People just weren’t smart enough during the 1960s to know how to read a thermometer correctly.
Oddly enough, Jimmy and Tommy didn’t recognize the need to tamper with data for many years – until they realized that temperatures were going the wrong direction.
So…………how many years has the National Weather Service been using Min/Max thermometers?
The only correction these agencies need to do is for UHI. Noaa does nada, Nasa does a smidge, and the rest either do a smidge or nothing.
Without their phony adjustments and not properly correcting for UHI, we are cooler than we were in the early 40’s.
Anyone remember when McIntyre found the Y2K2000 bug in the Nasa data set that placed 1934 as the hottest year? Hansen and friends just changed how the data set was adjusted and POOF! 1997 returned as the hottest year.
This whole AGW is a scam. How much of our money has been wasted? We are probably close to $100B by now. Maybe someone else has an idea how much has been wasted brainwashing our present and future leaders.
An absolutely breathtaking waste of resources.
If climate is such a concern, and I heartily think it isn’t from examining the evidence, then we should have spent the money on better monitoring and measurement systems. More satellite observations; more temperature readings. I think ARGO was a pretty good idea if only in spirit – really a bit Quixotic considering the immensity of the oceans (think Nyquist sampling error…). But that IMHO is where the something like 80-100 billion the US has already spent should have gone; instead of down a rat-hole lining the pockets of a narrow group of media/politically savvy charlatans.
Oh and the computer modeling? Informs us of computer power and lack thereof, informs us of confirmation bias, informs us not at all about climate.
JONOVA has tracked the US money some time back and totaled it up at 79 billion and that was awhile ago. Our scientifically illiterate, dishonest POTUS is shoveling greenbacks to his, shall we say, constituents, as fast as he can; so a rough estimate of 100 billion is not far-fetched; probably pretty close. And that figure doesn’t even take into account all the legitimate business activity this scam has destroyed. Probably a generous multiple of 100 billion.
All that money and all we got were corruptions of historical temperature data and some phoney-baloney computer gibberish. My God we have been scammed, conned, and robbed.
The AGW NH ice lobby is really in trouble
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
Also, old thermometer records are ignored since the thermometers were too crude back in the 1600s:
http://www.animato.com.au/knowledge/images/antonio_stradivari.jpg
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