Global Warming on Free Republic
Posted on 02/08/2015 11:43:12 AM PST by amnestynone
When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified. Two weeks ago, under the headline “How we are being tricked by flawed data on global warming”, I wrote about Paul Homewood, who, on his Notalotofpeopleknowthat blog, had checked the published temperature graphs for three weather stations in Paraguay against the temperatures that had originally been recorded. In each instance, the actual trend of 60 years of data had been dramatically reversed, so that a cooling trend was changed to one that showed a marked warming. This was only the latest of many examples of a practice long recognised by expert observers around the world – one that raises an ever larger question mark over the entire official surface-temperature record.
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No it isn’t. Fiddling with the “evolutionary” data is. This causes many to think they evolved out of slime, without souls. This was the beginning of the end for our culture Fix this and we will start to fix all the other huge fallacies of this evil modern age.
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“Fake but accurate”
Homewood has now turned his attention to the weather stations across much of the Arctic, between Canada (51 degrees W) and the heart of Siberia (87 degrees E). Again, in nearly every case, the same one-way adjustments have been made, to show warming up to 1 degree C or more higher than was indicated by the data that was actually recorded. This has surprised no one more than Traust Jonsson, who was long in charge of climate research for the Iceland met office (and with whom Homewood has been in touch). Jonsson was amazed to see how the new version completely “disappears” Iceland’s “sea ice years” around 1970, when a period of extreme cooling almost devastated his country’s economy.
I, too, have friends and family completely duped by the global warming religionists. The above should be devastating to them, but some are so invested in the notion that I'm not sure anything could change their minds. I agree that dumping garbage in the river will pollute the river. I agree that we want that stopped. I also agree that dumping junk in our atmosphere should be held to a minimum, that any good steward would attempt to be as clean as possible.
However, the earth is huge, CO2 is the feed for the photosynthesis of plant life that produces oxygen, and to assume that co2 is the same as dumping oil or mercury in a waterway is simply a false parallel.
Do I think they'll hear any of this? Something will get through eventually. Maybe someone getting caught falsifying data will get through.
You’re right - they’re whores - they’ll do and say anything to keep the money coming.
btt
That is true but it doesn't mean we can't fight to tear down the left's culture of influence. I read the other day that much of our media is controlled by 6 corporations. If that is true, it's one reason why statism and crony capitalism has made so much headway in this country. Corporations gaming the system for themselves keeping the big gov't status quo going to benefit themselves would be pretty easy controlled by a few corporations. It's time to break up these corporations and bring back the free market to our media.
CGato
1-hour Martinizing on a global scale.
The people we elect to 'watch out for our well being and security', committing such crimes should see them put away for life.
LIKE
I’ve had the role of accessing databases for large auto insurance companies. (Don’t believe everything the PR department tells you.)
ABS brakes, seatbelts and DUI enforcement all came into high visibility in the 90s. ABS brakes and seat belts were phased in by vehicle make and model. The same driver could be compared with the old model and the new model. Millions of drivers could be compared to get statistical data.
The benefit of ABS brakes was so dramatic it could not be missed. It could be demonstrated both anecdotally and statistically to reduce deaths in the thousands; and of interest to insurance companies, to reduce damage to vehicles in the millions (if not billions) and of interest to consumers, to reduce fender benders and most importantly to avoid a crash at all. Consumers saved hundreds of millions in deductibles and in depreciation on their cars.
The same type of analysis was applied to seat belts. But with seatbelts other factors came into play. The laws were phased in with some states having more aggressive laws than other states. At first seatbelts were voluntary. When most people didn’t buckle up, idiot lights and buzzers were installed. Then, for a while, the belts buckled you up automatically. Then states made buckle up mandatory. Of course, with each of these steps of increasing government mandate, the states only did it because federal highway transportation money was tied to it.
Enforcement was (and is) notoriously uneven. Enforcement is most stringent when the Feds provide extra money to enforce it. States that value personal freedom enforce it less than states have no regard for personal freedom.
Thus Bernie Sanders Vermont and Massachucetts historically have the weakest seat belt laws and weakest enforcement...and also the lowest rates of car crashes of any state. Red states that value personal freedom are next lowest. Anti-freedom states are at the other end.
But there are other factors. There are more police in high crime areas and those police are looking for an excuse to pull someone over because he “looks suspicious”. So there are more seat belt violations in high crime areas.
A whole list of other factors is too long for this post. But be it said that my SQL compared virtually every column on dozens of tables looking for a correlation any which way and could only find correlatons so weak that they would be laughed at in a statistics class.
The only way to find a correlation is to start with a pre-conceived conclusion and then only select (cherry pick) the data that proves that conclusion. (Sort of like the climate-change people do.)
By the way, in looking ad auto and homeowner and life insurance data there is one correlation that jumps out and has no competitor even close.
ALCOHOL (add drugs if you wish. and my statements are pre texting while driving.)
Alcohol is the single strongest correlation with vehicle tragedies, and with tragedies in the home and with tragedies with guns and tragedies with knives and with domestic violence and boating/swimming tragedies and snowmobile and RV tragedies.
People do stupid things when they’ve had alcohol. A little alcohol increases the tragedy rate well above the non-alcohol rate. A lot of alcohol puts the correlation off the chart.
Prior to working on databases, my career was loss prevention and safety consultant for the same big P&C Insurance Companies, mostly in Illinois from Galena to Zion to Cairo. But most of it was in the Chicago inner city which had the population and where I lived. I was good at it. But preventing losses didn’t pay anywhere as good as IT. So I switched careers.
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