A scoffer’s observations

Vincent J. Curtis

30 Mar 23

RE: False claim on climate.  Letter to the editor by Grant Linney.  The Hamilton Spectator 30 Mar 23.

The Spectator’s climate scold again lectures us for not believing in the cult, and he waves around cherry-picked alleged datums in support of his beliefs.  Permit this scoffer the following observations:

‘Globally, floods and extreme rainfall are now four times more common than in 1980.’  The source being Munch Re tells you that it’s the amount they insure that gone up that much, not world-wide rainfall, because world-wide extremes of rainfall average out.  Sea levels would be falling if occurrences of extreme rainfall were rising dramatically all around the globe.  Periods of drought and flood are decade-cyclical, and when making short term observations, much depends on where you start the cycle. (California and Australia are examples of extremes of flooding and drought being the ordinary condition of climate.)

Why did Grant Linney pick London, Ontario, of all places, for “number of heat days,” when warming is a global phenomenon?  As RealClimateScience.com data and analysis show, the most numerous hottest days in North America occurred in 1921, 1931, 1934, 1936, and 1954, and number of extremely hot days in a year have tended to fall off both in extremity of temperature and number of days since then.  Linney offers no real data, only scary predictions, as usual.

The hottest years on record since 1880 occurred in the 1930s, not since 2002.  Satellite temperature data shows that the temperature of today is the same as it was in 2005, despite higher CO2.  The El Nino and La Nina phenomenon play a role in climate that Linney will not admit.

As for fire season being longer: burn acreage in North America is down 90 percent from the 1930s, but as I’ve shown elsewhere forest fires cannot be used to measure global warming.

The science and the data can’t support the climate change scare, and even if you believe the global warming nonsense, you can’t deny that no heroic effort by Canada will offset what’s happening in India and China.  Linney, the climate change expert and scold, simply ignores Indian and China and scolds Canadians for not doing enough.

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