Climate Change™ Check-in
Climate Change™ Check-in
Part 3 of Our Questionable Climate "Catastrophe".
Every now and then I like to check in on the current status of Climate Change™ as it relates to the town in which I live.
If you'd like a little background on my wonderful town of Morden, Manitoba and for a more in-depth look at how Climate Change™ has affected (or not affected) it, feel free to check out this piece:
Late last month I was informed that the first day of summer had come and gone with barely a whisper. I was a little surprised because I had assumed we were barely halfway through spring. Other than a week or two in the middle of May and a few days in June, there's barely been anything resembling summer here, which is weird because everything's nice and green and there are at least a few things growing in the garden.
After the warmest winter that I can remember with very little snow, it wasn't that surprising to have some nice weather in May, and the global warming crowd had already begun grinding their teeth in anticipation of the coming annual apocalypse formerly known as “summer”. I was hopeful until about the first week of June when the rainy season hit. All the fears of water rationing and our reservoir running dry were quickly put to rest after about the third week of continual dripping. Yes, we had the odd pleasant day interspersed amidst the rain, but not nearly enough to signal the arrival of summer with any certainty.
I always find comfort in numbers because they're very hard to argue with. They either are or they are not. This led me back to the research I had done a couple of years ago on the historical temperatures in my town and the charts I had created from that data.
The following charts were prepared with Microsoft Excel with data from Environment Canada’s historical weather dataset, which can be found here. Over the years there have been several weather stations in and around Morden. None of them have all the information, but I was able to piece in whatever was missing from one station with data from another one and Morden isn't that big so I figure that's legit.
The following charts are representative of the average daily maximum temperature for each month. In other words, it's the daily high averaged over each month. I've included a trendline on each chart so that you can slide that thing up to the top of your screen and can get a level to see how much of an angle there is.
1904 - 2024
This first chart is simply an updated version of the original one from a couple years ago. 1904 is as far back as our records go in this town. You can see very clearly what it was like here in the ‘30s, though most politicians and media personalities seem to have completely forgotten about that, opting instead for the usage of the term “unprecedented” every time we have a nice day. As you can see, that trend line hasn't yet budged.
1904 - 1989
This is the same chart, but only up until 1989. I chose this date because it was right before that period of the ’90s that we keep hearing about when all those heat records were apparently broken. For a little more understanding of what constitutes a “record” in the world of daily high and low temperatures, check out this link. Okay, so it's the same link as the one I posted above, but that just means it's even more important that you read it.
The other reason I choose 1989 as the end date for this chart is because that's the year I finally graduated high school (yes, I enjoyed it so much, I decided to stick around an extra year).
1970 - 2024
This next chart is all the weather in Morden over my entire lifetime. Technically I was also around for an entire month in 1969, but I don't remember any of it. I hear that's typical for the ‘60s…
Anyway, I included this one so you can do your little level trick and see how crazy it's been over the last 50 or so years. (Hint: not that crazy.)
1990 - 2024
This is the one we've all been waiting for. This is when the alarmists really hit their stride and they haven't slowed down since. I remember one particularly hot day in August of 1989. It was 40° that day and I believe we did actually set a record (for August 1st, anyway).
This one you can actually see the increase without a level.
The Trudeau Years
Fortunately the year Justin Trudeau took over as Prime Minister, things seem to have settled back down again. Must be all the carbon taxes and virtue-signaling finally paying off. At least I'm sure that's the song he's singing himself to sleep with.
If you've managed to get around to reading Our Questionable Climate Catastrophe - Part 1 (yes, this is the third time I've linked it here), you'll know that almost all the increase in temperature has come in the winter months and at night. And this is not only true where I live, but globally as well.
So it's kinda like when you're trying to keep your house at a cozy 22° all day long only to find that it consistently dips down to 12° at night. It's not too bad if you're sleeping with a warm comforter, but it makes for a pretty chilly morning when you're trying to eat breakfast. I mean, you’re basically averaging like, 18½° over the course of the day.
Then, imagine one morning you wake up and find that the temperature only got down to 17° overnight. Now that's a lot more bearable when you're trying to make coffee in the morning, and by 10:00 the house still warms up to the normal 22°. If you sleep in, you likely wouldn't even notice that 5° and the house still feels the way it's supposed to. But guess what: your average temperature over 24 hours is now 20°. That's right, the entire day is now a mere 1.5° warmer than it was when you were chattering your teeth and warming up your hands over the toaster. But what a difference! And really, if you just go to bed on time and sleep in, that 1.5° wouldn't affect your life at all.
This is kind of what's happening on earth right now. The following chart is just the winter low temperatures. For the purposes of this article, winter is November to February.
This is the monthly average of the daily lowest temperatures for the months of November through February. You definitely won't need a level for this one.
The bottom line here is this: Yes, the average temperature in my little town has increased - without a doubt. A little bit. But as always, context is terribly important because it's all about when it has increased. And the answer to that is not in the summer. In fact, in the last century, our winters have warned up approximately 3½°C. This is a number that (we are told) is supposed to strike terror into the hearts of every human alive. In reality, this is only good news because it means our climate is becoming more livable, not less. And as I said, this is not just a local phenomenen, but a global one.
So when you hear those shrill cries this summer about how bad it's gonna be when we reach that mythical 2° above pre-industrial whatever, this is where we're going to see it. In fact, we're seeing it now and nothing - no amount of taxation, no windmills, or solar panels, or any kind of battery-powered anything has made one tiny scintilla of a difference to any of this. Nor will it.
I don't know about you, but if I can gain two or three, or even ten degrees on a cold winter's night and not have to start my truck 15 minutes before I want to leave in the morning, I'm not about to consider that any type of a catastrophe. Those who say such things are ignorant, deceived, or they're purposely trying to deceive you.
A kindered spirit can be found here, Ken... https://realclimatescience.com (note the permanent quote in the upper right corner of the page) 😊
So, they key takeaways from this are:
1. Anthropomorphic climate change is accelerating at an unprecedented rate.
2. There’s no need to worry about it because Ken lives in Canada.
Amazing.