The sad decline of the Mail continues apace, with this latest juvenile story:
Forecasters warn 2019 is expected to be one of the hottest years of all time.
The Met Office estimates average global temperatures for 2019 will be 1.10C above pre-industrial levels, putting it among the five hottest years ever.
It is close to the record-breaking 2016, when temperatures were 1.15C above the 1850-1900 period.
The Met Office said the highs are the result of climate change caused by greenhouse gases.
This summer was the joint hottest on record for the UK, with the year’s average temperatures around 0.96C above pre-industrial levels.
One of the hottest years of all time? Among the five hottest years ever?
Does whoever wrote this drivel not know that the Met Office’s measurements of global temperatures only started in 1850? Apparently, that was when the world began.
Do they not know that 1850 was at the end of the Little Ice Age when global temperatures plummeted?
Then, to make matters worse, the Mail conflates last summer’s heat wave (a weather event far from unprecedented) with global climate.
And finally, they manage to illogically predict that next summer will also be a scorcher, even though the UK has gone through a decade of disappointing summers.
And as the Met Office figures themselves show, global temperatures have been rising steadily since around 1910, long before AGW had any effect, with a mid-century temperature drop coinciding with the cold phases of the AMO and PDO.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut4/diagnostics.html
As for the Met Office’s forecast itself, they predict a temperature anomaly next year of anything between 0.98C and 1.22C above “pre-industrial” levels.
But what they fail to point out is that temperatures are still artificially high because of the lingering effects of the record El Nino of 2015/16, as there has been no major La Nina activity since to offset it.
Such a wide margin of error makes the whole thing pretty much useless anyway.
But I would suggest that there would be a much greater concern around the world if the Met Office was forecasting temperatures were going to return to the “normals” of pre-industrial times!
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Didn’t they have an article about Pemex drilling too deep and releasing Satan from Hell? That would cause some warming.
That might explain where some of Venezuela’s leaders came from.
Just another liberal news outlet spewing its usial daily lies no different then the New York Pravda(Times)all these liberal Birdcage Liners/Parrots Toilets/Fish Wraps spew the usial lies from The Daily Junk Mail
Any temperature chart that doesn’t show the 1930’s as hot or hotter than today is lying. Fake news.
Then again, after surviving one of the coldest winters in memory, which actually does kill people, maybe a little warmth won’t seem so bad.
The Daily Mail just jumped the shark tank. The end is near. Soon “It will be one of the warmest years in the top 100” .
“1.10C above pre-industrial levels”
OR, 1.10C above Little Ice Age levels.
Is this Met Office the same Met Office that predicted those BBQ summers?