Tony has come across another great study on Greenland ice in which the supposed “darkening” of Greenland, supposedly caused by “industrial pollution” … was due to a degrading sensor (mind you … “industrial” and not that nasty “green pollution” from dust from plants and soil mind you!)
This might sound to be a bit of a niche subject, but for one small reason: it is the last thing the #ClimateExtremists have. After I checked through the Trenberth report some time ago on climate trends and once I removed all the “what might happen” and focussed on “what has happened”, I realised that they had not one single trend** in their favour.
Likewise, floods, droughts, snow, polar bears, lesser-spotted-goat-toads etc. have no adverse trends. CO2 is rising – however that is leading directly to record world harvests and greening of deserts.
All the #ClimateExtremists had, was the “melting ice” (which proved little except it got warmer after the little ice-age). But as we all know Himalayan ice caused that huge embarrassment for the IPSS, because they quoted some WWF report saying it was disappearing in 35years and not 350 (as I remember). Then when I last looked, there was a mixed picture but it seemed to have recovered (and hence we hear no more about it).
So, that rather left Arctic and Antarctic ice.
This year (or was it last?) Tony started being able to say “no trend in global sea ice”, because the global level of sea ice had returned to the level at which it had started at the beginning of the record (about 30 years if I remember right). So that left only three anchors that even vaguely supported the #ClimateExtremists
- The supposed rise in surface temperature (as compiled by your eco-politicised #ClimateExtremists)
- “Melting” Antarctic ice
- Melting Greenland ice
I put “melting” Antarctic ice, because when I looked at the studies there were as many saying melting and growing and it’s really not been tenable for a while. However recently we’ve had:
- NOAAgate – which showed the reason temperatures like NOAA contradicted the non-warming of the satellite is because NOAAgate proves NOAA are intentionally upjusting the temperatures (as they will not justify how they got those rises to their oversight Committee which shows they used nefarious means)
- NASA’s study showing Antarctic ice is growing.
Which left … Greenland ice … the #ClimateExtremists last anchor
The only thing at all that might suggest CO2 was having any effect was Greenland ice. However, recently Tony has been able to say “Greenland ice is growing”. I think that’s a relatively recent hange – but nether-the-less given that Greenland is the last anchor holding this scumbag scam, it is very important.
And now we find another study pro-porting to show massive changes in Greenland was down to sensor degradation. On its own, its wouldn’t seem that important. But when its sawing at the last rope holding these scumbags ….
I’m not going to say “Timber” …. because this scam has shown a remarkable tenacity to stay up even though there is absolutely no evidence supporting it … but well I suppose I’ve already said it!
**In case there’s a pedantic green around – yes there was a trend in the maximum intensity of rain. But as this is more than likely due to the prevalence of datalogging equipment which has the memory to store shorter and shorter “buckets” of time, I believe this is a direct result of the improvement in instrumentation rather than any actual trend in the climate.
