Climate Change Alarmism, a Castle built Upon Sand By James Reed
The mainstream, climate change alarmist position of our Albo Labor government, the Biden administration and the UN, holds that dangerous manmade climate change is occurring, and is in fact now accelerating due to economic activities, in the West of course. This is the offered "justification" for utterly radical policies that are set to overturn the Western way of life and standard of living, on everything, since the core attack is upon reliable fossil fuels. However, the position assumes that the supposed science basis of it is correct. Yet, as reported at the Epoch Times.com, prominent scientists have begun to challenge the data underlying the climate change alarmist claims.
According to scientists from the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES), there are fundamental problems with the basic data used to establish the global temperatures, from which the policies are based upon, at least given lip service to. One of the major problems is the contamination of the data by heat islands and the placing of temperature stations in areas where excess heat will generate a false positive reading, elevating temperature changes. This issue will be discussed in another article at the blog tomorrow.
CERES founder Willie Soon has concluded: "For the last 35 years, the words of the IPCC have been taken to be gospel."
"And indeed, climate activism has become the new religion of the 21st century—heretics are not welcome and not allowed to ask questions."
"But good science demands that scientists are encouraged to question the IPCC's dogma. The supposed purity of the global temperature record is one of the most sacred dogmas of the IPCC."
"Temperature records used by climate scientists and governments to build models that then forecast dangerous manmade global warming repercussions have serious problems and even corruption in the data, multiple scientists who have published recent studies on the issue told The Epoch Times.
The Biden administration leans on its latest National Climate Assessment report as evidence that global warming is accelerating because of human activities. The document states that human emissions of "greenhouse gases" such as carbon dioxide are dangerously warming the Earth.
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) holds the same view, and its leaders are pushing major global policy changes in response.
But scientific experts from around the world in a variety of fields are pushing back. In peer-reviewed studies, they cite a wide range of flaws with the global temperature data used to reach the dire conclusions; they say it's time to reexamine the whole narrative.
Problems with temperature data include a lack of geographically and historically representative data, contamination of the records by heat from urban areas, and corruption of the data introduced by a process known as "homogenization."
The flaws are so significant that they make the temperature data—and the models based on it—essentially useless or worse, three independent scientists with the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES) explained.
The experts said that when data corruption is considered, the alleged "climate crisis" supposedly caused by human activities disappears.
Instead, natural climate variability offers a much better explanation for what is being observed, they said.
Some experts told The Epoch Times that deliberate fraud appeared to be at work, while others suggested more innocent explanations.
But regardless of why the problems exist, the implications of the findings are hard to overstate.
With no climate crisis, the justification for trillions of dollars in government spending and costly changes in public policy to restrict carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions collapses, the scientists explained in a series of interviews about their research.
"For the last 35 years, the words of the IPCC have been taken to be gospel," according to astrophysicist and CERES founder Willie Soon. Until recently, he was a researcher working with the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian.
"And indeed, climate activism has become the new religion of the 21st century—heretics are not welcome and not allowed to ask questions," Mr. Soon told The Epoch Times.
"But good science demands that scientists are encouraged to question the IPCC's dogma. The supposed purity of the global temperature record is one of the most sacred dogmas of the IPCC."
The latest U.S. government National Climate Assessment report states: "Human activities are changing the climate.
"The evidence for warming across multiple aspects of the Earth system is incontrovertible, and the science is unequivocal that increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases are driving many observed trends and changes."
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