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That the boreal winters have been cooling is pretty much a known fact among researchers.  The reason for this is currently anything but sett...

Monday, May 18, 2015

How to know BEST is wrong about how they adjust the past

While all the surface data is adjusted, BEST is an easy target,  Fish in a barrel actually.

Here is the actual data, from GHCN
Location


Dale Enterprises is a quality controlled station with no changes, aside from adding an electronic sensor in 1995, but they kept the old mercury instruments as well.

This is what Watts showed in 2010, about the USHCN adjustments

Here is the current GHCN adjustment, using the BOM tool

Compared to the actual data



And here is what BEST did to the data




Just awful "science" at work there.  Instead of using a quality station to adjust the bad stations, they adjust the good station to match the bad ones.

Here's a nearby bad station moved next to water treatment plant, showing a drastic increase in the trend.






Google maps of water treatment plant where that station rests.

BEST and the rest of the data analysis adjusted the good station, not the bad ones.They are wrong, but they probably don't even know it.











Sunday, April 26, 2015

Richard Muller was never skeptical?

Really?

By Richard Muller on December 17, 2003

Let me be clear. My own reading of the literature and study of paleoclimate suggests strongly that carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels will prove to be the greatest pollutant of human history. It is likely to have severe and detrimental effects on global climate. I would love to believe that the results of Mann et al. are correct, and that the last few years have been the warmest in a millennium.
Archived here (the page is excluded from the archive.org)
11/03/11
“It is ironic if some people treat me as a traitor, since I was never a skeptic”

Archived here

That is strange.

Friday, February 6, 2015

Just another little deception by the LA Times

The headline isn't actually a complete lie,
Satellite images show a greener California but a shrinking snowpack
but the take away message, hammered home by the images is clear. The thing is, it's not the whole story at all.

So little snow!  Of course they cherry picked the 2014 image to make it look bad in 2015, but a quick check of the actual data reveals the deception.  They used Feb 1 2014, because it was right after a heavy snowfall.  Looking at the snow using Worldviewer makes it pretty clear that it's a deceptive tactic.

Jan 2014 
Jan 2015

Jan 2014

Jan 2015


Image source Wolrdviewer Jan 2015 Jan 2014

An update later in February should really hammerpunch this home.  Not that the facts will matter at all.