With Climate Change, “Hottest Year” Rhetoric From Biden Admin Ignores Recent Cooling Trend

“Science leaves no room for doubt: Climate change is the existential threat of our time,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said once the numbers were in. But at the conservative website Climate Depot, they’re showing that NASA and NOAA’s numbers are ignoring an important reality:Earth’s temperatures have been going down for the last five years. Climate Deport’s point hinges on measurements of the “temperature anomaly.”As NASA notes on its website, “A temperature anomaly is the difference from an average, or baseline, temperature. But Climate Depot maintains that the numbers tell a different story in looking at a more recent 30-year timeline that includes the present – 1991 to 2020. In one report, the website pointed out that the average anomaly temperature for 2021 was 0.134 degrees Celsius above the 30-year average for the period from 1991 to 2020.