It Depends on Who You Listen To

 

Comes a question  on Quora: Why was 2023 the hottest year on record.
Answer: Was it? It depends on who you listen to . . . kind of.
Let’s say you listen to NASA. Yeah, they say it was, based on average surface temperatures. An administrator there says this “confirms what billions of people around the world experienced last year; we are facing a climate crisis.”
I wish he wouldn’t use that word, “climate crisis.” It makes it sound like all the heat last year was brought about by climate change.
But, back to who says 2023 was the hottest year on record. NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information seems to think it was. Then, there’s the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Add them to the list. They, too, were fooled into believing 2023 was the hottest. And, the UN, of course, buys into the lie. But, what do you expect from them? They are such a liberal organization. They are the mother of all evil, the tower of misinformation. We need to get rid of them.
Ah, but here’s someone who’s a little more authoritive. Let’s listen to what he has to say. “Stop this nonsense of believing the press that lies to you,” says former research scientist Paul Noel, writing on Quora. “It is actually solidly verifiable that it was not a ‘hot year.’ “ Noel then argues that it is water temperatures that determine hot/cold years and the oceans experienced one of their 10 COLDEST years on record.
Is Noel right? Hmm; here’s an article in the Guardian that says “Record levels of heat were taken up by the oceans in 2023. . . . It is likely the oceans are now at their hottest in 1000 years.”
Still, 2023 is not to be all shifted off on climate change. A natural occurance, El Nino, was perhaps a bigger factor.

(Index -- Climate change info)