The Patriot Post® · Stamping Climate Change

The Postal Service is licking global warming, one $1.15, international-rate stamp at a time. The stamps show a globe awash in some pretty hot water (pun intended), and calling into doubt mankind’s future. As climate watcher Anthony Watts wrote, “Hmmm, not only is it an oddball stamp, being round, it isn’t even of actual sea surface temperatures, it’s a model output. That’s not a real El Niño pattern you see on the stamp, it’s a simulation frame. … You’d think they would use one that depicts reality, not a model projection. Our current SST image looks a lot different than the stamp – no reds, lots of blues, which show our current reality to be cooler than the modeled one.” Of course the stamp would use a model with a whole lotta red in it, because climate change rhetoric is built on fear mongering. More…