2023, A Year Of Record Cold; Australia’s Barrier Reef Is Still Great; + ‘Winter Deaths’ Surge In Scotland
2023, A Year Of Record Cold
People are quick to forget (if they ever know at all), and are blindly accepting of whatever narrative the establishment lays before them.
Case in point is global boiling. Many, many all-time low temperature records have fallen this year, they’ve just gone unreported, and so the dutiful masses, the paint tossing tossers among us haven’t been privy to the full picture.
Unelected agencies routinely label the situation a “code red for humanity”.
But the data say no cause for alarm, whether that be climate-related deaths, wildfire data, Great Barrier Reef coral cover, polar bear numbers , Arctic/Greenland ice, or record cold…
A low of –62.7C (-80.9F) was logged in Tongulakh, Siberia on Jan 18, breaking the area’s all-time record.
All-time record-setting cold was sweeping Western, Central and Southern Asia a the same time too, felling national all-time record cold temperatures in the likes of China, Pakistan and Japan:
On Feb 4, Halifax airport, Nova Scotia logged its coldest wind chill ever recorded: -43C (-45.4F) besting 1967’s -41C (-41.8F).
Also in February, Mount Washington, NH reported a wind-chill of -78C (-108F) — the coldest reading ever recorded in the United States, with ‘frostquakes’ reported by the NWS Caribou, Maine. Just like earthquakes, frostquakes generate tremors, thundering sensations. These are caused by sudden cracks in frozen soil or underground water when it’s very cold.
Feb freezes struck Boston, too, where the public school system was closed down. The mercury here bottomowed-out at -23C (-9.4F), shattering a record set more than a century ago (the 19C (-2F) set in Providence, Rhode Island in 1918). Record lows simultaneously swept the likes of Albany, Augusta, Rochester, and Worcester, along with many others
February outbreaks engulfed South America, too. Cities across Paraguay, for example, broke monthly low temperature records, as did at least 30 cities in Argentina.
The UK endured its coldest March temperature since 2010 when Kinbrace dropped to -15.2C (4.6F) on March 7.
More than 100 weather stations across Australia registered their coldest May minimum temperatures on record.
Finland’s lowest-ever June temperature was posted by Enontekiö Kilpisjärvi Saana, Lapland on June 1 — the –7.7C (45.9F).
Extreme cold arrived unusually-early to Antarctica this winter continuing the theme of the past few years. Temperatures plunged below -75C (103F) from the beginning of May, which is historically early.
Australia’s Barrier Reef Is Still Great
Like the now stonewalled scares of extinct polar bears and an ice-free Arctic, the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) has gone the same way. MSM-peddled doomsday predictions have once again been proven pitifully inaccurate (yet we still can’t question them).
The record-breaking growth reported in 2021-22 has been sustained in the latest annual period (to May 2023). The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) recently reported that regional average hard coral cover in 2022-2023 was similar to last year.
No bleaching, no cyclones hitting the reef, no crown-of thorns starfish attacks — an alarmists worth nightmare: no alarm.
And this isn’t me ripping from a position of hindsight, this was something the realists have been pointing out for years now.
Realists such as Dr. Peter Ridd, formerly of James Cook University (JCU) in Queensland, who lost his job for daring to wade against the AGW Party’s bought-and-paid-for consensus by succinctly explaining, with data, that fears of ‘global warming’ somehow ‘killing the reef’ are wholly unfounded and are based on junk models and ideologically-driven horseshit (to paraphrase).
In short, Dr. Ridd wrote an opinion piece in the Jan, 2018 issue of ‘Marine Pollution Bulletin’ which challenged the prevailing understanding of the state of the Great Barrier Reef. The essay drew attention to what Ridd argued was a “reproducibility crisis” and also to the validity of specific papers on the topic. Moreover, he recommended a new review body for “policy science”.
Following the piece, Dr. Ridd’s employers JCU took a number of disciplinary measures against him, and ultimately he was dismissed. It didn’t stop there, though. Oh no. Even to this day, Ridd’s character is routinely assassinated, his professional reputation tarnished, and his funds drained (via fighting this BS in court). And for what…? What great crime did he commit…? Well, in today’s world of controlling agendas and narrative-driving fraud, Dr. Peter Ridd’s crime was ‘speaking the truth’.
At the risk of writing the most redundant statement on the web: today’s scientific establishment has been corrupted, from funding to the peer-review process. Those scientists at the higher echelons, the ones effectively in control of a given field, are often nestled snugly within the pockets of the elites, those forces on-high with big agendas and a limitless bankroll to push them.
Frustratingly, there is no accountability; doubly-frustratingly, despite the clear and obvious reality, the same old bought-and-paid-for conclusions and EOTW projections continue to be parroted by ignorant activists that haven’t yet worked-out that they’ve been led down the garden path.
“I have been saying for some time that many of our science institutions have become totally untrustworthy,” said Peter Ridd in piece for the spectator.com.au. “By its willful abandonment of quantitative analysis, the AAS [Australian Academy of Science] has destroyed its reputation as a source of useful scientific advice.”
‘Winter Deaths’ Surge In Scotland
Cold should be cause for concern, more so than it is.
Low temperatures kill 10x more than high temperatures and –for whatever reason– cold-related deaths are increasing globally — a fact the agenda-forwarding Lancet recently did their best to distort:
The number of winter deaths in Stirling, Scotland reached their highest-ever level in 2022/23, according to new statistics.
The National Records of Scotland (NRS) collates the number of deaths recorded in the four months between December and March (any-reason deaths). In that four month period for 2022-23, there were 399 winter deaths, the highest number in available NRS data, with the next highest being the 387 deaths in 2020/21, during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
Last winter was deadlier than the ‘COVID winter’, but nobody seems to care.
As expected, the highest recorded increases coming in the oldest two age groups.
Stirling is reflective of the broader picture in the data across Scotland, with the national total of 24,427 winter deaths in 2022/23 some 11% higher than the previous winters and the highest toll in 30 years.
“Today’s figures show that deaths in winter are at their highest level since 1989/90,” said Daniel Burns, Head of Vital Events Statistics at National Records of Scotland.
“Winter months see more deaths than other times of the year … [with] older age groups are consistently the most affected by increased mortality in winter.”
Winters claim more lives than summers.
Cold deaths far outstrip heat deaths wherever you look.
And they’re increasing, despite a nosedive in climate-related deaths.
Go figure, alarmists.
The story you’re so eagerly telling suffers a number of catastrophic plot holes.
Weve just experienced a blast of cold in South Africa as well. Weve gone from spring back into a very cold winter. People just vant fathom what is causing this…
Every piece about excess deaths should mention the covid vaccines. It’s far from obvious what percentage of excess deaths these have caused, but prior to 2020 very few countries saw any excess deaths. There’s been relatively few deaths from/with covid since winter/spring 2021 but the number of excess deaths continues to climb. In science correlation doesn’t always mean causation but I can’t think of any other reason for excess deaths in all age groups and lots of different countries.
Elephant in the room — but we all see it.
We climate alarmists know we said twenty years ago that climate change meant ever-warming winters and that snow would become a thing of the past. In our wisdom we have further refined our consensus on climate change to understand that climate change means occasional bouts of very cold weather and deep snowfalls. We are ALWAYS correct and never in doubt. One must never question the consensus. It’s SCIENCE.
Perfect summation.
Somehow, that made my brain hurt.
Not to mention that climate is now only 30 or so years instead of the thousands to millions of years that climate meant before “climate scientists” had it redefined. That is very seldom mentioned in the “climate” stories in the news.
It is also very seldom mentioned that the geological climate of the Earth is a 2.56 million-year ice age, named the Quaternary Glaciation, in a warmer but still cold interglacial period that alternates with very cold glacial periods.
Well in Australia it IS a thing of the past – outside the alpine areas that is. Remember that snow used to be a regular occurrence in low-lying towns like Adelong, and even occurred in Wagga Wagga /Albury on many occasions – it just doesn’t happen anymore to these low altitudes. Please stop with this American-centric view and look at other countries as well. America isn’t the world.
^Whoops I meant to reply to Terry Shipman above who was mocking the ‘snow is a thing of the past’ fact.
Fact?
Yes – fact. Snow rarely occurs below 400m in NSW nowadays, whereas prior to the 1960s it used to occur nigh on every year. Winters have also warmed more than 2 C (most notably at Tumbarumba and surrounds).
Australia isn’t the whole world either. How good are the climate liars predictions? Look at https://extinctionclock.org/ the predictions are in due-by date order with the earliest at the bottom. For each of these predictions by the liars, the deniers said they wouldn’t happen. So far 51 have reached their due-by date and the score is climate liars 0% right, climate deniers 100% right. That looks bad enough for the liars, but if you gave the village idiot a coin to toss to decide whether the predictions would come true or not, the village idiot would have been right 50% of the time, so how come the liars who claim to be experts do so much worse than a village idiot? The only answer that I can come up with is that the liars know their predictions won’t come true, but they are making them anyway just to scare people into following their political agenda which is the destruction of western industrial capitalist democracies.
This year was the first time since 1996, or maybe 1997, that patches of snow in Australia lasted through until the first significant snowfall of winter, yet snow is a thing of the past.
Low-level snow is a thing of the past. I don’t care about alpine snow, where snow is as common as sand in the Sahara.
You still here with your shitty anecdotes…….Tumbarumba, centre of the universe hahahahaha. Please…..
Here a a couple of links to Lancet articles about how many more people die from cold or cool weather.
This recent study shows that the cold weather we have every year causes about 4.6 million deaths a year globally mainly through increased strokes and heart attacks, compared with about 500,000 deaths a year from hot weather. We can’t easily protect our lungs from the cold air in the winter and that causes our blood vessels to constrict causing blood pressure to increase leading to heart attacks and strokes.
‘Global, regional and national burden of mortality associated with nonoptimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study’
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00081-4/fulltext
This study from 2015 says that cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather and that moderately warm or cool weather kills far more people than extreme weather. Increased strokes and heart attacks from cool weather are the main cause of the deaths.
‘Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multi-country observational study’ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)62114-0/fulltext
An obvious retort to anyone spouting ‘climate change’, to any 30 hour event, is ‘what has your climate changed to?’ Are you now tropical, or desert, or maybe polar? Maybe you have had a sudden elevation, and are now montane?
“Occasional bouts…of very cold weather and deep snowfalls…
WHAAAT? Lets see what “climate” is 5 years from now.
I am not seeing “occasional bouts” of snow. I’m seeing gradually INCREASING bouts of snow PLUS colder weather. I’m tired of truth being re defined, words twisted to mean something else, until we are living in cognitive dissonance. In other words, as you are freezing to death while wearing your shorts and bikini swimsuit in minus 10 degrees F, constantly maintaining that it is global warming and cold and snow do not exist, well, you deserve it. You are insane! You have given your mind over to some demonic “thing”.
You have given your mind over to some demonic “thing”.
Well said, and it is very hard to reach people who have done the above, because delusion is part of the package–but not impossible, so don’t give up, especially if it’s someone you love.
Prayer works.
The sun and the moon change tides, the other planets operate on war , economics etc. Depends where they are on the ecliptic and degrees. What has been will be again.
It is different in different parts of the world. Western Europe is much warmer now, and more very dry or very wet.