From: slider@nanashram.com

When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past
30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the
official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html

Two weeks ago, under the headline “How we are being tricked by flawed data
on global warming”, I wrote about Paul Homewood, who, on his Notalotofpeopleknowthat blog, had checked the published temperature graphs
for three weather stations in Paraguay against the temperatures that had originally been recorded. In each instance, the actual trend of 60 years
of data had been dramatically reversed, so that a cooling trend was
changed to one that showed a marked warming.

This was only the latest of many examples of a practice long recognised by expert observers around the world – one that raises an ever larger
question mark over the entire official surface-temperature record.

Following my last article, Homewood checked a swathe of other South
American weather stations around the original three. In each case he found
the same suspicious one-way “adjustments”. First these were made by the US government’s Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN). They were then amplified by two of the main official surface records, the Goddard
Institute for Space Studies (Giss) and the National Climate Data Center
(NCDC), which use the warming trends to estimate temperatures across the
vast regions of the Earth where no measurements are taken. Yet these are
the very records on which scientists and politicians rely for their belief
in “global warming”.

Homewood has now turned his attention to the weather stations across much
of the Arctic, between Canada (51 degrees W) and the heart of Siberia (87 degrees E). Again, in nearly every case, the same one-way adjustments have
been made, to show warming up to 1 degree C or more higher than was
indicated by the data that was actually recorded. This has surprised no
one more than Traust Jonsson, who was long in charge of climate research
for the Iceland met office (and with whom Homewood has been in touch).
Jonsson was amazed to see how the new version completely “disappears” Iceland’s “sea ice years” around 1970, when a period of extreme cooling almost devastated his country’s economy.

One of the first examples of these “adjustments” was exposed in 2007 by
the statistician Steve McIntyre, when he discovered a paper published in
1987 by James Hansen, the scientist (later turned fanatical climate
activist) who for many years ran Giss. Hansen’s original graph showed temperatures in the Arctic as having been much higher around 1940 than at
any time since. But as Homewood reveals in his blog post, “Temperature adjustments transform Arctic history”, Giss has turned this upside down. Arctic temperatures from that time have been lowered so much that that
they are now dwarfed by those of the past 20 years.

Homewood’s interest in the Arctic is partly because the “vanishing” of its
polar ice (and the polar bears) has become such a poster-child for those
trying to persuade us that we are threatened by runaway warming. But he
chose that particular stretch of the Arctic because it is where ice is
affected by warmer water brought in by cyclical shifts in a major Atlantic current – this last peaked at just the time 75 years ago when Arctic ice retreated even further than it has done recently. The ice-melt is not
caused by rising global temperatures at all.

Of much more serious significance, however, is the way this wholesale manipulation of the official temperature record – for reasons GHCN and
Giss have never plausibly explained – has become the real elephant in the room of the greatest and most costly scare the world has known. This
really does begin to look like one of the greatest scientific scandals of
all time.

### - 'fiddling' with the... data? - 'adjustments'??

or just plain FUCKING with it!!!

sounds about riiiight to moi! :D

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)