Science fraud

Vincent J. Curtis

25 Jan 24

RE: Global warming was primary cause of unprecedented Amazon drought: study AP story by Fabiano Maisonnave. The Hamilton Spectator 25 Jan 24.

Both the AP and the Spadina Av. Speculator are known for tub-thumping for global warming, and the publication of this story is an example of both, despite the evident fraudulent science.  The story says that human induced global warming and climate change were responsible for the drought presently inflicting the Amazon basin.  The use of the word ‘drought’ is the give-away.

Nobody says that a desert is suffering from drought.  Drought is a weather event, not a climate event, and drought refers to a period when rainfall that should normally occur does not occur. Drought is temporary, not permanent.  That the word drought was used and not desertification, means that the authors expect normal rainfall eventually to return; hence, the climate never really changed at all.  Climate is not as variable as the weather is.

They also claim global warming.  The problem is, the globe isn’t warming.  Although last year was allegedly the “hottest year ever!” in fact, it was only tenths a degree warmer than 1998, and all the years intervening.  This is not the sort of thing that causes a sudden and permanent change in rainfall patterns (desertification).

Politics is corrupting of everything it touches, and science is no exception.  If you want another research grant, you need say something about the coming doom of human caused climate change.

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