Andrew Bolt: Latest US climate study proves less warming than scientists predicted

Many global warming predictions have already flopped, so why won’t our politicians and media reveal the scientific data proves the “climate crisis” isn’t real.

What would Australia’s media do if climate scientists checked their data on global warming and said: “Oops!”

Oops, there’s much less warming than we said.

Well, we know exactly what they’d do because they’re doing it now.

They’re ignoring the study last month by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that says the warming over the past 40 years is actually just 0.09 degrees per decade.

This stunning study hasn’t been reported here and read by the politicians wasting billions to stop a “climate crisis” that turns out not to exist.

You’ve probably already wondered why many global warming predictions flopped.

Tim Flannery was wrong to say “even the rains that fall will not actually fill our dams”.

Al Gore was wrong to warn that Arctic could be ice-free by 2013.

The University of East Anglia was wrong in 2000 to claim “children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”

Professor Tim Flannery. Picture: Dan Himbrechts

One reason is that the planet hasn’t warned as much as claimed by all of the climate models used by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Until now, NOAA, which runs the satellites measuring the world’s temperature since 1979, has said the planet’s mid-troposphere – the atmosphere to about 10km – is warming at an alarming 0.16 degrees every decade.

But NOAA scientists have now rebuilt their program which crunches that satellite data. They’ve fixed how they merge data from different satellites and dealt with “calibration drifting errors” in the time of day measurements are taken.

Al Gore was wrong to warn that Arctic could be ice-free by 2013. Picture: Joseph Eid

Result: a warming trend of just 0.092 per decade in the mid-troposphere, where the effects of global warming are most obvious, and measurements are less affected by the concrete and asphalt of cities.

(The scientists say the entire troposphere warmed 0.142 degrees a decade.)

This confirms what some experts have said for years.

In 2020, prominent climate scientist John Christy and economist Professor Ross McKitrick said IPCC climate models have run “too hot”.

McKitrick, an expert on the economics of global warming, says this new data shows there is no crisis, and “the cure is worse than the disease’.

As he told me on Tuesday: “If it turns out that the warming that’s connected to greenhouse gases is only … a little more than a degree per century then we just can’t justify the kinds of sacrifices that people are being asked to make.”

But how to make our politicians stop when even journalists won’t report this science?