Record-Cold November Temps At South Pole. Media Silent
Extreme cold records continue to tumble at the South Pole. Three recent days – November 16th, 17th, and 18th – have recorded a daily record, with the 18th plunging to –45.2°C, compared with –44.7°C on the same day in 1987.
The records follow the six-month winter of 2020-21, which was the coldest since records began in 1957. Inexplicably, all these facts and trends have escaped reporting in the mainstream media.
The excuse might be that it is just weather, and temperatures have always moved up and down. But the excuse doesn’t seem to apply to the July 19th U.K. high of 40.3°C at RAF Coningsby, recorded at the side of the runway used by after-burning Typhoon jets, and surrounded by acres of reflective concrete and tarmac.
This record high has barely been out of the Net Zero headlines ever since. In fact, anything getting colder barely gets a look-in these days.
Arctic sea ice is making a significant, near-silent comeback
Summer ice at the end of September covered 4.92 million square kilometers, which was 1.35 million sq km higher than the 2012 low.
Over on land, the Greenland ice sheet may have increased in size over the last year to August 2022. Meanwhile, the zoologist Dr. Susan Crockford has reported that this is the fifth year out of the last seven that enough sea ice has formed along the west coast of Hudson Bay by mid-November for hunting polar bears to be able to head out to the ice, “just as it did in the 1980s”.
Of course, it has been a very bad year for climate catastrophists all around. Coral is growing on the Great Barrier Reef with a vengeance, just a few years after journalists and their ‘experts’ warned it was likely to disappear.
According to the latest satellite data, the global temperature hasn’t moved for over eight years. A little extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has led to significant ‘greening’ of the planet, a process that over the last 30 years has undoubtedly reduced world hunger and famine.
Sir David Attenborough recently ran a series of six Frozen Planet II green propaganda films featuring a variety of ‘modeled’ climate catastrophes. Notable was the claim that all the Arctic summer sea ice could be gone by 2035.
In addition, he highlighted a colony of Adelie penguins in western Antarctica, whose numbers were said to have fallen over 40 years from 20,000 to just 400 breeding pairs, apparently due to ‘climate change’.
Missing from the narrative was the more cheerful news that a colony of 1.5 million Adelies had recently been discovered on the eastern side of the continent.
Since all the recent poster scares are fast disappearing, there is increasing emphasis on ‘attributing’ a single bad weather event to climate change, or to the climate crisis/emergency/breakdown – the new agitprop used to disguise the fact that global warming, with or without CO2’s help, ran out of steam over two decades ago.
Long-serving Guardian activist Fiona Harvey told a recent edition of the BBC Media Show that writers can be impartial and present the facts, and the facts were that ‘scientists’ have told us that we are on a precipice and are facing tipping points that will make the planet uninhabitable.
But whose ‘facts’ is she reporting? Again, as the Daily Sceptic has shown, the command-and-control Net Zero agenda is driven by politicized science and often derived from flawed climate models, corrupt surface temperature databases, and invented weather-‘attribution’ stories.
When the Guardian quotes ’scientists’,it is often referring to practitioners of observational disciplines such as geography, where modeled ‘impact’ predictions are widely promoted.
In the course of her interview, Harvey repeated the debunked untruth that 30 percent of Pakistan had been inundated as a result of recent monsoon floods. The actual figure in this mountainous country was easily checked from NASA data and was about 8%.
Referring to the general narrative around ‘climate change’ and the need to keep to 1.5°C of warming, she noted that if that didn’t strike you as a story, “you shouldn’t be a journalist”. A better story, of course, might be asking who invented the 1.5°C figure in the first place – and why?
Many people such as Harvey state they are journalists, not activists, but the evidence is growing that that pass has long been sold in many areas of mainstream communication and media.
Cardiff University sociologist Dr. Aaron Thierry argues that universities should allow academics to spend at least 10 percent of their time on “advocacy and engagement with policy processes”.
In his view, “those with the greatest knowledge and understanding of these crises have a moral obligation to provide leadership and engage in advocacy and activism”.
The Australian geologist Professor Ian Plimer gives short shrift to all the lies and obfuscations surrounding settled climate science. If it had been proved that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming, “there would be endless citation of the dozen or so seminal scientific papers demonstrating this proof”.
Instead, he notes, there is a “deafening silence”.
Climate cycles have not changed because humans are alive today, “and cannot be changed by feelings, ideology or legislation”.
He also noted: “Bearers of validated facts are denigrated, canceled, and deemed controversial by those who have no counterargument, no ability to critically analyze, and who rely on self-interest and feelings.”
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Maurice Lavigne
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You left out that the snow cover of the northern hemisphere has not been this extensive since 1956.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
“Extreme cold records continue to tumble at the South Pole. Three recent days – November 16th, 17th, and 18th – have recorded a daily record, with the 18th plunging to –45.2°C, compared with –44.7°C on the same day in 1987.”
What a PSI reader needs to look at is an ancient mercury laboratory that was a common part of a student’s chemistry laboratory still being used in my students’s laboratory equipment in 1990. This thermometer, as I remembered. only measured temperatures a little above (110C) the normal boiling temperature of water and a little below (neg 10C) the normal freezing point of water. The scale of this thermometer was divided into 120 segments. Hence, the student, or I, had to estimate the temperature to a tenth of a degree C. Hence, the measurement of a temperature of 0.5C, or so, less than another is within the range of experimental error.
Instead of only focusing on this incidental difference of temperatures, Chris should have asked: What might be the cause of these 3 consecutive days of minimum temperatures. I would wager at large sum of money that the sky was continually cloudless as the snow’s, a good thermal insulator, surface continually was cooled by emitting radiation toward generally empty space. Any takers?
Have a good day, Jerry
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Tom O
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I might consider what you said meaningful if it wasn’t for the fact that November 16th, 17, and 18th are just 30 days or so away from the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere. I would also suspect that a general laboratory mercury thermometer would not be what would be used at a weather station in Antarctica. I’d guess a thermometer that only went to -10c would be rather useless, don’t you think, in an environment where it drops well below -40c? And finally, I would have to wonder why you felt it necessary to try to put down the work of someone else by adding nothing of value to the article yourself.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Tom,
“Extreme cold records continue to tumble at the South Pole.”
The key words are “continue to tumble” which Chris tries to establish by comparing the minimum temperatures observed recently with other previous minimum temperatures measured decades ago on these days. Which temperatures are separated by only tenths of degrees Celsius. My point in referring to the mercury thermometer is one can see the the measurement of a tenth of a degree of Celsius is an estimate (uncertainty).
Have a good day, Jerry
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John Doran
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Mainstream Media, MSM, 97% lickspittle liars for the 1%.
JD.
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