Facebook: Extending its Legacy of Science Denial
To no one’s surprise, Facebook continues to reject any and all scientific data that does not support their “consensus” narrative of man-made catastrophic warming by rejecting an ad placed by the CO2 Coalition
The ad is based on well documented and widely used satellite data published by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) as part of a project with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Information is “gathered by advanced microwave sounding units on NOAA and NASA satellites to get accurate temperature readings for almost all regions of the Earth,” according to the university website. “This includes remote desert, ocean and rain forest areas where reliable climate data are not otherwise available.”
“The satellite-based instruments measure the temperature of the atmosphere from the surface up to an altitude of about eight kilometers above sea level. Once the monthly temperature data is collected and processed, it is placed in a ‘public’ computer file for immediate access by atmospheric scientists in the U.S. and abroad.”
The ad featured a CO2 Coalition graph that matched satellite temperature data from 1978-2021 with the record of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, which is compiled at the Mauna Loa (Hawaii) Observatory of NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory.
Also noted on the graph (reproduced below) is the occurrence of El Niños, a phenomenon of ocean currents known to warm the atmosphere. The ad’s text reads as follows:
“Since the beginning of the satellite era of temperature measurements (1979), there were two very large spikes in temperature. Both were associated with very strong El Niños.
Between each of these, little to no warming was observed, yet CO2 continued increasing in a nearly linear fashion. This stepwise increase in warming was not predicted nor has it been explained by those promoting the theory that CO2 is the primary driver of modern warming.
We are currently in a cool La Niña phase that is expected to end soon. It will likely be followed by another El Niño that will be used by the Climate Industrial Complex to promote more unfounded fear of runaway CO2-driven warming.”
Temperature source: UAH Global Temperature Update (2023)
CO2 Source: Tans P (2023) Trends in Atmospheric CO2, ESRL
So, the ad displayed publicly available data from government sources and suggested an interpretation of the information. Readers are free to dispute our analysis.
However, to be denied access to it is contrary to the founding principles of the United States of America – mainly the freedom of speech and thought.
Nonetheless, Facebook, an American creation and a subsidiary of Meta with a market capitalization of more than $500 billion, found that the ad “does not comply with our Advertising Policies.”
Well, this humble geologist finds Facebook’s policies anathema to everything noble about 3,500 years of western civilization. That puts us on the side of people as diverse as Socrates, John Locke, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, William Blake, Mark Twain, Ayn Rand, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Martin Luther King and Winston Churchill.
This isn’t our first encounter with censorship. Last summer, I was permanently banned by LinkedIn. The offending material were two charts:
One showed that carbon dioxide levels were nearly 6,000 parts per million (ppm) 600 million years ago when many animal life forms first appeared in the Cambrian Era.
Another illustrated a 140-million-year decline of CO2 levels — from 2,500 parts per million (ppm) to the current 420 ppm.
The target of these assaults is our communications countering the false narrative of a climate emergency rooted in the warming effect of carbon dioxide, which in fact is a beneficial gas essential to life on Earth.
One of the two principles of natural justice recognized in the law of the English-speaking countries is Audiatur et altera pars— “Let both sides be fairly heard”. Given that on this, as on many issues, Facebook and their allies in the media no longer allow the skeptical side of the case to be heard, fact-based information like that provided in this post will continue to be censored.
Attacks on those standing for honest scientific inquiry into climate issues have become so common that one might be inclined to shrug them off.
However, the purveyors of climate doom are not likely to go away on their own as might some pesky gnats.
Whether their motivations are money, power or some perverted, religious regard for Earth untouched by humanity, the climate cult’s ambitions are too much of a threat to our way of life – and lives – to dismiss.
See more here co2coalition.org
Header image: Waikanae Watch
About the author: Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist, former expert reviewer for the IPCC, executive director of the CO2 Coalition, and author of “Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know.”
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Geraint HUghes
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Is there a replacement platform for Facebook?
Also, if they laws in the US allow this nonsense, is it not time that the laws were changed so that this nonsense can be stopped?
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sunsettommy
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No blogs and especially Forums are superior.
Facebook is an overrated pile of baloney piece of software.
In my forum I have a nice growing Climate section which I titled EARTH which is clearly better formatted than that Facebook mess.
https://www.patriotaction.us/forumdisplay.php?fid=11
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paula
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FB is one BIG, FAT JOKE!
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
Sears, Zemansy, and Young, University Physics 6th Ed, have a chapter titled: “Impulse and Momentum”. They simply wrote: “the product or the force and the time during which it acts, is called the impulse of the force.” Another fact is that Newton, in Book 3 of The Principlia, wrote about two comets, which in their very elliptical orbits, approached the sun very closely as the incoming comet swung around the sun to become the outgoing comet in little more than day.
Somewhere, you read Book 3 to find it, in Book 3 Newton considered that the gravitational impulse of the massive outer planets would influence the momentum of the comets when far beyond these massive planets more than that of Mars, Venus, Earth, Mars, etc. as these comest passed quickly by the inner planets because of the time factor of the continuous ‘weak’ gravitation force of the outer planets acting upon these comets’ momentums.
By considering this ‘real’ possibility of Impulse and Mementum, Newton was considering the apparent fact that the orbits of these two comets were not a constant Ponder this PSI Readers.
Have a good day
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Arthur Viterito
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There is a strong relationship between mid-ocean seismic activity and global temps. That relationship can be seen here:
(https://juniperpublishers.com/ijesnr/pdf/IJESNR.MS.ID.556271.pdf).
Other seismic slices from other seismic catalogues yield the same results.
The reason for this striking relationship is quite simple: increased seismic activity equates to increased geothermal flux in mid-ocean spreading zones. This enhanced geothermal forcing intensifies the thermohaline circulation, causing more warm water (i.e., the Western Pacific Warm Pool) to deepen and spread out. This enhanced reservoir of heat is then advected across the Pacific in the form of an amplified El Nino.
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Kevin Doyle
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Author, Gregory Wrightstone,
Answer to question: “Yes, Facebook is completely bought and paid for by Obama Acolytes and Greenhouse Gas fools.”
Questioning the non-scientific ‘CO2 Theory’ is forbidden, and shall be punished…
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VOWG
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Facebook, turn it off.
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