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Johan Rockström (@jrockstrom) is a LIAR. Stefan Rahmstorf (@rahmstorf) is a LIAR. The CTV News post is false. Johan Rockström’s claim that “global warming is accelerating” and Stefan Rahmstorf’s paper claiming a statistically significant acceleration both rest on the same nonexistent quantity. There is no global temperature. Temperature is a local property that exists only inside a system that is in thermodynamic equilibrium. Averaging thermometer readings from stations and ocean buoys produces a number, but that number is not the temperature of the Earth. No law of thermodynamics defines a single global temperature for a planet with oceans, atmosphere, ice, and land that are not in equilibrium with one another. Different ways of averaging the same data give different numbers. None of those numbers is a physical temperature. Claims that this number is “accelerating,” or that its changes are “global warming,” are statements about something that does not exist. The further claim that fossil-fuel emissions are driving the rise in atmospheric CO₂ is also false. The isotopic signature of the carbon added to the atmosphere has stayed near −13‰ for centuries, including across the instrumental record. Fossil carbon has a signature near −28‰. Simple mass-balance arithmetic on those measured values shows that fossil carbon accounts for a negligible fraction of the net addition—effectively zero once the long-term stability of the signature is taken into account. The standard datasets and the standard end-member values used by the carbon-cycle literature itself force this result. Rockström’s conference remarks and Rahmstorf’s 2026 paper in Geophysical Research Letters both treat the nonexistent global-temperature series as a physical fact and both attribute its changes to fossil emissions. Neither the temperature construct nor the fossil attribution holds. The story reports false claims about quantities that do not exist. For the TRUTH see: papers.jcohler.com/ptt papers.jcohler.com/keeling