UPDATE: We updated this article to address concerns after a reader cited research and recommendations by the fact-checking organization Climate Feedback.
Climate Feedback presented their analysis of our source article, including academic publications by several of its contributors. They concluded the article contained misleading and unsupported details:
Key Take Away
Temperature measurements made with different instruments and methods over time must necessarily be adjusted to ensure high-quality records of temperature that reliably represent changes. The adjustments needed for land stations in the United States often increase the apparent long-term warming, but overall, adjustments actually reduce the global warming trend.
What does an organization do when the real numbers don’t support the agenda they are pushing?
Sometimes they fudge the numbers. Cherry pick what helps prop up the lie and ignore the real facts.
This happens so often that The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been doing just that in order to support their biggest science scandal: global warming. Selling their brand of science, their “truth” about global warming brings in extra funding, yet their data is off by 50%.
For the past 18 years, satellites have shown no global warming, where as the “the land based data sets like the ones maintained by NOAA for the US Historical Climate Network (USHCN) continue to show a warming trend.” How can this be?
One explanation, by meteorologist Anthony Watts, shows NOAA using readings from areas that experience Urban Heat Island effect, that is instruments surrounded by buildings, roads or airports nearby which raises the temperatures due to local “environment” and not climate or weather.
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Louis White, your response is hilarious. You see, you posted a bunch of nonsense that has nothing at all to do with our discussion. You are trying desperately to relate issues to fit your narrative. The funny thing is, it doesn’t even fit your conservative narrative to begin with. We have been a nation of consumers since it’s inception. The government has always supported consumerism. You tried to suggest government economics (in this case, keynsian economics) is using global warming as a marketing tool for profit. Let me ask you, how has that worked out for nations with the worst health standards and environmental policies? China is doing such a stand up job with their health standards, lol! Oh yeah, and their economy is garbage. Then again, you brought up keynesian economics, which is what you’d like to consider what the US has adopted since the bush administration’s abysmal destruction of our nation’s economic structure. Yet, you think that Obama must be the reason why there is a fight for environmental protection. I guess there wasn’t a single problem around the world until obama showed up, eh? The truth is, there are a great number of organizations both privately funded and publicly funded to help those in need because of climate changes across the globe. Your distraction with how the government taxes you and how a desire for a minimum wage increase is somehow a means for the government to get people to not pay attention to global impacts from how people consume shows you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. The government isn’t forcing people to litter, buy s.u.v.s, use coal powered machinery, endorse fracking, etc. Many government organizations fight the causes of our carbon footprints. But sure, tax breaks for poor people are just killing us all. You clearly don’t know policy. You don’t seem to have a clue about the world around you.
“This more [sic] a political tool than a pressing issue, and the baits [sic] been taken left and right.
No, it’s not a political tool since the political tool itself has been ongoing since businesses have set foot on this continent. You don’t know much about the history of this country, do you?
Well Duh
So all the record breaking temperatures, rains, permafrost melting, floods, snows, cold, rising seas and ocean die-offs are a figment of all our imaginations? Shut the f up? I’m so relieved that I can relax…the Earth is not in danger of major climate change.
Nick Noelte: Thanks for the edit. For you, there is only your position, your opinion, and room for only those who echo it. That’s my point: compromise is impossible because it’s my way or the highway for you and most collectivists like yourself. There’s no room for dissenters. Perhaps you’re correct about my response being hilarious nonsense, but I see that it’ll not impact your righteous position whatsoever, so no harm done. Like most of your sort, you want to win an argument by any means rather than learn by sharing. It seems I was mistaken about your willingness to exchange information; you want to fight, I want to learn.
This has been known for 20 years,but these college people would be out of a job, and Congress could not afford the educational elite to turn on them.
PIG’S
Very legitimate scientific sight..many facts here..lol
We need to get out of the UN and boot them from our country now!
Happens all the time. Mary is absolutely correct!
Jail Them