In order to substantiate their alarmism and political agenda, global warming activists must explain why current warming or cooling is any different than other warming or cooling periods throughout Earth’s history. The Ice Age, after all, receded long before moms began carting their kids to soccer practice in SUVs.\u00a0 Similarly, today’s frozen areas were once swampy jungles.\u00a0 The only constant throughout the world’s climate history has been change, illustrating the absurdity of the very term “climate change.”\u00a0 After all, that’s what the climate does continually – it changes.<\/p>\n
So what do global warming alarmists do?\u00a0 They exaggerate historical temperature data to suggest that current trends are somehow more pronounced than previous periods of climate change.\u00a0 Specifically, they concocted the “hockey stick” graph, which graphs climate data to show a sudden temperature jolt in the shape of a hockey stick.\u00a0 Without it, they cannot distinguish one period of climate change from any other.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for them, Britain’s leading statistician has concluded<\/a> that the “hockey stick” was “exaggerated” and was compiled using “inappropriate methods.”\u00a0 Professor David Hand of the Royal Statistical Society issued his conclusion as part of a larger report on the “Climategate” scandal<\/a>, which stated that, “it is very surprising that research in an area that depends so heavily on statistical methods has not been carried out in close collaboration with professional statisticians.”\u00a0 Predictably, Professor Hand apologetically attempted to avoid hysterical blowback from the global warming crowd by adding that the data “show a clear warming signal.”\u00a0 But climate realists don’t deny that the globe doesn’t periodically warm and cool.\u00a0 Without the debunked “hockey stick,” though, environmental extremists’ claims are no different than their discredited “global cooling” claims of the 1970s<\/a>.<\/p>\n More “inconvenient truths” for Al Gore and the synthetic global warming industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In order to substantiate their alarmism and political agenda, global warming activists must explain why current warming or cooling is any different than other warming or cooling periods throughout Earth’s history. The Ice Age, after all, receded long before moms began carting their kids to soccer practice in SUVs.\u00a0 Similarly, today’s frozen areas were once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,26,205,1112],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cap-and-trade","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-hockey-stick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}