Suppose say, that for the last 100 years my family have been maintaining a weather station at the bottom of our garden, diligently recording the temperatures day by day, and that what these records show is this: that in the 1930s it was jolly hot – even hotter than in the 1980s; that since the 1940s it has been cooling.
What conclusions would you draw from this hard evidence?
Well the obvious one, I imagine, is that the dramatic Twentieth Century warming that people like Al Gore have been banging on about is a crock. At least according to this particular weather station it is.
Now how would you feel if you went and took these temperature records along to one of the world’s leading global warming experts – say Gavin Schmidt at NASA or Phil Jones at CRU or Michael Mann at Penn State – and they studied your records for a moment and said: “This isn’t right.” What if they then crossed out all your temperature measurements, did a few calculations on the back of an envelope, and scribbled in their amendments? And you studied those adjustments and you realised, to your astonishment, that the new, pretend temperature measurements told an entirely different story from the original, real temperature measurements: that where before your records showed a cooling since the 1940s they now showed a warming trend.
You’d be gobsmacked, would you not?
Yet, incredible though it may seem, the scenario I’ve just described is more or less exactly analogous to what has happened to the raw data from weather stations all over the world.
So why has the scandal never broken into the mainstream? Why has it never made the same splash Climategate did (not, mind you, that Climategate ever got much play in the MSM either)?
Well, one reason, I guess is that the alarmist establishment is pretty good at fobbing off criticisms with seemingly plausible scientific answers. (See Hausfather above).
It takes time and effort to counter these excuses: time and effort which few people can afford.
As an example of the kind of superficially plausible excuse-making I mean, here is climate scientist Ed Hawkins claiming that the reason for the amendments to the raw data at Puerto Casado is that the weather station has been moved.
Well, fair enough, you’d think – and take his word for it. But blogger Shub Niggurathwouldn’t and has demolished this excuse by pointing out that there is no evidence for the weather station having moved. It’s just a handy excuse, that’s all. And in any case, it doesn’t explain why similar changes were made to the records of the other stations: were they all moved too?
ht/ just the tip
Anything to further the doomsayer narrative until we cede all control to a faceless, nameless beauracrat to make everyone equal
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I agree wholeheartedly with your non sequitur.
Did you know that muffins spelled backwards is sniffum?
People don’t realize that weather stations and the collection of temperature data are done by volunteers the world over. There is no quality control. Once I learned how sloppy the system is I lost all trust in it.
I found surfacestations.org some years ago. They documented a great deal of “anomalies” in the US temp record – a lot of very obvious explanation of increasing and variable readings at a lot of “approved” stations. As much as they try, AGW acolytes just can’t show any warming without lying and falsifying data – reason enough to confidently say it’s all pure BS. Right Michael Mann?
Once upon a time when people could be trusted to collect and collate weather data, it was collected from over 6000 points across the globe and for some obvious reason that has bee whittled down some 75% to only 1500 points. Anyone want to garner why?
If you guessed that those other points weren’t anywhere near the heat sinks of the urban centers of the plant, you get the treat.
Putting them all in jail would be a start but putting them to death or at least making them stake their pathetic lives on this hoax, you would somehow get an enormous amount of conversions.
Anyone who didn’t recognize AGW as a scam when Algore injected himself into it, or certainly with the “carbon credit” cap and trade über scam push, is the brand of gullible idiot we need to eradicate.
Eliminate the stupid before it enslaves us all.
Uncle Al’s Handy Dandy Carbon Credits for sale.
Come after dark.
Bring cash.
Thar’s a lot of money to be made “protecting” stupid people!
Clearly “global warming” caused by humans is purely a political issue.
when was the last time you notified your state & federal representatives “climate change” caused by humans is a hoax?
Holla at yo’ boy:
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/US-Congress.shtml
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion …”
Globaloney Warming is a religion. A belief system patterned on izlam, based on lies, and promulgated by a perverted prophet of pestiferousness.
And the Tyrannical Oligarchs are attempting to make it the Official Religion of the United States.
That is clearly un-Constitutional.
I wouldn’t say it’s a religion any more than communism is a religion. Just because they have: a prophet, a self-appointed cadre to interpret the prophets writings, they reinterpret the sacred writings every time it doesn’t match reality, and they kill or imprison anyone who disagrees with them, does NOT make it a religion.
Its just a wealth redistribution scheme without Zyklon B. Yet.
People who practiced Phrenology in the 19th century all believed it was real science and they had the consensus to prove it.
the alarmists/elitists are communists and they want to control all aspects of your life.
the policies of envy …they hate that common folk have access to cheap fuel and can live in comfort.
WTH?
Nah, the conspiracy theories reside with the Deniers NOT the 90+% of scientists reporting the reality of Global Warming — Glacial ice decline, ocean temp. rise, ocean acidification, doesn’t convince you idiots but then again most of you deniers are skeptical of facts but embrace the mythology of moronic Abrahamic religions and idiocy such as the “young earth” concept and “Noah’s Ark”. Ha ha ha, what a bunch of LOSERS.