“It seems that not a day goes by when we don't hear ….” all sorts of cultish rubbish about climate; climate that should be the least of our worries. Rising power prices, ridiculous wind and solar, air conditioners being remotely shut down in Queensland because of power “shortages”; this morning “companies to ration power”, and raving political lunatics like Bowen.

That's what we should be hearing about.

The final paragraph of this piece says it all

The average politician is unaware of the scientific thermodynamic fact that renewable energy does not exist!

When you're dying of heat stroke in yet another record-breaking heatwave, it's not imaginary!

Neither is ambient temperature and demonstrable climate change. The latter we can address by transitioning to MSR thorium power systems ASAP. This will not tank the economy but give it an enormous boost.

This head buried Author is full of it and has laid it on thick!

Bah humbug, horse feathers and bird's fur.

What's next? Say, tobacco is harmless and tastes nice, and asbestos is a great building material, particularly in schoolrooms and public halls.

BS shovelled on by the shipload!
Alan B.

Alan B.

People need to be informed about the difference between weather, climate and how sunspots affect climate.

The author is right that averages of temperatures from different locations are not technically temperatures, but that doesn’t mean they are meaningless as a measure of climate change, as he implies. Consider for example these average monthly temperatures for England:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_United_Kingdom

They are averaged from several weather stations in different parts of England which will each have different local weather patterns and temperature variations – the North is generally colder and the West generally wetter, for example. Nonetheless, we can have a high degree of confidence that the data are meaningful when they show that temperatures are on average higher in the summer months than in winter. So long as the sites sampled are numerous enough to give statistically meaningful results and broadly spread geographically, and the sampling methods are consistent over time, the change in average temperature will give a representative picture of climate trends.

The McKitrick paper he cites is many years old and was in part prompted by apparent inconsistencies between surface and satellite measures of global average temperature, with the satellite measures showing a more modest warming trend than surface measurements. In those circumstances McKitrick may have been right to argue that there was no good reason to prefer one measure over another. However, subsequent analysis showed that the satellite measures were under-stating the extent of warming. These issues have now been resolved and the corrected satellite data show a similar trend to the surface data.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/climateqa/have-satellites-actually-observed-cooling/

I remember this as the corrected evidence made me change my mind from having been a climate agnostic to recognising that the balance of evidence supports the reality of anthropogenic global warming. That was almost 20 years ago

Renewables is misdefined.
Renewables have to be renewed every twenty five years.
That is their expected lifetime.
Then there will be mo argument about what is the cheapest !