Remember the U.N. warning last month, that we have only twelve years left before even a half degree of “global warming” will increase risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people ?
Yeah, no
Global Warming: Everyone makes mistakes, but some mistakes are bigger than others. That’s the case with a recent study based on a climate model that claimed the oceans had retained 60% more warming than previously thought. It made headlines around the world with its alarming conclusion.
The study itself, by no fewer than ten authors, made sweeping claims. The authors wrote that the study held “implications for policy-relevant measurements of the Earth response to climate change, such as climate sensitivity to greenhouse gases and the thermal component of sea-level rise.”
In other words, this study is a game-changer that policy makers ignored at their own — and our — peril.
Media around the world seized upon the report as yet another indicator of climate-change doom and runaway global warming. No surprise, since most of the media faithfully adhere to the Holy Church of Global Warming….
We’re not ripping the scientists for this. They made math mistakes, which were pointed out by skeptical British climate scientist Nicholas Lewis. His review found “serious (but surely inadvertent) errors” in the study.
After their own review, to their credit, the authors concurred.
“When we were confronted with his insight it became immediately clear there was an issue there,” Ralph Keeling, a climatologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and one of the co-authors of the study, told The San Diego Union-Tribune. “We’re grateful to have it be pointed out quickly so that we could correct it quickly.”
He added: “Our error margins are too big now to really weigh in on the precise amount of warming that’s going on in the ocean. We really muffed the error margins.”….
But there are two huge problems with this.
One, the media — including the Washington Post and the BBC — that so enthusiastically covered the initial release of the paper will not give the corrections of their mistaken reports nearly as prominent display as the original. So, for many readers, the mistaken impression of a world undergoing dramatic warming will linger….
Funny how these “mistakes” always skew the conclusion in favor of their agenda.
This is excellent.
BUT, the Global Warming report came out in October, eg, before the election, and the discrepancy admitted to, after the election. Prediction: There will be a similar report in October 2020.
France, the home of the Paris Climate Accord, has large protest against High fuel prices caused by tax increases. Macron has increased fuel (gas & diesel) taxes to, wean France off fossil fuels. Funny, the article doesn’t mention the Paris Climate Accord that the U.S. withdrew from and the rest of the world supports, as being a reason. The linked article has a map of France where the protests are occurring. Funny map because it’s 95% of France.
https://news.sky.com/story/death-and-injuries-in-fuel-tax-protests-in-france-11556493
Possibly new tactic in Climate Change world; Established media accepting/printing articles from activists.
Recently, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper published article by Public Radio International on thinning arctic ice. PRI is funded by BBC, Boston public radio station, and apparently directly by U.S. taxpayers.
NBC News just published article by InsideClimate on rising seas endangering naval shipyard. InsideClimate says it is a non-profit journalist paper but it’s really just an advocacy paper. (There are several weekly newsletters titled Inside … Energy, EPA, etc. They are generally good. I suspect InsideClimate is one word instead of two to avoid legal issues.)