Has Climate Change Stolen Scientific Curiosity?

[rangerrebew]

Has Climate Change Stolen Scientific Curiosity?
by Andrew Sibley 6 July 2026 9:00 AM

Climate scientists and media correspondents have been getting excited by record temperatures once again. On May 26th, Kew Gardens and Heathrow reported 35.1°C, a new UK record for May, followed by a June record of 37.7°C (June 26th) at Lingwood, Norfolk. The media’s fear narrative, which is climate change reporting, has gone into overdrive with weather graphics turned to hot red; the contrived alarm reinforces the faith of true believers in the global warming message. With such zealous reporting over supposed connections to global warming, little attempt is made to consider and evaluate other possible factors. Climate change seems to have stolen scientific curiosity. Such climate fever was also seen in 2022, when Coningsby in Lincolnshire recorded a value of 40.3°C on July 19th 2022.

Other media reports have noted record global sea surface temperatures for the month of June, given the onset of a major El Niño episode. Carlo Buontempo, director of the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, commented that “With ocean temperatures at these levels and El Niño on the horizon, we are likely to see more temperature records fall in the coming months.” The UN Secretary General António Guterres stated with some alarm that “Earth is being pushed beyond its limits.” The Met Office has also reported that in 2026 England recorded the highest average mean temperature for June (at 17.1°C) in a record stretching back to 1884, while the UK as a whole was the second warmest (see also: Met Office – Marine Heatwave).

Following the record warm year of 2023, other likely causes for the record temperatures were discussed here, over and above the influence of the supposedly villainous greenhouse gases. Such factors include the growth of the urban environment, which also potentially impacts upon the accuracy of temperature readings where new buildings or roads encroach too close to the thermometer screen. The positive phase of the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation and volcanic eruptions can also play a significant part in global temperature changes. Recent improvements to the cleanliness of fuels used in the Far East, Europe and America, and in global shipping, have also led to a noticeable change to cloud cover in the Northeast Pacific and North Atlantic. These factors helped to warm the planet.

https://dailysceptic.org/2026/07/06/has-climate-change-stolen-scientific-curiosity/

[rangerrebew]

No, but the love of the money that can be made from it has.

[Smokin Joe]

Scientists are still curious. It goes with the territory. We till seek to understand and sort out the wonders of creation, on Earth and elsewhere, and try to figure out bit just the rules by which the Universe operates, but the 'cheat codes', too, the less than obvious (and sometimes counterintuitive) way things work.

If there is FTL travel (and the inertial buffers to permit us to go without ending up goo on the bulkhead) we will eventually discover it, provided civilization doesn't self-destruct first.

Unfortunately, people with agendas ranging from just stuffing their pockets and strutting about to diabolical control of others keep getting in the way.

[DefiantMassRINO]

No.  Curiosity is part of the human experience that pushes us to quantify and challenge the unknown.

Global Climate Change was communists presenting alrmist propaganda as pseudo-science.

When put to scientific review, many elements of Global Climate Change did not stand up to scrutiny.

Is the Climate Changing?  Yes, it never stops changing - its dynamic and has been a driving force of Darwinian evolution.

Is Climate Change man-made?  In the past, it wasn't.  It was happening before humans even existed.

The whole Communist point of Global Climate Change was to de-industrialize the United States and use supply chains to make the US a vassal state of the Chinese Communist Party.

It is not a coincidence that three things started happening simultaneoulsy after the fall of the Soviet Union - globalist free trade, economic rise of China, and Global Climate Change.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communist Party took on the mantle of being the pre-eminent evangelist of the Communist Revolution and to unseat America as the world's greatest superpower.