By Anthony Watts and Charles Rotter
According to many sources, #Show your Stripes is a global campaign to spread awareness about climate change using warming stripe graphics. The iconic blue and red barcodes will appear on landmarks, TV screens, magazines etc as the world unites to show off their stripes on June 21.
In essence, the world has gone crazy over this simple but misleading image. You can buy all kinds of merchandise to declare your striped faith. For example:
This visual campaign created by Professor Ed Hawkins to “start the conversation about our warming world and the risks of climate change.” He did so, but like many climate alarmists, he showed only a small portion of the earth’s temperature history.
This is Hawkin’s streak of surface temperature records since 1850.
Seems ominous, right? Yes, that’s exactly what they want you to think. This is not climate science, this is visual propaganda for armchair climatologists aka climate activists.
Two people can play that game. Now let’s take a look at some of the stripes we created over a much longer period of time.
Lest you think we are doing something that is not “approved by the climate narrative,” I will show you examples that have been done at Columbia University, University of California Santa CruzAnd University of London.
The point of our Cenzoic Range is to show that it has been MUCH warmer in the past and that during the recent cooling period we are in real danger of falling into another ice age. Note that in the Cenzoic Ranges above, we are in a cool period using geologic time scales. If we were to plot the surface temperature over several decades in the Ed Hawkins stripe on the Cenzoic Stripe on the right, it would be so small that it would not be visible on the graphic. Ed’s stripe campaign suggests and supports the notion that humans can control the Earth’s temperature, If only we did something
And here are the same Cenzoic stripes with the oxygen 18 isotope data at the base plotted on them taken from Hansen et al., 2008. Notice all the events on Earth have been labeled.
Feel free to distribute these freelyPun intended.
H/T mumbled McGuirck
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