<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Real Science]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[stevengoddard]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/author/stevengoddard/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[&#8220;If The Present Refuses To Get Warmer &#8211; Then The Past Must Become&nbsp;Cooler&#8221;]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Great quote from a reader at Climate Audit a few years ago. (I don&#8217;t remember who it was.)</p>
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<p>The graph above shows how USHCN has progressively cooled the past in Liberty, Texas. They have subtracted 3.4 degrees from measured temperatures in the 1920s and 1930s.</p>
<p>What a brilliant way to create a warming trend! Texas hasn&#8217;t warmed, so the past had to get cooler.</p>
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