‘Climate activism has become the new religion of the 21st century—heretics are not welcome and not allowed to ask questions,’ said astrophysicist Willie Soon.
Temperature records used by climate scientists and governments to build
models that then forecast dangerous manmade global warming repercussions have
serious problems and even corruption in the data, multiple scientists who have
published recent studies on the issue told The Epoch Times.
The Biden administration leans on its latest National Climate Assessment
report as evidence that global warming is accelerating
because of human activities. The document states that human emissions of
“greenhouse gases” such as carbon dioxide are dangerously warming the Earth.
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) holds the same
view, and its leaders are pushing major global policy changes in response.
But scientific experts from around the world in a variety of fields are
pushing back. In peer-reviewed studies, they cite a wide range of flaws with
the global temperature data used to reach the dire conclusions; they say it’s
time to reexamine the whole narrative.
Problems with temperature data include a lack of geographically and
historically representative data, contamination of the records by heat from
urban areas, and corruption of the data introduced by a process known as
“homogenization.”
The flaws are so significant that they make the temperature data—and the
models based on it—essentially useless or worse, three independent scientists
with the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES)
explained.
The experts said that when data corruption is considered, the alleged
“climate crisis” supposedly caused by human activities disappears.
Instead, natural climate variability offers a much better explanation
for what is being observed, they said.
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Some experts told The Epoch Times that deliberate fraud appeared to be
at work, while others suggested more innocent explanations.
But regardless of why the problems exist, the implications of the
findings are hard to overstate.
With no climate crisis, the justification for trillions of dollars in
government spending and costly changes in public policy to restrict carbon
dioxide (CO2) emissions collapses, the scientists explained in a series of
interviews about their research.
“For the last 35 years, the words of the IPCC have been taken to be
gospel,” according to astrophysicist and CERES founder Willie Soon. Until
recently, he was a researcher working with the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard
& Smithsonian.
“And indeed, climate activism has become the new religion of the 21st
century—heretics are not welcome and not allowed to ask questions,” Mr. Soon
told The Epoch Times.
Dancers working with Mothers Rise Up (a group of UK mothers protesting about climate change) prepare to hold a performance protest outside Lloyds of London in London on Feb. 26, 2024. (Carl Court/Getty Images)
“But good science demands that scientists are encouraged to question the
IPCC’s dogma. The supposed purity of the global temperature record is one of
the most sacred dogmas of the IPCC.”
The latest U.S. government National Climate Assessment report states:
“Human activities are changing the climate.
“The evidence for warming across multiple aspects of the Earth system is incontrovertible, and the science is unequivocal that increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases are driving many observed trends and changes.”