Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
“Note to the New York Times: ‘trouncing’ and ‘blown past’ are phrases appropriate to sports reporting, not science reporting. Except that no sports reporter would dare write an article in which he never bothers to give you the score of the big game. . . . It’s almost like they’re hiding something. And that is indeed what we find.”
Summary: Increase is one-hundredth of a degree but the Margin of Error is a tenth of a degree. So it’s all bullshit. No, worry, these are “alternative facts” but since it’s the Left doing it, that makes it alright.
Joe Doakes
Narrative Uber Alles.
This is great JD!
What’s even better are the comments. There were some libidiot trolls that got schooled by a couple of scientists that agreed with the author.
On the other hand, I found it interesting that those libs are reading The Federalist. Not that it will do much good.
There are facts and there are reporters and never the twain shall meet.
Using rinkydinkDFL as past example, I highly doubt libturds are capable of grasping the concept and significance of Increase is one-hundredth of a degree but the Margin of Error is a tenth of a degree.
Note also, that was the result from fudged numbers on top of a record El Nino. Satellite temperatures have almost returned to where the 19-year “pause” would have them, now that La Nina has arrived. December saw the greatest drop in global temps since the satellite record began.
One more thing. Let us assume they are right and that the world truly is warming by 1/100 degree per year. In 100 years that is 1 degree! Is that a catastrophe? What if “we” didn’t cause it, are we still supposed to fix it?
I interpret that data to show a mean decrease of .1 degree; the Earth is cooling. My interpretation is every bit as accurate as theirs.
I interpret that data to show a mean decrease of .01 degree
Statement: “Global mean temp is entirely driven by atmospheric CO2.”
Question: “Atmospheric CO2 is 500 PPM. What is global mean temp?”
Answer: “There is no way of knowing.”
Silly Wooly One. Correlation does not equal a causation.
All the truth that’s fit to print should be the NYT new tagline.
I think they already have that one. The new one should be “All the news that fits the narrative.” And maybe “even if we have to make it up.”
The real shame is that the preferred “solution” for all this is to give control of our energy supplies and economy to the government, as if government control of the same hasn’t given us Shanghai and Beijing smog, and a set of environmental disasters in the former Warsaw Pact that make Love Canal look like pristine wilderness. For that matter, government control of transit in the U.S. gives us a fleet of buses that burn a gallon of diesel fuel for every 25 passenger-miles traveled, about the same as a Powerstroke F250 for each commuter.
If these scientists can’t understand enough economics to comprehend the “tragedy of the commons”, suffice it to say that I’m going to have to doubt their abilities in climatology as well.