Posted by
Sgt Relic on Saturday, January 23, 2010 11:56:30 AM
Somewhere out there, hidden among the faceless billions that inhabit our planet is a person who truly does deserve a Nobel Prize. He or She is the “Unknown Leaker” who released the information that set in motion the scandal now known as “Climategate”, and simultaneously, drove a stake through the heart of the Copenhagen Conference on Global Warming.
That data release found its way into the hands of a dedicated group of climate skeptics, including Stephen Mosher, Anthony Watts, and Steve McIntyre and faster than you can say “Al Gore”, the polar bear was out of the climate bag.
The weeks following that release featured reviews of the data which contained emails, code, and data sets that painted a clear picture of fraud and the abuses of power of a group of East Anglia University scientists at their Climate Research Unit, as well as, a number of complicities involving the IPCC, even “jumping the pond” to include American climate scientist, Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann, Penn State.
Now, a new chapter in this climate scam is unfolding. It takes time to sift the data and to really begin to understand the depth of what amounts to a worldwide con game. It now appears that the fraud has its roots in the U.S. climate community.
Marc Sheppard, writing in the American Thinker, started his article with this paragraph:
“Not surprisingly, the blatant corruption exposed at Britain’s premiere climate institute was not contained within the nation’s borders. Just months after the Climategate scandal broke, a new study has uncovered compelling evidence that our government’s principal climate centers have also been manipulating worldwide temperature data in order to fraudulently advance the global warming political agenda.”
The principal climate centers to which Sheppard refers are none other than the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). GISS you may recall is headed by none other that Dr. James “we’re all gonna' freeze, no, we’re all going to fry” Hansen.
A recent, and very regional, hour long TV presentation on KUSI, San Diego, hosted by Weather Channel founder, John Coleman, brought front and center E. Michael Smith, computer expert, and the man whose efforts to understand how the temperature increases might impact his life instead found the “smoking gun” in the American climate record.
Here is the short version of what he found.
There about 6000 thermometers worldwide that provides the basis for ground surface temperature data. Even in the age of satellites we are reliant on these thermometers for the information used by scientists and policy makers, alike.
Smith found that around 1990 NOAA dropped the number of thermometers they use to 1500. The thermometers are still there, and people are still reading them, according to Smith, NOAA just doesn’t use the data. Further, Smith found that there was a distinct bias in the way thermometers were dropped from the data. Apparently, NOAA doesn’t like to use the thermometers from cold places like mountains.
Smith gave this example:
“in California, only four stations remain – one in San Francisco (I understand it’s at the airport, think tarmac) and three in Southern L.A. near the beach
It is certainly impossible to compare it with the past record that had thermometers in the snowy mountains. So we can have no idea if California is warming or cooling by looking at the United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) data set or the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) data set”
And this one:
In Canada they left “one thermometer for everything north of LAT 65.” And that one resides in a place called Eureka, which has been described as “The Garden Spot of the Arctic” due to its unusually moderate summers”
If that wasn’t bad enough, the data is further manipulated by a process known as homogenization. This process allows for extrapolating for areas that are now missing their thermometer data by using two thermometer readings from up to 1200 km away and then simply filling in with averages. Most of us non-scientists know this technique as “a wild guess”.
Bottom line: Our top climate scientists at NOAA and GISS are employing scientific methods, if what they are doing could truly be called science, that wouldn’t pass muster at an 8th grade Science Fair.
They have purposely manipulated data to support their claims of global warming and played havoc with our historical data. They have extorted billions of dollars from the taxpayers and with the assistance of willing politicians threatened our economy, if not our very way of life.
These people are the real climate criminals!
There is a much more detailed version of this available for those who are so inclined located at Watt’s Up with That.