Ventures of an ex indie game developer

Climate too?!?!?

I looked at an interview with a guy who seemed very knowledgeable about a lot of things, including climate change. He claimed that the current state of affairs is overly alarmist, as the climate changes we humans have contributed to are not as profound as some researchers would have us believe.

I was skeptical, but as usual I was open to the possibility. The best way, I figured, was to check it myself using data from Sweden's institute of meteorology. That way we can be pretty sure the data hasn't been tampered with, as whistle blower and 2014 U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal winner John Bates exposed within NOAA in February 2017.

So I wrote a small program, probably took me four hours, which downloads all mean air temperature data from all the SMHI's stations and checks how much the temperature has increased over time.

WTF! The mean air temperature over the last 200 years is near zero! Oh, man. My whole world is upside down. Parapsychology and ufology is real, and probably God too, but climate change and the benefits of immigration are gone! Nobody's going to believe me in Sweden, and I'll be an outcast. FML!

Edit: I adjusted for climate stations built further and further north, and at higher and higher altitudes, and then I found the expected 1.1 degrees increased air temperature. 2020 looks to be extreme.

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Gothenburg, Sweden