Greenland’s ice mass is ill-founded.
Evidence shows that Greenland’s ice is not in a dramatic decline. In fact, the Greenland Surface Mass Balance (SMB) – an index used to measure sea-ice level – is at one of its highest levels since recording started in 1957.
Image: Greenland Accumulated Surface Mass Balance (SMB) in Gigatons. Current levels are much higher than the 1981-2010 mean and the previous two years. Source: Polar Portal by The Danish Arctic research institutions. http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/
The entire Northern Hemisphere has been receiving high amounts of snow. According to NASA/Rutgers’ latest data, the Northern Hemisphere’s snow cover is above the 56-year mean (1967-2022). At one point in November, it reached an all-time high.
Weekly Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Extent for the 2023 snow year (purple) is higher than the 56-year (October 1966–July 2022) mean. Courtesy of the Rutgers Global Snow Lab. Source: https://globalcryospherewatch.org/state_of_cryo/snow/
Sometimes, it is easier to understand weather data than a mind unwilling to accept a reality that challenges an apocalyptic narrative.
As for the celebrities who exhibit such recalcitrance, we would borrow a name from a Disney character: Goofy.
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The office? And there was me thinking it was ‘clueless’
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Andy Rowlands
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Good point Mr H. The Ricky Gervais Office was brilliant, the American version I didn’t find funny.
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Alan
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A better name for him is – idiot, or idiots if he has gender issues as well.
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Koen Vogel
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Thanks for a stimulating update. Trends are more important than yearly weather events, and energy – e.g. Arctic ocean energy – is more important than temperatures, which can be fiddled into a story proving just about anything. Snow cover is another red herring: it says more about air moisture (lots) than temperature (below 0 C). Same for Greenland accumulation. The Arctic is the enfant terrible of the IPCC: it is a large part of the current global warming trend, yet the IPPC cannot satisfactorily explain why it is heating 3-4 time faster than the rest of the planet. Actors without a degree in the Sciences should probably not comment. As Lincoln said: better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
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Len Winokur
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Since when does being ‘a celebrity’ equate to being an authority on geophysics, astrophysics, or meteorology? Or having been formerly trained to a high level in one field (in the case of those celebrities who may well be educated to a high level) make one an authority on a different one – as with late physicist Stephen Hawking indulging us his ‘expertise’ on how best to resolve the often-called Arab-Israeli conflict; Dunning-Kruger applies not just to the Hollywooden.
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Len Winokur
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Global-Warming-Groupthink-important-non-debate-ebook/dp/B079XNCYFW/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3V2NHL3E043WY&keywords=case+study+groupthink&qid=1671318962&sprefix=case+study+groupthink%2Caps%2C71&sr=8-2
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