"Steve has mentioned the brief heat wave that brought unprecedented high temperatures to much of England, and elsewhere in Northwestern Europe. The heat wave didn’t last long–the high today in London was 79 degrees–but it prompted an outpouring of global warming hysteria.
Watts Up With That has a useful antidote to “green” hysteria:
The high this week for central England was absolutely unparalleled, particularly regarding the deviation from the previous record high. Also note that the heat wave was very short.
As you can see in this chart:
Ironically, such an extraordinarily extreme event is a sign that global warming played a very small role in this event. This reflects the
Golden Rule of Climate Extremes:
- The more extreme a climate or weather record is, the greater the contribution of natural variability and the smaller the contribution of human-caused global warming..."
No comments:
Post a Comment