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November 17, 2008
Global Warming Hoaxers Caught Pushing Cooked Data Again
Posted by Dave Blount at November 17, 2008 9:13 AM
Lest you're ever tempted to believe the liberal establishment's shrill lies about the nonexistent climate crisis:
A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.
This was startling. Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand. China's official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its "worst snowstorm ever". In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years.
The GISS got the alarming numbers it wanted by carrying over some temperatures from the previous month. As even Al Gore probably knows, September tends to be warmer than October.
Hansen et al. were caught out not by the increasingly irrelevant mainstream media, but by the blogs Watts Up With That and Climate Audit. The GISS's response was to discover a new "hotspot" in the Arctic — despite the fact that sea ice there is 30% more extensive than it was at this point last year.
Al Gore's creepy friend Hansen has been milking the global warming hoax for a pretty penny. He and his taxpayer-financed henchmen have been caught using phony data before. To give an idea of his political leanings, Hansen has called for the arrest of oil company execs on charges of global warming denial.
A GISS spokesliar whines that his agency doesn't have the resources to do quality control on the data it receives. This same bogus data is used by the UN to hype the media into a frenzy over the imaginary global warming catastrophe.
The entire farce has operated on the Big Lie theory that people will believe a spectacularly preposterous lie if you repeat it often enough. But in accordance with Abraham Lincoln's theory that you can't fool all of the people all of the time, there will continue to be resistance to this insidious bureaucratic power grab, hopefully even after global warming denial really is illegal.
On tips from Al C, Bergbikr, mega, and Charles O.
