{"id":23775,"date":"2014-09-08T09:53:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23775"},"modified":"2014-09-08T09:53:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:53:04","slug":"passing-fiction-off-as-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23775","title":{"rendered":"Passing Fiction Off As News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of people have lost faith in the mainstream media as a source of information. Many of my friends have cancelled their subscriptions to various newspapers. So what is going on? The Internet<\/a> has given people a chance to do their own research and draw their own opinions. One example of media hype of something that is questionable at best is the way the media has handled the concept of man-made global warming<\/a>. Despite little scientific evidence to support the claim, our government is shutting down power plants, causing the price of utilities to rise, and trying to control the lives of the American people<\/a> in ways our founding fathers never intended.<\/p>\n

Yesterday John Hinderaker<\/a> at Power Line<\/a> posted an article with a graph showing the difference between actual global temperatures and what global warming<\/a> proponents have predicted in the past.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Science and Environmental Policy Project<\/a> does a good job of explaining this fundamental point in its Climate Fears and Finance<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

By far, the most rigorous, comprehensive data on global temperatures come from satellite measurements of the atmosphere (mid-troposphere), which is where the greenhouse effect<\/a> takes place. The measurements started in December 1978 and the temperature estimates are calculated by two independent groups, who closely agree. These data are independently supported by four sets of direct temperature measurements from weather balloons. \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

We can see below the direct comparison between 102 model runs and observations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The differences in the data are obvious. So why are many journalists and people in power trying to convince us that man-made global warming is real? Follow the money. I posted an article in 2010 (rightwinggranny.com<\/a>) about the Chicago Climate Exchange<\/a> (CCX). This was a carbon credit exchange heavily invested in by many political leaders. When cap and trade legislation was defeated, the CCX went out of business and many political leaders lost money. Unfortunately, the people we send to Congress<\/a> are not always looking out for our interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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