21 years ago, The Guardian reported that by the year 2020:
1️⃣ The Bering Strait would be open year-round
2️⃣ European ships would routinely pass through the Arctic to reach Asia
3️⃣ Polar bear populations would decline
4️⃣ Snow would disappear from the tops of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya
5️⃣ Sea levels would start rising by 7 mm / year due to accelerated Greenland ice melt
How have these predictions fared?
Not well, they’re batting zero.
@ABridgen Stop the councils cutting the grass every month and the wild flowers will have a chance to flower which in turn will help the insects…. It’s not rocket science
Any modern commercial greenhouse will boost CO₂ levels artificially to between 1,000 ppm and 1,200 ppm.
This is nearly triple outdoor conditions worldwide. Heightened CO₂ in controlled glasshouse environments can supercharge crop yields by 20% to over 40%, pushing output to 120% or more for staples like tomatoes and peppers.
This is why greenhouse operators spend millions pumping it into their enclosures.
But this biological miracle isn't only found in greenhouses any more. It's happening in the open fields throughout the world. CO₂ has climbed to roughly 426 ppm, powering a green revolution across desert margins and formerly barren landscapes.
This global greening is visible from space and has been measured by NASA satellites. It covers twice the land area of the United States.
Recent satellite imagery of vast greening belts across Africa doesn't explain the relentless transformation of the desert core of the hyper-arid iconic Sahara.
These vast desert wastes - the largest on Earth - continue to expand southward due to dominant high-pressure systems.
Instead, forty years of satellite data confirms a genuine, multi-decade greening trend is occurring in the Sahel—the semi-arid transition zone directly to its south. Driven by warming Atlantic sea surface temperatures, the Intertropical Convergence Zone has shifted slightly northward, bringing increased and highly volatile seasonal rainfall to this boundary belt.
This presents a fascinating atmospheric contradiction: the Sahara is expanding due to global high-pressure shifts, while its southern edge in the Sahel is aggressively pushing back with a biological wave of new vegetation.
The longer-term 'Green Sahara' cycles are governed by 21,000-year planetary orbital wobbles, rather than modern atmospheric composition. What we are seeing today at the Sahara desert margin is a complex, dual-system tug-of-war.
It's a stark reminder that in the real-world, climate is rarely linear and never simple. It's always regional and too complex for a throwaway headline. https://t.co/afDPjfOB6P
125,000 years ago, the Thames was full of hippos.
2,000 years ago, the Romans grew grapes on the Scottish border.
Today, British councils force people to rip out their aircon because of "unprecedented climate change".
https://t.co/DhOjKIDFxN
Man hat man vor einer neuen Eiszeit gewarnt.
Es ist nichts passiert.
Man hat vor dem Untergang der Malediven gewarnt.
Sie wachsen.
Man hat vor saurem Regen gewarnt, der die Meere abtöten wird.
Es ist nichts passiert.
Man hat vor einem Klima-Doomsday und dem Point of no Return gewarnt.
Es ist nichts passiert.
Man hat vor einer eisfreien Antarktis gewarnt.
Der Eisschild wächst jedes Jahr um 68 Gigatonnen.
Man hat vor erschöpften Ölquellen gewarnt.
Die Förderung läuft besser als je zuvor.
Man hat vor dem Weltuntergang im Jahr 2000/2005/2010/2015/2020/2025 gewarnt.
Ich sitze hier und tippe diesen Text.
Keine Prognose der Klimavoodoo-Wissenschaft hat sich jemals als wahr herausgestellt.
Aber jede einzelne hat zu höheren Steuern geführt.
Merkwürdig.