Jan
Is the NOAA, not CRU, is ground zero for exaggerated warming data?
Well, well, well. In a new report (read PDF), computer expert E. Michael Smith and Certified Consulting Meteorologist Joseph D’Aleo discovered extensive manipulation of the temperature data by the U.S. Government’s two primary climate centers: the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) in Ashville, North Carolina and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University in New York City. Smith and D’Aleo accuse these centers of manipulating temperature data to give the appearance of warmer temperatures than actually occurred by trimming the number and location of weather observation stations.
[The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] NOAA is seriously complicit in data manipulation and fraud. After the Climategate emails were leaked, the East Anglia Hadley Centre has been the focus for data obstruction, destruction and manipulation issues and Phil Jones has temporarily stepped aside during a three year investigation as director of the Hadley Climatic Research Unit (CRU) until the completion of an independent Review resulting from allegations of inappropriate scientific conduct.
But CRU’s Director at the time Phil Jones acknowledges that CRU mirrors the NOAA data. “Almost all the data we have in the CRU archive is exactly the same as in the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) archive used by the NOAA National Climatic Data Center.”
NOAA appears to play a key role as a data gatherer/gatekeeper for the global data centers at NASA and CRU. Programmer E.M. Smith’s analysis of NOAA’s GHCN found they systematically eliminated 75% of the world’s stations with a clear bias towards removing higher latitude, high altitude and rural locations, all of which had a tendency to be cooler. The thermometers in a sense marched towards the tropics, the sea and to airport tarmacs.
See this discussed on John Coleman’s recent hour long show, “Global Warming: The Other Side.” You can watch the whole thing right here on our site in the article, “Review: Global Warming: The Other Side.”
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- Review: “Global Warming: The Other Side”
- Phil Jones on witness stand before the UK Parliamentary Inquiry on Climategate
- Man who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore now in charge of US Commerce Department’s new climate change office
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Worth looking at WUWT blog on this subject, and watching the vids.
(that’s to anyone just logging on)
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/14/john-colemans-hourlong-news-special-global-warming-the-other-side-now-online-all-five-parts-here/
We’ve got the complete video here:
http://www.climategate.com/global-warming-the-other-side-reviewed
WUWT have several useful links on their page, which may be useful to look at. Regards.
Telegraph (UK) running this too:
Climategate goes American: NOAA, GISS and the mystery of the vanishing weather stations
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100022474/climategate-goes-american-noaa-giss-and-the-mystery-of-the-vanishing-weather-stations/
I think the man you are looking for is Tom Karl, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/about/welcomefromdirector.html
R Pielke Snr has had numerous things to say about Mr Karl over the years, http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/?s=tom+karl&searchsubmit=Find+%C2%BB
As GISS, NOAA and CRU all use the GHCN data from NCDC that Mr Karl produces, that’s the data that ChiefIO has been taking apart.
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/
They also produce the USHCN, newest version shows “some” changes in historical data, try this one, http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=chiefio.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rockyhigh66.org%2Fstuff%2FUSHCN_revisions_wisconsin.htm
Always more to learn….