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To: i-node who wrote (545555)	1/22/2010 1:06:06 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1576619

NASA Caught in Climate Data Manipulation; New Revelations Headlined on KUSI-TV Climate Special \| SpaceRef - Your Space Reference You can't believe anything James Hansen or the agency he runs NASA's GISS says. NASA Caught in Climate Data Manipulation; New Revelations Headlined on KUSI-TV Climate Special Climate researchers have discovered that NASA researchers improperly manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD." KUSI-TV meteorologist, Weather Channel founder, and iconic weatherman John Coleman will present these findings in a one-hour special airing on KUSI-TV on Jan.14 at 9 p.m. A related report will be made available on the Internet at 6 p.m. EST on January 14th at www.kusi.com. In a new report, computer expert E. Michael SMITH and Certified Consulting Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo discovered extensive manipulation of the temperature data by the U.S. Government's two primary climate centers: the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) in Ashville, North Carolina and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University in New York City. SMITH and D'Aleo accuse these centers of manipulating temperature data to give the appearance of warmer temperatures than actually occurred by trimming the number and location of weather observation stations. The report is available online at icecap.us. The report reveals that there were no actual temperatures left in the computer database when NASA/NCDC proclaimed 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD." The NCDC deleted actual temperatures at thousands of locations throughout the world as it changed to a system of global grid points, each of which is determined by averaging the temperatures of two or more adjacent weather observation stations. So the NCDC grid map contains only averaged, not real temperatures, giving rise to significant doubt that the result is a valid representation of Earth temperatures. The number of actual weather observation points used as a starting point for world average temperatures was reduced from about 6,000 in the 1970s to about 1,000 now. "That leaves much of the world unaccounted for," says D'Aleo. The NCDC data are regularly used by the National Weather Service to declare a given month or year as setting a record for warmth. Such pronouncements are typically made in support of the global warming alarmism agenda. Researchers who support the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also regularly use the NASA/NCDC data, including researchers associated with the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia that is now at the center of the "Climategate" controversy. This problem is only the tip of the iceberg with NCDC data. "For one thing, it is clear that comparing data from previous years, when the final figure was produced by averaging a large number of temperatures, with those of later years, produced from a small temperature base and the grid method, is like comparing apples and oranges," says SMITH. "When the differences between the warmest year in history and the tenth warmest year is less than three quarters of a degree, it becomes silly to rely on such comparisons," added D'Aleo who asserts that the data manipulation is "scientific travesty" that was committed by activist scientists to advance the global warming agenda. SMITH and D'Aleo are both interviewed as part of a report on this study on the television special, "Global Warming: The Other Side" seen at 9 PM on January 14th on KUSI-TV, channel 9/51, San Diego, California. That program can now be viewed via computer at the website kusi.com. The detailed report is available at icecap.us. Web Site: kusi.com

To: i-node who wrote (545555)	1/22/2010 2:37:00 PM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1576619

It is what it is. It is statistically significant when looking at 130 years of data. Over hundreds of thousands of years, the warming amount is not significant. What's more important is to look at the rate of change, the direction of the change, and the root causes of the change. Rate of change: * we know from ice core data over 800,000 years that this is the fastest rate of change in 800,000 years...and it continues to accelerate Direction of change: * it's moving upwards very fast, which means human societies may not be able to adapt quickly enough to avoid very costly impacts, which is why we should care Root causes: * there is credible evidence and the scientific consensus says that CO2 is the main cause and that humans are responsible * the only significant thing about that finding is that, if it is true, then we can do something about it, so that we can avoid the costly impacts from the direction of change