Comments by "Old Scientist" (@OldScientist) on "2023 was second warmest year on record for UK, says Met Office" video.

  1. This is nonsense. It was hotter in the recent and distant past. There is no satellite data before 1979, and there was no real network of temperature stations outside Europe and America before the 1950s, so "hottest ever" is not very long! It was much hotter in America in the 1930s. Heatwaves were more than 6 times worse with greater frequency and covering a larger area (Kunkel, 2022, EPA). Further back the Vikings grew barley on Greenland, which is impossible today. This is bull meant to scare people into giving up their prosperity. Satellite data shows the Earth is continuing to warm at around one-tenth of a degree Celsius per decade. If we didn't have thermometers we couldn't even notice it.
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