Every leftie move to grab more power and money begins with a cooked up “emergency.”
Matt Walsh remarked on Ilhan Omar’s idiotic tweet, “If you believe that we have precise daily temperature records dating back 120 thousand years, then this claim may seem credible. But if you are approximately smarter than a sea sponge then you know that this is hysterical bullshit.”
I would agree, except I think it would be an insult to the Squarepants family. Below, I have put together a brief history lesson on this topic. In 1593, Galileo Galilei invented a rudimentary water thermoscope, which for the first time allowed temperature variations to be measured. It did not measure temperatures.
In 1612, the Santorio Santorio put a numerical scale on his water thermoscope. While it measured temperature, it was not very accurate. The Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand II, used alcohol instead of water, but it still wasn’t very accurate. It was not until 1714, that Daniel Fahrenheit invented the first accurate mercury thermometer and, in 1724, introduced the standard temperature scale that bears his name. But it wasn’t until 1880, that anyone began systematically recording global surface temperatures.
We need to keep in mind that, when the leftie news says, “The hottest day in recorded history,” they are not talking about the past 6,000 years, but rather the past 143 years. In addition, we need to be aware that in 1880 the globe was coming out of what is known as the Little Ice Age. IOW, the warming we’ve been experiencing is part of a normal global trend. It only looks alarming, because they start the graph during an unusually cold period.
While it is true that we don’t have accurate surface temperature records from long ago, it is also true that various physical (e.g., tree rings) and historical records (e.g., agricultural, trade and population data) allow us to roughly estimate climate conditions. And these sources show that the Earth was both markedly warmer and markedly colder than it is now:
- The Roman Warm Period (ca. 250 BC to 400 AD)
- The Medieval Warm Period (ca. 1000 AD to 1200 AD)
- The Little Ice Age (ca. 1300 AD to 1800 AD)
During all of those periods, humanity thrived. The very idea that fossil fuels are driving climate change or that a relatively small change in global temperature averages will wipe us out and kill the planet are beyond ludicrous.
- https://notthebee.com/article/ilhan-omar-roasted-idiotic-unintentionally-hilarious-tweet
- https://www.thoughtco.com/the-history-of-the-thermometer-1992525
- https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/global-temperatures
- https://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Extremes/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Warm_Period
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0031018265900040?via%3Dihub
- https://thefederalist.com/2015/01/19/global-warming-most-dishonest-year-on-record/
- https://www.britannica.com/story/what-was-the-little-ice-age
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