{"id":1182,"date":"2023-12-29T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T12:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2023\/12\/29\/tony-heller-confirms-global-warming\/"},"modified":"2024-01-08T20:40:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:40:50","slug":"tony-heller-confirms-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2023\/12\/29\/tony-heller-confirms-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Heller Confirms Global Warming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As the New Year rapidly approaches Tony Heller is up to his old Arctic tricks yet again. No doubt we\u2019ll get on to many of his hoary old chestnuts in due course, but although I may easily have blinked and missed it he appears to have a new trick up his voluminous sleeve. Providing empirical evidence that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u2019s global warming \u201cpredictions\u201d are correct!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a recent extract from \u201cSnow White\u2019s\u201d XTwitter feed:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyClimate?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TonyClimate<\/a> demonstrating yet again that either:<\/p>\n<p>1) He has no understanding of all things <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Arctic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Arctic<\/a>, or<\/p>\n<p>2) He understands well enough, but he pulls the wool over the eyes of his flock of faithful followers:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U3tbp2qrOU\">https:\/\/t.co\/U3tbp2qrOU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which is it Tony? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClimateBrawl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ClimateBrawl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FoFF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FoFF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yhBf4sEqJU\">https:\/\/t.co\/yhBf4sEqJU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u7wCQknwIy\">pic.twitter.com\/u7wCQknwIy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Snow White (@GreatWhiteCon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GreatWhiteCon\/status\/1740536175222223230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>By way of further elucidation, here is an extract from the IPCC\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/downloads\/report\/IPCC_AR6_WGI_TS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Technical Summary<\/a> of their AR6 Working Group 1 report:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>There is high confidence that the global water cycle has intensified since at least 1980 expressed by, for example, increased atmospheric moisture fluxes and amplified precipitation minus evaporation patterns. Global land precipitation has likely increased since 1950, with a faster increase since the 1980s (medium confidence), and a likely human contribution to patterns of change, particularly for increases in high-latitude precipitation over the Northern Hemisphere. Increases in global mean precipitation are determined by a robust response to global surface temperature (very likely 2\u20133% per \u00b0C) that is partly offset by fast atmospheric adjustments to atmospheric heating by greenhouse gases (GHGs) and aerosols\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover has decreased since at least 1978 (very high confidence), and there is high confidence that trends in snow cover loss extend back to 1950. It is very likely that human influence contributed to these reductions. Earlier onset of snowmelt has contributed to seasonally dependent changes in streamflow (high confidence). A further decrease of Northern Hemisphere seasonal snow cover extent is virtually certain under further global warming\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s also this from the North America section:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Nevertheless, it is very likely that some high latitude regions will experience an increase in winter snow water equivalent due to the effect of increased snowfall prevailing over warming-induced increased snowmelt.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A commenter on Twitter quibbled with my allegedly \u201ccherry picked\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.rutgers.edu\/snowcover\/chart_seasonal.php?ui_set=nhland&amp;ui_season=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rutgers Global Snow Lab<\/a> Northern Hemisphere snow cover chart for the month of May. He did however have the decency to come back with this:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rutgers-NH-Spring-Trend-2023.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"894\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rutgers-NH-Spring-Trend-2023-1024x894-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rutgers-NH-Spring-Trend-2023-1024x894-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rutgers-NH-Spring-Trend-2023-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rutgers-NH-Spring-Trend-2023-768x671.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rutgers-NH-Spring-Trend-2023-1536x1341.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rutgers-NH-Spring-Trend-2023.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Q.E.D? And N.B.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Arctic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Arctic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SeaIce?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SeaIce<\/a> video from the master of trickery and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JunkScience?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JunkScience<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1f632.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude32\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"><\/p>\n<p>For this I cannot wait! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WHHkxBktaK\">pic.twitter.com\/WHHkxBktaK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Snow White (@GreatWhiteCon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GreatWhiteCon\/status\/1740168304613052653?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Watch this space!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the New Year rapidly approaches Tony Heller is up to his old Arctic tricks yet again. No doubt we\u2019ll get on to many of his hoary old chestnuts in due course, but although I may easily have blinked and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}