The Lancet Provides a Rare Opportunity to See Obvious Climate Data Manipulation

by Andrea Widburg American Thinker

Many years ago, I was at a San Francisco Bay Area science exhibit with the kids. One wall was covered with a single wall-sized bar chart showing how much the San Francisco Bay would rise in the future thanks to climate change. Panicked parents around me were warning their children about this deathly future. I was the only one who noticed that the chart was a huge blow-up of an image originally done on a scale using millimeters. If you dig deep, a lot of “climate science” plays those games—and today, it’s The Lancet that created a chart that plays games with the scale.

Climate realist Bjorn Lomborg was reviewing a Lancet article examining excess mortality from heat and cold in Europe. For those who actually read the article, its finding is clear. In Europe, exponentially more people die from cold than from heat: