Massive Temperature Adjustments In Brazil – And Guess In What Direction?
November 22, 2015
tags: Brazil, Temperature Adjustments
By Paul Homewood
A quick update to my post on Brazilian temperature trends.
Ian George spotted that the original trends, based on unadjusted GHCN V2 data, for Quixeramobim, up to 2011, looked like this:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=303825860000&dt=1&ds=1
The current GISS graph, based on GHCN V3 Adjusted data, is:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=303825860000&dt=1&ds=12
[ Good Lord! ]
The adjustments that GHCN have made are massive, and have turned a cooling trend into a rapidly warming one.
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v3/products/stnplots/3/30382586000.gif
Was there anything wrong with the original record? I don’t know, but anybody who claims that they can accurately measure what the temperatures really were is a fraud.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/massive-temperature-adjustments-in-brazil-and-guess-in-what-direction/
John Brydon permalink
November 23, 2015 1:01 am
This may be a naive question but when I have dealt with data sets from transducers in the past and wanted to alter or exclude points because of noise or drift etc. I needed to justify (and defend) in detail my reasons for the changes. Does NOAA provide any such commentary for its changes to the temperature record ?
Paul Homewood permalink*
November 23, 2015 10:49 am
In short, no they don’t
Jim permalink
November 23, 2015 2:29 am
Thank you Paul.
Can there be any legitimate reason for the adjustments?
I would think that these adjustments, made retroactively, would raise all kinds of red flags within NASA/NOAA and it should never get to the point where outsiders find these anomalies.
What is wrong with these people?
QV permalink
November 23, 2015 10:55 am
The problem is, most of the public and politicians, are unaware of these adjustments and just take the published figures at face value.
Climatism permalink
November 23, 2015 8:20 am
Reblogged this on Climatism and commented:
More massive NASA GISS temperature adjustments (tampering)!
Struggling to keep up with what is now a literal widespread cancer of worldwide ‘cooling the past and warming the present’ undertaken by NASA and NOAA to fit their ‘global warming’ narrative.
And the simple question must be asked and cannot be underestimated:
If land-based measurements are so accurate, or ‘more’ accurate than satellite data (according to NASA/NOAA and warmists), why then are massive adjustments required?! |
