The Climate Change Deception
EXCERPT FROM Climate Change Deception: The Alarming Corruption of Science by Dr. Justin Mabie (Publishing July 21)
In this explosive new book, former NOAA insider Dr. Justin Mabie alleges that climate data has been manipulated to advance a political agenda and expand government control. Drawing on his firsthand experiences, Mabie claims he uncovered efforts to alter or suppress climate records—and says he faced retaliation after refusing to remain silent.
The Climate Change Deception
Influence over the world’s governments. I will show that they have no interest in the preservation of climate data records, and they don’t really care about understanding the science of climate change that the data can help teach us.
By leveraging NOAA’s reputation, special interests have been pressing hard to undermine our nation’s commercial interests in lieu of some theoretical environmental benefit in the distant future. The same people have been promoting an unrealistic apocalyptic vision of climate change that fails to address the basic need of hardening our infrastructure against climate change.
The global ruling class treats the American people like we are ignorant and untrustworthy. I believe the American people are inherently good and conscientious, and we can restore a government that operates by and for the people. We can have a clean environment and resilient infrastructure at the same time, and our planet will be better off for it.
A Failure of Diplomacy
NOAA, an arm of the executive branch of the United States government, has been the world’s most reputable climate change agency for decades. Research that has been done by NOAA, or in collaboration with NOAA, provides the foundation of our understanding of weather and climate change. Because of that, NOAA is the world’s most powerful and influential organization for anything and everything that has to do with weather and climate.
The nations and empires that have wielded the most power have traditionally given us our greatest advancements in science and technology. Our modern climate record begins in the early days of the Industrial Revolution, when understanding the weather was key to global commerce. For safe and efficient navigation, we modernized timekeeping, studied ocean currents and winds, created records of ocean and air temperatures, began monitoring the geomagnetic field, and created climatological maps of the Earth.
We emerged from World War II with modern technological marvels like rockets and nuclear weapons. With that, kinetic conflicts gave way to a Cold War. When President John F. Kennedy announced that we would land a man on the moon, we were under the threat of nuclear Armageddon, and diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union (USSR) were almost nonexistent.
The foundations of the modern global economy were built on being able to understand and forecast the weather. One of the mutual interests we shared with the USSR was the need to understand and forecast the weather. As part of a multilateral effort, our nations formed the World Data Centers (WDCs) as a partnership between the United States and the Soviet Union that was designed to persist no matter how bad diplomatic relations became. That partnership would last for a half century and lay the foundations for our modern global monitoring and research systems.
When I began working at WDC-A for Solar-Terrestrial Physics in 2005, NOAA was led by Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher. Under Admiral Lautenbacher’s leadership, NOAA was a good example of how a government agency could facilitate responsible global leadership. As a natural consequence of being a government organization focused on weather and climate, our ranks were overwhelmingly populated with people who were politically left-leaning. That didn’t seem to be a problem because they were focused on the mission.
Federal and contract scientists working together were leading the world in advancements in climate monitoring, weather forecasting, modeling, and the physics of the atmosphere and oceans. NOAA’s reputation as the world leader in weather and climate science was well earned and justified.
The organization was managed from the ground up, where supervisors relied on the knowledge and expertise of their data managers and scientists. This is in contrast to today’s NOAA, which is managed from the top down, where politically appointed executives run the organization on behalf of special interests. This comes at the expense of the taxpayer and the mission.
When I began working at NOAA, a covert plot to repurpose and politicize the WDC was already underway. Within a decade, NOAA leadership had abandoned the mission of international cooperation and climate data stewardship. The senior people in the organization were replaced with political operatives who focused on international efforts to influence world governments for the purpose of implementing a new system of global governance under the guise of a climate change catastrophe. The authority established under this new system uses fear to consolidate power.
In 2005, Admiral Lautenbacher signed an important agreement with his Russian counterpart, Director Alexander Frolov of the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (ROSHYDROMET). Both men were dedicated public servants who worked hard to come to an agreement to share real-time weather data.
The idea is simple: If you want to know what the weather will be like in Chicago in five days, you need to know the weather in Siberia today. If you want to forecast next week’s weather in Moscow, you need to know the weather in Wisconsin today.
In the same spirit as the WDC partnership, these leaders recognized the need to cooperate, irrespective of what direction the geopolitical winds were blowing. The agreement they made was brilliantly written to be renewed automatically and could only be terminated if one party made a conscious decision to withdraw from it.
In 2014, the people of Ukraine were provoked into overthrowing their government, and the United States began a proxy war with the Russian Federation.
On March 25, 2014, the director of the National Weather Service (NWS), Louis Uccellini, unilaterally terminated that agreement. He did so by canceling a bilateral meeting with Director Frolov. He wrote:
Dear Dr. Frolov:
I regret to inform you that I am unable to conduct our teleconference on April 1 and unable to meet with you the week of May 12 for our bilateral meeting. The U.S. Government is taking this action because of the Government of Russia’s recent actions in Ukraine.
Sincerely,
Louis W. Uccellini
To a typical American, Director Uccellini’s letter doesn’t seem to be intentionally withdrawing from an international agreement. But Uccellini was not a typical American. He was the director of our NWS, the organization that provides the weather forecasting capability our nation relies on. Uccellini had the resources and experience to understand that, in Russian culture, he was terminating the bilateral cooperation that Admiral Lautenbacher and Director Frolov had put into place.
The director of the NWS had no authority to terminate the agreement. That decision was above his pay grade and should have been made by his boss, the undersecretary of commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, also known as the NOAA administrator.
When pressed by Admiral Lautenbacher, Uccellini acknowledged that he knew full well what he was doing and that his actions were intentional. He made it clear that he was motivated by politics and not by our national security needs for reliable weather forecasts.
A Diplomatic Mission to Russia
I met Admiral Lautenbacher at a scientific workshop in the spring of 2014. The admiral was retired from NOAA and working in private industry. He graciously spared some time for me, and I told him about my challenges in getting real-time Russian radar data through the WDC. He told me about the agreement he made with Director Frolov and offered his help to enforce that agreement with the Russians.
After my meeting with Lautenbacher, I reached out to ROSHYDROMET and asked if we could begin a data exchange.
I was contacted by Alexander Nurullaev, director of ROSHYDROMET International Relations. Nurullaev told me he would be happy to help start our data exchange, but I would first need to visit him in Moscow.
My team decided to start our collaboration with a gesture of goodwill. Our computer systems at NOAA were set up to take in data from all over the world and push it back out to a few priority customers. Most data users would need to get data from the NOAA website or by submitting a request, but real-time customers like the NWS needed the data pushed to them the minute it was received. Because of the importance of the Russian partnership, we gave ROSHYDROMET access to our real-time system.
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Dr. Justin Mabie is an American scientist whose academic journey in weather and climate change science spans the ocean depths to the surface of the sun. He is an expert in geophysics, space weather, and climate change and holds degrees in Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences and Physics.
During a seventeen-years tenure at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the author served the United States government as a senior expert in space weather and aeronomy, and as the program leader for the United Nations World Data Center for Geomagnetism. He designed and managed advanced radar systems across diverse locations all over the world and oversees every aspect of managing real-time data for weather forecasting models. As a principal investigator, he helps advance the fields of communications and signal intelligence by studying how radio waves are affected by the atmosphere.
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