Despite the dire predictions of global-warming believers, the United States has actually been cooling since the 1930s, according to a report.
Steven Goddard, on his blog, Real Science, charges that the federal government manipulated temperature data to support its view that the planet was heating up at an alarming rate, threatening life as we know it.
“Right after the year 2000, NASA and [the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] dramatically altered US climate history, making the past much colder and the present much warmer. NASA cooled 1934 and warmed 1998, to make 1998 the hottest year in US history instead of 1934. This alteration turned a long-term cooling trend since 1930 into a warming trend,” Goddard wrote.
The government replaced actual temperatures measured at the time with those generated by computer models, which he says are unreliable.
In a follow-up post, Goddard added that the number of summer days when the thermometer tops 100 in the United States are far fewer today than in previous decades.
“Prior to 1954, 100-degree June days were much more common, and this June has been below the 1895-2014 mean,” he writes.
Christopher Booker, a climate-change skeptic who wrote the book, “The Real Global Warming Disaster,” about warming believers, said Goddard’s blog uncovers another case of climate-change believers fudging data to make their case.
The feds, he wrote Monday in Britain’s Telegraph newspaper, “shamelessly manipulated . . . one of the world’s most influential climate records, the graph of US surface temperature records published by [NOAA].”