“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, …. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

― George Orwell, 1984

In 1974, the National Academy of Sciences showed that the 1930s were very warm in the Northern Hemisphere, and there was almost 0.75C cooling through the end of the 1960s. But the warmth from 1890 to the mid-1950s has since been erased.

Understanding climatic change : United States Committee for the Global Atmospheric Research Program : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Climate at a Glance | Global Time Series | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

“So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say, 0.15 degC,
then this would be significant for the global mean — but
we’d still have to explain the land blip.

It would be good to remove at least part of the 1940s blip,
but we are still left with “why the blip”.”

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