So if the polar ice cap isn't melting, what do you think has caused the worldwide rise in sea level? The relentless inundation of coastal areas, such as Miami, NYC, Boston and other low lying metropoli? Trick photography? Conspiracy by the renewable energy cartel?
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 5:17 AM, archer75--- via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > 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. > > 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. > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html > Gerry > ................................... > > > rogerhga--- wrote: > > I'll add a simple tidbit to this discussion. When I was in school many > decades ago, the prevailing scientific view was that the Earth was still > coming out of the last ice age and would be for many more centuries. Now, > these scientists had no money making, vested interest in what the warming > state was. Personally, from the weather I've seen in my lifetime, I still > agree with those scientists that the Earth is still coming out of the last > ice age and will continue to warm. It could be worse and we could be going > back into our next ice age cycle. Although, if Washington DC were covered > with a glacier and the federal government couldn't wreak havoc on our > lives, that might not be a bad thing. Sorry Andrew, you'd have to move to > a warmer, more conservative part of the country or world. > > Like everyone else, this is just my opinion, no more valuable or less > valuable than anyone else's. > > Best Wishes, > > Roger Hale > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. 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