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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Whistleblower: NOAA Scientists Manipulated Temp Data To Make Global Warming Seem Worse

2018-12-03

[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

#7 NOAA has twice been caught changing the raw temp data sets. Sorry but when you start doing that, you are not doing science. Put your bill on and start going "Quack, quack, quack"

Manipulate #'s all you want. But to do science you have to start with the raw and explain the how and why for each step of manipulation. You don't just change the raw and then start from there. It's funny when you actually explain that to people and make them cudgle their brain or google how science experiments really work. Then you see the flickers of doubt before the dogma wall comes crashing back down and they resort to reciting dogma again.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2018-12-03 21:48

#6 #2 We are currently headed into a weak but otherwise routine "11 year" sunspot minimum. During the Maunder minimum the sunspot cycle collapsed for 100+ years.

I don't believe in CAGW. Dr Svenmark's "sunspot" theory makes much more sense. I'm hoping for no more than a Dalton minimum (Napoleon marching on Moscow cold) not a Maunder Minimum (Skating on the Thames/London frostfair cold)

Posted by: The peanut gallery 2018-12-03 19:20

#5 You are so right TW. Makes me think of the old "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" Chiffon margarine commercials.

Posted by: Warthog 2018-12-03 13:31

#4 That or extreme incompetence is the only explanation for their results. Either of them should result in a firing and a complete remediation of their data.

The Earth's climate is changing. Just as it has since we first developed an atmosphere and as it will until the sun fries us to a cinder in 4.5 billion years. Both the sun and the orbit wobbles of the planet will see to changes. But you can't blame humans for them and then try to tax his ass into stone age socialism for them. So we get what we see here.

Posted by: DarthVader 2018-12-03 10:22

#3 ^^^This. The lovely thing about science is that even if no one checks the data, eventually reality makes itself painfully obvious.

It is nice when someone takes it upon himself to rush the process, though. And it’s become clear that the field of climate science is well-seeded with honest researchers, despite the best efforts of propagandists controlling the high places.

Posted by: trailing wife 2018-12-03 10:12

#2 Plenty of evidence to indicate that we are in fact getting ready to enter a new Maunder Minimum...at least as bad and maybe much worse. The winter of 2018-2019 will tell the tale.
Lack of sunspots and magnetic anomalies point to what amounts to a new ice age.

Posted by: Warthog 2018-12-03 09:42

#1 "In a testament to his scientific integrity and contributions to climate science, Dr. John Holdren, President Obama’s Science Adviser, appointed Tom [Karl]as Chair of the SGCR, which oversees USGCRP, in 2010. During Tom’s six years as Chair, USGCRP released the Third National Climate Assessment and its current 10-year Strategic Plan, which reflected a greater focus on decision support, sustained scientific assessment, and engagement, supported by USGCRP’s longstanding strength in fundamental global change research."

Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 2018-12-03 08:47

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