Posted on 04/25/2017 11:17:23 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A former member of the Obama administration claims Washington, D.C., often uses “misleading” news releases about climate data to influence public opinion.
Former Energy Department Undersecretary Steven Koonin told The Wall Street Journal Monday that bureaucrats within former President Barack Obama’s administration spun scientific data to manipulate public opinion.
“What you saw coming out of the press releases about climate data, climate analysis, was, I’d say, misleading, sometimes just wrong,” Koonin said, referring to elements within the Obama administration he said were responsible for manipulating climate data.
He pointed to a National Climate Assessment in 2014 showing hurricane activity has increased from 1980 as an illustration of how federal agencies fudged climate data. Koonin said the assessment was technically incorrect.
“What they forgot to tell you, and you don’t know until you read all the way into the fine print, is that it actually decreased in the decades before that,” he said. The U.N. published reports in 2014 essentially mirroring Koonin’s argument.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported there “is limited evidence of changes in extremes associated with other climate variables since the mid-20th century” and current data shows “no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century.”
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Former Obama Official Says Bureaucrats Manipulate Climate Stats to Influence Policy
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Al Gore is Demanding $15 Trillion To Fight Global Warming ,LOL
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!
Yes, but it’s “for the common good”
Lenin’s “useful idiots” cannot apply any better than to the sheep who bleat out the talking points of these hucksters. The thing that pisses me off the most is how smug and sanctimonious they are foolishly believing that they’re on the “right side of science”.
A few months ago I read exactly the same about oudmbo’s ilk fudging the numbers to enhance their facts. The Global Warming issue is nothing more than a scam.
Of course, this story will lead the evening news. CNN will be all over it.
N A W !!
0bunger should know since his party has been the ones guilty of manipulating of the stats
0bunger should know since his party has been the ones guilty of manipulating of the stats
GlobalWarming/ClimateChange is all #FakeScience. Always has been.
do I really have to say it???
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