Both scientists, media and politicians rarely if ever present any of the data on the climate we can all find in a few minutes. I am not offering any reason for this, only doing what they appear unwilling or unable to do.
The claims made about our current and future climate appear frightening, but so far I have yet to find a single area which has been made worse by the slight warming we have experienced since the end of the little ice age in the 19th century.
Firstly here are the extreme weather events. There is no trend in any of them. If I find any newer ones I will continue to add them. I have added as many examples of each issue for corroboration and so as not to be accused of cherry picking.
Some people will say but extreme weather is increasing. This is explained here, as being down to a number of reasons based on poor data collection and reporting. Nonetheless the graphs below, confirmed by many statements directly from the IPCC means the official figures suggest no trends.
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2023/02/IPCC-Extreme-Weather.pdf
Floods.
Flood history in Spain.
Top graph is the change in the global annual average daily rainfall compared to a 30 year ‘normal’ value from 1961-1990 (i.e. Rainfall Anomaly) . The bottom graph compares this global average rainfall anomaly to the global average temperature anomaly
Fires.
Hurricanes.
Tornadoes.
Hot days.
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Snow.
Ice.
Polar bears.
Coral.
Food production.
Sea level.
The sea level has risen under a foot a century since the end of the little ice age, and after a slight acceleration may now reach a foot in the 21st century, caused mainly by melting land ice in the Antarctic, Greenland and glaciers, plus thermal expansion. The quarter of the Antarctic which has consistently melted is above a volcanic area.
Already we can see all the supposed consequences of warming have not occurred. Assuming the 1.5C or so warming we've had since 1850, some scientists claim it should be cooling now but it's warming because of man made CO2. There is no experiment showing gas composition affects atmospheric temperatures, it is all from equations and models. The direct measurements made of similar gas changes show a very low possible increase, while in fact warming creates CO2 as the ocean releases more.
Finally the fewer thick clouds in the air the more heat reaches the surface. The rise in temperature can be seen to follow the cloud cover (also called incoming solar radiation using the consequence rather than the cause), answering the question directly.
And that is before the adjustments creating the alleged rises.
Deaths.
90% of temperature related deaths are from cold. Furthermore only the old and weak die from natural heat, everyone will die of cold equally.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00023-2/fulltext
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/heat-waves-can-be-deadly-older-adults-aging-global-population-and-rising
https://climateataglance.com/climate-at-a-glance-temperature-related-deaths/
References:
Spanish floods. Benito, Gerardo & Barriendos, M. & Llasat, Maria & Machado, Maria & Thorndycraft, V.. (2005). Impacts on natural hazards of climatic origin. A. Flood risk. Preliminary Evaluation of the Impacts of Climate Change in Spain. 507-527.
Reduction in fires. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03838-0
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2015.0345
https://climateataglance.com/climate-at-a-glance-u-s-wildfires/
Palmer drought security index. https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/palmer-drought-severity-index-pdsi
https://climateataglance.com/climate-at-a-glance-temperature-related-deaths/
Improved food production.
https://www.cargill.com/story/in-4-charts-the-past-present-and-future-of-food-securityHurricanes.
https://climateataglance.com/climate-at-a-glance-hurricanes/Adjustments. https://granthaminstitute.com/2015/10/16/taking-the-planets-temperature-how-are-global-temperatures-calculated/
Polar bears. https://climateataglance.com/climate-at-a-glance-polar-bears-and-climate/
Coral. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56ba8d0e1d07c00ab0623bb8/t/65eac0f6f7c2fd3373086741/1709883660348/State+of+the+GBR+2024+final.pdf
https://www.aims.gov.au/monitoring-great-barrier-reef/gbr-condition-summary-2024-25
Cyclones. Ryan Maue https://climateataglance.com/climate-at-a-glance-global-tropical-cyclones/
Flood history in Spain.
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