From the MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN
May 13, 2021 / Francis Menton
It appears that at some point last month the EPA presented a major update of its so-called “Climate Change Indicators”. The EPA’s website is headed “Indicators of Climate Change in the United States” and headed “Climate change is happening now”. The update is an initiative of the Biden administration that is now ready to invest a few trillion dollars of your money in new “green” infrastructure after the Trump EPA failed to keep this data up to date for several years hold. The New York Times reported the big update on today’s front page under the headline, “Climate change is getting worse, the EPA says. Just look around. “
The basic technique is to propagate you with any kind of essentially irrelevant anecdotal information while distracting your attention from the only indicator of “climate change” that really matters, temperature. After all, if temperatures don’t rise, it’s not “global warming”. Here we have 54 putative climate “indicators” – everything from rain to drought to ice to sea level – of which the things relating to actual temperature are just a handful and then buried deep in the middle of all the others are. probably in the hope that you will miss them. In addition, the temperature data is grossly misrepresented in an intentional deception.
But let’s start with the official line of the new Biden EPA.
The earth’s climate is changing. Temperatures are rising, snow and precipitation patterns are changing, and more extreme climate events are already occurring – such as heavy rainstorms and record temperatures. Many of these observed changes are related to increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere caused by human activities.
The Times then picks up the subject in its headline, telling you to just look around to see that climate change is happening. The idea is that you can determine that there is “climate change” by observing ice on ponds or the like without worrying about those complicated thermometers, let alone sophisticated satellite measurements:
Forest fires are bigger and start earlier in the year. Heat waves are more common. The seas are warmer and floods are more common. The air is getting hotter. Even the pollen season for ragweed starts earlier. . . . [EPA’s indicators] Map everything from Lyme disease, which is becoming more common in some states as a warming climate expands the regions deer ticks can survive, to the growing drought in the southwest that threatens the availability of drinking water, the likelihood of forest fires increases but also decreases the ability to generate electricity from hydropower.
So how about the temperature guys? As you can see, the Times throws in a few references to “heat waves” and “hotter air” amidst all of the things about flooding, ragweed pollen, ticks and whatever. What is missing is a quote or link to a source to support the statement about actual temperatures. However, on the EPA page under the heading “US and Global Temperature” we find the following graphic, which is said to have been updated by April 2021:
That seems pretty scary! Everything looks like it will increase a lot over time. In particular, look at the green line called the “lower troposphere” [temperatures] (measured by satellite) from UAH. “The green line ends on a steep climb, so the last data point is just below a record high in 2016 and a full 2 ° F above the 1901-2000 average.
Oh, but here is the current temperature record for the lower troposphere of UAH, available on the website of Roy Spencer who sets the UAH record:
There are some differences in the presentation that require a little interpretation, e.g. B. the EPA chart is in grade F and has anomalies from a mean from 1901 to 2000, while the UAH chart is in grade C and shows anomalies from a mean from 1991 to 2020. Still, it jumps out that the green line on the EPA website, dubbed the UAH record, ends with a sharp rise and the last point is a full 2 ° F above the center line. while this UAH record itself ends in a sharp downtrend and the last point is actually below the center line. Although the EPA explicitly states on its website that it updated the information in April 2021, this downward trend in the UAH record began in January 2020 – a year and more than four months ago – and reflects a drop in temperatures in the lower troposphere about 0.65 ° C. that’s almost 1.2 degrees F.
In other words, well over half of the seemingly frightening rise in temperature since 1901 shown on the EPA graph has disappeared in the past 16 months. The Biden EPA, not wanting to complicate the official story of “climate change is happening”, simply cut off the data in its graph in January 2020 to exclude the last year and the sharp drops in temperature. There is no other way to characterize the EPA chart as being intentionally misleading.
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