Washington Post Tree-Ring Circus
The Washington Post recently claimed that the 2023 tree ring in a 200-year old pine (called Bigelow 224) on Mount Bigelow in the Sonoran Desert is a climate warning of some sort. Here I demonstrate their fraudulent reporting.
The WaPo article is here.
Below is the first image you see as your scroll through the article. It is an image of the entire core sample from the tree.
This the next image in the scroll, explaining the tree ring.
This is the next image in the scroll, spotlighting the tree rings from the mid-19th century.
The next scroll spotlights the early 20th century.
So far so good. But here’s where the fraud is. This is the next scroll. Note the focus on the thin growth ring from 2023 — “the hottest year that humanity — and Bigelow 224 — had ever seen”, per the WaPo.
Looks bad for 2023, right?
But with the help of another pair of hands, I was able to screen shot the WaPo scroll before it landed on that last image. Here it is.
As you can see, the WaPo image trying to show 2023 as some unusually narrow tree ring is just fraud. The image I was able to capture shows that during the 1970s through the 1990s, the tree rings were very thin, if not thinner than 2023 — even though none of those years was the “hottest year that humanity — and Bigelow 224 — had ever seen.”
Here’s a screen video of the scroll so you can see the deception with your own lying’ eyes:
https://junkscience.com/2023/12/washington-post-tree-ring-circus/
