Of course, let’s not forget that Warmists will also blame cooling on Mankind at times, as well
Global temperatures have cooled since 2016. Here’s why that’s normal.
It was only two years ago that a new record-warm global temperature was set, but things have already cooled off significantly. Temperature anomalies hit record peaks in 2016, but have been sliding since then. Global temperatures are still much warmer than normal, but according to NASA, the first quarter of 2018 (January-March) was the fourth warmest, behind 2015, 2016, 2017 and tied with 2010.
This is normal, of course. The world has not seen the last of global warming. The long-term upward trend in temperatures is due to manmade fossil fuel emissions, but natural processes that impact global temperature — like El Nino — still play a role. Sometimes they make things warmer and sometimes they make things cooler.
The current cooling episode is mostly due to a reversal of waters in the Tropical Pacific, which can modulate global temperature. Since the Pacific Ocean is our largest global body of water, what it does makes a big difference on global climate. A similar reversal followed the super El Niño in the late 90s — 1998 was the hottest year on record at the time in part because of the warm El Nino water pushing global temperatures over the brink. Earth went from having one of the strongest El Niño events on record (very warm waters in the central Tropical Pacific) to a few years of cooler waters thanks to a La Niña period.
See? Any increase in temperature is your fault for refusing to ride a bicycle to work instead of taking your fossil fueled vehicle, and let’s not even get into that cheeseburger you ate the other day. Ugh! But cooling is mostly caused by Nature doing its thing.
Much of Europe, Asia, and North America have been running much cooler than the super El Niño-fired winter that included the first quarter of 2016. Some of the recent cooling may also be tied to stronger North Atlantic high pressure “blocking†patterns that were the strongest in about eight years:
Such strong blocking pattern signatures may be associated with an incoming deep solar minimum period similar to what we experienced between 2008 and 2011, which helps to flush more cool to cold air into the middle latitudes during the winter seasons mainly (record snows in Europe and a very cool North American March-April period). This may be something to watch for next winter, but for now, this current “cooling†seems to be mostly influenced by La Niña and the ENSO cycle.
Question for the Cult of Climastrology: why can’t most of the warming be attributed to natural processes, the same way cooling is attributed to it?
Oh, right, that would be inconvenient after 25+ years of spreading awareness, blamestorming, scaring people, and would ruin a movement meant to increase taxation along with putting more and more people and private entities, along with economies, under the thumbs of centralized government.
