Over the past
decade alarmist climate scientists — including the top figures in the field — have been deliberately misleading the public on many climate issues.
Not exact matches
Prior to that,
climate scientists admit, global temperatures had been stable or dropping for
decades, a fact that prompted previous generations of
climate alarmists to sound the alarm about the supposed dangers of man - made «global cooling.»
And so, over the
decade,
alarmist climate scientists tried to fool the public by stonewalling («it's the warmest
decade on record,» which doesn't mean the
decade was warming), denying the facts («the allegation that annual global mean temperatures stopped increasing during the past
decade has no basis in reality»), or outright lying («the world is warming even more quickly than we had thought»).
Had
climate scientists «brainstormed»
decades ago about the large number of diverse causes, their relative contributions, the evidence in hand and the evidence needed, before starting the
alarmist crusade, this essay would likely not have been written.