New Study Finds There Has Been No Warming In Central China Since 1770

Yet another region of the world has not been cooperating with the “global” warming narrative.

A new study‘s reconstructed temperatures show no net warming in Central China over the last 250 years.

The authors point out the observed temperatures from 1953-2020 closely align (r = 0.732) with the reconstructed 1953-2020 temperatures. This suggests the reconstructed temperature values extending to the 1770s may also align with the actual temperature trends.

“This indicates that our reconstructed sequence is very robust at high frequencies…”

Image Source: Zheng and Wilson, 2024

Of course, studies like this cue the expected “It’s-not-global!” protestations.

But if we consider the Mauna Loa site in the Central Pacific, a location assumed to represent the “global” atmospheric CO2 values, we observe a lack of a warming trend in recent decades here too.

Image Source: Harde, 2019

It’s interesting Mauna Loa is considered a “global” location for atmospheric CO2, but the temperature trends are simultaneously not “global.”