The notion that global warming is caused by carbon dioxide emissions is rubbish. The fallacy gives the elite, including politicians, more power over the lives of others.
The sun’s 11-year cycles indicate the possibility that unusually cold weather approaches. That’ll be an unpleasant surprise.
The elite say that warming has been especially rapid of late. But they placed many of their temperature stations in or near cities, which are hotter than rural areas. As cities have become more populated, surprise, surprise, temperatures appear to have rapidly increased. The fraudulence instills fear and enables the elite to gain all the more power.
Natural gas emits little CO2, and nuclear power emits none. The elite needed only to enable the production of natural gas to increase and also cut the cost of nuclear power by removing the excessive regulations that have nothing to do with nuclear risks. But doing so little didn’t satisfy the elite. They prefer to tell people how to conduct their lives.
The most important influence on world temperature is the sun. In a single hour, the sun transmits as much energy to the earth as humans use in an entire year.
I repeat: In a single hour, the sun transmits as much energy to the earth as humans use in a year.
The earth has been warming and the ocean rising since the end of the last ice age, some 12,000 years ago. Measurements of the ocean level at lower Manhattan from 1860 to the present show the ocean rising at a steady 0.94 feet per century. Here’s the URL: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=8518750
Energy from the sun increases when there are numerous sunspots and solar flares and decreases when there are few. The 11-year cycles are regular enough to be predictive. Scientists use radiocarbon to identify periods of high solar flaring in earlier times.
The earth was warm during the Roman Empire and cold during the dark ages.
During the Medieval Maximum from 1100 to 1250 AD, numerous solar flares occurred and the temperature was warmer than it is now.
Ponder that again: During the Medieval Maximum, the earth’s temperature was warmer than it is now.
The renowned “hockey stick” graph of a global-warming “expert,” Michael Mann, simply omitted the Medieval Maximum and subsequent cold periods. His graph showed world temperatures remaining flat until about 1850 and then roaring upward, making the current warming seem like an anomaly. It was one of many CO2 deceits.
In the last 3,000 years, periods of minimum solar flares and low temperatures have been numerous. Some are named for the scientists who discovered them:
Homeric Minimum 750-550 BC
Oort Minimum 1040-1080
Wolf Minimum 1280-1350
Sporer Minimum 1450-1550
Maunder Minimum 1645-1715
Dalton Minimum 1790-1820
(No name I’m aware of) 1880-1915
Modern Minimum 1940-1977
During the Maunder Minimum from 1645 to 1715, the world was exceptionally cold.
Whenever there’s evidence of warming, such as from 1977 to the present, or whenever people living along the coast get their feet wet, the elite trumpet that CO2 emissions were the cause. Not so. The warming since 1977 has occurred because the sun got hotter.
The sun is a massive, complex, continually exploding hydrogen bomb. Some of its cycles are longer than the 11-year cycles. Longer maximum periods may have shorter minimum periods within them.
Valentina Zharkova, of Northumbria University, UK, writes that a period of low solar activity began in 2020. She expects this to last until about 2053. Average terrestrial temperatures will probably fall by about 1.0 degree Celsius, especially from 2031 to 2043. This decline, similar to what occurred during the Maunder Minimum, is likely to suppress agriculture and cause hardship and starvation worldwide. Would that global warming prevailed instead.
Here’s the Zharkova article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23328940.2020.1796243
For a more general discussion of solar cycles, see the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle
The next big temperature change seems likely to be down. Global warming from carbon dioxide emissions is specious nonsense.
