Countdown to Agony
The Lancet’s fake increase in global drought
Posted on 07 Nov 24
by JitIn BBC, climate change, Deserts, drought, Lancet Countdown, propaganda, Uncategorized
The day before the Lancet Countdown was released, the BBC ran a figure from it showing how droughts had changed in frequency over the past 70 years. Sceptic and alarmist alike would have expected a positive trend, although probably for different reasons. This sceptic though: he flew into a rage at what seemed a clear case of a lie in support of the Net Zero agenda. For it was impossible for the data to represent any version of reality; it indicated that before 1980, there were no deserts on the entire Earth, as the percentage of the Earth suffering from a 6-month drought before that time was trivial.
And what of the vast deserts that we know existed at that time? Erased.
My assumption at the beginning was that the Lancet Countdown’s authors had made a horlicks of compiling the data. It seemed the only logical possibility. We know there were deserts; their figure shows no deserts; the data must show deserts, so some slip has occurred, ‘tween cup and lip.
So your correspondent decided to emulate the figure, and (presumably) triumphantly demonstrate what it was supposed to look like, if the data were handled correctly.
Here’s how the Countdown put it:
https://cliscep.com/2024/11/07/countdown-to-agony/
