The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever

[TheDaliLama]

The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever





When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.

Two weeks ago, under the headline “How we are being tricked by flawed data on global warming”, I wrote about Paul Homewood, who, on his Notalotofpeopleknowthat blog, had checked the published temperature graphs for three weather stations in Paraguay against the temperatures that had originally been recorded. In each instance, the actual trend of 60 years of data had been dramatically reversed, so that a cooling trend was changed to one that showed a marked warming.

This was only the latest of many examples of a practice long recognised by expert observers around the world – one that raises an ever larger question mark over the entire official surface-temperature record.

Watch: Climate change explained in 60 second animation
Following my last article, Homewood checked a swathe of other South American weather stations around the original three. In each case he found the same suspicious one-way “adjustments”. First these were made by the US government’s Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN). They were then amplified by two of the main official surface records, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Giss) and the National Climate Data Center (NCDC), which use the warming trends to estimate temperatures across the vast regions of the Earth where no measurements are taken. Yet these are the very records on which scientists and politicians rely for their belief in “global warming”.

Homewood has now turned his attention to the weather stations across much of the Arctic, between Canada (51 degrees W) and the heart of Siberia (87 degrees E). Again, in nearly every case, the same one-way adjustments have been made, to show warming up to 1 degree C or more higher than was indicated by the data that was actually recorded. This has surprised no one more than Traust Jonsson, who was long in charge of climate research for the Iceland met office (and with whom Homewood has been in touch). Jonsson was amazed to see how the new version completely “disappears” Iceland’s “sea ice years” around 1970, when a period of extreme cooling almost devastated his country’s economy.

One of the first examples of these “adjustments” was exposed in 2007 by the statistician Steve McIntyre, when he discovered a paper published in 1987 by James Hansen, the scientist (later turned fanatical climate activist) who for many years ran Giss. Hansen’s original graph showed temperatures in the Arctic as having been much higher around 1940 than at any time since. But as Homewood reveals in his blog post, “Temperature adjustments transform Arctic history”, Giss has turned this upside down. Arctic temperatures from that time have been lowered so much that that they are now dwarfed by those of the past 20 years.



Homewood’s interest in the Arctic is partly because the “vanishing” of its polar ice (and the polar bears) has become such a poster-child for those trying to persuade us that we are threatened by runaway warming. But he chose that particular stretch of the Arctic because it is where ice is affected by warmer water brought in by cyclical shifts in a major Atlantic current – this last peaked at just the time 75 years ago when Arctic ice retreated even further than it has done recently. The ice-melt is not caused by rising global temperatures at all.

Of much more serious significance, however, is the way this wholesale manipulation of the official temperature record – for reasons GHCN and Giss have never plausibly explained – has become the real elephant in the room of the greatest and most costly scare the world has known. This really does begin to look like one of the greatest scientific scandals of all time.

[i'va biggen]

Three fucking threads on climate, you are really getting heated on this dolly.

[JD Barleycorn]

French weatherman spends a year researching global warming.
French weatherman writes book about his findings.
French weatherman gets fired from his TV gig because of government oversight.

Guess which way French weatherman followed his findings...................... .............................H oax.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a6695726.html

Philippe Verdier is (was?) a popular weatherman on France's government run TV station but recently he has come our shooting from the hip about how less affluent governments are using global warming to milk the richer nations. The evidence does not hold up, global warming, if not a complete hoax, is not a real problem. I guess that depends on whether the scientist knowingly told lies or not.

[Guest040616]

Originally Posted by i'va biggen

Three fucking threads on climate, you are really getting heated on this dolly.

Lama's just getting started! Just wait until the first blizzard occurs in the not too distant future.

A friggin' blizzard will wad up Lama's holy robe every time.

[DSK]

Originally Posted by TheDaliLama

The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever





When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.

Two weeks ago, under the headline “How we are being tricked by flawed data on global warming”, I wrote about Paul Homewood, who, on his Notalotofpeopleknowthat blog, had checked the published temperature graphs for three weather stations in Paraguay against the temperatures that had originally been recorded. In each instance, the actual trend of 60 years of data had been dramatically reversed, so that a cooling trend was changed to one that showed a marked warming.

This was only the latest of many examples of a practice long recognised by expert observers around the world – one that raises an ever larger question mark over the entire official surface-temperature record.

Watch: Climate change explained in 60 second animation
Following my last article, Homewood checked a swathe of other South American weather stations around the original three. In each case he found the same suspicious one-way “adjustments”. First these were made by the US government’s Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN). They were then amplified by two of the main official surface records, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Giss) and the National Climate Data Center (NCDC), which use the warming trends to estimate temperatures across the vast regions of the Earth where no measurements are taken. Yet these are the very records on which scientists and politicians rely for their belief in “global warming”.

Homewood has now turned his attention to the weather stations across much of the Arctic, between Canada (51 degrees W) and the heart of Siberia (87 degrees E). Again, in nearly every case, the same one-way adjustments have been made, to show warming up to 1 degree C or more higher than was indicated by the data that was actually recorded. This has surprised no one more than Traust Jonsson, who was long in charge of climate research for the Iceland met office (and with whom Homewood has been in touch). Jonsson was amazed to see how the new version completely “disappears” Iceland’s “sea ice years” around 1970, when a period of extreme cooling almost devastated his country’s economy.

One of the first examples of these “adjustments” was exposed in 2007 by the statistician Steve McIntyre, when he discovered a paper published in 1987 by James Hansen, the scientist (later turned fanatical climate activist) who for many years ran Giss. Hansen’s original graph showed temperatures in the Arctic as having been much higher around 1940 than at any time since. But as Homewood reveals in his blog post, “Temperature adjustments transform Arctic history”, Giss has turned this upside down. Arctic temperatures from that time have been lowered so much that that they are now dwarfed by those of the past 20 years.



Homewood’s interest in the Arctic is partly because the “vanishing” of its polar ice (and the polar bears) has become such a poster-child for those trying to persuade us that we are threatened by runaway warming. But he chose that particular stretch of the Arctic because it is where ice is affected by warmer water brought in by cyclical shifts in a major Atlantic current – this last peaked at just the time 75 years ago when Arctic ice retreated even further than it has done recently. The ice-melt is not caused by rising global temperatures at all.

Of much more serious significance, however, is the way this wholesale manipulation of the official temperature record – for reasons GHCN and Giss have never plausibly explained – has become the real elephant in the room of the greatest and most costly scare the world has known. This really does begin to look like one of the greatest scientific scandals of all time.

These findings, if true, demolish the very foundation of liberalism. All who faked this data deserve a scarlet letter "C" for climatologist, a title which will need to be retired for lack of credibility.

[nevergaveitathought]

global warming (climate change?) is a tool of the left, to cause dislocation and disruption of free enterprise....up end the oil industry and destroy capitalism. truth is not a leftist value, only winning is.

weak-minded dims follow like lemmings....

everything dims do cause ever widening spirals of difficulties

[gnadfly]

Not only did they fuck with the model and the data, but they fucked with how the data was gathered by putting monitoring stations where they they knew they would get skewed results.

They being various UN groups, "climate scientists", NASA, NOAA and a bunch of other climate proselytizers.

It's an outright scam initially funded by Ted Turner whose billion dollar contribution to the UN is finally running out.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...nge/ar-BBlmtqQ

The guys a loon. He's even instructed the US military to combat it.

[The Black Tornado]

Originally Posted by i'va biggen

Three fucking threads on climate, you are really getting heated on this dolly.

These stupid white fucks don't even believe their own goddamn whitebread scientists. What a bunch of assholes.

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by The Black Tornado

These stupid white fucks don't even believe their own goddamn whitebread scientists. What a bunch of assholes.

Does global warming make tornadoes black?

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf10300/pdf/nsf10300.pdf

Speaking of racial remarks .... Can you evaluate the data collection by the National Science Foundation and determine how many Black scientists there were in 2006 with doctorate degrees in the "sciences" regarding earth, atmosphere, and ocean? Then explain why so few?

[gnadfly]

Is this another Global Warming scam thread?

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by gnadfly

Is this another Global Warming scam thread?

It does appear that way .... and then it turned into a

... Black Lives Don't Matter thread ......

....when Mr. Tornado swirled in with deranged racial slurs.

[Rey Lengua]

Originally Posted by The Black Tornado

These stupid white fucks don't even believe their own goddamn whitebread scientists. What a bunch of assholes.

Well " Faux bro " woomby does !

[IIFFOFRDB]

Alinskite eehhbuurrrrr is a Independent Sheepeople

[The Black Tornado]

Originally Posted by LexusLover

Does global warming make tornadoes black?

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf10300/pdf/nsf10300.pdf

Speaking of racial remarks .... Can you evaluate the data collection by the National Science Foundation and determine how many Black scientists there were in 2006 with doctorate degrees in the "sciences" regarding earth, atmosphere, and ocean? Then explain why so few?

Hell, that is to easy. The systematic institutional racism which prohibits blacks from lucrative advanced degrees, asshole.

[WTF]

Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought

. truth is not a leftist value, only winning is.

....

..

The winners write history and the truth as they see fit...think about that Mr. Holier than thou.


Kaffee: *I want the truth!*
Col. Jessep: *You can't handle the truth!*
[pauses]
Col. Jessep: Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.