I was quite cutting yesterday in my rebuke of a Russian news report from TASS, but I see now there was another such report released just a few minutes later, by the same news agency, on the basis of statements made by the same ‘expert’ – quite a well-known Russian climate scientist of impeccable reknown.
If I had seen that later report (I have read it now, just a few minutes ago) I would have tempered my comments a little more but I still stand behind the details I provided yesterday. Although I now have to add the comment that there is just a possibility he was mis-reported yesterday. News agencies, even the best ones, are not always innocent of such things, whether accidentally or by design.
So, I assume this new story may have emerged from the same occasion as yesterday’s earlier report…
‘Winter season in Russia may become shorter — expert’ – TASS – March 23, 2025
I am not going to let Research Director Roman Vilfand off the hook entirely, because my comments were correctly based on what was reported. But there are signs in this later item that (what is he? Professor? Doctor? I will address him as Director Vilfand – since that is known) the Director is aware that ‘the warmer period’ (his words, as reported) which we, and our world, have been travelling through, actually for several thousand years now, is actually but a ‘period’. Not an ‘age’ or ‘epoch’, or an endless ‘runaway climate catastrophe’, but a simple ‘dot’ or pixel on a screen depicting Earth’s climate history. I grant him that much background knowledge at least. And it is a good start. And, being a ‘period’, it will end.
Here is where we differ – and I don’t care how much experience in the field of climate he has amassed during his career, if he is not aware of this then he needs to look more closely at the data. Allow me to explain.
I have used this chart many times over the past, close to two years now, and it is in my view one of the most important climate records we have today. And I have no hesitation in using it again today, because it verifies everything I said yesterday and also what I have yet to say.
It depicts the last 5 million years of global average temperatures (and I hope you understand the importance of that measure – it is basically all we have from which to make reliable sense of past climate). The pale blue line represents the long-term moving average (the trend line) of falling average temperatures for our planet based on the annual averages data which surrounds it. Notice the line ends around 250,000 years ago, and it can be plotted to where we live today only in another 250,000 years of elapsed time. But since it seems that the annual plot points are spread fairly evenly above and below the current end of that line, any layman like me can say that today it is at pretty much the same level as 250,000 years ago. That rough estimate is further borne out by the lower chart which covers just the past 800,000 years, in greater detail.
Together, these two parts of the same chart form the best medicine we currently have for calming the distraught minds of fearful humans upset by the wild allegations of climate alarmists, and also scientists not careful enough with the words they choose to use to describe the true situation.
Take a moment to look at the cyclical motion of temperature ups and downs shown in the lower chart – and note two things.
First, and I am assuming you are just an ordinary person like myself – not some chart expert – this is just an expansion of the dark blue line in the upper chart starting from a little to the right of the 1 million years back point. With a little practice you can even identify the same point in various places at the same time interval in both charts.
Second, notice (at the right end of the lower chart) the labels ‘Last Ice Age’ and also ‘Holocene’. The Holocene is the current inter-glacial warm period in which we are now living. The ‘Last Ice Age’ is a bit of a misnomer, because we are still within the current Ice Age, which began millions of years earlier. But that was the name modern science gave to that brief period. It is better known as the ‘Younger Dryas’ period, at the end of which, modern humans began to emerge from their warm region confines in Africa as the ice which covered large parts of the Northern hemisphere melted away, freeing up migration pathways for our expansion to eventually populate all the continents of the planet.
I have much to say about the Holocene. Some of it only falling into place now, as a result of study these latest posts have necessitated. And some of it quite exciting news, which for any rational person will dispel all thought of climate catastrophe. But I will leave this here for now, since I want to get what I have already said, out there, quickly. I hope to finish another extended post tomorrow or the next day.
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