Empirical data withheld
by key scientists shows that since 1910 ocean pH levels have not decreased
in our oceans as carbon dioxide levels increased. Overall the trend is
messy but more up than down, becoming less acidic. So much for those terrifying
oceans of acid that were coming our way.
What happened to
those graphs?
Scientists have had
pH meters and measurements of the oceans for one hundred years. But experts
decided that computer simulations in 2014 were better at measuring the
pH in 1910 than the pH meters were. The red line (below) is the models recreation
of ocean pH. The blue stars are the data points — the empirical evidence.
James Delingpole on
‘Breitbart’:
“NOAAgate:
‘ocean acidification’ could turn out to be the biggest con since Michael
Mann’s Hockey Stick”
The alleged fraud was
uncovered by Mike Wallace, a hydrologist with nearly 30 years’ experience
now working towards his PhD at the University of New Mexico. While studying
a chart produced by Feely and Sabine, apparently showing a strong correlation
between rising atmospheric CO2
levels and falling oceanic pH levels, Wallace noticed that some key information
had been omitted.
Mysteriously, the
chart only began in 1988. But Wallace knew for a fact that there were oceanic
pH measurements dating back to at least 100 years earlier and was puzzled
that this solid data had been ignored, in favour of computer modelled
projections.
It has all the usual
marks of modern bureaucratized science: scientists use a short stretch of
data and computers to guesstimate a long “dataset”. Then when asked, they
get huffy, hide the data, and insult the questioner. The poor sod seeking
access to publicly funded data has to do an FOIA
request, which in this case wasn’t successful, but then he got the data
another way anyhow. Money was wasted hiding the data, it was wasted on
bad policies, it was wasted defending an FOIA
request, and dare I suggest, it was wasted training and paying the salaries
of people who call themselves scientists but don’t act like them.
Feely’s chart, first
mentioned, begins in 1988—which is surprising, as instrumental ocean pH
data have been measured for more than 100 years — since the invention of the
glass electrode pH (GEPH) meter. As a hydrologist,
Wallace was aware of GEPH’s history and found
it odd that the Feely/Sabine work omitted it. He went to the source. The NOAA paper with the chart beginning in 1850
lists Dave
Bard,
with Pew Charitable Trust, as the contact.
Wallace sent Bard an
e-mail: “I’m looking in fact for the source references for the red curve in
their plot which was labeled ‘Historical & Projected pH & Dissolved Co2.’
This plot is at the top of the second page. It covers the period of my interest.”
Bard responded and suggested that Wallace communicate with Feely and
Sabine—which he did over a period of several months. Wallace asked again for
the “time series data (NOT MODELING) of ocean pH for 20th Century.”
Sabine responded by
saying that it was inappropriate for Wallace to question their “motives
or quality of our science,” adding that if he continued in this manner, “you will not last
long in your career.” He then included a few links to websites
that Wallace, after spending hours reviewing them, called “blind alleys.”
Sabine concludes the e-mail with: “I hope you will refrain from contacting
me again.” But communications did continue for several more exchanges.
In an effort to
obtain access to the records Feely/Sabine didn’t want to provide, Wallace
filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request.
We were told that
coral reefs would crumble, crabs and molluscs would be unable to build their
protective shells, the ocean food chain would collapse, and therefore the
global food chain would fall apart.
Clearly the ten year
moving average of ocean pH since 1910 has a slight upward curve. This means
that in fact the alkalinity of the ocean has increased, not decreased. It has
become LESS ACIDIC. The researchers Feely
and Sabine would have known this. But it suited their purpose to truncate the
data to start in 1988 to allow them to show a falling pH level over that relatively
short period instead of the actual long-term increasing trend.
Wallace says: “Oceanic acidification may seem
like a minor issue to some but, besides being wrong, it is a crucial leg to
the entire narrative of ‘human-influenced climate change’.”
He adds: “In whose professional world is it
acceptable to omit the majority of the data and also not disclose the omission
to any other soul or Congressional body?”
What we have here is
one of the basic foundations of the climate change scare, that is falling
ocean pH levels with increased atmospheric CO2
content, being completely dismissed by the empirical ocean pH data the
alarmist climate scientists didn’t want to show anyone because it contradicted
their ‘increasing ocean acidity’ narrative.
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