{"id":430050,"date":"2026-03-07T20:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=430050"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:27:19","slug":"another-confusing-story-highlights-why-climate-hysteria-and-far-left-media-are-reaching-their-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=430050","title":{"rendered":"Another confusing story highlights why climate hysteria and far-left media are reaching their end"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dry land with cracked soil and a lonely tree. Global warming concept. Soil erosion. Ecology. Deforestation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Gary Abernathy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just days before President Trump announced that the EPA would no longer be guided<\/a> on climate change by the so-called \u201cendangerment finding,\u201d the Washington Post\u2019s newsroom decided to take another bite at the old \u201cEarth is getting hotter\u201d apple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contrary to their intent, the resulting story, headlined, \u201cScientists thought they understood <\/a>global warming. Then the past three years happened,\u201d made the Trump administration\u2019s decision seem entirely logical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story, published Feb. 11, is a lesson in the perils of an entity supposedly focused on journalism conducting its own analysis in the field of climate science, and then producing a story that could not be more confusing if it was intentionally trying to supplant Abbott and Costello\u2019s \u201cWho\u2019s On First?\u201d<\/a> as the most hilarious comedic routine ever founded on the concept of confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAccording to a Washington Post analysis,\u201d the Post\u2019s lead paragraph declared, \u201cthe fastest warming rate on record occurred in the last 30 years.\u201d The Post noted that it based its analysis on \u201ca dataset from NASA to analyze global average surface temperatures from 1880 to 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story was presumably in the works before the U.S. was hit with one of the most frigid stretches in recent years. Never mind. The Post had that covered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven as the United States languishes under a frigid cold snap, the rest of the world is still experiencing unusually warm temperatures,\u201d the Post assured us. Why just consider Nuuk, Greenland (or \u201cNuuk, Nuuk\u201d as the Three Stooges<\/a> might have called it) which \u201csaw temperatures in January more than 20 degrees Fahrenheit above average. Parts of Australia, meanwhile, have seen temperatures push past 120 degrees Fahrenheit amid a record heat wave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some places get cold. Some places get hot. Welcome to Earth, visitors. The Post was worried because \u201cfor about 40 years \u2014 from 1970 to 2010 \u2014 global warming proceeded at a fairly steady rate,\u201d inching up about 0.19 degrees Celsius per decade. \u201cThen, that rate began to shift,\u201d the Post reported. \u201cThe warming rate ticked up a notch. Temperatures over the past decade have increased by close to 0.27 degrees C per decade \u2014 about a 42 percent increase.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this seems utterly confusing, you\u2019re not alone. The Post led off by saying that the fastest warming rate on record \u201coccurred in the last 30 years,\u201d which would be since about 1996. But then it said that from 1970-2010, global warming was \u201cpretty steady.\u201d Huh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s never quite clear why \u201cthe last 3 years\u201d is featured in the headline and mentioned a couple of times within the story. Don\u2019t try too hard to make sense of it. These people are journalists, er, I mean scientists, er, science reporters \u2013 well, dammit, they\u2019re sure not mathematicians. Give them a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow the story\u2019s winding road: Sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere actually helped cool things off. But they\u2019re bad to breathe, so when countries cracked down on such things, it just heated things up again. Plus, there are fewer low-lying clouds, letting more heat from the sun get through. On the other hand, \u201cClouds have long been one of the greatest uncertainties in climate science. Clouds are probably helping to cool the Earth, like aerosols, but how much is an open question.\u201d Like everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please read the following section closely \u2013 more than once if you have to \u2013 and then let\u2019s review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About two decades ago, according to the Post, \u201cCountries also began shifting from coal and oil to wind and solar power. As a result, global sulfur dioxide emissions have fallen about 40 percent since the mid-2000s; China\u2019s emissions have fallen even more. That effect has been compounded in recent years by a new international regulation that slashed sulfur emissions from ships by about 85 percent. That explains part of why warming has kicked up a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait, coal, oil and sulfur emissions helped keep the Earth cooler? And cutting down on those emissions have made the Earth warmer? Here\u2019s the Post\u2019s explanation: \u201cFor decades, a portion of the warming unleashed by greenhouse gas emissions was \u2018masked\u2019 by sulfate aerosols. These tiny particles cause heart and lung disease when people inhale polluted air, but they also deflect the sun\u2019s rays.\u201d So, pick your poison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Post did quote one expert who\u2019s not yet buying the too-hot-to-handle narrative. Chris Smith, a research fellow at the University of Leeds, told the Post, \u201cIt\u2019s still too early to definitively conclude there\u2019s an increase in the rate of warming,\u201d and he wants to see a few more years of
additional data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Post, on the other hand, may not have that kind of time. In early February, the Post announced another round of layoffs, and while initial estimates guessed a loss of about one-third of its newsroom, \u201can accounting by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the union that represents Post journalists, finds that the paper\u2019s management eliminated closer to half of the journalists it used to employ,\u201d according to The Washingtonian.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It never occurs to the far-left (formerly mainstream) media that its demise might be attributable to more than economic factors or the rise of the internet. Just as important is the clear bias and agenda- driven politics that resulted in a loss of trust by millions of Americans who are not part of the far-left bubble that the media increasingly served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The era of climate change hysteria is thankfully nearing its end. Some of its biggest promoters are sharing its fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article was published at Real Clear Energy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just days before President Trump announced that the EPA would no longer be guided on climate change by the so-called \u201cendangerment finding,\u201d the Washington Post\u2019s newsroom decided to take another bite at the old \u201cEarth is getting hotter\u201d 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