The Telegraph recently published an article that exposes how the data supporting global warming ‘science’, specifically official temperature records, have been manipulated systematically to give the appearance that the Earth has warmed considerably more than it actually has.
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.
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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.
There is NO such thing as global warming. Its a big fraud.
If you study the history of our planet you would realize that there is no such thing as global warming. Look at our winters how some years are really bad and others are not. It has been like this my whole life. According to the weather experts, we will be going into another ice age. It is the way the earth works. We won’t be around to see it but it will happen. Just like the solar flare that happened in 1885. It killed the Morse code lines and they had to be repaired. At that time that was the only thing that had electricity running through it. We just missed a solar flare by two weeks several years ago. Had the earth been at that spot when the solar flare happened we wouldn’t be here now. The rotation of the earth had moved so we were not on line with the flare.
I have read that the solar flares have become more frequent and more intense. And our magnetic field has decreased which protects us. I live in Ohio. we have been able to see the Arora bora lights. probably spelled that wrong. a few times here. that I thought was not possible in the past. I would think the radiation heat would affect our climate in some way over time. ?
There is a powerful global movement that pushed for this BIG CLIMATE CHANGE LIE. It’s a huge political plan that would enable (empower) govt to control and regulate MEGA industries. It’s absolutely misleading.
The truth about many things is finally coming to the fore. One big scam, a money pit for the Globalists.
There was an article in Readers Digest about 20 years ago about data being falsified. Weather reporting stations are supposed to be over grass but were moved to asphalt parking lots and even placed where the cars would pull close to them while parking resulting in much higher temperatures.
It’s is all a hoax for political gain.
Not science. A hoax!
Can’t have global warming without a Globe to begin with …. Noon in Winter would be midnight in Summer with a Globe going around a Sun …..
NASA outed them.