” First, he made the October 2008 numbers much higher than the actual, by copying the September 2008 readings, for Russia, into the October data.
When that little sleight of hand was detected, he corrected the Russia data, but fudged the Arctic data to compensate, and get about the same global average.
After the second attempt was detected, it seems he gave up trying to manipulate the data (for now). “
I didn’t know of that specific act of data sabotage, although I was aware of the Y2K ‘mistake’ that he made.
we need to not trust what he says or produces at this point. He’s lost all credibility.
cogitator, FYI: Why I dont get impressed by cites of Hansen or those who treat him as an authority. he’s a loose cannon.
The specific act of sabotage was detected by people from wattsupwiththat.com, as well as readers of icecap.us. I will provide the specific links when I get back to the hotel and off my cellphone. Basically, hansen proclaimed that november was the third warmest in recorded history, while the readers of those sites checked the data and noticed that all of the data from siberia was identical to the october numbers. The data was corrected quickly, but the newspaper stories around the world were already out there and not retracted (or blurbed about on page 40D)...on an unrelated note: I travel extensively throughout north america, and I must wonder...if we are above average in temperature, it must have been ridiculously cold 50 years ago all of the time