Once in a while I check in to see how humans are progressing toward their own extinction. I did so yesterday, which was fortunate because we've gotten some climate data updates lately.
Humans are making excellent progress in this regard.
NOAA updated the global temperature record. July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth (since 1880), coming in at +1.71°F with respect to the 20th century average. But what caught my eye was this illuminating data point—
The year-to-date globally averaged land surface temperature was 2.63°F above the 20th century average of 46.8°F. This value was the third highest for January–July on record, behind 2016 (+3.20°F) and 2017 (+2.74°F).
[Note — there was a large El Nino event which raised 2016 temperatures. 2017 was more in line with the current year. Last year did not reach this level (for the year +1.12°C (2.02°F).]
OK, those are land surface temperatures for January-July, taking away the moderating influence of the oceans.
In centigrade terms, 2.63°F = 1.46°C.
Got it? On land during the first half of the year, we are near the dreaded 1.5°C mark. The "ambitious" goal of the Paris conference in late 2015 was to keep global temperatures below that mark. Global temperatures including the oceans were the same as July (+1.71°F). But we don't live on the oceans. We live on the land. That's where the fresh water is. That's where most of the food is grown. And so on.
So as I said, excellent progress is being made. Naturally this progress is reflected in CO2 emissions as well. We now have the IEA emissions data for 2018, as reported by Reuters in March.
Global energy-related carbon emissions rose to a record high last year as energy demand and coal use increased, mainly in Asia, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday.
Energy-related CO2 emissions rose by 1.7 percent to 33.1 billion tonnes from the previous year, the highest rate of growth since 2013, with the power sector accounting for almost two-thirds of this growth, according to IEA estimates.
Well. My continuing prediction is that humans will be extinct or "functionally" extinct 200 years from now. And achieving this state of Nirvana will be so easy—all humans have to do is just be themselves and that future extinction event will take care of itself!
And by 2040, I'm predicting land surface temperatures will be ≥2°C every year. Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
This new data hasn't gotten much publicity, which is expected because from the normal anthropocentric point of view, all of this is really bad news. Still, one can find climate change discussed here and there. This has been a point of interest for me as time goes on—how will continuing human denial be expressed?
What observations show is that in the developed world climate change has become a political talking point for globalist elites, who wield this issue (among others) like a club. They want to beat up working people with it.
In short, climate change has become a class, power & status issue, just like nearly everything else humans do in the social realm.
Over the past 24 hours, you may have heard about Google Camp, a (formerly) top-secret event where some of the world's most influential people gathered in Sicily, Italy for a three-day private event to discuss important global issues. This year's topic was, naturally, climate change as we are in dire need of making concrete changes by 2030 before we are unable to repair irreversible catastrophic damages.
The problem? Celebrities and top global leaders—which reportedly included Katy Perry, Priyanka Chopra, Harry Styles, Leo DiCaprio, Prince Harry, and even former President Barack Obama—took yachts and private planes to get there, thus emitting an overwhelming amount of greenhouse gas into the air.
Attending "Google Camp" required 114 private jets to be exact. Elites use their alleged desire to address the climate problem to maintain their own power and status (i.e., this is their unconscious agenda). These elites do indeed want reductions in consumption—by the working class. This would not affect them of course because they already own most of the wealth. The "Yellow Vests" protests started in France when the globalist Macron raised fuel taxes, which mostly affected already-struggling working people. Macron's reason for doing this? Fighting climate change.
None of this has anything to do with solving the climate problem of course. Raising fuel taxes in France does nothing at all to fix the climate. But it does have the elite "virtue" of beating down the working class.
All of this despicable elite behavior (the moral hypocrisy, "Google Camp") amounts to class-based virtue signalling. It is also unfortunate that justified reactions to this appalling elite monkey business are equally clueless about the long-term climate threat (for example, watch here). In short, in all cases humans are behaving exactly as I've predicted they would.
Jesus wept.
Bonus Video — U.K. elites love Greta Thunberg, "a 16-year-old with multiple mental health issues campaigning to make the world a better place." The use of this girl as a shield for their hypocrisy is truly evil, if the word 'evil' still has a meaning in 2019. More virtue signalling. You can't make shit like this up.
