Real Climate Science

Ten years ago today, Texas leading climate academics predicted the state would be hot and dry for the rest of the century.

Texas is vulnerable to warming climate – Houston Chronicle

Since then Texas has been cool and wet.

Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

NOAA confirms last month was hottest June ever in US

The percent of hot days during June was about average and half of 1933.

Afternoon temperatures were about two degrees cooler than 1933.

The mean temperature was about the same as 1911 and 1934, and lower than 1933.

Nighttime temperatures were the highest on record.

Bloomberg says COVID rates have flattened or declined in places with the highest vaccination rates.

More Than 3.35 Billion Shots Given: Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker

They don’t mention that the same phenomenon has occurred in places with the lowest vaccination rates.

India COVID: 30,743,013 Cases and 405,527 Deaths – Worldometer

Yesterday Bloomberg said life is returning to normal in blue states with high vaccination rates.

What they didn’t mention is that life has been normal for months in red states with low vaccination rates.

Alabama COVID: 552,911 Cases and 11,387 Deaths – Worldometer

Have we flattened the curve in Wyoming? – Johns Hopkins

CNN says climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels is killing ten million people per year.

‘On The Scale Of Holocaust’: Cnn Guest On Deaths Due To Burning Of Fossil Fuels

Actual numbers show that less than 10,000 people per year die from all types of natural disasters, including storms, floods, extreme temperatures and drought. This is down 80% from a century ago.

Natural Disasters – Our World in Data

A century ago, millions of people faced starvation from famine caused by record heat.

04 Sep 1921, 61 – New York Herald at Newspapers.com

Prior to 1890, severe drought and famine struck India every four years, but NOAA said the warming climate from 1890 to 1940 greatly reduced the frequency of droughts in China.

ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/journals/noaa/QC851U461974oct.pdf

Over the past 2,000 years, China had thousands of famines, some of which killed close to ten million people.

15 Jun 1931, Page 6 – Montana Butte Standard at Newspapers.com

The New York Times says global warming is going to make Lake Michigan rise and drown Chicago.

9:26 AM · Jul 8, 2021

A few years ago, the press was saying that global warming was drying up the Great Lakes.

The reality is that there has been no trend in Great Lakes water levels over the past century.

Great Lakes Dashboard – HTML5

Seventy years ago, experts blamed variable water levels and melting glaciers on sunspots.

“HERALD” SATURDAY MAGAZINE Glaciers, Icebergs Meit As World Gets Warmer – Trovene Tracker

Dragonflies and climate change: Warmer temperatures causes males to lose wing patterns

I photograph a lot of dragonflies, and see no evidence that their claim about dragonfly wings is true.

And even if it were true, there is no basis for claiming it is due to global warming. Dragonflies have been around for 300 million years and most of that time temperature and CO2 levels were much higher than now.

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Dragonflies thrive in a huge range of climates from the tropics to the Arctic, and some migrate thousands of miles.

Simple physics link the distribution and colour of dragonflies across North America and Europe | Ecography

The majority of the claimed global warming is during the Arctic winter. How would that affect dragonflies?

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (v4): Global Maps

Before data tampering by government agencies, US afternoon temperatures have cooled over the last century, not warmed. If dragonflies are changing in the US it is not due to warming.

The authors are located in Missouri, where temperatures have plummeted over the past century.

Giant dragonflies lived 250 million years ago. The reason they were able to grow so large was because of high oxygen levels produced by the luxuriant vegetation of the carboniferous era. The reason for the luxuriant vegetation was high CO2 levels.

LAND OF THE DEAD: THE MAGNIFICENT, GIANT (AND UNFORTUNATELY EXTINCT) GRIFFENFLIES, BOTH EARTHLY AND EXTRADIMENSIONAL

Most people who have been to a natural history museum are aware of the fact that giant dragonflies thrived in warm climates from the past.

Even on our warmest and muggiest days | Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Everything is wrong about this story. It has no basis in fact, yet the press runs with it without doing any fact checking or seeking out sensible opinions from actual scientists.