I start with reader and fellow olive harvester T who is on holiday right now in Iceland. He says that “global warming is causing us some problems. Average temperatures in April are 1 to 7 and slightly lower in March. It was minus 7 at lunchtime and snowing hard. A few days ago we were at a glacial lake. Apparently in 100 years the glacier has retreated a couple of km. Elsewhere a historical notice board pointed out the glacier has advanced 20km since 1000 AD.”
I bet you that since the peak of the Medieval warmperiod 700 years ago the advance has been even greater than 100 kilometres. All of this shows that the world gets warmer and it gets colder and always has and thus the presumption that right now we are seeing massive warming and that it is caused by man not God, or nature if you insist, just seems rather vain.
But that is what we are told. The Met Office and BBC delight in telling us that we have just seen the warmest day in, whatever month, in the UK time and time again even if their data is partly derived from besides the runway at RAF Coningsby. I have demonstrated before just how suspect this data is. What we really need is data from weather stations hat have been around for a long time with no big distortive ambient warmth factors. If you can find such data you have something uselful.
If you are a cultist, a follower of the Doom Goblin Greta Thunberg or part of the media and political GroupThink, you will no doubt salivate at such data in the belief that it will show nearly all f the warm months being this century. Meteorologist Chris Martz serves up such data from two stations. First up is Dublin which has daily temperature data dating as far back as 1867. And here are the month highs and the years in which they occurred.
• January: 17.0°C (62.6°F) on 1/10/1971
• February: 18.1°C (64.6°F) on 2/23/1891
• March: 23.4°C (74.1°F) on 3/29/1965
• April: 22.9°C (73.2°F) on 4/11/1869
• May: 26.7°C (80.1°F) on 5/31/1922
• June: 28.9°C (84.0°F) on 6/6/1950
• July: 33.5°C (92.3°F) on 7/16/1876
• August: 30.6°C (87.1°F) on 8/2/1990
• September: 28.7°C (83.7°F) on 6/6/1868
• October: 24.2°C (75.6°F) on 10/3/1959
• November: 19.4°C (66.9°F) on 11/2/1927
• December: 17.2°C (62.9°F) on 12/2/1948
None of the records have been set in the 21st century. In fact, the most recent “all-time” record high to be broken there was August’s 34-years ago in 1990. 8 of the 12 “all-time” monthly record highs for Dublin were set in or prior to 1950, six of which occurred over 90-years ago.
But maybe Dublin is somehow dodging global warming so what about Piteå in Sweden which has daily temperature data going back to 1859.
• January: 10.3°C (50.5°F) on January 10, 1971
• February: 10.5°C (50.9°F) on February 23, 1990
• March: 16.0°C (61.0°F) on March 25, 1886
• April: 21.5°C (70.7°F) on April 27, 1921
• May: 29.5°C (85.1°F) on May 31, 2009
• June: 32.0°C (89.6°F) on June 27, 1882; June 22, 1894; and June 25, 1953
• July: 34.9°C (94.8°F) on July 17, 1945
• August: 33.0°C (91.4°C) on August 17, 1882
• September: 25.0°C (77.0°F) on September 11, 1884; September 12, 1884; September 5, 1889; September 14, 1890; and September 18, 1890
• October: 20.8°C (69.4°F) on October 14, 2018
• November: 13.0°C (55.4°F) on November 9, 1975
• December: 8.6°C (47.4°F) on December 11, 2013
Okay the 23 years of this century have chipped in three of the records, but six of their “all-time” monthly record highs were set prior to 1950, five of which were set before 1900. The June and August records were set in 1882 alone.
Perhaps any member of the GroupThink or a Doom Goblin cultist has a rational explanation for all of this?