Guest “Level playing field, my @$$” by David Middleton
Over the past year or so, a number of scientists, skeptical of the alarmist climate change narrative, have been banned from LinkedIn or closed out their accounts due to the censorship of their well-documented articles on climate change. Among these people are Gregory Wrightstone, Andy May and Pat Frank. Yet, LinkedIn allows crap like this to flow freely:
For some reason, I can’t embed the second post like I did with the first post. It’s probably because it links to a Financial Times article. It again included a variation of the Antarctic ice core CO2 hockey stick.
This hockey stick has been dismantled in at least two WUWT posts:
If you read the comments to the two LinkedIn posts, you’ll find very thoughtful remarks from Rob Bradley, David Siegel, Renee Hannon, Doug Sheridan and many others. These comments were generally replied to with ad hominem fallacies and/or something called “The Script”…
The source of “The Script”, unsurprisingly, is the logical fallacy factory: Skeptical Science.
I generally avoid these sorts of discussions on LinkedIn, because I’m there to network with other professionals, mostly in the energy industries, not to waste time arguing with scientifically illiterate trolls. These posts usually come into my feed because one, or more, of my connections post comments.
I thought about reporting the posts to LinkedIn… But decided I would post them here for the WUWT community to ridicule. Then I’ll post links to this thread with the comment, “Thanks for the material.”
With all the todo hubbub today on “disinformation” we need to put climate change disinformation rhetoric scare tactics including and especially by the UNFCCC but also ALL of the liberal media publications NY Times being a great example. NYT staff of writers on the topic of climate change numbers into the 20s and 30s all with the mission of spreading and expanding the fear of climate change meaning the end of the planet as we know it. We know this is a crock. Legitimate reporting is based on demonstrable science not models projecting out for e.g., 100 years predicting the end of the planet as we know it. STBS – stop the bull.
LinkedIn is a company that billed me for money I had not authorized them to take, and then refunded only half of it after complaint.
Since I am 6yrs or so from retirement and will likely remain at the company I have been with since 1988, I don’t really care much about my linkeddum account. But LEFTISM authoritarianism is everywhere. Vote accordingly.
There are elements of truth in Sceptical Science websites point 2 above. If one just takes the SSN#s 22-24 from 1985, they have decreased in magnitude whilst surface temps have still gone up, albeit with ENSO influenced rhythms. The upcoming SSN25 expected to peak by 2025 and SSN26 by 2035 should resolve the positive or negative TSI/SSN relationship with temperatures.
I left linkedin because their censorship was arbitrary and political. I could have put up with that, perhaps, if they would just admit they censored what I wrote because of their bias. But they refused to give me any reason at all. A reason is required, IMHO.
As for the posts above, they are so incredibly stupid, it hard to pick one to refute.
Any glance at the temperatures (modeled and actual) from 1905 to 1940 shows this is BS.
BTW, thanks for the post, David.
I have “cancelled” LinkedIn, i.e. deleted my account and started to connect with my proffesional collegeus via Telegram instead. This is the way to start depriving those bastards of advertising money.
”It’s exaggerated” seems to be the correct view ?
Skeptic: “It hasn’t warmed since 1998”
Skeptical Science assertion: “Every part of the Earth’s climate system has continued warming since 1998, with 2015 shattering temperature records”
Here’s the global chart, the UAH satellite chart.
As you can see, none of the years after 1998 are warmer than 1998. Some are substantially cooler than 1998. The year 2016, which NASA Climate and NOAA proclaimed was the “hottest year ever!” is statistically tied with 1998, for the warmest year in the satellite era. It has now cooled 0.4C since that time.
There was no “temperature shattering” going on according to the UAH satellite chart.
NASA Climate and NOAA are lying to the people. They are distorting the temperature record and presenting it as a scary reality. Don’t listen to these liars.
Today, censorship, and propaganda, on a host of topics: climate, trans-people (TWAW), BLM, vaccines, COVID, … is driven by the ESG agenda. ESG = Environmental and Social Governance. This is organized by the largest asset managers in the world: the likes of BlackRock, Vanguard, …
Rogan: ESG’s Are the Reason for Woke Corporate Interests
Lindsay: The ESG Cartel | New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 6
Sometimes ESG scores are arbitrary. Nike’s score is twice Tesla’s – making it harder for an institution to invest in Tesla than Nike. So much for the E in ESG!
Elon must be keeping the watermelons up nights-
Elon Musk slams Biden: ‘The real president is whoever controls the teleprompter’ (msn.com)
He’s a sublime sh#*stirring raconteur and laughing all the way to the bank milking the loaded climate changers with battery cars. If you’re a true revhead you can go along with him for the ride with a Tesla zoom zoom and laugh at the planet saver poseurs too.