{"id":1432776,"date":"2023-10-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1432776"},"modified":"2023-10-14T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T15:00:00","slug":"era-of-unquestioned-and-unchallenged-climate-change-claims-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/era-of-unquestioned-and-unchallenged-climate-change-claims-is-over\/1432776\/","title":{"rendered":"Era Of ‘Unquestioned And Unchallenged’ Climate Change Claims Is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

Era Of ‘Unquestioned And Unchallenged’ Climate Change Claims Is Over<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Alex Newman via The Epoch Times<\/a> (emphasis ours),<\/em><\/p>\n

Leading voices in the climate community are in an uproar as their warming hypothesis comes under fresh assault by new<\/a> scientific<\/a> papers<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The authors of the papers are being attacked and say that \u201cactivist scientists\u201d threatened by the new findings are \u201caggressively conducting an orchestrated disinformation campaign<\/strong> to discredit the papers and the scientific reputation of the authors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, from insults on social media and furious blog posts to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests demanding emails from a journal editor and federal scientist, the controversy is getting heated.<\/p>\n

Several scientists who spoke with The Epoch Times expressed shock at the tactics used against those whose latest research is casting renewed doubts on the official climate narrative.<\/p>\n

William Happer, Princeton professor emeritus of physics and former climate adviser to President Donald Trump, wasn’t surprised by the response to the new findings.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course the climate cult will be dismissive of any information\u2014no matter how scientifically correct\u2014that is politically incorrect<\/strong>,” he told The Epoch Times, noting that the new findings made important and valid points.<\/p>\n

The reason that climate activists are so upset is that the findings of the new papers\u2014a trio of peer-reviewed studies by astrophysicist Willie Soon and dozens of other scientists from around the world\u2014are casting further doubt on the narrative of man-made global warming.<\/p>\n

The papers are also fueling even more public skepticism about the U.N Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which the authors say ignores the facts as well as climate science more generally.<\/p>\n

The rhetoric employed by taxpayer-funded scientists with a vested interest in the climate change narrative to attack the new research was profoundly unscientific, multiple scientists told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n

Atmospheric science professor Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, for instance, denounced the authors of one of the new papers as \u201ca group of climate denier [clown emoji]\u201d on X.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mann, famous for the now-widely ridiculed \u201chockey stick\u201d graph purporting to show massive man-made warming, also described the editor of the journal Climate as a \u201cdenier clown.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gareth S. Jones with the UK Met Office ridiculed the new studies as “nonsense,” while smearing the journal publisher for supposedly being “popular with the science denial community.”<\/p>\n

(Left) Atmospheric science professor Michael Mann is famous for the now-widely ridiculed \u201chockey stick\u201d graph (L) purporting to show massive man-made warming. The blue curve is the original \u201chockey stick\u201d with its uncertainty range in light blue. (Right) Scientist Michael Man (L) and director Josh Fox attend the New York Screening of the HBO Documentary<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Jones also denounced the guest editor of Climate\u2019s special issue, Ned Nikolov, for having a “bit of a reputation, so much so that other climate contrarians distance themselves from him.”<\/p>\n

Mr. Nikolov authored an earlier paper arguing<\/a> that atmospheric pressure, not greenhouse gases, plays a primary role in temperatures on Earth and on other celestial bodies.<\/p>\n

Also chiming in to attack the new papers and the scientists behind them was Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies<\/strong>, who’s using a FOIA request to demand all of Mr. Nikolov\u2019s emails with relevant scientists.<\/p>\n

Mr. Schmidt mocked Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, one of the authors, saying on X<\/a> that there was \u201cmo[o]re [expletive]<\/span> going around\u201d before posting a highly edited version of Mr. Moore\u2019s post on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only point of this paper (which every climate denier and their dog has jumped onto), is to launder dirty \u2018science\u2019 into a clean made-for-Fox meme,\u201d Mr. Schmidt wrote on X before publishing a more detailed rebuttal on his blog Real Climate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe latest contrarian crowd pleaser from Soon et al (2023) is just the latest repetition of the old \u2018it was the sun wot done it\u2019 trope[1] that Willie Soon and his colleagues have been pushing for decades<\/strong>,\u201d argued Mr. Schmidt, whose federal salary is almost $200,000 per year. \u201cThere is literally nothing new under the sun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scientists Respond<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The blog post by Mr. Schmidt \u201cis dismissive in an insubstantive way,\u201d said climatologist Judith Curry, who wasn’t involved in the new papers but previously served as chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe response by Schmidt, Mann, and others, particularly with regard to the FOIA request regarding editorial discussions on this paper, reflects their ongoing attempts to control the scientific as well as public dialogue on climate change,\u201d she told The Epoch Times. \u201cIn my opinion, their behavior not only reflects poorly on them but is damaging to climate science.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Curry, author of “Climate Uncertainty and Risk,” who has a post<\/a> by the lead authors on her blog Climate Etc. to provide a forum for discussion, said the new paper raises \u201can important issue that is swept under the rug by the IPCC and many climate scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n

In particular, it has major implications for how 20th-century\u00a0climate records are interpreted, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurther, the issue of the urban heat island effect on global land temperatures remains unresolved, which is also highlighted in the Soon et al. paper,\u201d she said, calling it \u201ca useful contribution to the climate science literature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Soon, the main author of the paper and a principal with the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES), explained that the three new papers by CERES scientists are a major threat to powerful vested interests.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor over three decades, the claims and conclusions by U.N. IPCC reports reigned supreme, unquestioned and unchallenged<\/strong>,\u201d Mr. Soon, who was previously with the solar and stellar physics division of the Harvard\u2013Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told The Epoch Times. \u201cOur latest series of three published papers show that those claims are scientifically empty.<\/p>\n

The new paper shows \u201cvery strong evidence\u201d that a global \u201cwarming bias is built into the records from urban areas,\u201d according to an expert. (Victor He\/Unsplash)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOur results appear to rock the weak foundation of IPCC, and this must be the reason why you are seeing such instantaneous rejection and outright complaining by activists like Schmidt and Mann.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Soon and some of the other scientists involved in the new papers published another groundbreaking study<\/a> in 2021 showing that solar activity could explain all observed warming.<\/p>\n

In a highly unusual development for complex scientific studies, that paper has been downloaded more than 55,000 times since it was published.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe high level of attention to this paper by people hungry for truth might be the real threats that Schmidt and Mann are worrying about,\u201d Mr. Soon said, pointing to a detailed response<\/a> to the attacks from critics published on CERES-Science.com, titled “The orchestrated disinformation campaign by RealClimate.org to falsely discredit and censor our work.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Happer noted that the new paper<\/a> by Mr. Soon and the other authors, headlined \u201cThe Detection and Attribution of Northern Hemisphere Land Surface Warming,\u201d is indeed significant.<\/p>\n

The two important and valid points are that there are \u201chuge uncertainties\u201d surrounding how much warming there has been since 1850<\/strong> and how much of that might be due to human activities, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe paper presents very strong evidence that a warming bias is built into the records from urban areas,\u201d Mr. Happer told The Epoch Times after reviewing the paper, which he wasn’t involved with.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis extra warming of urban versus rural areas is not caused by increasing concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. It is caused by humans, but it cannot be reversed by ruinous net-zero policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

A groundbreaking study in 2021 had shown that solar activity could explain all observed warming. (David Gannon\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Happer, who believes that human CO2 emissions are responsible for \u201ca relatively small contribution\u201d to the \u201cmodest warming\u201d that has been observed, agreed with the paper\u2019s conclusion that available data isn’t good enough to determine how significant the various factors, such as volcanoes, solar irradiance, and greenhouse gas emissions, are to the warming.<\/p>\n

Marc Morano, editor of the popular website Climate Depot, told The Epoch Times that the aggressive reaction to the new papers was an effort to silence dissent from the U.N.-backed narrative.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe climate establishment is mimicking the same coercive tactics that we saw in COVID,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you present any scientific challenge to the official narrative, you are the deplatformed, canceled, censored, and silenced.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, the United Nations and other powerful groups are actively working to silence other views on the issue. U.N. Undersecretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming is waging war on what she calls climate \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more here…<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 10\/14\/2023 – 07:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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