Of Course, More Global Warming Data Fakery Discovered
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 31, 2011
Where's the Global Warming I was promised? H/t Free Dominion
Shameful, but dependably consistent with other bogus AGW data from the warmists.
Telegraph exposes yet another episode of scientific chicanery from those who want us to believe in global warming… this time from the Met office and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit.
That pesky Mother Nature just won’t cooperate with the global warming script as written or reported on by the liberal mainstream media, so scientists in Britain had to step in and adjust some of the data so that it could be claimed that the year 2010 was hotter than it actually was.
Dr Benny Peiser and Dr David Whitehouse, of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), have written to John Hirst, chief executive of the beleaguered Met Office, asking for an explanation of a press release issued by his organisation on January 20 and headed “2010 – a near record year”. This won headlines by claiming that last year was hotter than any other in the past decade.
When the two men examined the original data from which this claim was derived – compiled by the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit and the Met Office’s Hadley Centre – it clearly showed 2010 as having been cooler than 2005 (and 1998) and equal to 2003. It emerged that, for the purposes of the press release, the data had been significantly adjusted.
Comparing the actual data for each year, from 2001 to 2010, with that given in the press release shows that for four years the original figure has been adjusted downwards. Only for 2010 was the data revised upwards, by the largest adjustment of all, allowing the Met Office to claim that 2010 was the hottest year of the decade.
Liar, liar, your pants are on fire…
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