Climate Fact-Check December 2023 Edition
By
Steve Milloy
January 5, 2024
Guest Post by: The Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Heartland Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate.
Editor’s note: This summary serves as a fact check on the biggest false claims made in the media in December, 2023.
December ended with the so-called “newspaper of record” running with this graph of infamy:
This graph is artwork, not science. First, there is no such record of “global temperatures.” Because there is no physical meaning to the notion of “global temperature,” it cannot be
measured. At best, this is a graph of fantasy guesstimates. These guesstimates have absolutely no basis in reality before 1979, when the satellite era started. Note, for example, that the New York Times graph begins in 1850. But check out the sparse and hardly “global” surface temperature station coverage as of 1885.
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https://climaterealism.com/2024/01/climate-fact-check-december-2023-edition/
