Don't think I have looked at this one before....from JoNova:
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GISS goulash at Gladstone
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Gladstone is half way up the coast of Queensland, and though GISS (the Goddard Institute of Space Studies) can claim it has not “adjusted” the data, it appears to have cherry picked it.
Thanks to Ken Stewart for his detailed attention. The information here and graphs come from his blog.
Here’s how you double the warming trend without “adjusting” the data.
Start with several different records The oldest is the BOM (Bureau of Met) Post Office. The highest is the BOM radar, which stepwise jumps up a whole degree. The last is the BOM Airport, which confirms that the Radar for some reason is 1 degree higher than the rest.
You could drop the BOM Radar figures down to match the other two sets. But, if you wipe out the artificial 1 degree rise in the BOM radar, and if you combined the sets this way, Ken calculates that you only get 0.7 degrees of warming.
Instead of this option, you could go the goulash route and carefully selectively delete the awkward parts, ignore the recent lower data set at the airport completely, and splice the left-overs together like this and get a 1.7 degree trend: Tick that box!
(NB: Assume Gladstone has a local weather cell that’s getting warmer faster than surrounding areas. )
The average trend of the 5 nearest long-record rural sites is 0.8 degrees. Nearby cities of Rockhampton and Bundaberg show adjusted trends of about 0.7 and 0.5 degrees respectively, and Maryborough, ignored by GHCN, shows a trend of 0.4 degrees.
Thus the GISS record for Gladstone is derived from cynically cherry-picked data. The resulting trend of about 1.7 degrees Celsius per Century cannot be justified. The record is false.
If you are James Hansen, it seems you’d choose the goulash. He’s the man responsible for this “trend”.
Does no one have any shame any more? Did they assume that because no one was paid to check their figures that no one would?
A big thank you to Ken, who is doing an excellent job of unpacking the Australian GHCN “trends” on his new blog.
NOTE: The scale on the bottom axis is a little unclear. Ken has noted that the data corresponds with certain years:
“The Post Office from 1909 to 1956 which is dead flat at about 22
degrees; Gladstone Radar from 1958 to 2009, which is immediately 1 degree
warmer, and the Airport from 1994 to 2009, half to 1 degree cooler than
Radar.”"
Great summary from the comments of article at post #22:
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Eddy Aruda:
Well, the hits just keep on rolling for the IPCC, the CRU, GISS and the NCDC. The CRU altered temperature data (Harry Read Me File), GISS and Jim Hansen keep “adjusting” their numbers to show cooling in previous years and warming in recent years (exception: Hansen was caught in a Y2K error and revised his numbers downward, just once), the number of temp reporting stations continues to dwindle and the ones disappearing are at higher latitude and altitude and it seems every time the raw data is released it shows that the data has been fudged to show an exaggerated warming. Oh, and lets not forget the Bolivia effect. In essence, every land based temp data set is fraudulent, period. What is amazing and never mentioned by the useful idiots in the MSM is the fact that when only rural temp stations are used to avoid the urban heat island effect most of the alleged recent warming disappears. As Anthony Watts has shown, well over 80% of the GISS/NOAA temp stations do not meet NOAA standards and the U.S. temp data set is the “gold standard” of the world.
All the hockey sticks are broken and debunked. The Medieval warm period was, despite the best efforts of the AGW propaganda machine to convince us otherwise, global. There are hundreds of peer reviewed papers to prove that the MWP was global. Since temps were higher and CO2 levels were lower there is nothing unusual about the trivial amount of warming that has occurred since the end of the little ice age. Thank God it did warm up! The LIA was also a global event and not confined to Europe, as the AGW propaganda machine would like us to believe. THe Holocene Maximum which occurred during the bronze age was several degrees warmer than today yet CO2 levels were lower. Still, the climate cabal insists that the earth will suffer an apocalypse unless we revert to the peasant lifestyle. Try selling that to the suffering people of sub saharan Africa!
People all over the world are hurting financially because of the Great Recession. When they realize how much was squandered by these so called scientists the climate criminals will need police protection. Of course, if they are indicted and can’t make bail they will be in protective custody in whichever incarceration facility they are confined to. We need to start a pool on who will be the first to roll over and turn states evidence to avoid prosecution. I got “dibbs” on Briffa, although Jones is starting to look like a potential stool pigeon.
Well, I am going to go visit the FOX News website to see if there is another “gate” swinging open. Maybe they should roll all these gates up into one and just call it what it is, a flood gate!