I can certainly see some truth in the fact that as population has condensed and the demand for ever more information has produced many more weather stations in such populated areas. Populated areas are warmer, so more measurements in warmer areas raises the average measured disproportionately.
I recently read that the global temerature as measured from constantly moving (rather than stationary orbit) satellites has increased over whatever period they started from by 0.1 degrees C, within the allowed accuracy for the device. No change there then.
Since that sort of report immediately undermines a lot of what is reported as fact I will tend to view much of what is reported as fact with scepticism.
Scientific report funding will skew results. For scientists with decades of experience to be sidelined as happened with the Great Barrington Declaration proves the science industry does not have the integrity is pretends to have. Peer reviewed or not. You could present a report saying that recently a higher than average number of people died compared with over the last five years. Peer reviewed, all ok, everyone agrees that is fact, so oh my goodness we must act. But if you compared the same recent deaths over the last ten years then no such above average death rate, all peer reviewed, also fact, everybody calm down nothing to see here. Which one gets presented depends on the required narrative.
Before we moved to the Isle of Lewis we also looked at a house in the Pyrenees which was cheap and gorgeous. If the big lump of ice up north melts which might redirect the North Atlantic Drift to the south then the Isle of Lewis might be under an ice sheet. If the globe does warm up then the Isle of Lewis might have the same climate the Pyrenees does now, with north Africa too hot to live in and all those people head to the EU.
We moved to the Isle of Lewis, our front door is 7m above high tide. If our house gets submerged all world ports will have done too long before that, so unless we are 100% self sufficient for a wide variety of climates we won't survive anyway.
Reducing our impact is what everybody should be doing anyway and I'm sure there won't be many who aren't in some way or other. Fuel prices today I'm sure will mean lower thermostats (and deaths because of it), less miles driven, etc even by those who aren't actively interested in minimising.
Facts can be argued, belief is a bit trickier. But having minimised to the extent you are willing to do so, why worry about what you can't affect?
I recently read that the global temerature as measured from constantly moving (rather than stationary orbit) satellites has increased over whatever period they started from by 0.1 degrees C, within the allowed accuracy for the device. No change there then.
Since that sort of report immediately undermines a lot of what is reported as fact I will tend to view much of what is reported as fact with scepticism.
Scientific report funding will skew results. For scientists with decades of experience to be sidelined as happened with the Great Barrington Declaration proves the science industry does not have the integrity is pretends to have. Peer reviewed or not. You could present a report saying that recently a higher than average number of people died compared with over the last five years. Peer reviewed, all ok, everyone agrees that is fact, so oh my goodness we must act. But if you compared the same recent deaths over the last ten years then no such above average death rate, all peer reviewed, also fact, everybody calm down nothing to see here. Which one gets presented depends on the required narrative.
Before we moved to the Isle of Lewis we also looked at a house in the Pyrenees which was cheap and gorgeous. If the big lump of ice up north melts which might redirect the North Atlantic Drift to the south then the Isle of Lewis might be under an ice sheet. If the globe does warm up then the Isle of Lewis might have the same climate the Pyrenees does now, with north Africa too hot to live in and all those people head to the EU.
We moved to the Isle of Lewis, our front door is 7m above high tide. If our house gets submerged all world ports will have done too long before that, so unless we are 100% self sufficient for a wide variety of climates we won't survive anyway.
Reducing our impact is what everybody should be doing anyway and I'm sure there won't be many who aren't in some way or other. Fuel prices today I'm sure will mean lower thermostats (and deaths because of it), less miles driven, etc even by those who aren't actively interested in minimising.
Facts can be argued, belief is a bit trickier. But having minimised to the extent you are willing to do so, why worry about what you can't affect?