World record-chilling challenges Climate rhetoric and the risks of complacency – Do you accept it?
By Vijay Jayaraj
I live in Bengaluru in south India. This month, the city recorded its coldest temperature in 10 years in November. So did my country’s capital New Delhi, where severe winters have become the norm in recent years.
A small percentage of India’s 1.3 billion population has access to electric heaters. However, most have to burn a variety of fuels to keep the fire warm, leaving many people vulnerable to sudden colds. Why are cold events considered a surprise and not a normal part of the weather? Is it because the public mind has become complacent about the cold by the fear-mongering of global warmingists?
The fact is that cold events have become commonplace not only in India but across the globe. Since 2017, below-average temperatures have regularly occurred in both winter and summer. What can be inferred from these cold spells, and what do they suggest about the climate cult’s apocalyptic claim?
Death from cold and heat in India
Pictures of CO2 Alliance
Data sources: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002619.t002
Severe cold spells and polar ice caps
The November 18 snowfall at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was the earliest snowfall in recorded history since 1898. Was it an isolated event caused by a regional storm? Well, think again.
The past months have seen unusually cold spells in the US and Canada. Buffalo recorded one of its heaviest snowfalls in November while Vancouver saw unusual early winter snowfall.
November 20 and 21, hundreds of turns all-time low temperature record was registered across the United States as arctic air swept over the North American continent. There have been extreme cold events in other parts of the world.
In August, China’s northwestern province of Xinjiang experiences unexpected summer snowfall. South America, Europe, Asia and Australia have recorded record low temperatures in recent months.
In Greenland – often a topic of debate about climate change – the surface mass balance (SMB) of this year’s ice sheet is at one of its highest levelsls since 1981 and is set to increase further during the winter. Greenland has recorded consistent growth in ice sheet SMBs since 2016.
Like Electoverse writer Cap Allon Note“(S)since 2016, the Northern Hemisphere (NH) heavy snow seasons have remained well above the 1982-2012 average, and the 2022-2022 season is no different — since the data latest data (November 19), ‘Total snow volume for NH’ graphprovided by the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), continues to outperform both the multi-decade average and standard deviation.”
Snow accumulation in the Northern Hemisphere
Source: https://globalcryospherewatch.org/state_of_cryo/snow/fmi_swe_tracker.jpg
Rhetoric “Dangerous warming”
So do these record snowfall events and record low temperature events mean no increase in global average temperature? Definitely not! There has been a warming trend since the Little Ice Age began to lose control in the 17th century, but there has never been a dangerously general warming – and there is not now.
The claim that global warming has made our summers hotter and winters milder is certainly false. The proof is that in the past 5 years, both extreme cold and extreme heat are common.
Until the climate debate took over our media, these thermal ups and downs were known as weather shifts. In a climate apocalypse, however, every extreme weather event is a disaster. Even snowfall and unusual cold are considered the sour fruit of man-made carbon dioxide emissions.
This pseudoscience and the utter misrepresentation of the media and political elites are harmful. The most vulnerable people in our world face greater risk of cold because of undue concern about warming.
More than 500 million Indians still make fires to keep warm while the cold kills more people than the heat. In some parts of India, winter temperatures can drop as low as -20 degrees Celsius/-4 degrees Fahrenheit. Even in a developed country like Germany, climate complacency has led to unpreparedness. for energy needs during the winter and government officials are now asking residents Heating just one room in their house!
It’s the cold that kills. If anything, the warming of the past three centuries has been extremely beneficial for humanity, helping us to make unprecedented advances in human health, living standards, food production, and achievement. technology as we use the earth’s resources more efficiently than ever before.
Vijay Jayaraj is a research associate at CO2 Alliance, Arlington, Virginia. He holds a master’s degree in environmental science from the University of East Anglia, UK and resides in India.
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