Julie Kelly:
Congress is ramping up its investigation into a key climate study, now under further scrutiny after a federal whistleblower raised more questions about it this week. The scandal some are referring to as “Climategate Two” (you can learn about the first Climategate here) is quickly escalating after Dr. John Bates, a former top scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), exposed how an ex-colleague mishandled a report on global warming right before a major international climate conference in 2015.
House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith said during a Tuesday hearing that NOAA “has deceived the American people by falsifying data to justify a partisan agenda.” He will now push for all documents related to the climate study, materials he requested via subpoena in 2015 after Obama Administration officials refused to disclose them.
What Bates Revealed About a Famous Climate Study
The explosive allegations from Dr. Bates were detailed in the Daily Mail and on the scientific blog, Climate, Etc. on February 5. Bates accuses Tom Karl, former director of the NOAA office responsible for climate data, of manipulating temperature readings, failing to archive data, and ignoring agency protocols to rush publishing his study that debunked the well-known pause in global warming at the beginning of this century.
At the time, climate activists were in a panic because the premier scientific body in charge of climate science—the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—admitted the rise in global temperatures had basically stalled from 1998 to 2012. This bombshell was included in the IPCC’s 2013 report, which would serve as the main primer leading up to the United Nations’ Climate Conference in Paris two years later.
World leaders were poised to obligate their countries (er, taxpayers) into paying hundreds of billions to ease climate change. The inconvenient truth that plenty of evidence showed the planet was not significantly warming would be hard to climatesplain away. To give the climate leaders a big assist, Karl worked with a team of scientists to prove the pause didn’t happen, and claim global temperatures were rising just as fast as they had been at the end of the twentieth century.
Karl specifically cites the IPCC report in the introduction of his paper published in Science in June 2015, a few months before the Paris conference. Under the headline, “Walking back talk of the end of warming,” the authors said, “Here, we present an updated global surface temperature analysis that reveals that global trends are higher than those reported by the IPCC. These results do not support the notion of a slowdown in the increase in global surface temperatures.”
The paper concludes that “the IPCCs statement is no longer valid.” In other words: settled.
The Climate Change Study Was Rigged
But Bates says the researchers “put a thumb on the scale” to reach their conclusions. He reveals other alarming details, like how the computer used to process the data suffered a complete failure. Chairman Smith responded immediately to Bates’s allegations, thanking him for “exposing the previous administration’s efforts to push their costly climate agenda at the expense of scientific integrity.”
Shortly after Bates’ exposé was posted, climate skeptics and conservative outlets began reporting on it—including Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Times (my piece in NRO is here). And of course it wasn’t long before climate activists and their media propagandists seized on Bates, attacking his credibility and motives while insisting Karl’s report was indeed credible and backed up by other scientists.
True to form, the same media that helped promote Karl’s study before the Paris climate conference overlooked key parts of Bates’s account. Neither the Washington Post, New York Times, nor the Associated Press mentioned IPCC as the source for the global warming pause, the main reason for Karl’s rebuke. Nor did they mention Bates’ shocking claim that the computer used to process the data had crashed.
The entire enviromental movment is based upon lies and junk science Racheal Carson lied big time about DDT it wasnt harming birds as she claimed then theres Acid Rain and the Rainforests disappearing and this Global Warmings the biggist fruad in this history of mankind and nature as well just a bunch of con men suckering up out of our money and our liberties by the one worlders and the NWO as well as the Useless Nations and the various eco-nazi groups
Like all the other liberal agendas, the climate scam is based on lies. All liberals know to do is lie; lie to control.
The Daily Mail article is by David Rose, a long-time promoter of conspiracy theories concerning climate change science. The claims in the article are seriously flawed and deliberately misleading. That, of course, has not kept idiots and special interest tools from waving it around as if it were actual evidence of scientific misconduct. File it with the right’s growing body of bogus claims and “alternate facts.”
Expose: David Rose does not understand baselines
Rose has been cranking out this sort of garbage for years.
It would appear the man made climate fanatics, lunatics, fake climat scientists and deranged blind followers of fake science, have been cranking out this sort of garbage for years.
And in a few months comes EARTHDAY that day of the year when the eco-wackos go parading around dressed as trees,flowers,spotted owls,moneys and fish to prove their out of their collective minds
@Greg: You do not label Al Gore in the “has been cranking out this sort of garbage for years.” category! Actually, there will be more whistle blowers coming out of the woodwork since they are not likely to suffer adverse consequences like the whistle blowers under Obama.
You should devote more time to efforts at legitimate information gathering and critical thinking, and less to mindless copying and pasting from echo-chamber articles cranked out people like Derrick Wilburn, who blathers on endlessly about everything while having no clue about much of anything. The right-wing echo chamber is becoming one big mindless noise box, full of claims and attitude, and loud enough to keep people from noticing that very little clear thinking is going on inside of it.
I can’t even watch FOX News anymore. Most of their content has become an insult to any thoughtful and attentive viewer’s intelligence. Websites like Allen West’s are just plain crazy. I’ve pretty much known the right was totally nuts ever since I realized Sarah Palin was being taken seriously.
NASA lays out the story in simple, clear terms that any reasonably intelligent person should be able to understand: Climate change: How do we know?
Climate change: How do we know?
They’re not lying to you. This is what the evidence indicates is happening. Look at the atmospheric CO2 graph at the top of the page. What has happened since 1950 has not happened at any other time in the past 400,000 years. Note how suddenly and steeply that line is rising. It’s not slowing down. CO2 is a proven greenhouse gas. Increased atmospheric concentration increases temperature. This is a simple fact. How can anyone honestly believe there are not going to be very serious consequences?
@Greg: Actually Greg, they are lying to us. They have manipulated past temperatures down so current temps look like they are rising. They were caught doing this last year in the federal center in CO. NOAA only has one weather station in Africa, so they estimate the temperatures which always average hot. I know you never passed 2nd grade science, but if you could reason, you would understand that CO2 levels always rise as a result of rising temperatures that happens between ice ages of which we have had quite a few over the past 400,000 years. Go back to Sesame Street where you belong.
It is without mention how bereft these man made climate change believers have become.
Fake science along with fake news has allowed 1st order thinking to become reality. The problem with these believers is they are incapable of 2nd or 3rd order thinking.
They are blind lemmings, sheeple and useful idiots for those who demand conformity of “anthropogenic” global climate change.
It would appear the former EPA admin has doubts as well…..
@Greg: Well, answer me this: are the ice caps gone? Are the glaciers gone? Have the coastlines flooded? These are the predictions of YOU’RE guys, based on those accurate computer models they worship. I think before I decided everyone else is blathering, I would check my own position for validity first.
@July 4th American: It got to be a religion when scientific facts had to be exchanged for faith; blind faith.
Perhaps the left can support their belief in man-made warming and protest the lack of enthusiasm for their phony crisis by rioting and burning down some neighborhoods?