A recent study, published
by government-employed
and government-funded
researchers, came to the
usual climate alarmist
conclusion -- there's
a coming climate crisis !
Which means lifetime
job security for them !
Same conclusion we've
been hearing since the
1970s.
And some scientists
even believed it in the
late 1950s !
The study was reported
with the usual bias by
the leftist-biased media:
No analysis.
No questions.
Assuming the future
climate can be predicted,
when no one has ever
been successful at
doing that before.
Headlines that
grossly exaggerated,
or just lied about,
what the "study"
actually says !
The study was
parroted by the
leftists at the
New York Times,
Washington Post,
The Weather Channel,
and others.
A Washington Post
article actually lied
about the study":
"The strongest, most dangerous
hurricanes are now far more likely
because of climate change,
study shows.”
The truth is the study
does not say that at all.
Not even close.
The study’s authors
merely examined tropical
storms that formed
between 1979 and 2017
-- a 39 year period.
For unknown reasons,
they did not focus on
the number of hurricanes,
or the number of major
hurricanes.
They chose a bizarre
statistic: The chance
of a given tropical storm
growing into a major
hurricane ( category 3
or higher ).
They claim after
the first half of the
39 years studied,
that percentage
happened to increase
by 8% in each of the
next two decades.
Meaning 20 years
of a minor variation
in how many tropical
storms turned into
major hurricanes.
The time period
is not long enough
to extrapolate into
a long-term trend.
Real data over a
different period,
the 25-year period,
from 1992
through 2014,
shows the frequency
of hurricanes declined
significantly, and the
frequency of major
hurricanes did
NOT increase.
All during a period
of global warming.
So why is that
25-year period
irrelevant ,
when real data show
no change in the
frequency of major
hurricanes since
the early 1990s ?
Any claim
of more frequent
recent hurricanes
requires cherry-picking
the abnormally quiet
1980s as the baseline
for comparison, rather
than the past 30 years.
The media lap dogs
bury the fact that the
authors are reporting
on the percentage
of tropical storms
that later became
major hurricanes
-- irrelevant data !
Not the raw number
of major hurricanes
-- relevant data !
For unknown reasons,
the number of tropical
storms had been declining
throughout the time period
of the study.
But there's no decline
( or increase )
in the overall number
of major hurricanes.
That's not exactly scary
climate change news !
So the Washington Post
decided to create a scary
fake headline NOT backed
by the study ( aka THEY LIED ):
“The strongest, most dangerous
hurricanes are now far more likely ... "
Even though study authors
never claimed strong hurricanes
are more likely !
Climate alarmists tell us
this is “settled science.”
Two problems
with their claim:
Wild guess predictions
of the future climate,
that are always wrong,
are NOT real science.
They are leftist deceptions,
NOT real science.
And the so-called science
behind their beliefs, such as
this hurricane propaganda,
is unsettling junk science,
not "settled" real science !
