
American Thinker: NASA Flacks for Global Warming and Skirts Scientific Ethics: “Michael Fumento pointed out that NASA has issued no less than five separate PR releases on the Global Warming hypothesis just this year, ‘each one alarming.’ But the major correction to internationally-broadcast claims about Global Warming have not received even a NASA press release, much less an official correction in a peer-reviewed journal like Science magazine. This is unacceptable.
As Fumento wrote: In pooh-poohing the revision, the GISS ignores the tremendous emotional impact it’s had in practically claiming each year is hotter than the one before.
Honest scientists don’t dismiss the significance of data errors; PR hacks do such things. James Hansen of NASA is minimizing the importance of the changes by claiming that since the US is only a small potion of the total world, the overall global figures have not changed much. However, the US surface temperature record is considered to be the most complete, and longest, over the largest surface area, and also the most technically responsible available record. (It’s very easy to screw up a temperature record, especially in many different locations, due to local heat and cooling sources.) It is not inferential (like ice cores), and it does not come from a scientifically backward country. No other continent-wide temperature surface record comes up to that standard, over such a long period of time. So even though the US only covers 2 percent of earth surface, it’s a crucial 2 percent in terms of the quality of the record. “
You bring out some good points. There is no way that NASA or anyone else has significant data on the whole world since the 1900’s to prove less then 1 degree of global warming actually took place. Even the data they have in the US we now know was fudged to make it look like the world is getting warmer. Yet, they want to call this scientific proof of global warming? On the bases of this junk science the world should spend trillions of dollars trying to fix a problem that does not exist? These people are dangerous!
The main evidence for global warming is the ice melt in the Arctic but even that is not due to greenhouse gases. It most likely is due to black soot from China and India’s power plants and industry. The soot sits on the Arctic ice absorbing energy from the sun. We do that to melt ice on our roads.
No folks, Antarctica is not melting, most of its ice pack is getting thicker and the surface temperatures have been falling.
So if anyone is really worried about ice flows and polar bears they just might stop buying Chinese products. We are more likely to see future global cooling then warming. When that happens who will trust science anymore about anything? You knee-jerk scientists need to wake up. Your future may be at stake.