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.
I am right there with you Richard global warming is a scam polution is not. We should focus on tangible problem not something that is a theory based flawed data.
Yes because it’s global warming when the temperature drops below 0. You can’t make this up. Can’t believe there are people who actually believe this c**p. Bunch of sheeple.
No statistics lie, but any liar can use statistics!
It is an attack on freedom, it is an old communist method to take rights and freedom away!
I wonder who.
Yup
Yea we figured that out on our own
The ‘global warming’ push smelled bad from the beginning, looking like a clumsy hoax. The real question though, is just what was the real reason the progressives thought they needed to create a “crisis”?. Is it to justify the imposition of martial law? Or maybe putting UN troops on our soil? These are still only a means of achieving an end, which is looking more and more like the establishment of a one world government. And after all the post Cold War improvement in relations with Russia, you have to wonder at their sudden elevation to ‘arch enemy’ status. The only thing I see that has changed is that Russia states that it supports the sovereignty of nations, which I used to think that America was also about, but that concept appears to be out of line with the idea of a “new world order”.
Fear and/or anger is necessary to convince people that totalitarian control of their lives is necessary for the “common good” and their survival. The weak minded “useful idiots” are incapable of reviewing all available information to reach an informed decision or at the very least, challenging those that have something to gain from this type of propaganda. Consequently, they are easily fooled into succumbing to this type of fear mongering, by con artists. The following link will let you see a NOAA graph, showing 400K years of climate change (there is an 800k year version too, showing more of the same) and guess what…global warming and cooling is a natural, cyclic phenomenon. The global warming hucksters are fully aware of the planet’s cycles and yet they persist in hiding/ignoring the historical data, because there is no $ to be made, if they don’t have something that they can claim to fix. https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=%3Fq%3Dnoaa+ice+core+graphs&fr=yhs-itm-001&hspart=itm&hsimp=yhs-001&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Frealclimatescience.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F01%2FIceCores1-1-1.gif#id=0&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Frealclimatescience.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F01%2FIceCores1-1-1.gif&action=click
For years I have question the “scientific” facts about global warming and the predicted negative harm to the world because the lack of supporting data, here are a few of my “old” concerns:
1. The most prevalent global warming gas in the atmosphere is water vapor, which constitute approximately 95 % of the total, this has been ignore.
2. The other area ignore is the fact that ice, by volume occupies 10% more space than water therefore melting ice would reduce the ocean levels by -10%, The only ice melting that would negatively affect the sea level is the ice on top of land.
3. Land is being created out of the oceans by volcanos and seismic influences, this additional land mass is raising the ocean water levels, but it is not discuss by the “GLOBAL WARMING SCIENTISTS”
Fear and/or anger is necessary to convince people that totalitarian control of their lives is necessary for the “common good” and their survival. The weak minded “useful idiots” are incapable of reviewing all available information to reach an informed decision or at the very least, challenging those that have something to gain from this type of propaganda. Consequently, they are easily fooled into succumbing the “global warming/climate change” fear mongering, by con artists, whose true goal is to put $ in their own pockets. NOAA has provided a nice graph showing the temperature and CO2 levels for 400K years (a similar 800K year, showing more of the same exists) , based on ice core samples. It should be noted that because the ice caps were melting during the warmest part of each cycle, the CO2 levels cannot be estimated. https://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IceCores1-1-1.gif