MORE COOKING OF THE TEMPERATURE RECORDS ? Another case of data adjustment to turn cooling into warming - this time at Bourke. As reported in todays The Australian .............. Independent research, the results of which have not been disputed by BOM, has shown that, after homogenisation a 0.53C warming in the minimum temperature trend has been increased to a 1.64C warming trend. And a 1.7C cooling trend in the maximum temperature series in the raw data for Bourke has been changed to a slight warming. Queensland researcher Dr. Jennifer Marohasy, who has analysed the Bourke records, says BOM’s analysis is all very well but the largest adjustments, both to maximum temperature series, occurred in the period 1911 and 1915 with a stepdown of about 0.7C, followed by a step-up between 1951 and 1953 of about 0.45C. Of greater concern to Dr Marohasy is that historic high temperatures, such as the record 51.7C recorded on January 3, 1909, were removed from the record on the assumption it was a clerical error. In fact, all the data for Bourke for 40 years before 1910 has been DISCARDED from the official record. If it were there, says Dr Marohasy, the record would show that temperatures were particularly hot during that period. For Mr Cole it is a simple matter of trusting the care and attention of his father. “Why should you change manually created records?” Mr Cole said. “At the moment they (BOM) are saying we have a warming climate but if the old figures are used we have a cooling climate.” theaustralian.au/national-affairs/climate/weathermans-records-detail-heat-that-didnt-happen/story-e6frg6xf-1227041833824
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 03:50:56 +0000
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