Feb
Czechgate: Climate scientists dump world’s second oldest ‘cold’ climate record
The latest independent analysis of world climate data by acclaimed skeptic blogger ‘Chiefio’ (aka E. M. Smith) and his blog contributors confirm that the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) has cynically dumped the world’s second oldest and reliable climate record at Prague in the Czech Republic for no scientific reason.
Climate skeptics claim the censoring of the Czech’s raw data has been perpetrated by climate scientists because the Prague records prove there has been no warming in Europe for over two hundred years.
Bloggers found that GHCN, based at Arizona State University, also cut out Prague’s warm 1940’s as it would make recent warming look unexceptional. This process of adjusting raw data by climatologists (almost always upwards) is known as ‘homogenization.’ Skeptics then found that climatologists had replaced the original Prague dataset from 1949 with a homogenized warmer series from another weather station in Praha/Ruzyne even though Prague had never stopped taking temperature readings.
Skeptic analysts are outraged because, after the Central England Temperature Record, the Czech records are the second oldest continous and reliable temperature record in the world and are known as the Central European Temperature Record. The data set has been kept uninterrupted since 1775 in Praha-Klementinum (Prague).
Interested readers looking to verify for themselves this outrageous deceit can check the records here, then search for “Praha/Ruzyne.“ The real Praha/Klementinum data may be found for the period 1770 to 2009 here.
From plain reading of the Czech data we see that for the past 200 years the temperature in this part of central Europe has warmed by a statistically insignificant 0.25° Centigrade per century.
The Prague raw temperatures correlate perfectly with those of the world’s oldest climate data set, found in the Central England Temperature Record (CET) that has been running continuously for 351 years.
Thus, the two oldest and most reliable raw thermometer records in the world are telling us there is not a shred of real world evidence to show any significant global warming. Rather, it the homogenized or faked data created artificially by climatologists in their laboratories that is consistently being shown as the source of such ‘warming.’
Source: Chiefo
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John do they explain why stations or records are dumped? Climate Audit or WUWT had info on 100′s of stations they’ve also dropped. There seems to be very little checking on these folks.
Tom, good question. Chiefio tells us that there are two general reasons given by GHCN for dropping stations:
(1.) “ thermometer ‘drops’ were / are entirely an artifact of GHCN being a creation at a historical moment in time (i.e. made in 1990’s era so that’s why they drop out then in The Great Dying of Thermometers – which itself ignores The Lesser Dying in 2006).”
(2.) GHCN use the “ excuse of things being dropped for not electronically reporting is pretty much a lie, too. I note that Dallas Fort Worth Airport is on this list and I’m pretty sure they have electronic reporting… From the NASA / GISS web site, as confirmation.”
( see second and third paras. @ http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/2010-thermometer-langoliers-hit-list/#comment-3406 )
Hi John, If they are dropping stations for not electronically reporting then they are probably telling the truth. When you have stations which electronically report, they were once non electronic. The change from non-electronic to electronic comes with another adjustment which falsely causes the record to increase. In the original USHCN and GHCN this was the MMTS adjustment. Now that they have gone to automated homogenization, the automated algorithm makes the same error in adjusting max temps. By completely eliminating the older non-electronic boxes, they will ensure that 100% of temperature records contain that error, thus eliminating or neutralizing the current global cooling.
Mike, I’m sure we would all agree, from the sum of the evidence we’ve found since Climategate, that the entire ‘homogenized’ data sets used by the three global temp. trustees are imponderably confused and unreliable. They are riddled with inexplicable fudging, as was first revealed by the leaked ‘Harry_Read_Me.exe’ file. Until 100% of the metadata is in the public domain we can only guess at how exactly the final numbers were defined. But, as we are seeing from the raw numbers from the CET and Klementinum, two pristine century’s old data sets, something has gone seriously awry somewhere with NOAA, GISS and CRU. The raw data just doesn’t show ANY man made warming signal.
Man. If I was a criminal, I would NOT want John on my trail!
I agree Joe. John is a cross between a razor and a pitbull. Just what it takes to see it through. I wonder if the Congress which is paying for all of this crud with our dime ever orders an independent audit? That gives me an idea…. most federal departments have an Inspector General to handle complaints of malfeaseance. They are usually independent. I’ll see if I can get an investigation launched. Thanks for the info John.
Thank you, John!
Wow! Just wow! I am very happy I found this site. Got here through a link on Lubos Motl’s site, The Reference Frame. http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/02/climate-czechgate-pragues-klementinum.html#more
It is good to see some people know of ways to take legal action against these frauds. It is way past time for it. Thank you John Sullivan.
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