{"id":107646,"date":"2023-01-26T20:49:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T01:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=107646"},"modified":"2023-01-26T20:49:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T01:49:48","slug":"milloy-13-million-view-tweet-makes-a-liar-of-factcheck-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2023\/01\/milloy-13-million-view-tweet-makes-a-liar-of-factcheck-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Milloy 13 million-view tweet makes a liar of FactCheck.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FactCheck.org, “a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center,” is the latest part of Big Climate to melt down over my 13 million-view tweet. At least it came up with a new, albeit false, distraction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.19.42-PM-728x385.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"349\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-107647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.19.42-PM-728x385.png 728w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.19.42-PM-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.19.42-PM-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.19.42-PM-1536x812.png 1536w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.19.42-PM-2048x1082.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The “fact check” is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2023\/01\/scicheck-viral-tweet-misrepresents-noaa-report-on-rising-global-temperature\/\">Web<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Viral-Tweet-Misrepresents-NOAA-Report-on-Rising-Global-Temperature-FactCheck.org_.pdf\">PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The gist of the fact check is that I cherry-picked the time frame in observing that there’s been no warming over the past 8 years despite emissions worth 450+ billion tons.<\/p>\n<p>I have already addressed this falsehood <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2023\/01\/milloy-climate-tweet-sets-twitter-abuzz-even-musk-admits-he-is-no-believer\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2023\/01\/ap-falsely-fact-checks-milloys-13-million-view-tweet-about-8-years-of-no-warming\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2023\/01\/worldwide-milloy-13-million-view-tweets-sends-aussie-fake-news-media-into-meltdown\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But FactCheck.org adds a new twist that ironically recognizes the point I made <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2023\/01\/milloy-climate-tweet-sets-twitter-abuzz-even-musk-admits-he-is-no-believer\/\">here<\/a>… that the ENSO cycle has been driving recent changes in global temperature.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.37.13-PM-728x730.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"662\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-107649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.37.13-PM-728x730.png 728w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.37.13-PM-300x301.png 300w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.37.13-PM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.37.13-PM-768x770.png 768w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.37.13-PM-1531x1536.png 1531w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.37.13-PM.png 1635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But FactCheck.org cites this 2009 paper (<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/view\/journals\/clim\/22\/22\/2009jcli3089.1.xml\">Web<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Identifying-Signatures-of-Natural-Climate-Variability-in-Time-Series-of-Global-Mean-Surface-Temperature-Methodology-and-Insights-in-Journal-of-Climate-Volume-22-Issue-22-2009.pdf\">PDF<\/a>) to say that warming remains even if you remove the ENSO cycle from the temperature trend.<\/p>\n<p>That’s not quite true.<\/p>\n<p>Per the 2009 study, accounting for the ENSO cycle virtually eliminates the estimated decadal warming trend of 0.12\u00b0C\/decade with a standard deviation of ranging from 0.10\u00b0C\/decade to 0.15\u00b0C\/decade. That study also doesn’t account for urban heat island effect, the effect of human activity, temperature data imprecision etc.<\/p>\n<p>So I keep winning. They keep lying. Who’s next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FactCheck.org, “a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center,” is the latest part of Big Climate to melt down over my 13 million-view tweet. 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