Posted by
Catmman on Saturday, August 23, 2008 2:42:11 PM
The National Climate Data Center who falls under...
drum roll please...
NOAA (
shocka!)
placed photoshopped images of climate disasters in their upcoming "
scientific" climate report. (
NOAA is reponsible for this monstrosity. Go to the draft here. Scroll down to the second page. A whole lotta people with NOAA after their names...)
Here is the image:
What exactly is wrong with this photo? The flood waters have been "graphically rendered" into the original image. The image was purchased
from this site which comes with accompanying photographers desciption of the digital "adjustment":
Here is the photo containd on the accompanying NCDC page:
Pink arrow pointintg tho the "shopped" image
But the real question is, with so many different photos of real flooded houses available, why did they choose one that was not real? Surely they know such a report will be highly scrutinized?
As I said last week, the use of graphics in the report makes it look more like a news article than a scientific paper, and if principal National Climatic Data Center authors Dr.’s Thomas Karl and Peterson can’t even bother to check if the photos they use are real or not, or even spot such obvious fakes, it makes one wonder just how much fact checking went into the other parts of the report.
Do you think our policy makers, for which this report is intended, would be smart enough to catch such things?
Of course
Al Gore did the same thing in his (
I still can't believe this) Academy Award winning "documentary "
An Inconvenient Truth". Link to the video forgery
here.
This whole exercise begs the question: If the science is so settled; if the facts are indeed incontrovertable, why is there ANY NEED WHATSOEVER to use subterfuge, faked, or otherwise un-real imagery to make your point? Shouldn't the "science" be able to stand on it's own merits?
These are the people we are "trusting" to brief our legislators and leaders about "climate change". And they can't even fact check their own report? They are purposefully using scare tactics and fabricated imagery? And these are to be the "end all, be all" arbiters of this issue?
Until someone can come into these agencies who can be unbiased and honest about the real science and keep the politics out, I will continue to be skeptical of anything they say when it comes to "climate change/global warming".