Any actor knows that the time to leave the stage is when the audience starts to laugh at him.
With the latest ‘World on Fire’ show collapsing under the weight of fake statistics, crystal ball attributions, scientific deceptions, made-up estimates, and Justin Rowlatt airlifted into heat-torn Alicante, it is surely time to pull down the curtain on this increasingly ridiculous show. … [emphasis, links added]
Running through all the hysterical reporting has been the outrageous use of fake estimates and statistics.
Mainstream media were full of reports last week that temperatures would hit 48°C (119°F) in southern Europe, a steer that seems to have come from the European Space Agency (ESA).
It said that many countries were facing a major heatwave including Germany and Poland, while air temperatures were expected to climb to 48°C (119°F) in Sicily and Sardinia – “potentially the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe.”
The temperature in Sicily never went above 35°C (95°F), according to the Time and Date website, which reports past weather from around the world.
But it turns out ESA was pulling a fast one.
It was not referring to the ‘air’ temperature, the standard measurement made two meters above the ground, but the actual temperature on the surface. This latter measurement of course is going to be many degrees higher.
The climate science site No Tricks Zone noted: “By the time the ploy was exposed by careful readers, the news had already gone around the world.”
Commenting on the affair, German’s Achtung Reichelt is reported to have called it “the most intense climate lie since temperature recording began.” Calling the ESA’s press release “sloppy and manipulative”, it charged that none of it was true.
The climate narrative is now all about individual ‘extreme’ weather, to the despair of many scientists who note climate change is a measurement of long-term trends.
But long-term temperature trends do not tell the correct political story since little global warming has been evident for over two decades.
Meanwhile, Arctic surface sea ice waxes and wanes on a decadal basis, but the recent general recovery has been quietly dropped from the Net Zero-inspired narrative.
While Europe and the United States explode with fire and brimstone heat, and the fish are sous vide in the boiling oceans, sea ice in the Arctic continues with what appears to be a small cyclical recovery.
According to the U.S.-based National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC), the latest summer daily melt was similar to the 1981-2010 average. On July 17th, the ice extent was the 12th lowest in the 44-year satellite record.
The climate investigator Tony Heller recently lifted the lid on the deceptions surrounding Arctic sea ice. “They bury all the older data [pre-1979] and pretend they don’t notice sea ice is increasing again,” he charged.
A linear decrease in the end-summer ice extent since 1979 is widely promoted, but Heller points out that the minimum is actually higher now than 10 and 15 years ago. Plotting the trend as a moving average shows that the decline in summer sea ice stopped a decade ago.
The Australian climate journalist Jo Nova recently referred to lies by omission, suggesting that the whole climate movement was built on this “active deception”.
Last year’s big omission was coral reefs, that have shown spectacular growth on the Great Barrier Reef of late. This year’s missing scare story is the Greenland ice sheet, where a significant, unreported recovery is in progress.
Almost halfway through the short summer, the accumulation of surface ice on Greenland is more than the 1981-2010 average and a big improvement from a decade ago.
But the current improvement could be seen in a much better light. Why are the Danish Polar Portal compilers of the below graph using a 1981-2010 average, when data can be included up to 2020?
The NSIDC uses a similar average comparison in its Arctic ice graphs. The Greenland ice sheet lost 51 gigatonnes a year in the 1980s and ’90s and 166gts in the 2000s.
In the 2010s the loss was around 244gts, a fivefold increase since the 1980s. Obviously, if a 1990-2020 average was shown – with a 50gts loss replaced by one of the 244gts – it would amplify the recent recovery by raising the baseline.
Last year, the Greenland ice sheet was reported to have lost just 50gts, an amount well within a margin of error that could suggest a small actual increase in the overall size.
When dealing with any statistics regarding climate change these days, it is good advice to start counting the spoons. It has always been an irritation to extremists that up to 10 times more people die from the cold than the heat.
Greenpeace founder Dr. Patrick Moore recently displayed how the Lancet medical journal tried to come to the rescue, with the graph pictured on the left below.
To even up the score, with blue for cold and red for heat, the Lancet used an unequal y-axis – a technique so obviously misleading it is hard to understand how anyone could even think of using it.
Dr. Moore tweeted: “This is disgraceful for a supposedly scientific journal.”
The journal “Lancet” published the chart on left with unequal Y-Axis to downplay fact that cold causes 10X more deaths than heat in Europe. Björn Lomborg corrected this with chart on right.
This is disgraceful for a supposedly scientific journal. pic.twitter.com/yG6guLQwyT— Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) July 23, 2023
It seems that the biggest risk of dying in the current British summer – 19°C (66°F) and showery at the time of writing – is from laughing.
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The significant thing isn’t about any one miss representation of data, but the preponderance of the practice. They treated an over estimate of temperatures in Europe as if it had occurred. They made a big deal of declining ice in Greenland and the Arctic, but ignored the ice’s recovery. The same is true of coral reefs. Multiple articles are based on the discredited climate model RCP8.5 predicting the decline in rice, chocolate, grape, and coffee crops. Beyond just journalism, there is using industrial sensors on ships to correct scientific data on ocean buoys. The scientific instruments are traceable to National Institute of Standards and Technology but the industrial sensors have warmer readings so better support the climate change narrative. There was an attempt to hide the ocean pH data prior to 1988. The hot years of the 1930’s are always ignored.
There are obviously a large number of ethically challenged people who are willing to do whatever it takes to support the climate change movement.
So the “fake statistics” this writer says debunks climate alarmism is about electric vehicles(?!?)
Climate Dispatch is so mindless, it makes yellow journalism turn brown.
Even you have to admit that the first graph is an outright lie, deliberately intended to deceive anyone not paying attention. Now why would someone do that? Just one reason, the ‘real’ data doesn’t support their argument. It’s generally accepted, folks who lie about the little things also lie about the BIG things, like Catastrophic Anthropological Global Warming.
Why “Climate Change”? Helps cover up the virtually flat line temperature change since 1998. Up, down, or even flat, it’s still called ‘Change’, and good for more taxpayer funded research grants.
Drewski, you’re making money from this climate alarmism scam. Tell us how.
Seems that Drewski has been drinking too many brewskis. First, where in this column debunking record heat have to do with EVs? And can you respond to the facts that are laid out in the article? I don’t think so…
Once again the M.S. Media uses scare tactics to try and convince us that if we don’t surrender up our Liberty and Soventry toa Global Government under the UN we will all die and Hollywod Airheads like Robert Redford making the ridiculous claim that Fossil Fuels are Cooking the Earth while doing TV ads for United Airlines