Thursday, May 17, 2018

Media Ignore Sharp Drop In Global Temperatures Over Past Two Years

Inconvenient Science: NASA data show that global temperatures dropped sharply over the past two years.

From February 2016 to February 2018, "Global average temperatures dropped by 0.56 degrees Celsius." That, he notes, is the biggest two-year drop in the past century.

"The 2016-2018 Big Chill," he writes, "Was composed of two Little Chills, the biggest five month drop ever and the fourth biggest. A similar event from February to June 2018 would bring global average temperatures below the 1980s average."

What's more, journalists are perfectly willing to jump on any individual weather anomaly - or even a picture of a starving polar bear - as proof of global warming.

How about the fact that the U.S. has cut CO2 emissions over the past 13 years faster than any other industrialized nation? Or that polar bear populations are increasing? Or that we haven't seen any increase in violent weather in decades?

If fears of catastrophic climate change are warranted - which we seriously doubt - ignoring things like the rapid cooling in the past two years carries an even bigger risk.

"At some point the news will leak out that all global warming since 1980 has been wiped out in two and a half years, and that record-setting events went unreported."

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-global-warming-earth-cooling-media-bias/

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