Posted on 08/06/2017 10:13:31 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Recorded temperatures at the Bureau of Meteorology’s Thredbo Top automatic weather station have dropped below -10C in the past week, after action was taken to make the facility “fit for purpose”.
A record of the Thredbo Top station for 3am on Wednesday shows a temperature reading of -10.6C. This compares with the BoM’s monthly highlights for June and July, both showing a low of -9.6C.
The BoM said it had taken immediate action to replace the Thredbo station after concerns were raised that very low temperatures were not making it onto the official record. Controversy has dogged the bureau’s automatic weather station network since Goulburn man Lance Pigeon saw a -10.4C reading on the BoM’s website on July 2 automatically adjust to -10C, then disappear.
Later independent monitoring of the Thredbo Top station by scientist Jennifer Marohasy showed a recording of -10.6C vanish from the record.
BoM initially claimed the adjustments were part of its quality control procedures. But bureau chief executive Andrew Johnson later told Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg that investigations had found a number of cold-weather stations were not “fit for purpose” and would be replaced. The BoM has admitted that, in addition to Goulburn and Thredbo Top, stations at Tuggeranong in the ACT, Butlers Gorge and Fingal in Tasmania and Mount Baw Baw in Victoria would be replaced.
An in-house investigation that includes two independent experts has been called. The bureau said it rejected allegations aired in some media outlets that it had sought to tamper with temperature data.
It has been reported online that electronic smart cards were allegedly fitted to the BoM’s automatic weather stations, which put a limit on how low temperatures could be recorded in official weather data. The BoM declined to comment ahead of the internal review.
“The findings of a review into this matter will be made available after completion,” a BoM representative said. “We do not intend to publish detail prior to that. “The AWS program is part of the observing systems and operations program, separate from the climate areas.” On her website yesterday, Dr Marohasy said it was not the recording devices that were at fault. “To be clear, the problem is not with the equipment; all that needs to be done is for the smart-card readers to be removed,” Dr Marohasy said.
“So that after the automatic weather stations measure the correct temperature, this temperature can be brought forward firstly into the daily weather observation sheet and subsequently into the CDO (climate data online) dataset.” Mr Frydenberg rejected any suggestion that he had prior knowledge of smart cards or the cause of problems which made the stations not fit for purpose. He said he only learnt of the issue with the weather station readings when it was raised by The Australian.
I am sure there is an innocent explination that will be found for all of this. But I doubt it will be true.
Translation: We hope you have moved on to other things before completion, and then we won't have say anything publicy and eat crow....
I’m shocked I tell you - shocked!
Climate fraud?
Russians hacked the weather machines!
hmmmmm,... what does that say about the Al Gore Climate Believers?
This goes on everywhere in the USA. Monitoring stations were moved in recent times to hotter locales, on to asphalt blacktops, near stovepipes, hot roofs, etc. and the hotter temps charted to give the impression that temperatures are much hotter now than in the past century. Comparing apples to oranges since the readings were tampered with. On top of that, the “officials” tamper with the stats and fudge the readings to be higher than what was observed. All for the sake of spreading the global warming myth.
The whole hoax was to try and fool the “unwashed masses” into a huge gigantic tax scheme to make the likes of Ozone Algore, and his ilk, rich....or richer. With the side benefit of killing western culture. They should all be imprisoned.
And the liberal fanatics go around calling us anti science. Pure projection. And a bunch money grubbers too always trying to score more gov’t “climate” grants.
Sorry for the title in screaming caps but that’s how it is at the source link.
In my locale, they scream “RECORD HEAT!!!” every time temperature goes into the 90s, which happens every year. I always tell people, “I remember the summer of 2003 when we were seeing 108-110 F for two weeks straight. Until that kind of heat comes back, don’t talk to me about record heat.”
No joke, a bunch of bottom-percentile bottom-feeders telling people that they’re into science, that’s rich. I’ve actually talked to enviralists that are not aware that there is no air on the moon (they thought the space suits were needed because the all-nitrogen atmosphere doesn’t have enough oxygen) and think that an airplane’s engines provide the lift to keep it flying.
Patience. When the Globalists decide to make accurate readings a felony crime, we will be back to Global Warming.
Here's my guess: The Data shows a new Ice Age is coming, and they've been fudging the numbers to prevent panic.
She says it's not the thermometers it's the “card readers”.
No, it's not the card readers, it's the checking software that ‘someone’, presumably to some specification, programmed.
I bet they never report on the card readers software specifications and who wrote them.
bttt
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