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Authors: Michael Savage
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When I say I did scientific research scientifically, I mean that I followed the standards commonly referred to as the scientific method. The scientific method has certain rules you have to follow or you’re not doing science. You have to ensure the integrity of your data. You have to make sure your data is representative. You have to control for other possible causes of your results.
Once you’ve completed your study and published your results, they are subject to what scientists call peer review. That means that other scientists examine your work. They try to confirm you haven’t made any errors in the way you’ve collected data or errors of logic in your conclusions.
I had to follow all of these principles to earn my Ph.D. It doesn’t take an advanced degree to understand them. They’re common sense. But when the government takes over science, common sense goes out the window.
Lysenko didn’t follow any of these principles, because he wasn’t a real scientist. He was a political appointee whose crackpot theories were accepted only by politicians and journalists for political reasons, just like the climate change scam is accepted only by politicians and scientists who want more government, more taxes, and more regulations.
That political action group posing as a scientific community, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says the debate is over about man-made global warming. That’s how you know they’re not real scientists.
Real scientists never say “the debate is over” about anything. All scientific knowledge is open to challenge at all times. That’s how all great advances have been made. Imagine if the debate had been over when Isaac Newton had published his theories, meaning Albert Einstein never published his. Imagine
if the debate had been over when scientists concluded that man could not fly.
The IPCC is a collection of politicians and bought-off scientists who are producing junk science for political reasons. It’s Lysenkoism all over again. They’ve broken every rule of the scientific method, just as Lysenko did.
First, their samples aren’t representative. One of the reasons NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) was able to report 2014 as “the hottest year on record” is because of huge increases in part of South America, encompassing parts of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. Guess what? There are almost no weather stations in the region.
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What few stations there are certainly can’t be representative of such a massive region.
They also use temperature readings from thermometers located in places that are obviously hotter than the larger surrounding area, like parking lots, concrete buildings, or inside metal beams. Do you think maybe that skews temperature readings a little warmer than they otherwise would be? Meteorologist Anthony Watts saw right through it. He studied the positioning of the so-called weather stations and called out the con artists.
The question remains as to why they continue to use a polluted mix of well-sited and poorly-sited stations.
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Just like Lysenko, the bought-and-sold climate scientists consistently fail to control for other causes of temperature changes. In attempting to answer Watts’s questions about the location of weather stations, the fake scientists say satellite data confirms the findings on the ground. Watts called them on
that scam, too. It’s a classic case of failure to control for other possible causes.
I don’t dispute the satellite measurements, but they are measuring temperature of the atmosphere above the Earth, and that includes all cities and populated areas as well as rural open space… My premise is this: if you want to see the effect of CO
2
on warming, you need to look in areas that have not been affected by urbanization to find the true signal.
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No one disputes that temperatures are warmer in and around cities. It’s not because of greenhouse gases. Cities just generate more heat. If man was causing global warming, the temperature should be higher in the country, too. As I said, you don’t have to be a scientist. It’s just common sense.
A larger percentage of the Earth has been urbanized over the past several decades, so satellite measurements read higher temperatures. Watts was quick to recognize this, as any real scientist would be. It didn’t occur to the climate change pseudoscientists because they aren’t interested in finding the truth. They are interested in promoting their political agenda.
Increased urbanization isn’t even the most significant reason there might be warmer temperatures. The real reason the planet is warmer today is that it’s
normal
for the Earth to go through warming and cooling periods. It’s been doing so for millions of years, long before man inhabited this planet, much less started building factories.
Neither temperatures nor CO
2
levels are anywhere near their peak over Earth’s history. During the Cretaceous period, approximately 145 to 66 million years ago, mean atmospheric CO
2
content was about 1700 ppm. That’s six times what it was just before the industrial revolution. In October 2014 it was 395.93 ppm, still orders of magnitude lower than during the Cretaceous period.
Mean surface temperature during the Cretaceous period was 18°C, 4°C higher than it is now!
During this period of significantly higher atmospheric CO
2
and temperature levels, life was flourishing. Dinosaurs continued to dominate the land, but new groups of mammals, birds, and flowering plants appeared.
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That’s not a big surprise. Contrary to what fake scientists tell you, higher CO
2
levels are good for plants and warmer temperatures are good for life in general.
As I’ve said before, you don’t have to go back millions of years to find much warmer temperatures than anything we’ve seen during the industrial age. Temperatures were warmer and ice sheets smaller during the Medieval Warm Period, just one thousand years ago. Dr. Reid A. Bryson, universally recognized as the father of modern climatology, confirms that even today the ice in Greenland covers old Viking farms.
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No one disputes Bryson is a real scientist, not even the climate change hucksters. Do you know what he says about hysterical cries that glaciers in the Alps are receding? He says it’s all happened before.
What do they find when the ice sheets retreat, in the Alps?… A silver mine! The guys had stacked up their tools because they were going to be back the next spring to mine more silver,
only the snow never went.… There used to be less ice than now. It’s just getting back to normal.
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Bryson’s a real climate scientist, the father of the whole discipline, and he doesn’t believe the climate change scam at all. He’s not alone among real scientists. There are actually thirty-one thousand who have signed the following petition to formally register their dissent to this politically motivated hoax:
We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.
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Obviously for these tens of thousands of scientists, the debate is not over. For real scientists, it never is. That means the IPCC’s scientists’ work hasn’t passed peer review at all. The IPCC simply smears or ignores any scientist who doesn’t concur.
As I’ve said, one of the things peer review helps scientists avoid is basic errors in logic. Well, the fake scientists in the
IPCC have made an error so long recognized it actually has a Latin name:
cum hoc ergo propter hoc
. Literally, it means “with this, therefore because of this.” Sometimes we restate it as “correlation does not necessarily imply causation.”
They haven’t just made this classic error, they’ve built their entire house upon it. Here’s what happened. They looked at data that indicates warming periods have been accompanied by increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over time. That could mean carbon dioxide causes warming. It could mean warming causes increased levels of carbon dioxide. Or, it could mean neither. Maybe something else caused both temperatures and carbon dioxide levels to rise.
That’s how a real scientist would think. That’s how I had to think to complete my Ph.D. dissertation. But since the IPCC scientists’ agenda from the beginning was political instead of scientific, they immediately assumed the higher carbon dioxide levels were
causing
the warming. They never considered the alternatives, because the alternatives wouldn’t support the socialist politicians.
They got away with it until some very inconvenient research occurred. Many of you have never heard of the Vostok ice core samples. But have you heard about Al Gore’s big lie sample? Well, look up the Vostok ice core sample.
This research is very important. It’s real data. It’s not created by Al Gore. It’s not created for the pope. It was obtained by drilling down into the ice above Lake Vostok in Antarctica
to a depth of ten thousand feet. French and Russian scientists obtained deep core samples allowing them to look at, among other things, the history of temperature and carbon dioxide over the past 420,000 years.
Guess what? The samples did show that increases in carbon dioxide always accompanied increases in temperature, but the increases in temperature always came first.
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The increases in CO
2
consistently lagged behind temperature increases
by about eight hundred years.
That proves increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
didn’t cause warming
. How could it have, if it didn’t happen until after the warming? This knocks over the whole house of cards.
That’s not all the Vostok ice core samples tell us. As Joe Martino reports, 325,000 years ago, global temps and CO
2
levels were higher than they are today.
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I guess Barack Obama didn’t get any of this when he was at Columbia learning how to become a community agitator.
In fact, we are right now near the end of another warm interglacial. And those of us who are educated in science know we’re actually heading into another glacial cooling period where global temperatures will drop and ice will again form heavily at the poles. It’s already happening. The Antarctic has just had the greatest growth of ice in a very long period of time.
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Don’t take my word for it. Research it yourself.
So what can we say about this group of political radicals and their fake climate change research? In short, they don’t do scientific research scientifically. Their data is not representative of the Earth’s climate as a whole. They don’t control for other causes of temperature change. Their methodology and results are not approved by their peers, other than those bought off
by the politicians. But that’s not the most damning evidence against this scam.
If I were a news reporter, my editor might say I’ve buried the lead. Until now, I’ve given the climate con artists the benefit of the doubt that they are at least working with real data. They’re not.
Remember when I told you the very first thing a scientist has to do is protect the integrity of his data? To ensure that it was really being gathered accurately and properly? Well, it goes without saying that there is no integrity in your data if you’re intentionally altering the results yourself. It turns out that’s just what these climate change scientists have been doing.
At the time of this writing, what Chris Booker of the
Telegraph
called “the biggest science scandal ever” was just coming to light. Booker says that future generations will be shocked at “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.”
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Booker has been following the work of several researchers who have proved conclusively that even the temperature data the IPCC cites as evidence of its theory is completely bogus. Not only have measurements been altered to show warming trends where there is no trend at all, they have actually had the audacity to turn cooling trends into warming trends. Traust Jonsson, who formerly headed climate research at the Iceland office, expressed surprise that current reporting
“completely ‘disappears’ Iceland’s ‘sea ice years’ around 1970, when a period of extreme cooling almost devastated his country’s economy.”
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They did the same thing with data at three different sites in Paraguay. For all three sites, high temperatures in the 1960s were adjusted downward and lower temperatures thereafter were adjusted upward to turn a fifty-year cooling trend into a warming trend.
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It’s not just Iceland and Paraguay. They’ve changed temperature records all over the world to show warming where it doesn’t exist, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, England, New York, Costa Rica, and Alaska. The whole list is too long to reproduce here, but Joseph D’Aleo and Anthony Watts have put together a comprehensive report called “Surface Temperature Records: Policy Drive Deception?”
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I suggest you read it. Then you’ll start to see what is really going on.
You can’t say the climate change con artists aren’t creative. They are even willing to combine unrepresentative data with data manipulation to get the results they want. Here’s an excerpt from this report: