It’s back.
New climate change indicators on the U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) website are intended to inform science-based decision-making by presenting climate science transparently. But many of the indicators are misleading or deceptive, being based on incomplete evidence or selective data.
A typical example is the indicator for heat waves. This is illustrated in the left panel of the figure below, depicting the EPA’s representation of heat wave frequency in the U.S. from 1961 to 2019. The figure purports to show a steady increase in the occurrence of heat waves, which supposedly tripled from an average of two per year during the 1960s to six per year during the 2010s.
Unfortunately, the chart on the left is highly deceptive in several ways. First, the data is derived from minimum, not maximum, temperatures averaged across 50 American cities. The corresponding chart for maximum temperatures, shown in the right panel above, paints a rather different picture – one in which the heat wave frequency less than doubled from 2.5 per year in the 1960s to 4.5 per year in the 2010s, and actually declined from the 1980s to the 2000s.
Related: Keep the faith.
Shivering Europeans Urged to Keep the Faith on Global Warming
As the global temperatures continue their obstinate refusal to conform with alarmist predictions, climate scientists are urging people experiencing last month’s bitterly cold European Spring weather to keep believing.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/05/23/shivering-europeans-urged-to-keep-the-faith-on-global-warming/
I knew someone would come along to put a cherry on that post.
Kate – I was sitting on that story for at least a day and then you presented the perfect opportunity. SDA team work.
Lies … god damned Lies … and statistical manipulation
We are being LIED to. By our corrupt Leftist government bent on destroying capitalism as they promise to “save us” from an imaginary … FAKE … heating up of the planet.
Mark my words … Global warming will become the next “pandemic” … “health emergency”. It’s too hot to vote in-person … so we need 1 MONTH of mail-in voting … again
In a way the first graph confirms ‘global warming’. IIRC, the theory says that it will be minimum temperatures in northern latitudes at night that will increase, but this doesn’t fit the perception that has been foisted onto the people of ‘we are all going to burn’.
It’s quite convenient to omit the 1930’s from the graph which completely REVERSES the warming trend. We are being LIED to … systematically … and purposefully … by Marxists bent on TAKING your Freedom … in the name of “saving the planet”. Hurry! We are at a point of no return! Only one more year before the earth burns in a caldron of FIRE!! Gavin Newsom told me. California is BURNING … because we drive automobiles and heat our homes.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/05/21/epa-disappears-the-1930s-drought-and-heat-wave-climate-data/
the problem with using the minimum temperature, formerly known as overnight low, is that it doesn’t actually show that the magic CO2 molecule is responsible for warming, but instead that urban heat island effect is the bigger cause, and they don’t want to make that obvious because it breaks every model they put forth.
You would think that the kind of people who worship the sun and are fans of passive solar homes … would know something about thermal mass. Would know that concrete and asphalt are far better heatsinks than say … dirt, grass, or trees?
Or perhaps that knowledge … inspired … their FAKE statistical fear mongering
The ongoing insanity and human desire to control that over which we have no control has gotten very tiresome. How about we live our freaking lives as best we can and leave others and the planet alone.
Climatology descended into farce ,30 years of being 100% wrong is pure magic.
Our minions are still hard at work ;Manufacturing the evidence to support the demanded policies..
Naturally this is very difficult work.
Systemic lying requires one to meticulously track ones lies or total loss of credibility ensues.
This being government at work,the standard is pretty limp,thus this blatant Policy based evidence manufacturing has been the Committee Standard for decades now.
Only the bureaucrats do not know how stupid and criminal they appear.
This is “The Emperor’s New Clothes”,being lived..And what an ugly insipid bunch of Emperors we see.
The Mann is still their leading man.
Beyond parody into madness.
Firing 50% of our bureaucrats today and 50% of the remainder every six months there after would clean up this cesspool very satisfactorily.
Not because it will be effective but because it will cause them great pain and terror.
Especially a referendum on “Why pay vandals and parasites a pension”.
Revenge ,serve it cold.
Won’t measuring growing cities – given the urban heat effect – overstate warming? Or is another intended consequence?
How long until, after $trillions are wasted “battling climate change,” like all their other false narratives, when it’s too late to correct the mistakes, when media has provided the necessary censorship cover, collectivists admit they were wrong all along.
But they had the right intentions hobbling economies, creating strike and slaughtering science, they were trying to save us.
Let us save ourselves. This is just another non-existent problem that creates their institutional and trough swilling framework.