Noted climate scientists trashes White House climate report

November 26, 2018 By Rick Moran

Marc Morano at Climate Depot notes that climate expert Prof. Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. has found a glaring hole in the recently released climate change report by the White House. Pielke points out that the report utterly failed to highlight the significant drop in the number of hurricanes that have made landfall in the US.

Pielke Jr. asked on November 24: “How it is that the 2018 US National Climate Assessment failed to include or overlooked trends in US landfalling hurricanes which would, ahem, seem pretty important in a US climate report[?] Pielke Jr. then noted that the report ignored one of its own expert reviewers who wrote this:

“National Hurricane Center going back to the 1800s data clearly indicate a drop in the decadal rate of US landfalling hurricanes since the 1960s… instead you spin the topic to make it sound like the trends are all towards more cyclones.” Pielke Jr. continued: “Let’s observe here hurricanes are discussed at length in the report, and every hurricane that is discussed is … a landfalling storm. The failure to include trend data on US landfalling hurricanes in USNCA is a remarkable choice. What were they thinking, no one would notice?”.............

In fact, Pielke accepts the basic premise of the IPCC's conclusions on climate change.  But Pielke's point is well taken; why leave out information on hurricane landfalls in the US? It's not the only thing fishy about this climate change report, and it begs the question why give ammunition to global warming hysterics in the first place?............To Read More

My Take - Pielke Jr. is a Warmist, but I think what he's doing here is what a number of "scientists" have started doing regarding the green religious tenet of Anthropogenic Global Warming - looking for  a soft landing as this becomes exposed as scientific fraud. 

The evidence coming in has clearly shown the whole thing is a gigantic fraud and has been from the beginning.  Now the federal government is saying so and the money is drying up - more are going to looking for ways to have a soft landing before this is over, and hopefully, a number of them will end up in prison.