“Missing Context”: How Climate Catastrophists at NOAA Mislead without Lying
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by E. Calvin Beisner
By now practically everyone who follows news and commentary about climate change has seen graphs of global warming over the past century or more. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) produced this one in 2017, covering 1880–2016.
Ever since it first appeared, it’s been one of the most commonly used, whether in scholarly journals or government websites or news media or blogs or social media. More recent data generally are communicated similarly—and it’s not hard to understand why.
Here, solid bars, one for each year, depict the change in global average temperature (depicted as anomalies, i.e., departures, from the 20th-century average), and the psychological impact is predictable: fear.
How? Bars in the early years, below the average, are a comforting blue; later bars, above average, are an alarming red. If all the bars were the same color, the psychological impact of the different colors would be lost.
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