Posted on 05/17/2018 6:00:22 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Inconvenient Science: NASA data show that global temperatures dropped sharply over the past two years. Not that you'd know it, since that wasn't deemed news. Does that make NASA a global warming denier?
Writing in Real Clear Markets, Aaron Brown looked at the official NASA global temperature data and noticed something surprising. From February 2016 to February 2018, "global average temperatures dropped by 0.56 degrees Celsius." That, he notes, is the biggest two-year drop in the past century.
"The 2016-2018 Big Chill," he writes, "was composed of two Little Chills, the biggest five month drop ever (February to June 2016) and the fourth biggest (February to June 2017). A similar event from February to June 2018 would bring global average temperatures below the 1980s average."
Isn't this just the sort of man-bites-dog story that the mainstream media always says is newsworthy?
In this case, it didn't warrant any news coverage.
In fact, in the three weeks since Real Clear Markets ran Brown's story, no other news outlet picked up on it. They did, however, find time to report on such things as tourism's impact on climate change, how global warming will generate more hurricanes this year, and threaten fish habitats, and make islands uninhabitable. They wrote about a UN official saying that "our window of time for addressing climate change is closing very quickly."
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
... all your data showing is simply a slight come-down from the recent record-shattering El Nino.
It’s not apparent that the El Nino was actually record-shattering, but it was according to the data you’re using.
I wasn’t criticizing your criticism of him. I was criticizing your comment that you don’t see anything showing a drop - when the link he provided shows only one thing increasing since 2016 - land only temps. The article in question admits two years isn’t a trend but that is what the article was about. It’s also possible NASA updated their data after that article was published - wouldn’t be the first time.
USA Today doesn’t think so..... Earth just had its 400th straight warmer-than-average month thanks to global warming
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/05/17/global-warming-april-400th-consecutive-warm-month/618484002/
More climate scientology instead of science.
Thanks for the good feedback
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