More Faking of the Surface Temperature Record
6th February 2018
We have written many times about the fact that the Earth’s surface temperature record has been so badly corrupted that it is impossible to say whether claims like “2017 was the third-warmest year since thermometers became common in the late 19th century” are true. Temperature records are under the control of agencies like NOAA, which in turn are run by people whose careers are heavily invested in the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming theory.
This is a conflict of interest. It is as though I, when I was a lawyer representing parties in lawsuits, had the option of rewriting the documents on which the case is based, so as to favor my client. Would I have been able to resist that temptation? Well, maybe. But NOAA doesn’t. Over and over again, we find that the temperature records from decades ago have been changed, with no explanation and no transparency. We have documented this fact around the world, and always the “adjustments” are in the same direction–temperatures from decades ago are lowered, and recent temperatures are raised.
Bad data make bad models, and corrupt data make corrupt models. I don’t accept the existence of Global Warming any more than I accept the existence of the Soviet Union as a Heaven on Earth for Workers and Peasants, for exactly the same reason: An assertion supported only by tendentious lies is a tendentious lie.
February 8th, 2018 at 19:57
Don’t forget all the places where they put the official thermometer in the waste heat outflow from the air conditioners.