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New York Times: Our Readers Are Too Dumb To Understand Global Warming Numbers
The Federalist ^ | 1/27/17 | Robert Tracinski

Posted on 01/27/2017 7:21:02 PM PST by markomalley

I recently wrote about the wretched reporting on the claim that 2016 was the “hottest year on record,” using as my main example a New York Times article by Justin Gillis that gave his readers none of the relevant numbers they could use to evaluate that claim. None of them. If you search for the actual numbers, you will eventually find that the effect they are claiming, the actual amount by which this year was hotter than previous years, is smaller than the margin of error in the data.

Shortly afterward, I got a revealing response from Gillis. I’ll fill in all the details for you, because the whole thing is an important case study in why you can’t trust mainstream reporting on global warming. But let’s just cut to the chase. When I asked him why he didn’t include the basic numbers we need to understand his story, he gave me this reply:

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So if I understand this correctly, a reporter from the New York Times is telling me that his readers are too dumb to understand numbers.

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21 posted on 01/27/2017 9:20:39 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: timestax

Nice graphic. Information rich.


22 posted on 01/27/2017 9:59:33 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: GOPJ

“Most reporters don’t understand numbers either.”

If they did, they’d have majored in something substantial.


23 posted on 01/27/2017 10:10:12 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: markomalley

It’s only necessary to understand one number: zero.

There is no global warming. It’s a massive hoax invented by scientists looking to milk the system.


24 posted on 01/27/2017 10:13:40 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: markomalley

It’s a little known fact that newspapers are written for the 13-year old reading level....Hmmm, they must do that for a reason...


25 posted on 01/27/2017 10:21:22 PM PST by FDNYRHEROES
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To: markomalley

Most of their readers ascribe to the Common Core math. So, yeah.


26 posted on 01/28/2017 12:58:49 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Rest In Peace MeekMom (1966-2016))
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To: markomalley

If they fudge the numbers to give the impression that Hillary has a 98% chance of trouncing Trump in the general election, they’re fudging the global warming numbers too. The media lies, global warming is a scam, and that’s all there is to know.


27 posted on 01/28/2017 1:01:34 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Rest In Peace MeekMom (1966-2016))
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To: existentially_kuffer
Has science yet separated out CO2 that’s man-made versus naturally occurring? Environmental science is unreliable!

Actually yes it has. Man-made CO2 has a different profile of isotopes.

A lot (half? don't remember) of the CO2 in the air is man-made. That's not disputed.

But that CO2 is not causing significant warming. Also: there is no, repeat no chance of runaway warming. The IPCC's feedback model is hopelessly wrong.

Also: the current warm period was not caused by CO2. It was as warm or warmer during the Medieval Warm Period, the Roman Warm period and the Minoan Warm period.

And in any case: if we could find a way of making it warmer we should certainly try to do so. We are teetering on the edge of a new (natural) glaciation period which would s l o w l y crush America under a mile of ice.

Also: we should try to create more CO2. It's literally plant food. Over geological time plants have optimised to 1000 ppm of CO2, or about 10%. We are a long way short of that.

Creating more CO2 is a simple way to 'green the earth' and dramatically improve harvests.

28 posted on 01/28/2017 1:05:38 AM PST by agere_contra (I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for You saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo


"What's the temperature, Kenneth?"
29 posted on 01/28/2017 1:21:20 AM PST by Rastus
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To: markomalley

The only number that matters—anyone who believes anything they read in the New York Times has an IQ below room temperature.


30 posted on 01/28/2017 1:22:49 AM PST by cgbg (Pedophiles--the siren is wailing--incoming!)
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To: Bob434

“CO2 levels in the past were over 800 ppm=- today they are around 400 ppm- life survived at 800 parts per million-”

I’ve seen charts with 1800.


31 posted on 01/28/2017 2:15:36 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: markomalley

You have to be dumb to read the NYT.


32 posted on 01/28/2017 2:35:04 AM PST by AdaGray
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To: markomalley

FLASHBACK (dead links):

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/fyi/news/08/21/wind.chill/index.html

Wind chill factor gets new formula (”numbers have been warmed up”)

August 21, 2001

EXCERPT

Under the old system, an air temperature of 20 degrees Fahrenheit with a 15-mph wind speed would result in a wind chill of 5 degrees below zero, according to the weather service.

Under the same conditions, the new index would show an 11-degree increase in the wind chill factor: 6 degrees above zero.

“We’re trying to ... generate a public education campaign, and we urge our users out there to take this seriously even though the numbers have been warmed up,” said Mark Tew, who heads the weather service project as chairman of the Joint Action Group on Temperature Indices.

//

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/windchill/index.shtml

In the fall of 2000, the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (OFCM) formed a group consisting of several Federal agencies, MSC, the academic community (Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI), University of Delaware and University of Missouri), and the International Society of Biometeorology to evaluate and improve the wind chill formula. The group, chaired by the NWS, is called the Joint Action Group for temperature Indices (JAG/TI). JAG/TI’s goal is to upgrade and standardize the index for temperature extremes internationally (e.g. Windchill Index).


33 posted on 01/28/2017 3:01:56 AM PST by maggief
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To: markomalley
New York Times: Our Readers Are Too Dumb To Understand Global Warming Numbers
NIH awards more than $150 million for research on environmental influences on child health

Feds Throw Millions At Grants They Have No Idea Will Work

FAA Awards $33.7 Million in Environmental Grants to Airports

And on and on and on..

We understand the numbers, and the motivations, all too well.

34 posted on 01/28/2017 5:44:12 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: markomalley
Global Warming: Follow the Money February 25, 2015 The federal government — which will gain unprecedented regulatory power if climate legislation is passed — has funded scientific research to the tune of $32.5 billion since 1989, according the Science and Public Policy Institute.
Snip... Shadowy nonprofits such as the Energy Foundation and Tides Foundation distributed billions to far-left green groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, which in turn send staff to the EPA who then direct federal grants back to the same green groups. It is incestuous. It is opaque. Major media ignored the report.
35 posted on 01/28/2017 5:53:36 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: CodeToad

sorry- that is what I meant- not 800- good catch-

Some state it was even higher- 5000 ppm

http://www.climatechange.thinkaboutit.eu/think4/post/what_will_happen_when_co2_levels_are_20_times_higher/


36 posted on 01/28/2017 9:22:57 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

“Can you imagine the tremendous “acidification of oceans”? Yet there surely was plenty of life in the oceans.

And the temperatures surely were not 5 or 20 times higher. Because in that case around the equator they would have exceeded the boiling point of water. The temperatures were just 3°C higher than now “

From that site- life survived- nothing boiled to death- life flourished-


37 posted on 01/28/2017 9:24:02 AM PST by Bob434
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To: markomalley

I am also certain he doesn’t understand them !


38 posted on 01/28/2017 9:28:15 AM PST by Reily
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

72


39 posted on 01/28/2017 9:29:07 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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