Homogenization of temperature data makes Capetown South Africa have a warmer climate record

The fiddling with figures has been apparent at least since 2007.
https://climateaudit.org/2007/08/08/a-new-leaderboard-at-the-us-open/
Yet we are too polite, to a degree that we must spell the word fr@ud in a strange manner or risk being snipped.
I have a hope the New President may put a stop to this nonsense. Harry Truman is said to have had the motto on his desk, “The Buck Stops Here.”
I think a good new motto might be, “The Bull Stops Here.”

That’s why they ‘homogenise’.

So…..what is anyone going to do about this?
What CAN anyone do about it…?

A few topics back Dr. Roy Spencer suggested that we should be studying physical geography in relation to climate change. I agree. We can take this a step further by studying an even more responsive proxy: commercial agriculture – in particular fruit production.
Profit margins of products from the land have always been marginal. As a consequence we find enterprises that survive are almost always clustered into environments that best suit the crop being grown. This comes down to soil type, shelter, sun hours, rainfall, and temperature – in some cases both hot and cold. The difference between economic regions and uneconomic regions often comes down to a few degrees temperature or days of winter frost. In many cases winter chilling is essential. Should climate – in particular temperature – have changed, then specific crops would have migrated.
My own country, New Zealand, is slightly larger than the UK and 63% the size of California. It extends 1600 km (990 m) approx Nth to Sth. The far north is subtropical and the deep south, temperate. Along with an obvious Nth-Sth temperature gradient there is a notable climate variation E-W. The prevailing W-SW winds bring more rain and cooler air temperatures to the west coast. Central ranges make westerlies warmer and dryer in the E.
This results in a great variety of growing environments and localised production centres e.g:
Northland (warm with few frosts): Sweet potato, citrus
Bay of Plenty (warm summer, good sun hours, some frosts): Kiwi fruit
Hawkes Bay: (hot, dry summers, strong frosts in winter) Wine viticulture, stone and pip fruit
Nelson: (warm summer, good sun hours, some frosts) pip and stone fruit, hops, tobacco
Marlborough: (Hot dry simmer, severe frosts in winter) Wine viticulture
Otago: (Very hot dry summer, severe winters) Apricots, cherries
For all of these crops a slight change of temperature, rainfall, or wind, can mean economic make-or-break e.g. too warm in winter and Otago could not produce the cherries and apricots it is famous for.
I was born where I now farm 66 years later. I have visited most of New Zealand and have a good understanding of its geography. Furthermore, growing up we picked up things from parents going back further into history. Guess what? NOTHING HAS CHANGED. There has been no migration of crop locations and production has not dropped.
I remember our family or neighbours planting oranges, figs, Kiwifuit, grapes. The fruit set but never get big and sweet. We are just a fraction shy on sun hours and temperature. This has not changed!
There is another example involving a perennial grass, Kikuyu (origin E Africa). It is very frost sensitive but invasive of most other pasture species that have higher food value. Dairy farming in almost an entire province in NZ (Northland) is now dependent on it as the prime pasture species. It is cheaper to work with it than against it. Production/hectare is probably 30 % less than on top pasture.
Aside from in coastal strips of KM-scale width, Kikuyu runs out south of Auckland City where frost is more common. In my living memory the kikuya boundary has remained remarkably static. A coastal strip within 20 minutes from where I write has not migrated by any more than ½ KM

Forrest Gardener
to understand movement of global T and weather/rainfall you must understand that there are two sources of the energy here, namely the energy coming from outside in and then there is the energy from inside earth to out. The strength of the latter becomes more evident when you go down 1km into a gold mine here…It seems that everyone has assumed that energy inside to out is more or less constant, and I think that is true – when measured over a short period [e.g. the Holocene] -, but, like I said, my finding here for the past 40 years is that most of the SH is cooling whilst the NH is warming. I could not figure that one out. A simple theory [that now makes sense to me] is that earth’s inner core is aligning itself with the magnetic force from the sun – very much like a magnetic stirrer, if you like, [if you know what that is?]. Indeed the evidence clearly shows that Earth’s magnetic North Pole has been moving northwards, and that movement is causing said melting of ice at the north pole and relative more warming in the NH.
As far as rainfall goes, I think this is largely influenced by the solar cycles, i.e. the energy coming from outside to earth. My finding is that William Arnold’s report, back in 1985, before they started with the CO2 nonsense, on the solar cycles is largely correct, and I have subsequently identified that one complete solar cycle (Hale-Nicholson) consists of two succesive Schwabe solar cycles. 4 Hale cycles makes up for one Gleissberg cycle 87 years, of which the first 43,5 years is the mirror of the next 43,5 years.
To try to explain, I give you another example.
http://oi66.tinypic.com/einoz6.jpg
Clearly you can see that the result from the first few decades of the 20th century falls off from the curve? It is because the Gleissberg cycle causes the pendulum to fall down for 43.5 years and then it goes up by 43.5 years.
I have to take a break now, but feel free to ask me more questions.

From NOAA temperature station maintenance teams:

“What’s in that MMTS Beehive Anyway?
…we regularly find various critters making their home inside the beehive. At the Jacksonville, FL, NWS office, we usually replace the beehive on our annual visits. After getting the dirty beehive back to the office, and
before carefully taking it apart for cleaning, we leave it in a secure outside area for a day to let any “residents” inside vacate, then we dunk it in a bucket of water to flush out any reluctant squatters…”

Ocean temperature measuring devices, buoys, ARGO, JASON, etc. are similarly affected, only by different organisms; e.g. algae, barnacles, mollusks, bird droppings, etc.
Each time the instrument used is changed introduces error.
The size of the error is unknown unless there were side by side exacting measurements for several cycles (years). Crude changes to high/low temperatures are equivalent to fresh manure of the foulest origins
Each time a temperature instrument is changed, that is the end of temperature measurement for the previous instrument and the beginning of a new temperature measurement series from the new instrument.
As mentioned in other articles, splicing is improper.
Showing the various temperature series on the same graph is possible so long as each end/begin is clearly demarked.
Each time a temperature station is infested/inhabited by any creatures, that contaminates the temperature record.
Whether it is wasps/bees cooling and warming their nests or chipmunk squatters, the temperatures taken during the infestation are contaminated. There is no possible adjustment!
Wasps/bees cool their nests during the day by helping the structure ventilate and then turn around to warm the nest at night, by vibrating/buzzing to generate warmth.
This brings up the classic comment, “good enough for government work”. But seriously suspect for declaring anomalies/records by fractions of a degree.
Siting temperature stations in poor locations or allowing the local land use to change again, seriously compromises temperature records.
Stations record day/night differences anywhere from a few degrees to over thirty Fahrenheit degrees on any day.
Changes in land use affect these daily and seasonal fluctuations; and as people notice in their car thermometers, UHI can change measured temperatures by multiple degrees.
Adjustments must be based on long term dual measurements tracking the changes by minutes. Again over multiple full cycles.
Our previous discussions, involving Engineers and discussing how error rates are properly carried forward from initial measurement through presentation, included a number of other issues. But reached the same conclusions.
Spliced records are improper and usually invalid.
Adjustments to records should never be performed without full disclosure of all adjustments and reasons for every adjustment. Showing the historical record and then following with a graph of the proposed adjustments is best, so that analysts understand the full impact.
In the real world, changing or adjusting data is wrong and often illegal. When the bank makes an adjustment, they have all metadata, every record and reason for every adjustment. Even then, adjustments are clearly marked in any charts.
When architects design a structure, but the owner or contractors involved decide to change numbers so they can utilize ‘shortcuts’; when discovered, charges and/or fines are applied.
When structures are repeatedly invaded by pests, it is time to devise as impregnable a structure as possible; or perhaps completely revise how temperature is measured.