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Why So Many Climate Crisis Claims Are Based On Manipulated Science

by H. Sterling Burnett
March 24, 2021, 8:12 AM
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earth fire disasterWe are constantly being warned by activists, politicians, and some climate scientists that we face a climate crisis; that if humanity collectively doesn’t alter its lifestyle and consumption patterns now, the world will end in 10 years, 12 years, 50 years—pick your number.

This is a lie, and I suspect most of the people making these apocalyptic prophesies know it. For them, it’s the modern-day equivalent of Plato’s noble lie—lying to people to get them to act in ways they don’t realize are in their own best interest.

Not coincidentally, those telling the lie profit from it in terms of influence, money, and/or power.

This lie is not in fact noble, nor is it based upon sound science. Rather, it is perpetrated through the regular suppression of inconvenient scientific data: data altered, suppressed, or scrubbed from journals and textbooks, which put the lie to insupportable claims made by politically connected climate scientists that an anthropogenic climate apocalypse is in the offing.

The big lie is built on a faulty premise that science can realistically trace the cause of modest recent warming of the Earth primarily to human greenhouse gas emissions, and that from this we can confidently predict what the world will look like 50, 100, and 300 years from now.

Award-winning climate scientist Richard Lindzen, Ph.D., described the big lie this way:

One problem with conveying our message is the difficulty people have in recognizing the absurdity of the alarmist climate message. They can’t believe that something so absurd could gain such universal acceptance.

Consider the following situation. Your physician declares that your complete physical will consist of simply taking your temperature. This would immediately suggest something wrong with your physician. He further claims that if your temperature is 98.7F rather than 98.6F, you must be put on life support. Now you know he is certifiably insane. The same situation for the climate is considered ‘settled science.’

Among the most egregious attempts to suppress inconvenient climate science came in 2001 when the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tried to replace settled climate history with the “hockey stick” graph.

The hockey stick dispensed with the long-recognized Medieval Warm Period from approximately 950 AD to 1250 AD, and the Little Ice Age, which ran from approximately 1350 AD through 1850 AD.

Its originators postulated global temperatures had been fairly stable over the past millennium, until the twentieth century when they began to rise sharply, due to an increase in carbon dioxide emissions.

This fit the IPCC’s climate change narrative, so it embraced it as the truth. Ultimately, even the IPCC couldn’t defend the hockey stick temperature reconstruction and removed it from subsequent reports.

Then came Climategate, in which a treasure trove of inconvenient email exchanges between IPCC-connected climate scientists was hacked and leaked.

These emails detailed the scientists hiding data that indicated the recent warming trend was not historically unusual and censoring scientific research that undermined claims of apocalyptic warming.

The Surface Station Project exposed the dirty little secret that temperature readings from the vast majority of the ground-based temperature stations were compromised by urban growth, skewing temperature readings higher.

Indeed, the research found 89 percent of surface stations—nearly 9 of every 10—fail to meet the National Weather Service’s requirements that stations must be 30 meters (about 100 feet) or more away from an artificial source of heat.

Additional scientific misconduct comes in the form of temperature monitoring agencies “adjusting” raw temperature recordings from unbiased, isolated temperature stations and reporting them in a way that indicates past temperatures were colder than were actually measured and recent temperatures have been warmer than actually measured.

This action produces an artificially steep temperature trend, making recent warming appear larger than it has been. In some instances, when these nefarious actions were exposed, the government agencies involved tried to scrub the official records of past temperatures.

Fortunately, in the age of the internet, where data once posted is forever, these Orwellian attempts to rewrite climate history have largely failed.

When global warming went on a 15-year hiatus, with temperatures flat-lining despite a steady rise in carbon dioxide emissions, a team of climate researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) altered how ocean temperatures were measured.

Voilà, like magic, the hiatus disappeared. As David Rose wrote for the Daily Mail, describing the incident “[NOAA researchers] took reliable readings from buoys but then ‘adjusted’ them upwards – using readings from seawater intakes on ships that act as weather stations … even though readings from the ships have long been known to be too hot.”

Most recently, some of the same characters that brought the world the “hockey stick” have now published a widely publicized paper that claims a long-recognized ocean circulation pattern, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), which impacts climate, never existed at all but was an artifact of volcanic pulses.

Commenting on this paper, climate scientist Judith Curry, Ph.D., writes:

“Wow. In one fell swoop, the pesky problems of the ‘grand hiatus’ in the mid 20th century, debates over the attribution of 20th-century warming and the role of multidecadal internal variability, and the difficulty of attributing the recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity to AGW, all go away. Brilliant! Almost as ‘brilliant’ as the Hockey Stick.”

There is little doubt the Earth is warming, but the list of breaches of the scientific method and ethics by researchers whose careers are intimately tied to the “truth” of climate alarmism provides more than enough reason to doubt the claim that the science is settled and the Earth is doomed, absent giving government authoritarian control over all aspects of peoples’ lives.

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Comments 7

  1. Spurwing Plover says:
    4 years ago

    Someones holding a lit match under the Thometer

    • David Lewis says:
      4 years ago

      I meant my reply from above to go here.

  2. David Lewis says:
    4 years ago

    I will repeat what I have said in other posts. The most compelling evidence against the legitimacy of the climate change movement is the massive scientific fraud being conducted to support it. If the need to take action on climate change were real, all that would be necessary is to present the unaltered data. It would speak for itself. The people altering the data really understand that the real data doesn’t support the climate change narrative. That is why they are altering it.

    • David Lewis says:
      4 years ago

      You are more correct than you may realize. Taking data from stations that are close to urban heat sources is definitely holding that match. In my engineering career I have dealt with a lot of data. If you look at a thermometer, the temperature may appear to be stable. However, if the time period is short enough, such as hundreds of a second, the temperature is jumping significantly within a limited range. Just like the thermometer, older instruments are not fast enough to see these rapid peaks and valleys so the reading is averaged out. Some newer instruments are fast enough to record this variation. In Australia they declared that the peaks of this rapid fluctuation were the high temperature. The result was an artificial increase in the high temperature reading for the day.

  3. Spurwing Plover says:
    4 years ago

    Faked and tampered Data like placing tempeture monitoring Units in asfualt Parking lots or fudging around with the devices used to monitor the weather and appearing on 60 Minutes or some other fake news program

  4. John Shewchuk says:
    4 years ago

    The politically corrupt agenda of climate science drives the misguided crusade to save the planet, but in the end will destroy individual freedoms. Eliminating CO2 was never the goal, the goal is always power, money, and one world government. Here are 100 examples of climate science corruption in 3 minutes … https://newtube.app/user/RAOB/drbkiaw

  5. Barry Bateman says:
    4 years ago

    Richard Lindzen, Ph.D. is one of the best. Direct, honest and intolerant of the many manipulations of the global warming paranoics. I watched a BBC documentary this morning in which BBC declared today’s temperatures have not happened in thousands of years. This of course is complete bull. Temperatures like these and higher have happened every thousand years naturally and regularly in Dr. Judith Curry’s “Eddy cycles”. A dozen times in the last twelve thousand years of the Holocene interglacial. In fact, half of the last twelve thousand years’ temperatures have been higher than today. The story of our Holocene interglacial is the story of thousand year 4 degree C cycles of temperature up and down. Here’s some reality for you BBC… https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/06/25/comparing-the-kobashi-and-alley-central-greenland-temperature-reconstructions/

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