How long have we on the Right been claiming that 'Global Warming' is a political scam?
Right....forever.
Now...here is Steven E. Koonin, who served as under secretary for science in Obama’s Department of Energy from 2009 to 2011.
1. "Claims that 2016 was “the hottest year on record” are drawing sharp criticism from scientists who say it reflects how global warming has become more social crusade than evidence-based science.
2. “The Obama administration relentlessly politicized science and it aggressively pushed a campaign about that politicized science,” said Steven E. Koonin, ....
3. ...also blamed a “happily complicit” media for trumpeting the now-departed Obama administration’s dubious claim.
4. ....National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a report declaring that “the globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for 2016 was the highest among all years since record-keeping began in 1880.”
5. NOAA fixed the 2016 increase at 0.04 degrees Celsius. The British Met Office reported 0.04 degrees Celsius Both increases are well within the margin of error for such calculations, approximately 0.1 degrees, and therefore are dismissed by many scientists as meaningless.
6. ....USA Today wrote that “the planet sizzled to its third straight record warm year in 2016.” The New York Times’ front-page headline said, “Earth Sets Temperature Record for Third Straight Year.” The article declared that the latest readings were “trouncing” earlier numbers and the planet had thus “blown past” the previous records.
Such characterizations are absurd, according to Richard Lindzen, a meteorology professor at MIT....
7. “It’s typical misleading nonsense,” Lindzen said in an e-mail. “We’re talking about less than a tenth of degree with an uncertainty of about a quarter of a degree. Moreover, such small fluctuations – even if real – don’t change the fact that the trend for the past 20 years has been much less than models have predicted.”
8. “The White House positions, the press releases, the published stories – all of that is not exactly inaccurate but it is promoting something considerably less alarming or certain than the layperson might conclude from reading it all.”
Scientists Criticize 'Hottest Year on Record' Claim as Hype | RealClearInvestigations
Soooo.....the above is the answer to the riddle...'when is science not science.'
Right....forever.
Now...here is Steven E. Koonin, who served as under secretary for science in Obama’s Department of Energy from 2009 to 2011.
1. "Claims that 2016 was “the hottest year on record” are drawing sharp criticism from scientists who say it reflects how global warming has become more social crusade than evidence-based science.
2. “The Obama administration relentlessly politicized science and it aggressively pushed a campaign about that politicized science,” said Steven E. Koonin, ....
3. ...also blamed a “happily complicit” media for trumpeting the now-departed Obama administration’s dubious claim.
4. ....National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a report declaring that “the globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for 2016 was the highest among all years since record-keeping began in 1880.”
5. NOAA fixed the 2016 increase at 0.04 degrees Celsius. The British Met Office reported 0.04 degrees Celsius Both increases are well within the margin of error for such calculations, approximately 0.1 degrees, and therefore are dismissed by many scientists as meaningless.
6. ....USA Today wrote that “the planet sizzled to its third straight record warm year in 2016.” The New York Times’ front-page headline said, “Earth Sets Temperature Record for Third Straight Year.” The article declared that the latest readings were “trouncing” earlier numbers and the planet had thus “blown past” the previous records.
Such characterizations are absurd, according to Richard Lindzen, a meteorology professor at MIT....
7. “It’s typical misleading nonsense,” Lindzen said in an e-mail. “We’re talking about less than a tenth of degree with an uncertainty of about a quarter of a degree. Moreover, such small fluctuations – even if real – don’t change the fact that the trend for the past 20 years has been much less than models have predicted.”
8. “The White House positions, the press releases, the published stories – all of that is not exactly inaccurate but it is promoting something considerably less alarming or certain than the layperson might conclude from reading it all.”
Scientists Criticize 'Hottest Year on Record' Claim as Hype | RealClearInvestigations
Soooo.....the above is the answer to the riddle...'when is science not science.'
