Cooling August trends and stunningly early snows in Europe contradict global catastrophist warming claims.
Recently we heard reports of the earliest snowfall in Greta Thunberg’s Sweden in 20 years, and “stunning” snowfall in Norway.
So it’s been strange to hear during these hysterical days of Fridays for Future (FFF) how snowfall is supposed to disappear even in the dead of winter.
Yet, Sweden and Norway’s early snowfall really should not come as a surprise when we look at the temperature trends for late summer in Sweden and elsewhere.
The data are telling us that the opposite is happening: In reality, autumn seems to be arriving earlier in Scandinavia.
Fall arriving sooner in Scandinavia
Using the untampered data from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) from the 6 Swedish stations that offer close to complete datasets, we see that August has been seeing a late summer cooling trend across the Nordic country:
And when we look at the untampered data at stations in Europe, we find that there has not been any warming over the past recent decades.
Some people are just not being honest.
No warming Norway in August
Looking at August mean temperatures in other countries in Europe, we see the same similar trends. Let’s look at Norway. Plotted are 11 stations where the JMA data are near complete, since 1996:
In Norway, we find that a majority of the stations show cooling or steady temps for August. These results defy the spectacularly hyped statements we often hear from the Fridays for Future Fanatics (FFFF).
No real August trend in Portugal
Next, we look at the Atlantic coastal country of Portugal. Here I’ve plotted the 5 stations that have near-complete data, going back to 1997:
In Portugal, some stations have warmed while others have cooled. In total, there’s been no statistically significant trend.
30 years of August cooling in Belgium
In Uccle in Belgium, the mean monthly temperature for August 2019 was 19.2℃. Here we observe that there’s been no warming trend for August since 1989.
Luxembourg cooling
Finally, we look at a station Belgium’s tiny neighbor of Luxembourg: Here the mean monthly temperature for August 2019 was 19.5℃, and so there has been no warming since 1990 for August.
Though the globe has warmed over the 20th century, and it may be warming a bit this century, the data shows that it doesn’t resemble the scary, panic-fanning tales we’ve been hearing from the hysterical FFF crowd.
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Excellent article.
Interesting information about temperature trends in Sweden and about the early snow.
Readers of Climate Change Dispatch all know that 1997 to 1999 was very warm globally due to an ultra strong El-Nino. Climate alarmists love to use 1998 as a cherry-picked endpoint in their graphs, because it exaggerates their point. I notice that 3 of the 5 graphs for this article use about 1998 as their start. Of course you can show a downward trend if you start with a very warm year. An alarmist could accuse this writer of cherry-picking his start point. If the graphs started a few years earlier, they would have unarguable credibility, which they don’t have now.
Excellent point. The simple unvarnished truth will win out in this battle, using the same methods the alarmists use will only serve as ammunition for them. The weather itself is slowly, inexorably putting the lie to global warming, people are waking up en-mass, looking out the window, and seeing the truth for themselves. In the case against global warming, the truth is self-evident, and will win out. Cherry picking and data manipulation is unnecessary, and can be weaponized against the truth.
She leaves to frown at the USA so the hot air is gone and it snows . Makes perfect sense . No we didn’t wreck her childhood but adults did and they live real close .
I honestly feel sorry for her .
When she finds out the truth it’s going to get ugly .
I have to wonder if that one station in Portugal which showed all the warming if it’s location hasn’t been compromised by heat-island effect since none of the others show any real increase.
That one station in Portugal is where all the Democrats reside.
More inconvenient data — that will be ignored.
Or twisted like this: See! Climate change (weather) is real!!
But if they SAY that climate change is real and caused by humans a million times, then who can refute the scientific truth?! Just repeat after me…
Oh thank goodness kids will still know what snow is .
What we do know is …climate changes …when it wants to
and we little humanoids have next to zero impact .
It’s nice when the kids get to play in the snow instead of
going to adult staged propaganda events .