Real Climate Science

“science is a way of skeptically interrogating the universe. with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us something is true, to skeptical of those in authority, then we are up for grabs for the next political charlatan who comes along” “this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces”

Seth Borenstein and the Associated Press released a fact-free climate propaganda piece ahead of COP26. It is too rich in misinformation to cover in a single post.

Earth Gets Hotter, Deadlier During Decades of Climate Talks | World News | US News

There has been a slight increase in death rates from natural disasters since the 1990s, but they are down 97% over the past century.

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Similarly, there has been a small increase in forest fire burn acreage since the 1980s, but burn acreage is down almost 90% over the last century.

https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/fireInfo_stats_totalFires.html
National Fire News | National Interagency Fire Center

National Report on Sustainable Forests — 2010

TimesMachine: October 9, 1938 – NYTimes.com

As of January 29, 2021, the National Interagency Fire Center showed burn acreage back to 1926.

https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/fireInfo_stats_totalFires.html

But now they only show it back to 1983, saying that prior to 1983 different processes were used to track data.

Wildfires and Acres | National Interagency Fire Center

As of November 1, 2020 the National Interagency Fire Center had this document on the their website showing that burn acreage is down 90% since the pre-industrial era.

https://www.nifc.gov/PIO_bb/Policy/FederalWildlandFireManagementPolicy_2001.pdf

But the Biden administration has erased it, and replaced it with a message of commitment to making information accessible to people with disabilities.

Page not found | National Interagency Fire Center

Climate alarmism is based around this graph which is a hodgepodge of manipulated and unrelated data. Phil Jones described it this way.

Iconic graph at center of climate debate | Penn State University

Climate alarmists are fine with mixing and matching completely unrelated data, but they throw out inconvenient data on the flimsiest of excuses. And there is no evidence that governments have any intention of reducing CO2 emissions. China isn’t even showing up at Glasgow.

CO? and Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Our World in Data

 Mauna Loa Trends in Carbon Dioxide

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help. ”

– Ronald Reagan

Vermont is the most vaccinated state and Wyoming is the least vaccinated state. Colorado is highly vaccinated and Mississippi is one of the least vaccinated.

Understanding Vaccination Progress – Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

On September 20, Vanity Fair was outraged that the Mississippi governor chose to “do nothing.”

Mississippi Governor Announces Bold Plan to Do Nothing to Stop COVID | Vanity Fair

Since then, cases have continued to decline in Mississippi and are almost back to pre-Delta variant levels.

Have we flattened the curve in Mississippi? – Johns Hopkins

During that same time period, cases skyrocketed to record highs in Vermont.

Cases are also spiking in Colorado and the governor is considering rationing health care.

Polis prepares to stop elective procedures as COVID hospitalizations spike

Meanwhile, across the border here in Wyoming cases are dropping off sharply.

COVID-19

Latest figures from the UK show that vaccinated adults are much more likely to get infected than unvaccinated, and unvaccinated children have a 0.0% chance of death.

COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report – week 43

Representative Byron Reynolds was amazing today!

It is unfortunate that the prestigious New York Academy of Sciences doesn’t seem to understand basic science.

Joe Biden’s latest transportation plan has no basis in reality. But it isn’t intended to succeed.

4:30 PM · Oct 27, 2021

The eastern US was hit by tremendous floods during February and June 1884.

07 Feb 1884, Page 1 – The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer at Newspapers.com

26 Jun 1884, 3 – The York Dispatch at Newspapers.com

10 May 1927, 1 – The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com

“all double-vaccinated” “It’s just strange” “Now they are recovering from COVID-19, one of their teammates dead, wondering if this tragedy could have been averted.”

COVID-19 sweeps through Newmarket men’s hockey league | The Star