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Science/Tech See other Science/Tech Articles Title: Don’t Tell Anyone, But We Just Had Two Years Of Record-Breaking Global Cooling The drop in temperatures at least merits a Hey, whats going on here? story. Inconvenient Science: NASA data show that global temperatures dropped sharply over the past two years. Not that youd know it, since that wasnt 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. Isnt this just the sort of man-bites-dog story that the mainstream media always says is newsworthy? In this case, it didnt warrant any news coverage. In fact, in the three weeks since Real Clear Markets ran Browns story, no other news outlet picked up on it. They did, however, find time to report on such things as tourisms 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. Reporters even found time to cover a group that says they want to carve President Trumps face into a glacier to prove climate change is happening. In other words, the mainstream news covered stories that repeated what climate change advocates have been saying ad nauseam for decades. Thats not to say that a two-year stretch of cooling means that global warming is a hoax. Two years out of hundreds or thousands doesnt necessarily mean anything. And there could be a reasonable explanation. But the drop in temperatures at least merits a Hey, whats going on here? story. Whats more, journalists are perfectly willing to jump on any individual weather anomaly or even a picture of a starving polar bear as proof of global warming. (We havent seen any stories pinning Hawaiis recent volcanic activity on global warming yet, but wont be surprised if someone tries to make the connection.) Weve noted this refusal to cover inconvenient scientific findings many times in this space over the years. Hiding The Evidence There was the study published in the American Meteorological Societys Journal of Climate showing that climate models exaggerate global warming from CO2 emissions by as much as 45%. It was ignored. Then there was the study in the journal Nature Geoscience that found that climate models were faulty, and that, as one of the authors put it, We havent seen that rapid acceleration in warming after 2000 that we see in the models. Nor did the press see fit to report on findings from the University of Alabama-Huntsvilleshowing that the Earths atmosphere appears to be less sensitive to changing CO2 levels than previously assumed. How about the fact that the U.S. has cut CO2 emissions over the past 13 years faster than any other industrialized nation? Or that polar bear populations are increasing? Or that we havent seen any increase in violent weather in decades? Crickets. Reporters no doubt worry that covering such findings will only embolden deniers and undermine support for immediate, drastic action. But if fears of catastrophic climate change are warranted which we seriously doubt ignoring things like the rapid cooling in the past two years carries an even bigger risk. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
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But if fears of catastrophic climate change are warranted which we seriously doubt ignoring things like the rapid cooling in the past two years carries an even bigger risk. Trump did the right thing to withdraw from Paris Climate Accord. It was of no benefit to the U.S. and put us behind the 8 ball for certain. www.nytimes.com/2017/06/0...is-climate-agreement.html AlGore is nuttier than a fruitcake too. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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