Climate Denialist Hinderaker January 5 6 2023

Every year, for the past ten or so — I’ve trumpeted NASA’s annual year end “victory lap” video, as posted on YouTube.

It is there, again this year. But this year — it is… different. [And dishonestly so, due to no malfeasance by the real employees of NASA. This is all dictated from 1600 Penn, I am very certain.]

I do not ever recall Messrs. Clinton, Bush [41 or 43], Obama or Biden appearing in the NASA year ender, to claim credit for the fine science in evidence there. [In fact, during Trump 1.0, this never happened, either — I just verified it.]

Trump and Musk have actively tried — in the first half of 2025 — to kill a host of NASA projects that might compete with SpaceX, or might provide more solid climate change evidence. That is… well, deplorable. And in the case of Musk’s DOGE — likely unlawful.

But Congress is wiser than those two. Funding continues.

If you are inclined to watch this year’s year end YouTube — just skip the first one and a half minutes, as it tells all manner of lies — about Trump’s involvement — and looks more like a military campaign / political ad that MAGA might run. Ick.

Update: as darkness fell for the final time on the year 2025 (perhaps having seen mine?), Hinderaker again impotently tried to debunk the overwhelming empirical evidence – on global climate change.

All he ended up showing was that one scientist has attributed some part of 2023‘s very high temperatures to a large volcano’s eruption that year. He even labels that as a greenhouse gas, called “water vapor” or steam. And he makes no mention of 2025’s very high temperatures…

In sum, Hinderaker did nothing to blunt the literally tens of thousands of additional pages of additional peer reviewed studies that collate and analyze weather satellite data, and ground based weather data at NCAR and NOAA.

But for those of us paying attention, we’ll note that (magically!) just about a week ago Tangeine 2.0 announced that he was closing and folding up the NCAR snd NOAA agency tents, in Boulder, Colorado.

Seems someone (cough! Hinderaker / Trump) is beholden to the oil lobbyists and the coal lobbyists who push the agenda of climate change denialism.

Now you know — on to a better 2026 — and the mid-terms! Out.

नमस्ते

Again tonight, Hinderaker lies about climate science.

This time, his lie is one of omission. He shows a chart with what appears to be a generally declining US trend in severe weather events (in frequency, only) from the mid-20th Century to 2020.

But the Hinderaker lie becomes immediately apparent, in a quick review of all actual government issued data sets: the frequency has indeed declined, but the impact of each event is far beyond what it was even 40 years ago.

This is — in part — due to people building homes in flood plains, or in other dubious locations. But only… in part.

The inflation adjusted numbers clearly show a trend toward greater financial impacts from severe weather, when droughts are included, for the last century.

Not surprisingly, none of John’s data tracks droughts, longitudinally.

Why?

Because his point would be refuted, completely.

And… definitively.

What a tool.

Out.

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[U: Hinderaker’s Gibberish] The Right Thing To Do Here? It’s Complicated. We Are Huge Boosters Of Real NASA Science, Obviously. But Trump [Falsely] Claiming He Now Supports Things He Tried [Impotently] To Kill… I Cannot Do.

YAWN. Hinderaker’s Data Doesn’t Account For Severity / Cost Of Weather Events… Or Droughts.