Gavin Schmidt at NASA likes making headlines with claims like Earth is hottest ever by 0.02 degrees.
Nasa climate scientists: We said 2014 was the warmest but we’re only 38% sure | Daily Mail Online
When confronted with the fact he is adjusting temperatures by as much as 100 times more than his claimed record, Gavin angrily responds that he can’t be held accountable for the fraudulent data he publishes.
The Canberra Times has firmly established themselves as a leading anti-science newspaper by claiming the adjustments NASA is making to the Icelandic temperature record are legitimate.
The adjustments aren’t legitimate. As of 2014, NASA had completed wiped out the well documented 1940’s warmth and subsequent cooling at Reykjavik, by lowering 1940 temperatures more than 2C..
The person in charge at the Icelandic Met Office said four years ago : The GHCN “corrections” are grossly in error in the case of Reykjavik.
Many journalists like Peter Hannam at the Canberra Times are stuck in the 16th century mentality of attacking people they view as heretics, are too lazy to do any actual research, and too corrupt to give the target of their hit pieces the opportunity to respond.
Yesterday I reported on the nonsensical claim in the Canberra Times that NASA/NCDC temperature data tampering at Vestmannaeyia, Iceland was due to a station shift in 1921. There is no evidence of any discontinuity at 1921 in the current version of NASA graphs, and no evidence that the massive pre-1970 adjustments can be accounted for by it.
Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis
But this story is worse than it seems. Prior versions of Gavin’s tampering looked completely different. Gavin erases older versions of his graphs and blocks archiving, but here is a version of the NASA graph I captured sometime around 2014. It showed that the NASA data tampering had nothing to do with 1921.
When confronted with his 1.5C data tampering, Gavin Schmidt (who reports global temperatures within 0.01C) simply says he doesn’t know anything about the adjustments, and blames NOAA.
Note that Gavin adjustments are 150 times larger than his reported precision. No one would get away with this in any other field of “science.” The 1940’s warmth was removed simply because government climate scientists wanted it gone, as exposed in this Climategate E-mail.
Archived version of http://di2.nu/foia/1254108338.txt
After telling us for months that elections can’t be hacked, progressives are now convinced that the election was hacked.
No, the 2016 presidential election can’t be hacked – CNNPolitics.com
Apparently their strategy of threating to kill electors didn’t work, so now they want fake recounts in swing states where they have no evidence that any hacking occurred.
Citing ‘reported hacks,’ Jill Stein says she’ll file for recounts in three states – POLITICO
Threatening electors and burning cities is what Hillary Clinton described as “going high.”
The New York Times has warned Trump his golf courses are threatened by sea level rise.
Here’s What Trump Really Told NYT About Global Warming | The Daily Caller
I was at the beautiful Trump International Golf Club in Aberdeenshire this summer, and it is only 30 feet above sea level. According to NOAA, sea level is rising there at 0.72 mm/year, which means the course is doomed in only 10,000 years.
Long before high school dropout Leo DiCaprio took control of the climate, Richard Harris decreed a prefect climate for Camelot on every day of the year.
The Guardian reports that two of the top receipients of Obama climate scam money are upset that Trump is cutting them off.
Michael Spencer clicked on an ad on my blog, and this came up.
Two days ago I reported on Trausti Jónsson of the Icelandic Met Office reversing his long established complaints about NASA/NCDC temperature adjustments in Iceland. After being a vocal critic of the adjustments for years, he suddenly reversed roles and allowed himself to be used in a Canberra Times hit piece on Senator Malcolm Roberts, who had asked Gavin Schmidt for an explanation of the adjustments being made in Iceland. Apparently progressives don’t believe that Senators should be allowed to ask questions of public servants.
“During this early period there was a large daytime bias in the temperature data from Iceland as presented in this publication,” which accounted for much of the “discrepancy” at Teigarhorn and less so at Vestmannaeyjar, Mr Jonsoon said.
For the latter station, it was relocated in October 1921 to a higher elevation. “Comparative measurements at both sites have shown that the later location is about 0.7 degrees Celsius colder than the former – this relocation has to be ‘adjusted’ for,” he said.
“I assure you that these adjustments are absolutely necessary and well founded although the finer details of the resulting series shown in your letter differ slightly from my own version,” he told Senator Roberts.
NASA chief slaps down climate sceptic senator Malcolm Roberts: ‘You hold a number of misconceptions’
Previously Jónsson had flat out rejected the GHCN “corrections.”
c) Does the Met Office accept that their own temperature data is in error, and that the corrections applied by GHCN are both valid and of the correct value? If so, why?The GHCN “corrections” are grossly in error in the case of Reykjavik but not quite as bad for the other stations. But we will have a better look. We do not accept these “corrections”.d) Does the Met Office intend to modify their own temperature records in line with GHCN?
No.Another GISS miss, this time in Iceland | Watts Up With That?
Then Gavin ramped up the lies even further.
Dr Schmidt said the Arctic was “not so much” the target of data critics.
That was quite a whopper. But for now let’s look at the Vestmanneyia station more closely. How does a 1921 station shift explain that many of the NCDC adjustments after 1921 are just as large or larger than before 1921? The 1926 adjustment was just as large as the 1917 adjustment. The explanation given in the Canberra Times provides no answers for the massive post-1921 adjustments. It was just blowing smoke.
Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis
Icelandgate is going to be a huge scandal, and I will be pressing it moving forwards.
Scientists and the press have been claiming that the different surface temperature data sets showing record heat are independent.
2015 declared the hottest year on record : Nature News & Comment
Gavin just admitted to Senator Roberts that they aren’t. They all come from NOAA.
They not only are not independent, but they are all wrong.
Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs
We need to bring this scam to an end.
