NY Times: No Warming Trend in U.S. Since 1895

Isn’t it interesting how the global warming cultists cling to their faith in the face of revelations like this?

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25— After examining climate data extending back nearly 100 years, a team of Government scientists has concluded that there has been no significant change in average temperatures or rainfall in the United States over that entire period.

While the nation’s weather in individual years or even for periods of years has been hotter or cooler and drier or wetter than in other periods, the new study shows that over the last century there has been no trend in one direction or another.

The study, made by scientists for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was published in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters. It is based on temperature and precipitation readings taken at weather stations around the country from 1895 to 1987.

Read more at The New York Times.

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There Is No Global Warming ‘Consensus’

Global warming cultists like to say that there’s a consensus among scientists that human activity is causing the earth to warm. There quite simply is no such consensus. The global warming cultists use the word “consensus” as a quasi-religious mantra, along with the phrase “peer-reviewed.” They also like to say that the science is “settled,” when true science is about being open to data that might challenge one’s hypothesis. When these things are pointed out, they like to bicker over the meaning of the word “consensus” [see comments].

FOR years the media have told us that there is a “scientific consensus” on catastrophic, man-made global warming with anything up to 99.9pc of scientists supporting it.

I decided to carry out a survey to see if this claim had any merit, and asked journalists, politicians and alarmist lobbyists to name two prominent scientists not funded by government or an alarmist lobby group who have said we are seeing a catastrophic degree of warming. As yet, none have been able to do so. Scientists who are seeking government funds have been understandably reluctant to speak.

With more than 31,000 scientists having signed the Oregon petition saying that man-made global warming is bunkum, if there were anything like a consensus to the contrary it would be easy to find a similar number of independent scientists saying so.

Read more at The Independent.

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