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January 16, 2010

Scientist says feds manipulated data (to push global warming agenda)

Interesting but no surprise. WND reports on what amounts to a one-two series of Climategate aftershocks that assuredly will further rattle the global warming community, U.S. researchers have issued a report accusing government agencies of cherry-picking temperature readings used to assess global temperatures. Apparently, the agencies have been eliminating the reporting points in the coldest regions and adding reporting points in the warmest regions.

Here are some of the troubling excerpts:

[...] an analysis by San Jose computer programmer E.M. Smith of the data "found they systematically eliminated 75 percent of the world's stations with a clear bias towards removing higher latitude, high altitude and rural locations."

[...] "The thermometers in a sense marched towards the tropics, the sea and to airport tarmacs," he said.

For example, the report said the number of reporting stations in Canada dropped from 600 to 35 with the percentage of stations at lower elevations tripling while the numbers of those at higher elevations plummeted.

Further, a vast majority of the climate stations reporting in the U.S. were either poorly or very poorly sited, taking temperature readings from paved driveways, in a waste treatment facility, on rooftops or near the exhaust from idling jet engines, rather than in open areas.

Stations in such locations as the Andes and Bolivia have virtually vanished, meaning that temperatures for those areas now are "determined by interpolation from stations hundreds of miles away on the coast or in the Amazon."

[...] "This would indicate a deliberate attempt to create a warm bias on the part of NOAA because in calculating the average temperatures in this way it would ensure that the global average temperature for each month and year would now show a positive temperature anomaly," the report said.

Such anomalies, it added, make climate reports based on those figures simply unreliable.

"You can trust in the data that shows there has been warming from 1979 to 1998, just as there was warming the around 1920 to 1940. But there has been cooling from 1940 to the late 1970s and since 2001. It is the long term trend on which this cyclical pattern is superimposed that is exaggerated," the report said. (emphasis mine)

If all this is true, and so far there's little reason to doubt it after reading the entire article, some people's asses need to be hung out to dry and Congress should be taking the Obama administration to task for hyping global warming as an excuse to push cap-and-trade to essentially wreck our economy and enhance their Marxist agenda.

Posted by Abdul at January 16, 2010 10:20 AM

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