NASA Caught in Climate Data Manipulation
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From: Mike Jr on 14 Jan 2010 19:15 "Climate researchers have discovered that NASA researchers improperly manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD." KUSI-TV meteorologist, Weather Channel founder, and iconic weatherman John Coleman will present these findings in a one-hour special airing on KUSI-TV on Jan.14 at 9 p.m. A related report will be made available on the Internet at 6 p.m. EST on January 14th at www.kusi.com. In a new report, computer expert E. Michael Smith and Certified Consulting Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo discovered extensive manipulation of the temperature data by the U.S. Government's two primary climate centers: the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) in Ashville, North Carolina and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University in New York City. Smith and D'Aleo accuse these centers of manipulating temperature data to give the appearance of warmer temperatures than actually occurred by trimming the number and location of weather observation stations. The report is available online at http://icecap.us/images/uploads/NOAAroleinclimategate.pdf. The report reveals that there were no actual temperatures left in the computer database when NASA/NCDC proclaimed 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD." The NCDC deleted actual temperatures at thousands of locations throughout the world as it changed to a system of global grid points, each of which is determined by averaging the temperatures of two or more adjacent weather observation stations. So the NCDC grid map contains only averaged, not real temperatures, giving rise to significant doubt that the result is a valid representation of Earth temperatures. The number of actual weather observation points used as a starting point for world average temperatures was reduced from about 6,000 in the 1970s to about 1,000 now. "That leaves much of the world unaccounted for," says D'Aleo." http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=30000 Average the rural stations in with the heat sink bloated urban stations and voilà! Elevated temperatures. So much for truth, justice, and the American way. Is anybody surprised? --Mike Jr.
From: Sam Wormley on 14 Jan 2010 23:35 On 1/14/10 6:15 PM, Mike Jr wrote: > "Climate researchers have discovered that NASA researchers improperly > manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON > RECORD." 2007 topped that.
From: 7 on 15 Jan 2010 04:05 Sam Wormley wrote: > On 1/14/10 6:15 PM, Mike Jr wrote: >> "Climate researchers have discovered that NASA researchers improperly >> manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON >> RECORD." > > 2007 topped that. By using even fewer data points?
From: Mike Jr on 15 Jan 2010 08:51 On Jan 14, 11:35 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/14/10 6:15 PM, Mike Jr wrote: > > > "Climate researchers have discovered that NASA researchers improperly > > manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON > > RECORD." > > 2007 topped that. Dancing around the point, that being fraud? Or is fraud in the pursuit of the right cause justified? --Mike Jr.
From: Mike Jr on 15 Jan 2010 09:04
On Jan 14, 7:15 pm, Mike Jr <n00s...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > "Climate researchers have discovered that NASA researchers improperly > manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON > RECORD." KUSI-TV meteorologist, Weather Channel founder, and iconic > weatherman John Coleman will present these findings in a one-hour > special airing on KUSI-TV on Jan.14 at 9 p.m. A related report will be > made available on the Internet at 6 p.m. EST on January 14th atwww.kusi.com. > > In a new report, computer expert E. Michael Smith and Certified > Consulting Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo discovered extensive > manipulation of the temperature data by the U.S. Government's two > primary climate centers: the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) in > Ashville, North Carolina and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space > Studies (GISS) at Columbia University in New York City. Smith and > D'Aleo accuse these centers of manipulating temperature data to give > the appearance of warmer temperatures than actually occurred by > trimming the number and location of weather observation stations. The > report is available online athttp://icecap.us/images/uploads/NOAAroleinclimategate.pdf. > > The report reveals that there were no actual temperatures left in the > computer database when NASA/NCDC proclaimed 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR > ON RECORD." The NCDC deleted actual temperatures at thousands of > locations throughout the world as it changed to a system of global > grid points, each of which is determined by averaging the temperatures > of two or more adjacent weather observation stations. So the NCDC grid > map contains only averaged, not real temperatures, giving rise to > significant doubt that the result is a valid representation of Earth > temperatures. > > The number of actual weather observation points used as a starting > point for world average temperatures was reduced from about 6,000 in > the 1970s to about 1,000 now. "That leaves much of the world > unaccounted for," says D'Aleo." > > http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=30000 > > Average the rural stations in with the heat sink bloated urban > stations and voilà! Elevated temperatures. So much for truth, > justice, and the American way. Is anybody surprised? > > --Mike Jr. "Climategate: Leaked Emails Inspired Data Analyses Show Claimed Warming Greatly Exaggerated and NOAA not CRU is Ground Zero (This is a preliminary introduction final much more complete report will be posted here and on SPPI [http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/], which has supported the study shortly) By Joseph DAleo [Certified Consulting Meteorologist] The global data bases have serious problems that render them useless for determining accurate long term temperature trends. Especially since most of the issues produce a warm bias in the data. The Climategate whistleblower proved what those of us dealing with data for decades already knew. The data was degrading and was being manipulated. The IPCC and their supported scientists have worked to remove the pesky Medieval Warm Period, the Little Ice Age, and the period emailer Tom Wigley referred to as the warm 1940s blip. They have also worked to pump up the recent warm cycle that ended in 2001." The rest is here: http://icecap.us/images/uploads/NOAAroleinclimategate.pdf --Mike Jr. |