Dr Mike Hulme has come out against the reductionistic science that is embodied in the fetish for “average global temperatures,” and alleged rises in this, as pushed by the globalists such as the UN. He notes that even more so than the use of GPD in economic forecasting, which has clear limitations as well, global average temperatures are an abstraction from what exists in the real world. As he says: “Global temperature does not cause anything to happen. It has no material agency. It is an abstract proxy for the aggregated accumulation of heat in the surface boundary layer of the planet. It is far removed from revealing the physical realities of meteorological hazards occurring in particular places. And forecasts of global temperature threshold exceedance are even further removed from actionable early warning information upon which disaster risk management systems can work. Global temperature offers the ultimate view of the planet—and of meteorological hazard—from nowhere.”
