WUWT?: Just ahead of a new report from the IPCC, dubbed SR#15 about to be released today, we have this bombshell- a detailed audit shows the surface temperature data is unfit for purpose. The first ever audit of the world’s most important temperature data set (HadCRUT4) has found it to be so riddled with errors and “freakishly improbable data” that it is effectively useless.
From the IPCC:
Global Warming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.
This is what consensus science brings you – groupthink with no quality control.
HadCRUT4 is the primary global temperature dataset used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to make its dramatic claims about “man-made global warming”. It’s also the dataset as the center of “ClimateGate” from 2009, managed by the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University.
The audit finds more than 70 areas of concern about data quality and accuracy. more here
To actual scientists, the term “man-made global warming” has a whole new meaning.
I’d gamble that most of what comes out of Academia today is … uhh … how to put it … erroneous?
I did some work (back in the 80s) for a Physicist at a major American University on the East Coast who made a nuisance of himself by pointing out the fallacies in his colleagues’ (peer-reviewed) published papers.
He was told by one of the Physicists: “That (research paper) was 6 weeks old!”
And, regardless, that was 30 years ago – so it’s a pretty safe bet that things haven’t improved, considering the decline of the University culture in the past 30 years.
(and none of this had anything to do with some bullshit pseudo-science like “climate science” – this concerned Condensed Matter Physics)
izlamo delenda est …
Has there been a past report that wasn’t a complete distortion of the truth?
There was one obvious, fundamental problem from the start. And you don’t have to be a climate scientist to see it. There were too many variables in the models, (and we still haven’t seen the models). You have to show your work and how you filled in all the variables and what variables you included and what you excluded for it to be real science. There never was a real model in the first place, it was all based on a single theory, an idea about CO2 interaction, with little actual data to back it up. Watching a massive amount of money being shuffled in to people’s pockets all these years has been a big frustration. (Notice also that, at least rhetorically, the solution offered was global socialism.) This was bound to fall apart eventually because when you lie about a trend, you have to tell bigger and bigger lies as time goes by. That’s why they resorted to lying about the past being ever cooler, it was to keep the illusion of an upward trend.
Demorrhoids are truly pain in the ass.
One of the greatest things President Donald J. Trump (gawd, i love saying that) did was telling the Paris Climate Accord.
I thought world renown climatologist, Al Gore, had been granted infallibility by duh mudia.
Another issue with C02 is it has a greeining effect which is opposite of green house effect trees need C02 .
I remember reading someplace a few years ago the East Anglia had transferred all the data from hard copy climate records going back centuries into a data table. They then ran their climate models against the data and the results disproved all their claims. They then “fixed” the data and re-ran their models and it still wouldn’t support their claims. This happened a few times until the results were closer to what they wanted. Then there was a fire that destroyed all these irreplaceable hardcopy records. Bad enough but it was also revealed that there was no backup of the originals nor was there detailed notes on the “fixes” or copies made of the programs used to fix said date. This pretty well made the data useless but it’s still used today and copies are being used by the NASA climate study group which supports the notion of man-made climate change.
scr_north,
Sounds like Winston Smith’s “Memory Hole.”
izlamo delenda est …