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If May 2024 was the warmest May on record by average temperature in the UK it was because the minimum temperature was comparatively high. The maximum temperature was ranked 5ᵀᴴ highest (since 1908).

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@jdpoc Nice picture. You realise that the vast majority of that is steam and not smoke right?

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@BladeoftheS What happens when it expires in 20-30 years? Where will all the GRP and concrete go?

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@WarrenEnMkts @johnrhanger China will be more than happy to feed the “renewable” fantasy with their products manufactured in a v ungreen way because it’s still money in their pocket. Meanwhile they burn coal.
Until activists glue themselves to roads in Beijing I will take their cause with a pinch of salt.

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@WarrenEnMkts @johnrhanger That sounds a lot like wishful thinking. The reductions in the UK will largely be down to corporations moving operations abroad because they cannot compete globally if they operate within the UK.
Until China, US, and India impose equivalent restrictions this will continue.

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@WarrenEnMkts @johnrhanger Did you include manufacturing emissions that took place outside the UK building the devices?
What happened to emissions from China during the same time frame?
UK global contribution was less than 1%. So a 2.4% reduction on that is, globally speaking, meaningless.

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@george_neally @WeatherProf That is a conjecture based on the assumption that very small concentrations of carbon dioxide can cause commensurate temperature rises. However my question was does the resolution of ice core data support the assertion regarding unprecedented rate of increase. What do you think?

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@WeatherProf @WeatherProf do you have a response regarding the resolution of the data?

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@WeatherProf Does the resolution of the ice core data support the assertion “unprecedented rate of change”?
How do you know the historic temperature did not change as fast as it is changing today?

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@JeromeFosterII What will happen to the turbine blades and concrete foundations when the turbines are retired?
Where is the neodymium supplied from?

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@MrMatthewTodd @MrMatthewTodd do you have a response for why you chose to post a graph with a false origin to exaggerate the rise?

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@MrMatthewTodd Note that the y-axis for CO₂ has 120 as its lowest value, that is a deliberate choice to exaggerate the recent rise.

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@MrMatthewTodd @Plausible_world @MrMatthewTodd do you have a response for why you chose to post a graph in Celsius and not kelvin?

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@MrMatthewTodd @Plausible_world Left graph should be plotted in Kelvin not Celsius. No serious scientist talks only in Celsius.
There’s a good reason an absolute T anomaly is only ever presented in C.
1°C seems dramatic on uncalled graphs.
But 1 K invokes the mean surface T of 288 K
That’s 1/288=0.3%

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@LeonSimons8 @NASA @LeonSimons8 do you have a response to my question - do you find an increase of 0.42% alarming?

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@LeonSimons8 @NASA So you mean to say that an increase of 0.42% is alarming?
Taking the original incident value of 240.6 W m⁻² as 100%

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@davidasinclair @davidasinclair wondering if you have a response to my question?

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@davidasinclair Why does your graph have a logarithmic time axis?

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@PaulSchleifer Moreover your data begins at 2004 giving you a 20 year range which is bizarre if you genuinely believe that to be sufficient to make any kind of assessment about what is happening to long term trends.

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@PaulSchleifer “Quadrupling” is essentially a percentage (or ratio) statement - you just used the 2004 accumulation value as your denominator.
My calculation shows that the growth is likely statistically insignificant and likely explained by ordinary oscillations.