By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
The decline from 0.03 K to 0.00 K from January to February 2022 in the monthly average global data set of lower troposphere UAH satellites proved enough to prolong the Duration. new pause to 7 years and 5 months, not that you will find this interesting fact anywhere in Marxist Flow. media:
IPeCaC, in 1990 First assessment report, predicted medium-term global warming at a rate equivalent to 0.34 K decades-first to 2030. The actual rate of warming from January 1990 to February 2022 is only two-fifths of what has been “confidently” predicted, at 0.14 K decades-first:
All UAH records since December 1978 show warming at 0.134 K decade-firstclose to decade 0.138 CZK-first since 1990, shows very little of the increase that would occur if global CO increased2 concentration and consequent man-made coercion are making more than a small, harmless and beneficial effect:
Note that all of these graphs are anomalous histograms. They make warming look much bigger and more drastic than it really is. The 0.58 K warming trend since late 1978 represents an increase of only 0.2% in absolute global average surface temperature – hardly a crisis, still little of an emergency.
Meanwhile, the brutal invasion of Ukraine by Mr. Putin and his accomplices is bringing about a growing awareness, among eyewitnesses, that the story of global warming caused by The climate change-induced industrial complex has originated in the Desinformatsiya KGB’s board of directors. For details on this story, visit americanthinker.com and click on the archive for March 2022. There the kind editors published a 5000-word snippet of me, giving some history that WUWT readers will find fascinating. It’s a story that, for the most part, for security reasons, has remained untold until now.
A little more of the economic side needs to be added to this unfortunate tale of Western weakness and yearning silence in the face of indiscrimination – the relentless campaign to lash out at evil prestige. – that all of us who have dared to question the Party Line. there have been.
Don’t believe what the Russian or Western media are saying about Mr. Putin. He is not a geriatric out of touch. The events currently unfolding in Ukraine were planned long before Putin’s silent coup against Boris Yeltsin in 2000, then, over the next five years, Putin brought in 6000 former KGB colleagues positions of power in the central and regional governments of Russia. . Some of those who were posted in 2004 are listed above. Many are still there.
The televised meeting of the senior advisers in which Putin shouted at some of them who had sternly recommended that Ukraine be invaded is a classic. maskirovka, was designed to impart to the West the impression of a ruthless and ruthless dictator who could reach the nuclear button at any moment.
The main purpose of the invasion of Ukraine was to raise the price of oil and gas, especially gas from Siberia that was delivered to Europe via many pipelines, some of which date back to the Soviet era.
It was Putin’s Kremlin, later joined by Xi Jinping in Beijing, that established or took over various “environmental” lobbying groups that had successfully lobbied for the closure of thermal power plants. Coal power, especially in Europe, is currently heavily dependent on Russian gas to save money when it is not possible to believe it.
That is why one should also not believe stories that Western sanctions against Russia are having a significant impact. The truth is that they were anticipated, prepared and paid for in full. The Kremlin’s thinking is of course that the increased revenue from Russian oil and gas will more than make up for any temporary disorder caused by Western sanctions efforts, which looks unlikely. looks impressive but is considered very little.
But surely sending nearly a quarter of a million troops to Ukraine is expensive? Not really. Putin nonetheless keeps 1.4 million in arms – five times more than Britain, which has 200 tanks compared to Putin’s 15,000. The marginal logistical costs of invasion are surprisingly small: and Putin will win Ukraine as his compensation. This is the most fertile agricultural region in the world, and it’s huge. Russia is already a significant grain exporter: once it controls Ukraine, it will have as many restrictions on world food prices as it does on world oil and gas prices, and it will likely profit by both.
Putin’s first decisive policy action upon becoming tsar of several Russian states was to cut Russia’s national debt, which is now only one-fifth of the country’s annual GDP. It is the ninth lowest debt-to-GDP ratio in the world. Having gained control of Ukraine and its formidable grain plains, he was able to add profits from worldwide sales to his huge profits from soaring oil and gas prices. His plan is to pay off Russia’s national debt by 2030.
In this respect, Putin’s Russia is compared very favorably with Xi’s China, whose national, regional and sectoral debts are enormous. For example, the entire revenue from ticket sales for the much-vaunted high-speed rail network is not even enough to pay the interest on the debt it has built, let alone the operating costs.
Once Putin has restored Kievan Rus and Byelorus back to the Soviet Union, he is planning to expand his country’s existing small economy as rapidly as the oil-rich nations of the Middle East. Don’t bet that he will fail.
It is amazing how those of us who have been vocal warnings about the Communist origins of the global warming story for decades have gone unheeded. The late Christopher Booker, who came to this subject after reading one of my works in England Sunday Telegraph and devoted most of his weekly articles to this topic then until his untimely death wrote weekly that by phasing out coal we should put ourselves at the mercy of Russia and its Siberian gas.
Yet our politicians, nearly all of whom lack a strategic sense or knowledge of foreign affairs, and less scientifically savvy than at any time since the Dark Ages, do not pay attention to. Now some of them are waking up, but it’s too late.
On the far side of the world, in Australia, a land of drought and flood, the southeast has received some torrential downpours. Ironically Tim Flannery told any climate Communist journalist he heard a decade ago that global warming would drain all the rivers in southeastern Australia. Now, of course, the climate-Communist media are saying that the floods are caused by global warming. Bah! Pshaw!
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