How Gavin Cheated To Create The Required Talking Point
[ Who is Gavin Schmidt? He's the modeler who runs NASA GISS now that James Hansen is retired. Hansen, another modeler, ran GISS from 1981-2014 - yes, 33 years. Before Hansen, GISS had been run from it's founding in 1961, by Robert Jastrow as a "space studies institute" named after Robert Goddard, a rocket scientist), Schmidt job during Hansen's reign was to run the Realclimate propaganda blog.
(Wikipedia below):
NASA named Schmidt to head GISS in June 2014. He stepped into the position left vacant after the retirement of long-time director James E. Hansen, becoming the third person to hold the post. [5] In an interview with Science News, Schmidt said that he wanted to continue the institute's work on climate modeling and to expand its work on climate impacts and astrobiology. [6]
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Schmidt is a founding member and contributor to RealClimate, a blog that provides commentary on climate science for the public and journalists. [10] [11] Participants on the website (aka the hockey team) state that all posts on the site are internally peer reviewed. Many are written by other members, with frequent guest posts from non-member leading scientists. Schmidt's articles and comments on the blog have presented scientific defense against accusations raised in controversies over the hockey stick graph. [12] During the 2009-2010 Climatic Research Unit email controversy he strongly defended the scientists involved, including Michael E. Mann and Phil Jones. .........
Note: After his retirement from NASA, Jastrow cofounded the George Marshall Institute in order to counter the work of the Union of Concerned Scientists and similar leftist perverters of science. Among other things, Jastrow and the GMI was skeptical of catastrophic manmade global warming. ]
Posted on January 18, 2015 by stevengoddard
Gavin quietly says that there is a 62% chance that 2014 was not the warmest year on record, but he had to give his boss a talking point for the State of the Union address this week.
So Gavin simply fabricated warm temperatures across huge areas like Greenland, where he had no actual thermometer data in December.
 
Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis
Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis
Gavin showed much of western Greenland 1-2C above normal, when it was actually 2C below normal. It doesn’t take a lot of that sort of cheating to get temperatures up 0.02 globally.
 
ch_tlt_2014_12_anom_v03_3.png (730×450)
There is only one chance in 27 million that there is a smidgen of truth to the hottest year ever claim.
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