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For those who havent seen it, heres a link to US weatherman John Colemans magisterial demolition of the Great AGW Scam. I particularly recommend part 4 because thats the one with all the meat. It shows how temperature readings have been manipulated at the two key climate data centres in the United States the NASA Goddard Science and Space Institute at Columbia University in New York and the NOAA National Climate Data Center in Ashville, North Carolina. (Hat tip: Platosays)
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The man who spotted all this is a computer programmer called EM Smith aka the Chiefio. You can read the full report at his excellent blog. In the 70s, the Chiefio discovered, GISS and NOAA took their temperature data from 6,000 weather stations around the world. By 1990, though, this figure had mysteriously dropped to 1500. Even more mysteriously this 75 per cent reduction in the number of stations used had a clear bias against those at higher latitudes and elevations.
Heres an excellent example of this: Bolivia.
Notice that nice rosy red over the top of Bolivia? Bolivia is that country near, but not on, the coast just about half way up the Pacific Ocean side. It has a patch of high cold Andes Mountains where most of the population live.
One Small Problem with the anomally map. There has not been any thermometer data for Bolivia in GHCN since 1990.
None. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Nothing. Empty Set.
So just how can it be so Hot Hot Hot! in Bolivia if there is NO data from the last 20 years?
Never heard of satellite, eh?
Fruitcakes promoting fruitcakes.
And the global weirding just keeps right on.
Tornados in January in California. Perfectly normal.
Ever hear of "Out of context?"Never heard of satellite, eh?
Fruitcakes promoting fruitcakes.
And the global weirding just keeps right on.
Tornados in January in California. Perfectly normal.
Ever hear of "Hide the decline"?
Ever hear of "Out of context?"Never heard of satellite, eh?
Fruitcakes promoting fruitcakes.
And the global weirding just keeps right on.
Tornados in January in California. Perfectly normal.
Ever hear of "Hide the decline"?
Never heard of satellite, eh?
Fruitcakes promoting fruitcakes.
And the global weirding just keeps right on.
Tornados in January in California. Perfectly normal.
Satellites don't really exist. Just a government ploy to keep us in line.
Micheal Crichton's book was a total lie and lousy to boot. A piss poor work of fiction.
OUT OF CONTEXT!Ever hear of "Out of context?"Ever hear of "Hide the decline"?
"Any scientist ought to know that you just cant mix and match proxy and actual data," -- Philip Stott, emeritus professor of biogeography at Londons School of Oriental and African Studies.
Climategate Update 1: The China Syndrome*
Ronald Bailey | February 2, 2010
Climategate just gets more interesting all the time doesn't it? The Guardian is reporting that the Climatic Research Unit (the U.K. research group at the center of the Climategate affair) has somehow lost critical temperature data again, in this case data from Chinese weather stations that are supposed to prove that the urban heat island effect accounts for a neglible portion of the warming trend found in temperature records. The abstract for the study published in 1990 in Nature reads:
Records of hemispheric average temperatures from land regions for the past 100 years provide crucial input to the debate over global warming. Despite careful use of the basic station data in some of these compilations of hemispheric temperature, there have been suggestions that a proportion of the 0.5 °C warming seen on a century timescale may be related to urbanization influenceslocal warming caused by the effects of urban development. We examine here an extensive set of rural-station temperature data for three regions of the world: European parts of the Soviet Union, eastern Australia and eastern China. When combined with similar analyses for the contiguous United States, the results are representative of 20% of the land area of the Northern Hemisphere and 10% of the Southern Hemisphere. The results show that the urbanization influence in two of the most widely used hemispheric data sets is, at most, an order of magnitude less than the warming seen on a century timescale.The Guardian notes:
But many climate sceptics did not believe the claim. They were convinced that the urban effect was much bigger, even though it might not change the overall story of global warming too much. After all, two-thirds of the planet is covered by ocean, and the oceans are warming, too.
But when Jones turned down requests from them to reveal details about the location of the 84 Chinese weather stations used in the study, arguing that it would be "unduly burdensome", they concluded that he was covering up the error.
And when, in 2007, Jones finally released what location data he had, British amateur climate analyst and former City banker Doug Keenan accused Jones and Wang of fraud.
He pointed out that the data showed that 49 of the Chinese meteorological stations had no histories of their location or other details. These mysterious stations included 40 of the 42 rural stations. Of the rest, 18 had certainly been moved during the study period, perhaps invalidating their data.
Keenan told the Guardian: "The worst case was a station that moved five times over a distance of 41 kilometres"; hence, for those stations, the claim made in the paper that "there were 'few if any changes' to locations is a fabrication". He demanded that Jones retract his claims about the Chinese data....
...What could be increasing minimum temperatures? Christy's study suggests that the turbulence and thus temperatures in the lower levels of the atmophere are...
...highly dependent on local land use and perhaps locally produced aerosols, the significant human development of the surface may be responsible for the rising TMin while having little impact on TMax in East Africa.
In any case, Phil Jones and the CRU crowd are in the process of finding out the truth of the old adage, "It's not the crime, it's the cover up" that eventually brings someone down.
Old Crocks and the rest of the warmer evangelicals jump all over threads such as these, but ardently avoid threads such as this:
http://www.usmessageboard.com/envir...k-glacier-info-from-student-dissertation.html
