Fighting climate misinformation with perjury and fraud.
A judge vastly reduced climate researcher Michael Mann’s award, accused him of false evidence and ordered him to pay $530,000.
For defenders of climate science, the court ruling was a big victory in the fight against misinformation.
Scientist Michael Mann won a defamation case. Now he owes legal fees. – The Washington Post
“This is happening in Glacier National Park. I climbed to the top of this in 1998 with one of my daughters. Within 15 years this will be the park formerly known as Glacier. ”
Al Gore 2006
An Inconvient Truth Transcript
There is more ice now than when he visited the Grinnell Glacier in 1998.
“Sat., Dec. 29, 1923
GLACIER PARK MELTING at a Rapid Rate in SCIENTIST’S OPINIONCINCINNATI, Dec. 29.—(By the Associated Press)—The hot dry seasons of the past few years have caused rapid disintegration of glaciers in Glacier National park, Montana, professor W. C. Waterman, northwestern university declared in an address today before the geological section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Sperry Glacier, studied by Professor Waterman, has lost one-quarter, or perhaps one-third of its ice in the past 18 years, he said. If this rapid retreat should continue, the professor added, the glacier would almost disappear in another 25 years, but he expressed the opinion that the long dry seasons of the past few years is over with the probability of a lessening in the retreat.”
Dec 29, 1923, page 5 – Medford Mail Tribune at Newspapers.com
“Scoop: NOAA is suspending its long-running monthly media calls on climate stats and climate change, blaming lack of staff. Some other hints at why are in the story:”
Every month NOAA has been performing a comedy routine where they show fake red hot maps based on imaginary data.
“Please Note: Gray areas represent missing data”
The warmest March on record in the US occurred in 1910. This was followed a few weeks later by Halley’s Comet and the largest forest fire in US history.
Apr 17, 1910, page 52 – Chicago Tribune at Newspapers.com
“The charred bodies of twenty firefighters were found on Setzer creek, in the St. Joseph country. Two burned Japanese dragged themselves to Avery, Idaho, last night and told of the death of ten of their comrades. The eighteen men, employees of the Milwaukee railroad had gone out to fight the fire and had been surrounded by flames, only two men escaping death.”
Aug 25, 1910, page 1 – The Butte Miner at Newspapers.com
According to Michael Mann, 1910 was right at the bottom after 900 years of cooling.
Climate change can be detected by changes in pole vault grips.
“Olympic heroine Eliza McCartney believes the effects of climate change can now be seen everywhere – even in heat damage to the grip of the pole she vaults with.
So she’s “very angry” about climate change, votes Green and composts her own food.
In other words, our champion pole vaulter is also a climate warrior.”
In 1857 teenage prophet Nongqawuse convinced the Xhosa population of South Africa to kill their cattle in order to guarantee the culling of the diseased ones. Her rantings led to mass starvation and the subjugation of the Xhosa people.
We are much more sophisticated now, and base our food and energy policies on the rantings of teenage girl from Sweden..
Michael Mann says winters used to be snowier.
Seven of New York City’s ten largest snowstorms have occurred this century, including their two largest. Florida just set their all-time record for snow.
The 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment brought dignity to women.
Michael Mann accuses President Trump of planning to tell the truth about climate.
“Trump’s next climate move: Show global warming benefits humanity”
In 1974, NOAA explained how a warmer climate benefits humanity.
“Annual average temperatures over the Northern Hemisphere increased rather dramatically from about 1890 through 1940, but have been falling ever since. The total change has averaged about one-half degree Centigrade, with the greatest cooling in higher latitudes. A drop of only one or two degrees Centigrade in the annual average temperature at higher latitudes can shorten the growing season so that some crops have to be abandoned. There is reason to believe, for example, that rice was once grown far north of its present boundary in parts of Asia.
According to British meteorologist Hubert Lamb, the average growing season in England is already two weeks shorter than it was before 1950. Since the late 1950’s, Iceland’s hay crop yield has dropped about 25 percent, while pack ice in waters around Iceland and Greenland ports is becoming the hazard to navigation it was during the 17th and 18th centuries.
At lower latitudes, as in the Sahel, the amount of precipitation available during certain phases of the growing season is critical to food production. The kind of climatic variation now in progress includes changes in the tracks of precipitation-producing storms through major grain-producing regions.
In India, for example, before the global warming trend of 1890-1940, severe drought struck about once every four years. With the warming, however, and more abundant monsoon rains, drought came only once every 18 years or so, greatly increasing India’s grain production. Some climatologists think that if the current cooling trend continues, drought will occur more frequently in India—indeed, through much of Asia, the world’s hungriest continent.”
