It took about one second with my new software to identify fraud in the handling of the US temperature record. The very first record I looked at showed it..
In NOAA’s adjusted USHCN data set, they mark months which they fabricated data with an “E”. They say that inadequate or no data was available from the station that month.
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/readme.txt
The station at Brewton, Alabama (USC00011084 or USH00011084) is marked (3203EQ) as missing data for August, 1991 with a temperature of 32.93C.
The data is not missing however. The station averaged 29.84C that month, as seen in both the daily and monthly raw data for that month. In fact, the station reported daily temperatures on every single day that month. Scroll the window below to the right to see the eighth month (August.) Links to the NOAA source data are included in the window below.
USH00011084.FLs.52j.tmax (Adjusted monthly) USH0001108411991 1607c 1961 2330e 2690 2895a 3140a 3262e 3203EQ 3130EX 2704EX 1951EX 1849EX USH00011084.raw.tmax (Raw monthly) USH00011084 1991 1558c 1909 2278e 2641 2847a 3096a 3224e 2984 S 2828 2505 1730c 1637 USC00011084.dly (Daily - all 31 days recorded) USC00011084199108TMAX 300 0 311 0 317 0 317 0 322 0 317 0 317 0 311 0 311 0 306 0 311 0 300 0 306 0 300 0 261 0 278 0 283 0 300 0 311 0 300 0 294 0 294 0 294 0 283 0 272 0 283 0 294 0 261 0 300 0 306 0 289 0
NOAA increased the August, 1991 temperature at Brewton, Alabama by more than 2C, based on a fake claim that the data was missing – when both of their other data sets (raw monthly and daily) agreed with each other and showed complete sets of data. A quick scan of the data shows that this is not an isolated incident, as 1992 was even worse.
This replacement of good cool data with warm fake data is being done to almost every single station in the US.
NOAA says their algorithm is working “as designed.” There is no wiggle room here. NOAA has been caught red-handed. How do think they can get away with this?
