NOAA Scientists Falsify Data to Dupe World Leaders on Climate Change
Scientific sleight-of-hand pushed economy-hobbling Paris Agreement

Call it faux science facilitating fake news—or just call it dangerous. Either way it amounts to a shocking revelation: Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) falsified data to dupe world leaders into signing the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Warmists have long had a problem: the last 20 years of stable or even declining temperatures, a phenomenon making a mockery of their computer models and doomsday predictions. Their answer was the “Pausebuster” paper, esoterically titled “Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus” and strategically released via the influential journal Science—just six months before the Paris conference.

But the answer was artifice, reveals whistleblower Dr. John Bates, a man who’d futilely resisted the NOAA’s book-cooking and until last year was one the agency’s two “principal” climate-issue scientists.

But the NOAA’s urgent action, says Dr. Bates, was to manipulate what’s known as the “version 4” dataset. The agency “took reliable readings from buoys but then ‘adjusted’ them upwards—using readings from seawater intakes on ships that act as weather stations,” writes the Mail. “They did this even though readings from the ships have long been known to be too hot.”

Shockingly, ignoring Dr. Bates’ protestations, the agency delayed “publication of the version 4 sea dataset several months after it was ready—to intensify the impact of the Pausebuster paper,” the Mail further reveals.

The Mail concludes that this scientific sleight-of-hand “unquestionably” helped convince world leaders to sign the economy-hobbling Paris Agreement.