February 2nd, 2022 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for January, 2022 was +0.03 deg. C, down from the December, 2021 value of +0.21 deg. C.
The linear warming trend since January, 1979 now stands at +0.13 C/decade (+0.12 C/decade over the global-averaged oceans, and +0.18 C/decade over global-averaged land).
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From WUWT:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/03/uah-global-temperature-update-for-january-2022-0-03-deg-c/
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/02/the-pause-lengthens-no-global-warming-for-7-years-3-months/
metmike: The reason for the pause is the current La Nina which is in the waning phase.
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Make no mistake about my position.
I'm a PRACTICING environmentalist that conserves natural resources(including energy) and fights real pollution and for authentic environmental issues that involve man actually destroying the planet.
But the climate crisis is actually a climate optimum for most life.
The real environmental crisis's/insects dying-dead zones-aquifers drying up-plastics in the ocean-landfills/trash-over consumption of natural resources(metmike is a PRACTICING environmentalist): April 2019
Today earth is on the cold side
Figure 5 combines both pictures with CO2 levels and temperatures arranged over the same time axis. It can be clearly seen that there is a striking disconnect between CO2 pressure and temperatures. Global temperatures have ranged between more than 25 °C and down to 10 °C. Our current climate is one of the coldest our planet has gone through during the last ca. 600 million years.
These findings contradict the current warnings of a catastrophic global warming allegedly caused by the current “excessive” CO2 levels of about 420 ppm.
Life on earth thrived with more than 6,000-8,000 ppm CO2 as well as down to current levels of a few hundred ppm and with temperatures mostly largely exceeding while at other times falling well below our current normal of 15°C.
Figure 5. Prehistoric CO2 levels and temperatures since the Cambrian period (500-590 million years B.P.) Graphic: www.geocraft.com 4.
Of course, these facts haven’t pleased everybody in the well-funded and tightly-knit community of climatologists. A related chapter in the German version of Wikipedia for example cautions that “comparisons and conclusions with the present are problematic since the historic conditions (e.g. the reduced level of solar radiation and the absence of vegetation on land) completely prohibit the applicability with respect to the current Holocene period.”
This is a weak argument that simply tries to obfuscate that completely irrespective of the atmospheric models advanced to explain the evolution of the climate in these times, the following facts remain undisputed:
Why would 17°C be catastrophic?
So why should we believe that a temperature rise of just 1.5 to 2 °C from the current approx. 15 °C would be catastrophic for life on earth?
metmike: Pose some problems for humans along ocean coasts and because of the increase in high end rain events? For sure!!
But it's a climate OPTIMUM by all authentic scientific standards for most life on this greening planet. Stating otherwise is anti science and just politics.