We’re dooooooooomed!
(Reason) Stress – this is a rumor. However, the rumor says that next week Richard Muller will release the latest Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature analysis of surface temperature data going back as far as the 18th century. Muller, once skeptical of the temperature records that showed considerable global warming in recent decades, set up BEST to reanalyze that data. In 2011, BEST’s preliminary analysis of land temperature data found: ….. (snip)
The rumors say that new BEST reanalysis will show that global average temperature has increased by 1.5 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times and will suggest that most of the warming since the 1950s is the result of increased greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
Oh, God, not 1.5C!!!!!!!!! Things will spontaneously catch on fire over a whopping 2.3 Fahrenheit increase since pre-industrial times, a rise that is pretty much normal in terms of the historical record. The Little Ice Age supposedly was down about 4 degrees, which destroyed crops and paved the way for the Black Plague, huge long wars, revolutions, etc.
Tom Nelson points to this comment by Paul
*golf clap*
I find myself not caring… almost at all… about the fact that the “earth” has warmed 1.5 celcius since a randomly chosen prior date.
Well, come on, Paul, Warmists need to keep the people in fear (which isn’t working too well, considering that climate change tends to poll dead last on the list of concerns) and keep the money train going.
