The Republican-controlled House Science committee tweeted this week:
Breitbart is a conservative propaganda website that provides a mixture of entirely false propaganda, biased opinion pieces, and news. For a science committee to link to Breitbart publicly is embarrassing in and of itself, but this particular article is all kinds of false. The article begins:
1. The last part of this statement is entirely false - in no way is this the 'biggest and steepest fall on record'.
2. The first part of this statement is gratuitously misleading - "Global land temperatures". The oceans constitute 71% of earth's surface, and they and their temperature very much count as being part of earth. Due to the expected transition from El Nino to La Nina weather patterns over the last 6 months, heat has been redistributed from the land to the oceans. The average temperature over all of earth has risen slightly.
Overall, this article is a combination of outrightly false and deliberately designed to mislead.
The Republican House Science committee has long been an embarrassment to America, with the leadership of the committee lacking any science qualifications:
If a PhD in science, like I have, is asking too much of them, then at least you'd think they could find a person with a BSc among the 247 elected Republicans in the House of Representatives. But apparently they couldn't find anyone actually qualified in science to lead the House Science committee - or, more likely I suspect, they didn't want to, because the oil and gas lobbyists were instructing them to sabotage it.
Compare to Europe - the current Chair of the European Parliament Industry, Research and Energy Committee is representative Jerzy Buzek, who has an M.S. and PhD in science, was a Professor of technical sciences for several years, and has authored over 200 research papers, and three patents.
Here are two major standard datasets of temperatures, the first is the land-only temperature data, that has 'plummeted' in the most recent bar, and for which records go back to 1880, while the second is satellite data that includes ocean temperatures which goes back only as far as 1979.
temp.jpg
Temp2.gif
It can easily be seen that both graphs show long-term warming trends, and that there is no sign of any recent major cooling trend. It can be easily noted from that the land-temperature graph that the most recent bar that has 'plummeted' is well within the range of past fluctuations, and is in no way whatsoever "the biggest and steepest fall on record" like the false article claimed.
Bernie Sanders responded to the House Science committee's misinformation by tweeting:
Meanwhile scientists around the world have been quick to condemn the misinformation, and have castigated the Republican-led House Sciences committee and Breitbart for presenting and perpetuating such blatantly false information about such an important subject.
.@BreitbartNews: Global Temperatures Plunge. Icy Silence from Climate Alarmists
Breitbart is a conservative propaganda website that provides a mixture of entirely false propaganda, biased opinion pieces, and news. For a science committee to link to Breitbart publicly is embarrassing in and of itself, but this particular article is all kinds of false. The article begins:
1. The last part of this statement is entirely false - in no way is this the 'biggest and steepest fall on record'.
2. The first part of this statement is gratuitously misleading - "Global land temperatures". The oceans constitute 71% of earth's surface, and they and their temperature very much count as being part of earth. Due to the expected transition from El Nino to La Nina weather patterns over the last 6 months, heat has been redistributed from the land to the oceans. The average temperature over all of earth has risen slightly.
Overall, this article is a combination of outrightly false and deliberately designed to mislead.
The Republican House Science committee has long been an embarrassment to America, with the leadership of the committee lacking any science qualifications:
Lamar S. Smith, Texas, Chairman - BA in American Studies
Frank Lucas, Oklahoma, Vice Chairman - degree in Agricultural Economics
Jim Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin, Chairman emeritus - degree in Political Science, and Doctor of Law
Frank Lucas, Oklahoma, Vice Chairman - degree in Agricultural Economics
Jim Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin, Chairman emeritus - degree in Political Science, and Doctor of Law
If a PhD in science, like I have, is asking too much of them, then at least you'd think they could find a person with a BSc among the 247 elected Republicans in the House of Representatives. But apparently they couldn't find anyone actually qualified in science to lead the House Science committee - or, more likely I suspect, they didn't want to, because the oil and gas lobbyists were instructing them to sabotage it.
Compare to Europe - the current Chair of the European Parliament Industry, Research and Energy Committee is representative Jerzy Buzek, who has an M.S. and PhD in science, was a Professor of technical sciences for several years, and has authored over 200 research papers, and three patents.
Here are two major standard datasets of temperatures, the first is the land-only temperature data, that has 'plummeted' in the most recent bar, and for which records go back to 1880, while the second is satellite data that includes ocean temperatures which goes back only as far as 1979.
temp.jpg
Temp2.gif
It can easily be seen that both graphs show long-term warming trends, and that there is no sign of any recent major cooling trend. It can be easily noted from that the land-temperature graph that the most recent bar that has 'plummeted' is well within the range of past fluctuations, and is in no way whatsoever "the biggest and steepest fall on record" like the false article claimed.
Bernie Sanders responded to the House Science committee's misinformation by tweeting:
Where'd you get your PhD? Trump University?
Meanwhile scientists around the world have been quick to condemn the misinformation, and have castigated the Republican-led House Sciences committee and Breitbart for presenting and perpetuating such blatantly false information about such an important subject.
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