The following scenario is hypothetical but quite plausible. Since the 1988 UN Resolution on Climate Change and particularly after the establishment of IPCC in 1990, Government funding for climate research in all Western countries became increasingly geared toward programs investigating the effect of atmospheric CO2 on global temperature. This new research trend could not have remained unnoticed by scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, who were tasked with the development of the World’s first global gridded surface temperature dataset. It is conceivable that these researchers (now well-funded under the new UN Agenda) quickly realized that the rapid cooling of 1960s and 1970s would create a major scientific and political problem if included in the global temperature record and juxtaposed with the ascending Keeling curve of atmospheric CO2 beginning in 1958. Such an inclusion would have invalidated the “Greenhouse” theory of climate change and compromised the UN Agenda from the start. Thus, the CRU scientists dealt with the issue “appropriately” by simply removing the cooling episode from the global series of temperature anomalies.

5. Conclusion

A new global dataset of Surface Solar Radiation (SSR) published by Yuan et al. (2021) shows a large decrease in the average solar flux reaching Earth’s land masses between 1960 and the present. This prompted a reassessment of the known climate-change pattern during the 20th Century. The analysis of globally averaged SSR data revealed a 22-year long steep cooling episode between 1962 and early 1980s that is absent from current institutional global temperature records (Fig. 1), but was a topic of intense public discussions during the 1970s. These findings have serious implications for the “Greenhouse” climate theory and the hypothesis that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other “heat-trapping” trace gases were responsible for the observed warming in recent decades.