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Whistleblower: NOAA Scientists Manipulated Temp Data To Make Global Warming Seem Worse
 [Daily Caller] A whistleblower says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rushed a landmark study claiming the planet was warming much faster than expected in order to influence international climate negotiations.Dr. John Bates, the former principal scientist at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., told the Daily Mail NOAA’s 2015 study was meant "to discredit the notion of a global warming hiatus and rush to time the publication of the paper to influence national and international deliberations on climate policy." Bates said NOAA scientists made a "blatant attempt to intensify the impact" of global warming to eliminate the "pause" in temperature rise since 1998. The Daily Mail claims Bates showed it "irrefutable" evidence NOAA’s study relied on "unverified" data. Bates’ objections to the paper were ignored by his superiors, who let scientists make "decisions and scientific choices that maximised warming and minimised documentation" in advance of a major United Nations climate summit in Paris, France. His statement to The Daily Mail comes amid an investigation into the NOAA study by House Republicans on the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the committee’s chairman, subpoenaed NOAA in late 2015 for records related to the so-called "Karl study" that adjusted global sea surface temperature upwards, eliminating the "pause" in global warming since 1998. Smith was heavily ridiculed for subpoenaing NOAA scientists, and the agency refused to hand over any internal deliberations of the "Karl study." The study’s lead author, Tom Karl, has since left NOAA. Posted by: Besoeker 2018-12-03 |
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