GOP Lawmaker Tricks Obama’s Climate Adviser With Arctic Melting Article From 1922

Obama ‘s Chief Climate Adviser on 1920’s global warming: ‘It is a crisis we’re trying to address’
Responding to a 1922 Washington Post story detailing the then warming climate conditions in the Arctic, White House Climate Adviser Chistine Goldfuss tells Congressman Tom McClintock, “It is a crisis we’re trying to address.”
Oversight Hearing on the Impacts of the Obama CEQ’s Final Guidance for GHG Emissions and the Effects of Climate Change
House Committee on Natural Resources
September 21, 2016
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Via: http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/21/gop-lawmaker-totally-trolls-obamas-climate-adviser-with-global-warming-article-from-1922/

California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock opened a congressional hearing by reading a Washington Post article detailing the “unheard of” impacts global warming had on the Arctic ecosystem.

“The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and some place the seals are finding the water too hot,” McClintock read in a Wednesday hearing, adding that reports “all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard of temperatures in the Arctic zone.”

McClintock went on, then asked President Barack Obama’s top climate adviser Christy Goldfuss if “this the crisis you’re referring to?” — referring to a new guidance her Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) staff issued on accounting for global warming impacts of federal agency actions.

“It is a crisis we’re trying to address,” Goldfuss said, totally unsuspecting of what was about to happen. “I’m not familiar with that specific report…” Goldfuss added.

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“Perhaps the reason is because it was November 2, 1922 that The Washington Post carried this article,” McClintock said.

It turns out McClintock was reading a Washington Post article from November 1922, not November 2015 as many listening, including Goldfuss, likely assumed.

In 1922, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported “so little ice as has ever been noted” in the Arctic. A Norwegian captain told NOAA the Arctic “of that region is not recognizable as the same region of 1868 to 1917.”

“Many old landmarks are so changed as to be unrecognizable,” NOAA reported. “At many points where glaciers formerly extended far into the sea they have entirely disappeared.”

Here’s what he said:

McClintock: “I think we can agree that global warming has been going on for a long time. It’s been going on and off since the last ice age.”

“In fact, I attended the president’s address at Yosemite this last year. I was struck by his noting that the glaciers in Yosemite

Report: 1970s ‘global cooling’ studies ‘airbrushed out of history’ 

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/09/14/massive-cover-exposed-lying-alarmists-rebranded-70s-global-cooling-scare-myth/

Everyone knows that before the global warming scare began in the 1980s, scientists were much more worried about global cooling and the coming ice age.

At least everybody did till a cabal of lying climate alarmists – one then a senior administrator at NOAA, now a president at the World Meteorological Association –  hijacked Wikipedia, published a lying paper, and rewrote history by painting the 1970s Global Cooling Scare as an urban myth.

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Now the full extent of these activists’ skullduggery has been uncovered by researcher Kenneth Richard, writing at No Tricks Zone.

Richard shows that during the 1960s and 1970s, there was an 86 percent scientific consensus that the planet was on a cooling path. But this was airbrushed out of history so successfully that even now if you do a Google search on “70s global cooling scare” the top results claim it never really happened.

The top result is…

Warmist Joe Romm bombs again – fails to check history on Arctic icebreaker claims

Joe Romm bombs again – fails to check history on Arctic icebreaker claims

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/09/12/joe-romm-bombs-again-fails-to-check-history-on-arctic-icebreaker-claims

First, let’s get one thing clear, Joe Romm of the Center for American progress is paid to write stuff with headlines like this: Arctic death spiral: Icebreakers reach North Pole as sea ice disintegrates Oh noes! The headline gives the impression that this is a newsworthy event, it isn’t, all he had to do was […]

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‘83% Consensus’?! 285 Papers From 1960s-’80s Reveal Robust Global Cooling Scientific ‘Consensus’

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Beginning in 2003, software engineer William Connolley quietly removed the highly inconvenient references to the global cooling scare of the 1970s from Wikipedia, the world’s most influential and accessed informational source.

It had to be done.  Too many skeptics were (correctly) pointing out that the scientific “consensus” during the 1960s and 1970s was that the Earth had been cooling for decades, and that nascent theorizing regarding the potential for a CO2-induced global warming were still questionable and uncertain.

Not only did Connolley — a co-founder (along with Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt) of the realclimate.com blog — successfully remove (or rewrite) the history of the 1970s global cooling scare from the Wikipedia record, he also erased (or rewrote) references to the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age so as to help create the impression that the paleoclimate is shaped like Mann’s hockey stick graph, with unprecedented and dangerous 20th/21st century warmth.

A 2009 investigative report from UK’s Telegraph detailed the extent of dictatorial-like powers Connolley possessed at Wikipedia, allowing him to remove inconvenient scientific information that didn’t conform to his point of view.

“All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.

After eviscerating references to 1970s global cooling scare and the warmer-than-now Medieval Warm Period from Wikipedia, and after personally rewriting the Wikipedia commentaries on the greenhouse effect to impute a central, dominant role for CO2, Connolley went on to team up with two other authors to publish a “consensus” manifesto in 2008 that claimed to exp”ose the 1970s global cooling scare as a myth, as something that never really happened.

Peterson, Connolley, and Fleck (2008, hereafter PCF08) published “The Myth

Flashback: Experts Blamed ‘Global Cooling’ For The Widespread Droughts Of The 1970s

How Global Cooling Led To The Widespread Droughts Of The 1970s

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
By Paul Homewood

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http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/journals/noaa/QC851U461974oct.pdf#page=5

 

In October 1974, the NOAA Magazine published this piece by Patrick Hughes about the detrimental effects of 30 years of global cooling (yes, the cooling that warmists insist never happened!)

 

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http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/journals/noaa/QC851U461974oct.pdf#page=5

 

We are told that global warming has led to a worse climate, with more extreme weather.

Yet every account seems to bear out that the reverse is true, and that the warming experienced between 1890 and 1940 was actually hugely beneficial.

 

 

 

FOOTNOTE

Discussing Northern Hemisphere temperatures, NOAA state that “the total change has averaged about one half degree Centigrade” since 1940.

Yet, according to HADCRUT smoothed annual averages, the drop is only about 0.2C, between 1940 and 1973. (A simple year on year comparison shows that 1973 was actually slightly warmer than 1940).

 

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http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut4/diagnostics.html