Via James Delingpole at Breitbart:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has yet again been caught exaggerating ‘global warming’ by fiddling with the raw temperature data.
This time, that data concerns the recent record-breaking cold across the northeastern U.S. which NOAA is trying to erase from history.
If you believe NOAA’s charts, there was nothing particularly unusual about this winter’s cold weather which caused sharks to freeze in the ocean and iguanas to drop out of trees.
Here is NOAA’s January 2018 chart for Northeast U.S. – an area which includes New England along with NY, PA, NJ, DE and MD.
You’d never guess from it that those regions had just experienced record-breaking cold, would you?
That’s because, as Paul Homewood has discovered, NOAA has been cooking the books. Yet again – presumably for reasons more to do with ideology than meteorology – NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.
We’re not talking fractions of a degree, here. The adjustments amount to a whopping 3.1 degrees F. This takes us well beyond the regions of error margins or innocent mistakes and deep into the realm of fiction and political propaganda.
Homewood first smelt a rat when he examined the New York data sets.
He was particularly puzzled at NOAA’s treatment of the especially cold winter that ravaged New York in 2013/14, which he describes here
Full story here.
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Weather forecast data for my local station is routinely warmer than than the actual recorded temperatures. The forecast data gets into the record books. Not the “actual” recorded temperatures.
Why is that?
Argument over minutiae. So I repeat, we are in an interstadial warm period. We should be warm with little ticks up and some down during the peak we are in. Some of these ticks up may be decades long. The downward ticks likewise. We are lucky to live during this period. It is a blessing. Boggles the mind that any human would complain or panic, or believe colder is better or more natural. Those who think this way?
Idiots.
Wasn’t there a similar story out of Australia in the recent couple of years?
Someone figured out that there was a floor in the cold temps for a cold season.
Seasonally adjusted temperatures! YEE HAW, going to be 20C year round, no more cold winter or stifling summer.
I have been disappointed with the Trump’s administration about the inability to audit the NOAA organization and its procedures. You should remember that in composing the global temperatures, they need data outside the USA. It would be very easy to find out, if NOAA has altered the temperature data originating from other national organizations. There have been blogs, which show huge differences between the NOAA and the original data graphs.
oh, it is enough if they first close the GISS, those were adjusting the adjustments… One has to start somewhere…
now i know why we freeze our butts off in tha “hottest year evah”
Well, what do you expect? We live in Adjustocene, this is how ‘science’ works in this era?
Temperature readings need to be adjusted to fit the theory. This is a must. For some small temperature deviations we should not think we are safe and pollute the planet with plant food?
Sea level data need to be adjusted to fit the adjusted temperature data. This is very clear and straightforward. Those pesky satellites would otherwise malfunction.
ARGO – sea temperature data needs to be aligned with temperature and sea level data and thus needs to be adjusted.
Everything must be calibrated, adjusted and aligned, this is ‘science’ where data is adjusted to fit the theory: Adjustocene.
Yup global warming is man-made
It may be time to stop wringing our hands about fixing or “refining” the record. It is a federal crime for a custodian of US government records to willfully and unlawfully mutilate, obliterate, or falsify ” such a record.
Here is the statute. It is a felony.
18 U.S. Code § 2071 – Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally
(a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.
We have a U.S. Attorney General’s office qualified to prosecute this. How about sending a letter.
Absolutely! Go for it. I think that’s an excellent idea – get it all out on the table before a court. Will people go with the decision, though? Would a finding for the plaintiff settle the issue, or just be a sign of the extent of the conspiracy? If there’s a problem, it needs to be addressed.
I have downloaded full sets of GISS temperature anomalies from WFT, some years apart and of course none of the anomalies line up when you sit them side by side in a spreadsheet. Anomalies around the 1800’s are now lower and the more recent anomalies higher. I would assume that WFT would pull data in on a monthly basis in lieu of a total refresh. So I am not sure whether the adjustments are carried out by WFT or GISS?
Oops I meant NOAA not GISS
That’s a BALD FACED LIE by a BALD faced LIAR.
“Nick Stokes February 20, 2018 at 9:43 pm
“Except Jones and Mann who delete it”
Jones and Mann have never been custodians of raw data.”
OK, tell us more. What raw data were they custodians of?
Is it relevant that the NOAA January average temperatures for the Northeast United States, the ones that made the chart in this post, show 1989-2003 at 23.53F and 2004-2018 at 22.97F? So Januarys in the second half of the 30 year climate period 1989-2018 were 0.56F (0.31C) cooler than in the first half.
January max was 32.39F in 1989-2003 and 31.67F in 2004-2018. January min was 14.69F in 1989-2003 and 14.26F in 2004-2018.
For the past 10 years, 2009-2018, the average temp in the US Northeast was 22.46F. In 1906-1915 it was 22.60F. In 1932-1941 it was 22.83F.
Not surprising since winters in much of the northern hemisphere have been getting colder for the last few decades.