Posted on 01/20/2010 8:33:25 PM PST by Clive
Call it the mystery of the missing thermometers.
Two months after "climategate" cast doubt on some of the science behind global warming, new questions are being raised about the reliability of a key temperature database, used by the United Nations and climate change scientists as proof of recent planetary warming.
Two American researchers allege that U.S. government scientists have skewed global temperature trends by ignoring readings from thousands of local weather stations around the world, particularly those in colder altitudes and more northerly latitudes, such as Canada.
In the 1970s, nearly 600 Canadian weather stations fed surface temperature readings into a global database assembled by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Today, NOAA only collects data from 35 stations across Canada.
Worse, only one station -- at Eureka on Ellesmere Island -- is now used by NOAA as a temperature gauge for all Canadian territory above the Arctic Circle.
The Canadian government, meanwhile, operates 1,400 surface weather stations across the country, and more than 100 above the Arctic Circle, according to Environment Canada.
Yet as American researchers Joseph D'Aleo, a meteorologist, and E. Michael Smith, a computer programmer, point out in a study published on the website of the Science and Public Policy Institute, NOAA uses "just one thermometer [for measuring] everything north of latitude 65 degrees."
Both the authors, and the institute, are well-known in climate-change circles for their skepticism about the threat of global warming.
Mr. D'Aleo and Mr. Smith say NOAA and another U.S. agency, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) have not only reduced the total number of Canadian weather stations in the database, but have "cherry picked" the ones that remain by choosing sites in relatively warmer places, ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
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it is how they won all those research grants .. that started all this bs .. remember the nano stuff... zippo... very small impact for all the hype ..
Polar Bear picked?
They say NOAA collects no temperature data at all from Bolivia -- a high-altitude, landlocked country -- but instead "interpolates" or assigns temperature values for that country based on data from "nearby" temperature stations located at lower elevations in Peru, or in the Amazon basin.The result, they say, is a warmer-than-truthful global temperature record.
"NOAA . . . systematically eliminated 75% of the world's stations with a clear bias towards removing higher latitude, high altitude and rural locations, all of which had a tendency to be cooler," the authors say. "The thermometers in a sense, marched towards the tropics, the sea, and to airport tarmacs."
The NOAA database forms the basis of the influential climate modelling work, and the dire, periodic warnings on climate change, issued by James Hanson, the director of the GISS in New York
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bump for sending to liberal dim bulbs
Can’t change their minds, but it’s sure fun to annoy them with facts.
(If you don't read Latin, you can Google the term.)
I have been harping on this travesty for several years now. It is nice that finally people are not accusing me of wearing a tin foil hat. It is maddening that despite irrefutable evidence of deceitful behavior by proponents nothing has happened to these criminals. Billions of dollars have already been wasted and crops have been diverted into alcohol production causing food shortages in developing nations.
damn!
John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, aired a one hour special over KUSI-TV, San Diego, California, on January 14, 2010, "Global Warming: The Other Side", which went into some detail about these agencies of the U.S. government and their fraudulent temperature data in Segment 4 (of 5), interviewing Joseph D'Aleo and E. Michael Smith
Maybe these “scientists” missed their calling. It is apparent to all that they should be pitching sham-wows.
When they’re not cherry picking or editing data to fit the assumption, they’re just flat out making it up.
*Years later, I still marvel at how much Coffee Anonymous and his cronies were allowed to skim without consequences.
They could also have included the exposé that Anthony Watts did about the placement of the temperature sensors by NOAA in locations which were guaranteed to give faulty higher readings.
Thanks for the ping.
It's falling apart for alarmist liars... It's all falling apart for them.
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