Climate driven “Noble Cause Corruption” goes way back

From edmhdotme

Ed Hoskins,

Introduction

The attitude of the Green Climate establishment means that they consider themselves entitled to use any Deception or Fraud to emphasise their  “Virtuous and Righteous Cause”:  to save the planet from Man-made Global warming. 

To their minds their Cause is so important that it must take precedent over any other consideration of expenditures. 

This is a fallacy.

Climate change activism involves winding back all the technical advances and improvements to human wellbeing that have been achieved by mankind over the last 200 years.  In their view there is no higher priority for man-kind whatever the costs or gross damage for mankind.

However, in December 2023 COP28 president UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber said:

“There is no science out there that says that the phase-out of fossil fuels is  going to be needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C.  Al Jaber also said a phase-out of fossil fuels would not allow sustainable development unless you want to take the world back into caves”.

He let the cat out of the bag.

Supporting the adverse view, there is a huge unashamed Western government and academic misinformation effort that use all types of data manipulation.  The propaganda support for  the Man-made Climate catastrophe assertion is rife and continuous.

An early personal experience

Back in 1998 a very obvious lie and the irrational incensed reactions from official Green oriented activists got me started on my own 20+ year interest in the question of the fallacy of Man-made Climate Change.

In 1998 I was involved in writing a paper about Transport and Health in London with colleagues from Imperial College, University of London.  It concluded that London had by then become particularly free of traffic pollution and that any actions to limit traffic would be irrelevant as far as the health of Londoners was concerned.  In addition, it stated that the individuals / public sector organisations involved in reporting  pollution in London were unjustifiably grossly over-emphasising for propaganda reasons the pollution levels they were reporting to support multiple traffic restrictions in London:  including the then proposed congestion charge.

These public sector actors managed to report  measured pollution of 1.7% of moderate readings but representing effect as 57% in their report:  this amounted to a ~35 fold exaggeration of the pollution reported.

Even in 1998 “Noble Cause Corruption” was hard at work at the South East Institute of Public Health, (SEIPH).

When published, the Imperial College paper pointing out this massive misrepresentation, by about 33 fold, (fraud), received incensed reactions from “Green” activists with threats of physical violence and implied death threats.

If reporting genuine good news could result in such a negative and violent reaction, I concluded there must be something very awry with those mainly public sector, left thinking organisations that seemed to need to shut down any “adverse” discussion even in 1998 about a matter that did not meet their warped and erroneous view of life. 

The offending paper is here.

Are published data on Global Temperature accurate?

Anthony Watts has maintained vigilance on the siting and performance of Weather stations across the USA since 2007:  an up-to-date report on their status is here.

New Surface Stations Report Released – It’s ‘worse than we thought’

Dale Enterprise Virginia

As a single example of a correctly sited and continuously well-maintained, rural US weather station is situated at Dale Enterprise near over three miles from the centre of the nearest “urban” development near Harrisonburg, Virginia, a town of 44,000 population.

Its records are instructive.  The Dale Enterprise un-adulterated temperature record showed modest cooling of 0.29°C per century, if all other later adjustments made by “climate scientists” are ignored.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/26/contribution-of-ushcn-and-giss-bias-in-long-term-temperature-records-for-a-well-sited-rural-weather-station/

However as is shown below the NASA GISS published “retrospectively value added modifying the past (prior to 1970)” temperatures for this same location.  This shows a massive adjustment lowering of past temperatures prior to 1965 to give the impression of very substantial (+0.75ºC / century) warming at this station as opposed to the recorded cooling.

The Dale Enterprise example is particularly egregious in that there are clearly arbitrary step-wise, obviously artificial adjustments made from the distant past of the site in 1895 up until 1968.  Sadly, it is reasonable to assume that such arbitrary but systematic data manipulation has been applied by the official guardians of the data throughout all the US rural data sets to show apparent artificially induced warming.

This seems to be a common occurrence within those organisations, (the official guardians of the data), and who should always have been above reproach for their scientific integrity.  This seems to be a common occurrence within those organisations.

Cumulatively, the result has been to emphasise warming from the US rural data sets by some 0.47ºC / century.  These results are always a one-way street to exaggerate the apparent amount of warming.  The following table clearly shows the scale and impact of the overall adjustments to rural and Urban datasets in the USA

Global reduction of weather Stations

In addition, many rural and more northerly measuring stations were lost with the fall of the USSR.  But since then, many other sites still in operation have been deliberately ignored by the UK Meteorological  Office, the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University  and NASA GISS when  contributing to their global data sets.

The number of stations being considered have been radically reduced world-wide, for example by omitting information from Russia particularly from more northerly and rural stations.  The impact of the deliberate loss of these many mainly rural stations since 1990 on measured temperatures can be seen below.

The graph below shows the divergence between well-sited rural US weather stations and weather stations that are increasingly susceptible to the Urban Heat Island Effect (UHI).  Phil Jones at East Anglia CRU has also published papers explicitly discounting the Urban Heat Island effect to support the narrative.

https://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/cru-3b-urban-warm-bias-in-ghcn/embed/#?secret=2TO7BKGtLC#?secret=FC8QbWPsTZ

The adjustments made by the promoters of global warming have also been progressive as can be seen in the graphs of presentation of three different versions of global temperature produced by NASA GISS between 1980 and 2007.

The promoters of this data set are now proclaiming that 2010 will be the warmest year on record.  This would be hardly surprising if they themselves have adjusted the past downwards and the present upwards.

If only well maintained and well and consistently sited rural stations were considered so as to avoid the Urban Heat Island Effect and if the adjustments made by climate scientists devoted to the Man-Made Global Warming assertion were ignored that reports of the warming of the earth from ground-based measurements would be much reduced.

But, the protagonists of the Man-made Global Warming assertion are also the official National and International custodians of the data.

The Western world adjustment phenomenon

Sadly, the re-adjustment of temperature history by the official custodians of the data seems to have become a worldwide phenomenon.  Recently it has become clear that many unwarranted adjustments always showing additional warming have been consistently made to all the main sources of accredited global temperature records.

Some examples of such adjustments include:

  • USA: NASA GISS, (previously lead by the extreme Warmist James Hansen), have admitted errors and revised their data set downwards.  It appears that in being determined to announce that 2010 is/was the warmest year ever, they have ignored available data stations in the Canadian and Siberian Arctic using only fabricated data, extrapolated from warmer measurement stations further south.  They have also reduced the levels in their historic records for last century thus enhancing the appearance of Global warming.  It is now slowly becoming clear that the satellite data provided by NOAA has been comprehensively corrupted with over estimates and some quite ridiculous readings of temperature, (several hundred °F in the great lakes area), over a period of several years.  This data has been distributed worldwide as the foundation of many climate models supporting the Man-made Global warming assertion.  It should now be the subject of legal challenge.
  • Russia: only 40% of the now limited available readings were used by the collators of temperature data always favouring warmer urban sites.
  • Canada, many northern sites are now ignored in the collation of temperature data for the IPCC.
  • UK: the evidence that both the UK Meteorological office and the East Anglia University Climatic Research Unit have made unwarranted upward adjustments to the data they publish to support the scientific case of the UN IPCC is clear from the release of data and e-mail correspondence in “Climategate”:  eliminating data to “hide the decline”.

In flagrant contradiction of normal scientific method, the East Anglia University Climatic Research Unithave also destroyed the original records so their adjustment processes cannot be re-audited and reproduced in retrospect.

  • Australia: another single example, one amongst many in Australia, from the data for Darwin in the Northern Territories makes the point about unwarranted adjustments made by NOAA/GHCN, the Global Historical Climate Network.

That shows how to turn records of -0.7°C cooling/century into 1.2°C warming/century with unexplained, and un-auditable adjustments.  It is certainly now clear that the Australian Government central research facility, the CSIRO, is wholly committed to the “Warmist” doctrine and supports it on behalf of their Federal Government.

The Smoking Gun At Darwin Zero

  • New Zealand: the following table shows the unexplained differences between recorded data and data published by the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) for several locations

The following graph shows the extent of the downward adjustments of past readings over time made in New Zealand.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/25/uh-oh-raw-data-in-new-zealand-tells-a-different-story-than-the-official-one/

http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2010/05/crisis-in-new-zealand-climatology

These results are now the subject of a challenge in the New Zealand High Court.  As a result of the challenge the New Zealand government agency have now accepted that their records had been falsified deliberately as a result of the political pressure upon them.  So, there is a chance that in future other National records may also be subject to legal challenge.

It seems to have become common practice for national Meteorological Services worldwide to make these sorts of upward adjustments in the present and downward adjustments in the past, always with the intention of showing increased warming of their regions of the planet.

A suspicious mind one would consider that these sorts of adjustments were as a result of a coordinated international intergovernmental programme or at least well co-ordinated “groupthink”.  But isn’t that to think the unthinkable.

Do We Care if 2010 is the Warmist Year in History?

Having progressively adjusted upwards / “added value” to the basic ground-based data sets, the final assessment of global temperature is then combined from this information and additional data is fabricated for the blank areas by interpolating intermediate temperatures over a grid for the huge territories where measuring stations do not exist.

As a result, it is hardly surprising that the published record used by the UN IPCC authorities shows significant worldwide warming.  Accordingly, the quality of the record becomes questionable and entirely unverifiable in retrospect.  Sceptics would certainly think that this was entirely intentional outcome.

It is on these bases that claims are made and officially published of the “warmest year ever” and the “warmest decade ever”.  But accounting for these effects global warming may well be substantially less than 0.3°C rise recorded since 1940.

More recent Satellite measurements

On the other hand, satellite measurements have taken a continuous whole worldview since 1979 and as they do not attempt to extrapolate temperatures across vast areas such as Russia, Northern Canada or to the poles from an increasingly limited and questionable set of ground-based weather stations.  They are not linked to any ground-based measurements.

UAH global temperature anomaly, a bit cooler in April

Current measurements, including the more recent and reliable satellite data, (ie since 1979), and weather balloon sources, certainly show some warming but no warming this decade since the year 1999.  This winter the figure is again already close to the norm.

Since about 1850, the end of the “little ice age”, there has certainly been some warming of the planet overall, perhaps as much as 0.5°C in the 90 years between 1850 and 1940.  In the 70 years since 1940 the increase in temperature has been assessed at a maximum 0.3°C.Man-made CO2 in the atmosphere only became a possible issue after 1940 but the earlier rate of warming from 1850 to 1940 was about 30% faster in the earlier period before that.

UAH Global Temperature Update for November, 2023: +0.91 deg. C

What is interesting here is the way that reputable scientists report their recent findings where the satellite record shows an unanticipated current uptick in temperature.  This is more likely to be caused by a massive injection of water vapour injected into the upper atmosphere from the Hunga Tonga eruption, superimposed on an active El Nino episode. Certainly, unlikely to be caused by massive pulse of Man-made CO2.

The important point being the at the scientists involved clearly report that apparently adverse finding. Rather than trying to disguise it as has happened so many times before to support the Climate Change cause.

Climate Noble Cause Corruption is endemic throughout establishment.

They are all at it.

An example, recently there appeared in the prestigious Lancet medical journal of March 2023 a graphic of Heat and Cold deaths registered for countries across Europe as below.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00023-2/fulltext#:~:text=Across%20the%20854%20urban%20areas,per%20100%20000%20person%2Dyears.

The scale of the Lancet published graphic is distorted with heat deaths in Europe is exaggerated by almost 6 fold as opposed to the deaths from arising cold.  The above chart with the true values scaled correctly is shown below.

This is just a simple commonly occurring example of how the bias for deception in favour of the Noble cause of Man-made Global Warming has permeated and even penetrated the most prestigious parts of the Western medical establishment as the Noble Cause Corruption support for the Climate Change narrative has permeated.

A recent study has examined the way in which “nudge units’ inside government are set up to persuade the populace as towards certain policy lines  supporting government policies for the Covid epidemic and are continually in place to support “Net Zero”.

https://www.coronababble.com/post/nudgers-nudgers-everywhere-the-ubiquity-of-behavioural-science

Conclusion

For the last few decades there has been a clear Socialist bias to promoting the idea of Catastrophic Man-made Global warming.  This consistent promotion of Catastrophe has permeated the scientific and political establishments of the Western world.  And it continued with ~90,000 attendees at the December 2023 COP28 meeting in Dubai. However, this COP meeting seemed to be heavy on platitudes but very light on likely destructive actions:  as well as some truth telling from the 2023 COP28 president UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber said:

“There is no science out there that says that the phase-out of fossil fuels is  going to be needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C.  Al Jaber also said a phase-out of fossil fuels would not allow sustainable development unless you want to take the world back into caves”.

The cat is out of the bag.

Never forget:

Sun Tsu’s first art of war:

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” That is exactly what is happening as Western governments pursue self-harming Green Energy policies.  There is no better way to damage Western societies than by rendering their power supplies unreliable and expensive.  Cui bono   Who Benefits  ??

and

The late Professor Sir David MacKay:

“The dependence on Weather-Dependent “Renewable Energy” to power a developed economy is an “Appalling Delusion”. 

There’s so much delusion and I think it’s so dangerous for humanity that people allow themselves to have these delusions that they’re willing to not think carefully about the numbers and the realities, and the laws of physics and the realities of engineering… humanity really does need to pay attention to arithmetic, and the laws of physics.”

Arithmetic? Laws of physics?  Engineering?  They are lost on politicians, to our incalculable cost.

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January 20, 2024 6:28 pm

‘Noble Cause Corruption’ is just another manifestation of the false, but persistent, belief that socialism (in any of its forms) is economically and morally superior to (classical) liberalism. It is particularly evident in today’s radical environmental movement, that wants to return ‘us’ to the idyllic ways of Rousseau’s Noble Savage.

Reply to  Frank from NoVA
January 20, 2024 7:58 pm

The Republican states are the top 5 producers of wind energy. The Democratic states are the top 5 producers of solar energy.

‘Republican states are going strong on solar and wind, but not for the climate’
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/red-states-renewables

Richard Greene
Reply to  scvblwxq
January 20, 2024 10:12 pm

Thanks for an I didn’t know that comment and a link to an article

Reply to  Frank from NoVA
January 21, 2024 4:04 am

But of course some people are “more equal than others” and won’t have to drastically lower their standard of living- in fact, they’ll probably raise their standard of living with an even larger yacht, bigger private jet and larger mansion. These elites need a very high standard of living to allow them the time and energy to fight the battle against fossil fuels. /sarc

MarkW
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
January 21, 2024 8:20 am

There is a very solid relationship between size of government and economic disparity.
That is, the bigger government gets, the richer those who run government get, and the poorer everyone else gets.

Reply to  MarkW
January 21, 2024 10:29 am

I’m a big fan now of John Stossell- and consider myself a libertarian.

Alexy Scherbakoff
January 20, 2024 6:49 pm

It’s a religious fervour that is directed outward, rather than inward.

John Hultquist
January 20, 2024 6:52 pm

Nicely done, but being on WUWT is ‘preaching to the converted’ {England, 1857}.

A paper copy stuffed in all the mailboxes of all the congress critters (USA) and equivalent types of Europe, Australia, and NZ might reach, and be read by, some of the unconverted. Still, I’m convinced such folk don’t read much and understand little of numbers other than poll numbers.
Another analogy fits: This is a tough nut to crack. {Black Walnut!}

Izaak Walton
January 20, 2024 7:01 pm

It is very hard to know how seriously to take an article when half of it seems to have been written in 2010 (“The promoters of this data set are now proclaiming that 2010 will be the warmest year on record. This would be hardly surprising if they themselves have adjusted the past downwards and the present upwards.” ) while other paragraphs were written 13 years later. Did the author really take 13 years to write it and then forget to proof read it and see if it makes sense?

Reply to  Izaak Walton
January 20, 2024 7:11 pm

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Hint: Climate driven “Noble Cause Corruption” goes way back
Hint: He starts in 1998 then moves forward over time in the article.

You read poorly.

MarkW
Reply to  Sunsettommy
January 21, 2024 8:25 am

Like most alarmists, Izaak doesn’t read for understanding, rather his only purpose is to find things to criticize. Even if he has to take everything out of context to do so.

Izaak Walton
Reply to  Sunsettommy
January 21, 2024 8:57 am

No. Look at the tenses that he uses “are now proclaiming that 2010 will be the warmest year on record” is written in the future tense meaning that it must have been written before 2010. Or “no warming this decade since the year 1999” which again only makes sense if it was written between 1999 and 2009. Or even
“These results are now the subject of a challenge in the New Zealand High Court. ” which implies that it was written during the court case over a decade ago.

Reply to  Izaak Walton
January 21, 2024 1:13 pm

And it was totally correct at the time.

Most of it still is.

There was no atmospheric warming from 2001-2015..

You still haven’t caught on that he was referring back to previous articles.

It is called a history lesson…

Izaak Walton
Reply to  bnice2000
January 21, 2024 1:51 pm

He is clearly not referring back to previous articles. Unless he is completely ignorant of the correct use of tenses in English. Which doesn’t seem to be the case. The sentence
In 1998 I was involved in writing a paper about Transport and Health in London with colleagues from Imperial College, University of London.”
is written in the past tense which is correct since it refers to something that
happened in the past. Then he switches to the present tense as when talking about temperatures in 2010 and an ongoing court case in NZ. So either he thinks that this year is 2010 or the article was written then and he can’t be bothered to update but rather just tacked on a few additional paragraphs at the end.

Of course if he was to update it then he should mention that the court case in NZ was won by NIWA and that the plaintiff “does not succeed on any of its three challenges of NIWA in issue”.

Reply to  Izaak Walton
January 21, 2024 1:19 pm

God you are one stupid man who as usual completely fail to understand the point of the article because you think like a climate cultist.

The article remains unchallenged.

leefor
Reply to  Izaak Walton
January 20, 2024 7:23 pm

Did the organisations involved have a “come to Jesus” moment and recant?

Reply to  leefor
January 21, 2024 9:42 am

No, they circled the wagons and doubled down on their temperature data fraud.

Reply to  Izaak Walton
January 20, 2024 8:05 pm

It is very hard to know how seriously to take a gormless idiot that is ignorant in every facet of science, climate or otherwise.

It is noted that you are totally incapable of countering a single piece of evidence given above.

Richard Greene
Reply to  bnice2000
January 20, 2024 11:18 pm

“It is very hard to know how seriously to take a gormless idiot that is ignorant in every facet of science, climate or otherwise.”

I don’t take YOU seriously at all, bNasty2000. I treat you like the angry village idiot you are. You respond to every comment I make with insults, and I pay you back.

Reply to  Richard Greene
January 20, 2024 11:48 pm

Your poor thing…

I’ve obviously taken up lodging in your mind.

It is called “vacant occupancy” !!

Nothing you say is an insult, just a laughable tantrum from a little child.

MarkW
Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 8:28 am

Everyone needs a reason to get up in the morning.
I see that bnice2000 is yours.

Richard Greene
Reply to  MarkW
January 21, 2024 9:13 am

Well … a reason to get nauseous in the morning

Richard Page
Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 11:16 am

Everyone has a hobby, interesting to see that yours is puking. Explains a lot.

Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 12:14 pm

That’s a result of your brain not being able to cope with reality.

Stems from low cognitive functionality.

Reply to  Izaak Walton
January 21, 2024 7:21 am

So you agree with everything else that was written and only think the years should be updated?

January 20, 2024 7:55 pm

In addition, many rural and more northerly measuring stations were lost with the fall of the USSR.”

Apparently, it was common practice for mayors and oblast governors to exaggerate temperatures on the low side, particularly in more rural areas of the Soviet Union, to get more direct funding from Moscow for their local communities, under the guise of “we’re freezing to death here, send more coal and money”. Not shockingly, there was a sudden spike in the officially reported temperatures in Russia, especially in Siberia, after 1991.

Reply to  johnesm
January 20, 2024 8:01 pm

And counterintuitively, this temperature spike occurred right after the largest volcanic eruption in my lifetime. Something’s rotten, and not in Denmark…

January 20, 2024 8:01 pm

There is nothing “Noble” about their cause, whatsoever.

It is evil, deceitful, disingenuous, degenerate, dishonest, anti-life, anti-human and totally corrupt.

Bob
January 20, 2024 10:25 pm

Very nice. Government is corrupt and must be whittled down, they are getting dangerous.

Richard Greene
January 20, 2024 10:27 pm

I have to suspect this website is desperate for more original articles to have selected this tedious example, half of which seems to have been written over 10 years ago.

The author hints that global warming is fake, just adjustments to raw data
He hints that AGW is not happening too. But he never tries to support those implications with facts, data and logic

The author uses the BS number of weather stations chart that shows a decline to under 6000 weather stations…when NASA – GISS claims to use about 21,000, plus there are also 4,000 ARGO floats.

When trying to prove surface numbers can not be trusted, the author completely misses the biggest adjustment in history: The 1940 to 1975 period had significant global cooling reported in 1975. Now the global cooling is claimed to be -0.1 degree C. That was the biggest arbitrary surface temperature adjustment in history. Completely missed by this mediocre author.

Reply to  Richard Greene
January 20, 2024 11:52 pm

I have to suspect dickie-boy is desperately searching for some relevance !!

And FAILING completely.. as usual.

You wouldn’t know what facts and logic are.

Mediocrity is something you can only hope obtain one day….if you work really hard.

Reply to  bnice2000
January 21, 2024 1:59 am

Well, how many stations do you think GISS really uses?

And do you agree there was temperature adjustment 1940-75, and that it was as large as Greene says?

Dave Andrews
Reply to  michel
January 21, 2024 6:54 am

The following quotes are taken from book ‘Forecasts Famines and Freezes’ by John Gribbin, then an assistant Editor of the Journal Nature and published in 1974.

From the blurb.

“How much will temperatures fall in the Northern Hemisphere over the next 30 years? Will Asian rainfall continue to decline? Is the Central African drought over for good?”

Pages 7 and 8

“From the 1890s right through to the mid 1940s, with only a slight dip around 1905, the global air temperature increased. Altogether this increase amounted to about half a degree C.……meteorologists noticed the trend and by 1950 they were beginning to be worried by it …….Ironically, an international conference was called to discuss this problem just at the time when, as we know, the temperature trend reversed. Between the mid 1940s and 1970, global mean temperature fell by one third of a degree C; for the five year period 1968-72, the average temperature recorded by the nine ocean weather ships which are stationed between 35 and 66 degrees N was more than half a degree below the peak of the 1940s and this local cooling continued in 1973. In worldwide terms, we are in a situation where Earth is cooling more quickly than it warmed up earlier in the century.”

Richard Greene
Reply to  michel
January 21, 2024 9:20 am

Here is a before and after chart

The Honest Climate Science and Energy Blog

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Richard Greene
Reply to  bnice2000
January 21, 2024 9:15 am

Your insults have no wit and no humor
They are dull like you

Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 12:17 pm

Poor dickie-boy.

You wouldn’t know what humour or wit was, having no self-experience of either…. whatsoever.

You need to look in the mirror, you will see what everyone is laughing at.

Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 12:58 am

Your mediocre whine is really old and stale, try new material for many here who expect better from pseudo skeptics like you who talks big but deliver little.

MarkW
Reply to  Sunsettommy
January 21, 2024 8:35 am

I love the way he uses post adjustment numbers as proof that the adjustments don’t exist.

Richard Greene
Reply to  Sunsettommy
January 21, 2024 9:23 am

Perfect example of a nothngburger no science all insult comment.

Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 12:18 pm

Oh look , dickie-greenie with a self-titled comment !

gc
Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 5:56 am

The author didn’t miss it. You missed his highlighting of it. Your personal attack is also annoying. Good article Ed.

Richard Greene
Reply to  gc
January 21, 2024 9:32 am

One simple 1940 to 1975 char like the one I just posted here refutes the dishonesty of surface temperature adjustments. Nothing else needs to be said.

The article shows three tiny charts side by side that only show a surprising burst of heat in 1940 disappearing if you use a magnifying glass to see that.

Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 7:17 am

I have to suspect this website is desperate for more original articles to have selected this tedious example, half of which seems to have been written over 10 years ago.”

They’ve already admitted that they have to spit something out every 4-6 hours. That, and their lack of exposure of who is upthumbing and Debbie Downing (to keep the eyeball count up) is part of their business plan. I suppose it beats the chicken soup out of doing actual climactic research and publishing it above ground, outside of the echo sphere…

MarkW
Reply to  bigoilbob
January 21, 2024 8:37 am

They’ve already admitted that they have to spit something out every 4-6 hours.

It really is amazing how the alarmists actually believe the fables they spin.

Richard Greene
Reply to  bigoilbob
January 21, 2024 9:45 am

Are you trying to steal my downvotes?

There are some good original articles here especially by Hanson and Willie E. Watts writes good articles but I tend to fund tem elsewhere.

The borrowed articles may have limitations on what can be reprinted here. Six articles in 24 hours is a lot.
This website is above average for a conservative science website. Some of the commenters are not above average, to be kind.

I have a blog that presents a daily list of the 12 best climate and energy articles I can find.

The Honest Climate Science and Energy Blog

Just titles and links. My 12 article list is better than the sux articles here because it includes links all the best articles here plus the best I can find on many dozens of other websites. It’s just a recommended reading lis of articles I want to share with other conservatives. But no comments or else bNasty2000 would come after me and thrown down nastygrams every ten minutes.

Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 12:23 pm

If he wants to steal your down-votes, all he has to do is continue to make mindless anti-science comments.

You have competition… can you keep up with your AGW comrades, fungal, the simpleton, the oily blob. et al.

I’m sure you will try.

Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 12:25 pm

Some of the commenters are not above average, to be kind.”

WOW, finally some mirror-gazing other than egotistical preening !!

Finally seeing himself, as what he is, in the lowest quartile. !

Reply to  bigoilbob
January 21, 2024 12:20 pm

Now the oily blob is having a meaningless little whinge and a pitiful little whine..

What a complete failure !

Reply to  bigoilbob
January 21, 2024 1:23 pm

Meanwhile you and two others show a decisive inability to understand the article because you think like a climate cultist.

Fact: NO Hot Spot exists.

Fact: NO Positive Feedback Loop exist.

MarkW
Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 8:34 am

RG complaining about others not using facts or logic.
Now that thar is funny.

Richard Greene
Reply to  MarkW
January 21, 2024 9:46 am

I’M GLAD I MADE YOU LAUGH

Richard Page
Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 11:33 am

You are our entertainment. ‘Dickie Greene and the Golden Shit.’

With apologies to Hughie Green.

Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 12:26 pm

Even as a low-end comedy act, you are still pretty much a complete failure.

Richard Page
Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 11:28 am

Wrong. NASA/GISS use a set of 35,000 temperature stations but not all of them – they discard every station that doesn’t fit their criteria and openly admit to using a small subset of representative stations from the full set. The 6,000 station subset might not be altogether unreasonable a figure.

Gregg Eshelman
January 20, 2024 11:14 pm

On the heat and cold caused deaths chart, change the hot scale from 50’s to 10’s rather than switching the hot scale from 10’s to 50’s.

Richard Greene
Reply to  Gregg Eshelman
January 21, 2024 10:12 am

The death chart is irrelevant
and the data are BS

 In 2022 for the US, 148 people died due to extreme heat and 22 people died due to extreme cold in the United States.

Total US deaths in 2022 were
3,273,705

The heat and cold deaths are
statistically insignificant

Heart attack deaths increase in the winter hat month is the highest rate of heart attack?
We already know from research that January is the month when cardio-vascular disease deaths peak. Doctors say the cold weather causes blood vessels to constrict to keep the core warm. Constriction also increases blood pressure which puts extra strain on the cardio vascular system. Shoveling out after a snowstorm.

But how does one define them as cold weather deaths?

Richard Page
Reply to  Richard Greene
January 21, 2024 11:34 am

You just hit a new low.

Reply to  Richard Page
January 21, 2024 1:05 pm

He is trying to outdo himself in the realm of DUMB comments. !!

Only thing he has had any success at.

bobpjones
January 21, 2024 4:58 am

What’s ‘Noble’ about terrifying the young, driving us into poverty, and destroying the future of the upcoming generations?

January 21, 2024 7:06 am

For the radical left, it certainly is “by any means necessary”.  I doubt they believe in much of what they fight for. Perhaps many of their useful idiots do. But for the hard-core Marxist left, most of these causes are kicked aside when they achieve their goal of “socialist utopia”, which is their way of describing the end result of achieving power and money. For the left: AGW, the transvestite movement, radical Islam, George Floyd, pedophiles in public schools, etc., are nothing more than a means to an end.

How’s China progressing with reducing THEIR carbon footprint? How’s the gay rights movement coming along in Russia? Human nature unfettered: the left achieves power, the causes are kicked aside, the populace is cleansed of contaminants the same as was done in Nazi Germany, the boot on the neck of the Proletariat is applied with greater force, the leaders become the Bourgeoisie, moving from houses to palaces.

We’ve been warned. By Whittaker Chambers, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, David Horowitz, Tiananmen 1989, and others with the courage to fight. But instead of crippling the NFL when we had the chance (and Target, Bud Light, etc.), which would have been shots across the bow, today many conservatives will flock to the local gin-mills and toast their favorite teams. I wonder how many will be holding a bottle of Bud Light.

January 21, 2024 12:10 pm

The scale of the Lancet published graphic is distorted with heat deaths in Europe is exaggerated by almost 6 fold as opposed to the deaths from arising cold. The above chart with the true values scaled correctly is shown below.”

Actually, a truer visual would have been to extend the right side, the heat deaths, out to 400 also.
But there wouldn’t have been much to see then. 😎