Reader's View: Fear-mongering over climate diverts attention

Recent headlines show misguided hysteria over 2014 being the hottest year ever recorded. The hype is intended to give readers the impression that 2014 was an extreme. It was not. Surface temperatures increased less than 0.02 degrees Celcius. It should be noted the warming activists in NASA and NOAA are keepers of these record temperatures. These recent yearly temperatures are so corrupt the margin of uncertainty makes it confusing which of the previous 14 years was actually the hottest. To make 2015 the hottest year, just tweak the 2014 numbers and you get another global warming bogeyman.
During the 2009 Climategate fraud, top scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit got busted for fabricating surface temperatures and manipulation of weather data. If the weather data supports the warming narrative they run with it, it seems; otherwise they change findings to dovetail with a preconceived conclusion.
Climate alarmists point out computer models predict significant increases in future temperatures. Sounds ominous. But computer models are only as good as the data you put in. In the case of climate change, it seems to me it’s garbage in, garbage out.
Satellite temperatures, which are more transparent, show no warming in the last 18 years, according to the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama-Huntsville and others.
With the clouds of war forming over our nation and Islamic terrorists picking us off one by one, President Barack Obama hilariously has suggested climate change is the most serious crisis we are facing. A few days later the president flew to India and Saudi Arabia, creating a bigger carbon footprint in less than a week than most people do in two lifetimes. Hypocrite? Of course he is. When politics gets involved you know the fix is in.
Larry Hendrickson
Soudan