Ace:
You may wonder why such a statement would be made in the New York Times.
Well, not because they’re giving up on the Cult of Angry Gaia. No. What’s happened is that given the 15 year long hiatus in temperature change, certain proofs that the Science Is Settled You Guys have to be tossed out in order to save the rest of it.
In the editorial, the author argues that the Hockey Stick was always silly and therefore we shouldn’t be misled by reliance upon it. The Hockey Stick showed, and projected, ever-rising global temperatures; well that was just plain ol’ silly, this writer now says, and you shouldn’t hold it against Global Warming that one of their most widely publicized Political Advertisements turns out to have been bunk.
You should still totes believe in Global Warming. Just don’t put any stock in that silly Hockey Stick graph that was used to sell Global Warming for the past, what, 30 years?
See, if you ignore that Hockey Stick, and accept, as the writer (now he tells us) announces, that the Hockey Stick always had ” too much certainty and inappropriate simplicity,” and just accept that Global Warming might be much more variable and unpredictable than previously claimed, then you can accept the truth that it’s Totally Predictable and We’re All Going to Die So Just Believe Us Please.
The writer claims he “predicted” the 15 year pause in temperature increase:
Anyone with any scientific knowledge knew that combining the “tree ring” data with current temperature data was not a true scientific proof of warming. It only provided a hypothesis for further study, only everyone on the left took it as truth!
The sad fact is that the Left were never ”true believers.”
They faked their conclusions, hid their raw data so it couldn’t be peer tested, campaigned a reign of terror against ”deniers,” and aligned with socialists who wanted to get more of ”other people’s money.”
Now that the wheels are off their wagon, they still want us to give up the cash but base it on sheer trust that, over-all, they are correct.
Why on earth should we do that?
Global warming/climate/weather/excess rain/forests fires/earth quakes/tornadoes/hurricanes, kitchen faucet leaks, it’s all doomsday theology predictions by the likes of obama, algore and the lady that dictates the weather channel hyperbola, don’t know her name but she was/is responsible for the sky is falling philosophy. Maybe the new CEO will get them back on track using scientifically based information instead of climate algore BS.