A CONVENIENT LIE Copyright © Bradley J. Crandall, 2016 All rights reserved Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.Bad Science An Inconvenient Truch frequently takes real data and skews it or mislabels it to say something false. For example, in the Natural Disasters section of this book, you'll find a graph recording how many wildfires there are in the United States per year. The data from the actual study measured the number of recorded wildfires; An Inconvenient Truth says the study measured the number of major wildfires, Is it any surprise that the number of recorded wildfires hugely increased at the same time satellite technology allowed us to more easily find and record wildfires? Another major problem with the science in A/T is that many of its sources are untrustworthy. One of Al Gore's biggest supporters, Dr. Lonnie Thompson of the “science” in the book, As of 2016, he has been given $13,545,911 in grant money. This is deeply suspicious on its own, and not made any less so by Dr. Thompson's history of withholding data and making extremely inaccurate predictions—such as in 2002 predicting that all the snow on Mount Kilimanjaro would be gone by 2015. In fact, “There are several ongoing studies, but preliminary findings show that the ice is nowhere near melting.” (Mount Kilimanjaro National Park (KINAPA)'s Ecologist, Imani Kikoti, 2014) provided much NSF Grants Involving Dr. Lonnie Thompson $12,000,000 $11,000,000 ‘$10,000,000 $9,000,000 ‘$8,000,000 $7,000,000 $6,000,000 $5,000,000 $4,000,000 $3,000,000 $2,000,000 $1,000,000 Graph courtesy of ii Wattsupwiththat file s.wordpress.com 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 | Used with —Total Grants Cumulative ==Thompson Share Cumulative permissionArctic Ice: What is Normal? “Approximately 10 million km? of ice melts every summer in approximately 145 days which is a melt rate of 26,627 square miles per day.” (Dr. Tim Ball) That sounds pretty bad, but is it? Actually, it’s perfectly normal, healthy, and average. “The perennial (September) Arctic sea ice cover exhibits large inter-annual variability, with changes of over a million square kilometers from one year to the next. Here we explore the role of changes in Arctic cyclone activity, and related factors, in driving these pronounced year-to-year changes in perennial sea ice cover.” (Journal of Geophysical Research) It’s normal for ice to melt in the Arctic during the summer, just like it does everywhere else. It isn’t a sign of global warming, and the water will freeze again during the winter. Did you know? Government satellites classify melt water that is on the surface of the ice as “open water.” You be the judge. Does this picture make it look like there is no ice? What percentage of ice would you assign? Certainly not “zero.”