{"id":282012,"date":"2023-10-05T16:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T14:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=282012"},"modified":"2023-10-05T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T14:22:53","slug":"correct-wbur-many-climate-scientists-dont-tell-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=282012","title":{"rendered":"Correct, WBUR, Many Climate Scientists Don\u2019t Tell the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From\u00a0ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ByAnthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An October 3, 2023 opinion piece by Barbara Moran at the WBUR (Boston) website has the headline \u201cMany scientists don\u2019t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here\u2019s why.<\/a>\u201d Since human-caused climate change has become a topic of debate, climate scientists have routinely misstated facts and suppressed the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WBUR article centers, in particular, around the purported 1.5\u00b0C \u201cwarming limit\u201d climate alarmists within the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and in the mainstream media and climate activist community have claimed since 2010 posed an amount of warming that would bring catastrophic, irreversible consequences. The first U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change document to mention a limit to global warming of 1.5\u00b0C<\/a> was the Cancun Agreement, adopted at the sixteenth COP (COP16) in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, in 2023, there\u2019s a new worry. According to the WBUR article, \u201c[i]n March, the United Nations released a massive climate change report. The biggest takeaway: Global warming will soon pass the oft-mentioned target of 1.5 degrees Celsius.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously the big worry was that at 1.5 degrees, \u201ctipping points\u201d in the climate will occur<\/a>. As Climate at a Glance: Tipping Points<\/a><\/em>,<\/em> shows there is no evidence that any such tipping points exist. Now the worry is that scientists might publicly admit the 1.5 degree Celsius rise is locked in, resulting people to giving up hope and ceasing to fight for scientists\u2019 favored restrictions on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After this report came out, something weird happened. Unlike the blunt Dr. Thorne, most climate scientists (and journalists) didn\u2019t change how they publicly spoke about 1.5 C. Admitting defeat could risk \u201cdemotivation\u201d said Pascal Lamy, the commissioner of the Climate Overshoot Commission<\/a>. Scientists kept saying things like: \u201cWe need to act now to stay below 1.5\u201d or \u201cit\u2019s getting harder, but still technically possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate scientists, in an effort to stave off despair, aren\u2019t telling the truth about our warming planet. In reality, we\u2019re incredibly close to the point of no return: when rising seas drown island nations and almost all coral reefs die. I\u2019m here to tell climate scientists \u2014 and my fellow climate journalists \u2014 to knock it off.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Climate scientists lying about 1.5\u00b0C so we won\u2019t lose hope? It seems that way. Yet there is no evidence thus far that passing 1.5\u00b0C means disaster. We\u2019ve previously taken this topic to task on\u00a0Climate Realism<\/em>,\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>, and demonstrated, as seen in Figure 1. below, that in Europe, home of the longest surface temperature record, warming has already met and exceeded 1.5\u00b0C. In fact, a 2.0\u00b0C rise has been recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 1. Berkeley Earth average European temperature since 1750. Source: https:\/\/berkeleyearth.lbl.gov\/regions\/europe<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Despite a 2.0\u00b0C rise in temperature, Europe is still there. No disaster has occurred. No \u201ctipping points\u201d have happened. Yet climate scientists seem totally unaware of this fact, or simply choose to ignore it and not report it. Also, as showed repeatedly on Climate Realism<\/em>, there is no evidence climate change is causing an increase in the negative impacts on coral reefs<\/a> or small island nations<\/a> that Moran is nattering on about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the article didn\u2019t consider this possibility, perhaps, the new worry is that when 1.5 degrees is surpassed and catastrophe does not occur, people will have even less faith in scientists\u2019 alarming climate claims than polls show they already do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If they lie about this 1.5\u00b0C limit being breached, what else are they hiding or lying about? If history is any indication, it seems almost everything.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far back as 1989, climate scientists were already acknowledging they might have to suppress the truth and exaggerate the dangers of climate change to push climate action. In October 1989, the late Stephen Scheider, Ph.D., admitted to Discover Magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. To avert the risk [of potentially disastrous <\/em>climate change] t we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public\u2019s imagination. That, of course, means getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And then there is the infamous \u201chockey stick graph\u201d by Dr. Michael Mann<\/a>, which has been shown to be nothing more than an artifact of splicing two dissimilar datasets together to hide the decline in tree-ring derived temperatures, aka \u201cMikes Nature Trick.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the ClimateGate scandal Dr Phil Jones wrote an email to Mann, which said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can\u2019t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth, a colleague] and I will keep them out somehow\u2014even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, James Hansen, Ph.D., former director of NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, predicted New York City\u2019s  West Side Highway would be underwater in 20 years from sea-level rise<\/a>, and then when it didn\u2019t come true claimed he really said 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, how about the claims of an ice-free Arctic due to climate change<\/a>. Several claims were made by climate scientists<\/a>, but none have come true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, there is an entire set of claims and predictions about climate from climate scientists that have never come true. As proof of this one can view a searchable plethora Failed Climate Predictions, here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently climate scientist Patrick T. Brown, admitted to not telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the causes of catastrophic wildfires in California. Brown reported in an article he wrote for\u00a0the Free Press<\/a>\u00a0that a scientific paper he was the lead author of left out non-climate related factors which were significant factors driving the rapid growth in California wildfires in recent years.\u00a0Brown wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I just got published in Nature<\/em> because I stuck to a narrative I knew the editors would like. That\u2019s not the way science should work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paper I just published\u2014\u201cClimate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California\u201d\u2014focuses exclusively on how climate change has affected extreme wildfire behavior. I knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature<\/em> and its rival, Science, want to tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This matters because it is critically important for scientists to be published in high-profile journals; in many ways, they are the gatekeepers for career success in academia. And the editors of these journals have made it abundantly clear, both by what they publish and what they reject, that they want climate papers that support certain preapproved narratives\u2014even when those narratives come at the expense of broader knowledge for society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To put it bluntly, climate science has become less about understanding the complexities of the world and more about serving as a kind of Cassandra, urgently warning the public about the dangers of climate change.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

With these sorts of scientific shenanigans going on, lies of omission, and not owning up to failed predictions, is it any wonder that most citizens put climate change worry dead last<\/a> on the list of concerns?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science is supposed to be about finding and publishing the truth. Instead, it seems that climate science publishes what it believes is good for the so-called \u201csake of the planet\u201d rather than scientific truth. For science to be useful, it must be held to a standard of truth, otherwise it becomes unbelievable and undermines the expansion of knowledge and progress. We all deserve better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony Watts is a senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watts has been in the weather business both in front of, and behind the camera as an on-air television meteorologist since 1978, and currently does daily radio forecasts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has created weather graphics presentation systems for television, specialized weather instrumentation, as well as co-authored peer-reviewed papers on climate issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He operates the most viewed website in the world on climate, the award-winning website wattsupwiththat.com.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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