NOAA's Climate.Gov website: "The Phanerozoic Eon, or roughly the last half a billion years...with global temperatures repeatedly rising above 80°F and even 90°F—much too warm for ice sheets or perennial sea ice."
"Preliminary results from a Smithsonian Institution project led by Scott Wing and Brian Huber, showing Earth's average surface temperature over the past 500 million years. For most of the time, global temperatures appear to have been too warm (red portions of line) for persistent polar ice caps. The most recent 50 million years are an exception."
Mann: “A second Trump term is game over for the climate – really!” - “If we are going to avert ever more catastrophic climate change impacts, we need to limit warming below a degree and a half Celsius, a little less than three degrees Fahrenheit,” Mann said. “Another four years of what we’ve seen under Trump, which is to outsource environmental and energy policy to the polluters and dismantle protections put in place by the previous administration … would make that essentially impossible.”
“The future of this planet is now in the hands of American citizens,” he says. “It’s up to us. The way we end this national and global nightmare is by coming out and voting for optimism over pessimism, for hope and justice and progress over fear and malice and superstition. This is a Tolkienesque battle between good and evil, and Sauron needs to be defeated on election day here in the United States.”
Steve Milloy, a Heartland board member and part of Trump's Environmental Protection Agency transition team, says he welcomes the Legates appointment. "David Legates is a true climate scientist and will bring a great deal of much-needed science to NOAA," Milloy writes in an email to NPR.
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Marc Morano comments: "This is a victory for science! Having Dr. Legates at NOAA will be a much-needed counter to the usual scientific crap coming from federal science reports. Science has not been served with the likes of Union of Concerned Scientists' activists Katherine Hayhoe or Don Wuebbles. Kudos to the Trump administration."
Dr. Willie Soon: "Mann's paper that was published January 2020 found climate models could not produce reliable multidecadal variations as observed in real-world data (as you can even read from the abstract of his junkie pal-reviewed paper!). Today he thinks he can pull a fast lie through the help of NYT. Let pray for those in harm ways and bury Mann in his pool of lies and deceits. Study the two slides please and echo echo echo so Mann can be really famous for his lies!"
Bjorn Lomborg: "Atlantic hurricanes are not becoming more frequent. In fact, the frequency of hurricanes making landfall in the continental U.S. has declined slightly since 1900."
"Airplanes and satellites have dramatically increased the number of storms that scientists can spot at sea today, making the frequency of landfall hurricanes—which were reliably documented even in 1900—a better statistic than the total number of Atlantic hurricanes."
The journal Nature study showed the number of major hurricanes making landfall in past 120 years (category 3 and above) has also shown a similar decline.
Extreme weather expert Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: 'A lie is born': 'How to trick a president with poor data practices Trump issued zero statewide disaster declarations for weather/climate events 2017-2020 Biden has already issued 8 statewide declarations in 2021...Federal Disaster Declarations reflect presidential politics + disasters."
"So does that mean that we can just make stuff up? I do not understand the quality control problems in climate journalism but they are spectacular."
