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As the media heightens concerns about record “hot” temperatures, a review of the science suggests our primary focus should be energy security.
Posted by Leslie Eastman
Despite elite views of coal as a dirty fossil fuel, global coal use is expected to reach a record high of 8.77 billion tons in 2024, marking the third consecutive year of record-breaking consumption. The surge was largely driven by increased demand in Asia, particularly China, India and Indonesia.
The elite media tried to tie these data to their claims that this year was the “hottest year on record.”
The International Energy Agency said on Wednesday that global coal use will reach an all-time high in 2024, a year that will almost certainly be the hottest on record.
Energy regulators expect global demand for coal to hit a record high for the third year running, despite calls for humanity to stop burning the dirtiest fossil fuels responsible for climate change.
Scientists warn that greenhouse gases that cause the planet to warm must be drastically cut to limit global warming to avoid catastrophic effects on the planet and humanity.
In early December, the European Union's climate monitoring agency Copernicus said 2024 was “virtually certain” to be the hottest year on record, exceeding temperatures set last year.
Climate fanatics ignore some considerations in their distressing analyses. First, most countries (or at least those not led by eco-activists who hate Western Civilization) will act in their own interests.
In other words, the iron law of electricity is in effect.
The surge in demand for hydrocarbon power generation has once again proven that electricity is the most important and fastest growing form of energy in the world.
This also proves what I call the “Iron Law of Electricity,” which is that “people, businesses, and countries will do whatever it takes to get the electricity they need,” which I also state as “when forced between dirty electricity When making a choice “with or without electricity, people will choose dirty electricity every time.”
But let’s consider the assertion that this was the hottest year on record.
How can these “experts” be so sure? Historical temperature data are often incomplete, with large areas lacking measurements. For example, in 1884, little or no data were available for much of South America, Asia, Australia, the Arctic, Canada, Russia, Greenland, and all of Antarctica. This fact was actually acknowledged in the 1970s when the media tried to stoke panic about the next ice age.
A 1978 New York Times article highlighted that a lack of data, particularly from the Southern Hemisphere, made it difficult to draw reliable conclusions about global temperature trends. Likewise, the British Climatological Research Unit's July 1884 map shows missing data in some important areas, further exacerbating the challenge of building an accurate global temperature map.
Station relocation or environmental changes around the station (such as urban development) may alter the readings. Some climate scientists have identified the urban “heat island effect” as a serious problem.
Ocean temperature must be taken into account, and determining average ocean temperature presents many challenges. The vast volume of the ocean makes comprehensive sampling difficult. Different regions and depths of the ocean can have very different temperatures. Past measurements were often limited to specific transport routes and provided incomplete coverage. The important role of ocean currents in climate has been ignored, and people have ignored carbon dioxide, an essential gas for life, making it the main culprit of the “climate crisis” myth.
But even if this year is the “hottest year on record,” is it really just due to carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels?
I would like to introduce the Bray Cycle and the Vortex Cycle, two important solar cycles that have been observed to influence Earth's climate over the long term.
The Bray Cycle has a period of about 2450 years, with the lowest point in the cycle being associated with cooler periods and glacial progression. The vortex cycle, also known as the Millennium Cycle Belt, is associated with the Sun's Grand Minimum, which occurs approximately every 1,000 years.
These cycles often affect climate through a variety of mechanisms:
- Changes in stratospheric ozone content and pressure.
- Changes in tropospheric weather patterns.
- Effects on wind patterns, ocean currents, precipitation, and global average temperature.
The interaction between these cycles can lead to more severe cold periods (when their lows coincide) and warm periods (when their highs coincide). Although the exact mechanisms are not fully understood, there is considerable evidence that these solar cycles play an important role in long-term climate change.
As many at Legal Insurrection have pointed out, correlation is not causation.
The only conclusion to be drawn from coal use data is that countries with smart leaders are paying attention to the energy needs of their citizens, and that climate problems are too complex to attribute to a gas that makes up 0.04% of the Earth's atmosphere.
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