My own favorite target for quantifiable global
warming reporting bias, the PBS NewsHour, echoed that exact spin when the program host offered no rebuttal about it, despite the fact that Trump — to informed ears — had not changed position in any way.
Not exact matches
Hot air It was «widely
reported» that the UK broadcasting regulator had deemed Channel 4's The Great Global
Warming Swindle «unfair,
biased and totally misleading,» Lorne Gunter argues in the National Post, but in fact it ruled that the documentary did «not materially mislead» viewers.
At these high latitudes in the winter, where a significant wamring has been
reported, the
warm bias results in an overstatement of the
warming.
Either way, he renders his
reporting, on the matter of climate change and global
warming, illegitimate; probably maintains his considered claim to legitimacy based on his uninformed perspective and his existing market base, with established
bias.
So it is not surprising that his website only ever features those stations that confirm his beliefs (inbetween the
reports of cold weather) and his «preliminary
report» only features photos of stations that are (a) poorly - sited with a
warming bias or (b) well - sited and show a cooling trend.
After following the global
warming saga — science and policy — for nearly a quarter century, I've seen the
biases at the journals and N.S.F. (including their press releases sometimes), in the I.P.C.C. summary process (the deep
reports are mainly sloppy in some cases; the summary writing — read the climate - extinction section of this post — is where the spin lies), and sometimes in the statements and work of individual researchers (both skeptics and «believers»).
The station where a
bias or shift is know to exist in the data record may still be used in estimation of missing
reports at nearby high quality stations for non-critical points (i.e not a recent,
warm or cold value.
Psychologists studying climate communication make two additional (and related) points about why the
warming - snow link is going to be exceedingly difficult for much of the public to accept: 1) people's confirmation
biases lead them to pay skewed attention to weather events, in such a way as to confirm their preexisting beliefs about climate change (see p. 4 of this
report); 2) people have mental models of «global
warming» that tend to rule out wintry impacts.
It is not credible to suggest the
reports were
biased in favour of the theory of anthropogenic global
warming when the evidence demonstrates the IPCC were, in fact, so cautious.
Although the Watts, 2009
report speculated that the inadequate station siting of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network could have introduced a
warming bias into the current U.S. temperature trends, it did not attempt to quantify what the net
bias (if any) was.
He agrees that there was some global
warming over the 20th century, although he suspects much of the
reported global
warming is due to urbanization
bias.
Climate change skeptics claimed the IPCC 2007
report — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC 2007), which uses scientific facts to argue humans are causing climate change — was based on an alleged bias for positive results by editors and peer reviewers of scientific journals; editors and scientists were accused of suppressing research that did not support the paradigm for carbon dioxide - induced global wa
report — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment
Report (IPCC 2007), which uses scientific facts to argue humans are causing climate change — was based on an alleged bias for positive results by editors and peer reviewers of scientific journals; editors and scientists were accused of suppressing research that did not support the paradigm for carbon dioxide - induced global wa
Report (IPCC 2007), which uses scientific facts to argue humans are causing climate change — was based on an alleged
bias for positive results by editors and peer reviewers of scientific journals; editors and scientists were accused of suppressing research that did not support the paradigm for carbon dioxide - induced global
warming.
For decades, the mainstream journalists have dutifully
reported hysterical alarmism generated by a minority of scientists dedicated to the concept of human CO2 - caused catastrophic anthropogenic global
warming (CAGW)... this style of sensationalist, tabloid «climate science» journalism however is dependent on either a condition of stuck - on - stupid mentality or a highly
biased, politically motivated political agenda, not on scientific empirical evidence
So I'm prompted to wonder... Since 1970, fewer, larger ships
reporting SST from fixed (intake / hull) sensors — could this intruduce a
warming bias in the recent observed SST data?
They
report along the lines of that there seems to be a
warming bias in the observations according to their models and therfore the observations have been adjusted to fit the models.
It's an otherwise quite good US news exposé public broadcasting series that has inexplicably
biased reports about the global
warming issue.
Initially, their
report stated that «There has been a severe
bias towards removing higher - altitude, higher - latitude, and rural stations, leading to a further serious overstatement of
warming.»
The surface temperature data is a contaminated mess with a significant
warm bias, and as I have detailed elsewhere the IPCC fabricated evidence in its 2007
report to cover up the problem.
One thing which confuses me is BEST has acknowledged its uncertainty levels are both too small and somewhat
biased on the temporal dimension, yet it still published a
report discussing the «
warmest year» claims based upon its uncertainty levels.
OT I would like commenters» views on this: «The UN body that advises world leaders on climate change must investigate an apparent
bias in its
report that resulted in several exaggerations of the impact of global
warming, according to its former chairman.
Sunday Express in UK
reporting on frontpage that BBC Pension Fund is invested heavily in carbon trading companies leading to
bias in news coverage in world's biggest news organisation promoting belief in global
warming.
The IPCC
reports that since 1900, the world's surface has
warmed about 0.6 C, a figure most folks will accept (with some provisos I'll get to in a minute about temperature measurement
biases).
We evaluated the association between dismissing attachment and positive
bias in school - aged children's
reports of their own emotional experience and their parental care, hypothesizing that: (1) compared to secure children, dismissing children would underreport their subjective distress relative to physiological indicators of distress, and (2) dismissing children would
report that their parents were
warmer / more caring than would secure children.