Comments by "Ra Ra" (@RaRa-eu9mw) on "2023 is the hottest year on record, but are there reasons to be cheerful? | The Climate Show" video.

  1.  @standfortruth4568  This is false. The WMO only accepts readings taken a meter off the ground, as has been the case since the 60s. The public can even visit weather monitoring stations and see ourselves that the boxes are indeed a meter off the ground.
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  2. Because of the upwards trend, yes.
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  3. This is false. People claimed as such on twitter but there weren't actually any arrests.
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  4.  @robrs210  The wildfires mentioned in this video were in Italy and Spain.
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  5. It doesn't include any pre-history. The earth was very much hotter when covered in magma. It does include the period when Romans grew grapes in the UK though - it's much hotter now than it was then.
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  6.  @CJones-99  lol. I do like when commenters try and make up reality as they go like this. Makes them look proper silly.
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  7. It is for all of human history.
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  8.  @CJones-99  We do. Google "yorkshire vineyard" for loads of examples. We actually have more vineyards now than the Romans had.
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  9.  @CJones-99  Yes we do. Google "yorkshire vineyard" for loads of examples.
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  10. 2005 was cooler than 2023.
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  11. How so cherry picking?
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  12.  @johndodson8464  We use things like ice cores to identify temperatures well into the past.
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  13.  @johndodson8464  Ice has different levels of certain chemical elements depending on the temperature it froze at. By analysing the composition of ice, we can tell the temperature. If we know when the ice formed, we know the temperature at that time.
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  14. Yeah. The hottest year on record for the UK was last year. Probably not going to beat it this year.
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  15.  @Ana05702  Yep. The record hottest temperature was set last year. 32 is closer to the average for the UK (though still above it)
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  16. It's debatable. Most harm from the heat is indirect - for example a huge crop failure rate.
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  17.  @sonofsomerset1695  I was referring to the heat. The increase in extreme temperatures causes serious issues for crops. The 40 degree temperatures we had in the UK last year led to a 30% crop failure rate, which in turn fed into the cost of living crisis as food prices rocketed.
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  18.  @sonofsomerset1695  The issue is that they're happening more frequently and at a higher intensity (last years being the hottest on record) and as this happens it means more and more crop failure, which in turn results in rocketing food prices.
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  19.  @sonofsomerset1695  I do wonder where this "the IPCC report says no increase in extreme weather" thing comes from. I've heard a few people say it now, even though every IPCC report says the exact opposite.
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  20.  @sonofsomerset1695  Honestly I've been amazed by the accuracy of the models. The first IPCC report in the 80s predicted we would hit 1.2 degrees of global warming between 2020 and 2025, and sure enough we hit it in 2021.
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  21.  @sonofsomerset1695  I don't quite understand - he could really do with going into more detail on what those "observations" lines mean. The WMO data shows very clearly that the climate model prediction was pretty much bang on. We hit 1.2 degrees warming in 2021, and hit 0.9 degrees warming in 2014, but his "observations" lines are down at 0.2 degree warming for 2014. Weird.
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  22.  @sonofsomerset1695  The whole "climate gate" thing got debunked. There were 7 different independent inquiries into it and every single one found nothing untoward had happened. It was fake news.
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  23.  @sonofsomerset1695  All the subsequent reports on this showed that no - they didn't fudge any data. The original articles on it just took the emails out of context. Most serious climate sceptics do not still talk about the "climate gate" story - it was made up.
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  24. The temperatures were not higher in the 1930s.
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  25. Yes, 2022 and 2023 were the hottest UK years on record.
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  26. We have reasonably accurate historical temperature techniques which tell us the temperature back around 120,000 years.
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  27.  @johndodson8464  Excellent response. Nothing can ever beat the "fingers-in-the-ears" approach.
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  28. I always think the vineyard thing is curious - do people saying this not realise there are more vineyards in North England today than there were in the Roman Empire?
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  29.  @johndodson8464  Then I guess if we're measuring temperature in number of vinifera vineyards, it is warmer today.
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  30.  @johndodson8464  Which species? Almost all vineyards (95%!) are vinifera.
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  31. This December is actually one of the warmest we've ever had. Provisional data suggesting it may be a record warm December.
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  32.  @24SparrowJack  Where exactly are we talking about?
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  33.  @robertmarmaduke186  The IPCC doesn't do these measurements at all. The WMO does.
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  34. where are they hidden
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  35. 2nd hottest, with the hottest being 2022...
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  36. The temperature records show their predictions coming true though?
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