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The Guardian’s “100 Months To Save The World” – Part II

The Guardian’s “100 Months To Save The World” – Part II

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/the-guardians-100-months-to-save-the-world-part-ii/

By Paul Homewood https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/aug/01/climatechange.carbonemissions 

According to the Guardian’s Andrew Simms, we are two months away from reaching a tipping point for the beginnings of runaway climate change.

So, how much has the world’s climate changed since 2008?

Atmospheric temperatures have barely changed in the last eighteen years:

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1998/plot/rss/from:1998/trend

Arctic sea ice extent in September has remained stable:

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover_30y.uk.php

Winter Arctic ice extent has barely changed since 2005:

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover_30y.uk.php

Antarctic sea ice has been growing rapidly: (note that data since April is spurious, due to satellite problems).

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.anomaly.antarctic.png

And global sea ice is also stable:

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg

Hurricanes keep on doing what hurricanes do:

http://models.weatherbell.com/tropical.php#!prettyPhoto

Tornadoes remain at historically low levels:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-information/extreme-events/us-tornado-climatology/trends

Major droughts in the US are a thing of the past:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/us/110/0/pdsi/ytd/12/1895-2016?base_prd=true&firstbaseyear=1901&lastbaseyear=2000&filter=true&filterType=binomial

And the same in Australia:

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/index.shtml#tabs=Tracker&tracker=timeseries&tQ=graph%3Drranom%26area%3Daus%26season%3D0112%26ave_yr%3D0

In short, far from climate catastrophe, people would be excused for not noticing any change at all the the Earth’s climate.

Meanwhile, all of that extra CO2 in the atmosphere has contributed to a remarkable greening of the world:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/rise-in-co2-has-greened-planet-earth/ 

And global food production continues to rise in leaps and bounds:

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