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To: Brumar89 who wrote (74083)	1/8/2017 6:13:05 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 86355

Systematic Destruction Of The Temperature Record Since 2000 Posted on January 7, 2017 by tonyheller There was plenty of data tampering to the temperature record prior to the year 2000, but since the year 2000 the tampering has become very systematic and cynical. Gavin Schmidt at NASA has more than doubled global warming by altering his own temperature data since 2000. NASA data Note the spectacular hockey stick of data tampering since the year 2000. This presents a huge problem for Gavin, because satellite temperatures show little or no warming since the year 2000. Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs Furthermore, Gavin is continuously tampering with data to make his hockey stick of temperature fraud even worse. Not the upwards change since before the election. Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs Satellite data from RSS shows earth cooling at the fastest rate on record over the last ten months This graph shows the current temperature anomaly minus the anomaly ten months earlier. RSS_TS_channel_TLT_Global_Land_And_Sea_v03_3.txt Carl Mears at RSS has come to Gavin’s rescue however, by telling people not to use his lower troposphere data, and instead use his TTT data set which reaches all the way up to 50,000 feet – where temperatures are about minus 100 degrees. ?images.remss.com/papers/rsstech/Jan_5_2017_news_release.pdf Carl’s new TTT data set shows a lot more warming than the lower troposphere data. RSS / MSU and AMSU Data / Time Series Trend Browser We see the same systematic hockey stick of data alteration, in an effort to make satellite data match Gavin’s altered temperature data. ?TLT TTT Are Carl Mears’ changes legitimate? A good way to test them is to compare versus radiosonde data of the troposphere. Unfortunately NOAA has done exactly the same data tampering to the radiosonde data. Their original radiosonde data showed only 0.2C warming since 1958, so they altered it to produce 0.8C warming. Original data Altered data Once again, we see the same hockey stick of data tampering to bring radiosonde data in line with Gavin’s highly altered temperature data. And NOAA has done exactly the same thing with US temperature data. It didn’t match the altered global temperature data, so NOAA altered US temperatures to make them match fake global temperatures. Adjusted Data Raw Data Again, we see the same hockey stick of data tampering. All of the data sets have been massively tampered with since the year 2000, in an effort to bring them in line with the tampered NASA data set. And this doesn’t even include the massive tampering done prior to the year 2000 to erase the 1940’s temperature spike, and post-1940’s global cooling. 14 Jul 1974, Page 1 – Lincoln Evening Journal All of this data tampering was committed intentionally, and in collusion between agencies. ?di2.nu/foia/1254108338.txt

To: Brumar89 who wrote (74083)	1/10/2017 8:06:15 AM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Climate change scepticism Climate Consensus - the 97% Conservative media can't stop denying there was no global warming 'pause' In the Spectator, the GWPF keeps denying facts and reality July 2016 Was the Hottest Month on Record In 136 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Photograph: GISS/NASA Dana Nuccitelli Tuesday 10 January 2017 06.00 EST Last modified on Tuesday 10 January 2017 06.02 EST Scientists have proven time and time again that global warming continues unabated. Most recently, a study published last week showed that over the past two decades, the oceans have warmed faster than prior estimates. This study affirmed the findings of a 2015 NOAA paper – not surprisingly attacked by deniers – that removed a cool bias in the data, finding there never was a global warming “pause.” This particular myth has been a favorite of deniers over the past decade for one simple reason – if people can be convinced that global warming stopped, they won’t consider it a threat that we need to urgently address by cutting fossil fuel consumption. It’s thus become one of the most common myths peddled by carbon polluters and their allies. One of those allies is the anti-climate policy advocacy group Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which tries to make the case that aggressive climate policy isn’t needed. This weekend, its “science” editor David Whitehouse wrote for the conservative UK Spectator periodical – which often promotes climate denial – denying that the “pause” is dead: their case rests on the El Nino temperature increase and will be destroyed when the El Nino subsides, as it is currently doing. A temporary victory over the ‘pause’. The ‘pause’ can be accommodated into global warming – but not for very much longer. The world’s temperature has to increase outside the El Nino effect. Testing the myth If Whitehouse is correct and temperatures are not increasing outside the El Niño effect, then 2015 and 2016 should be no hotter than previous El Niño years. It’s a relatively simple test to run. In the video below, I’ve broken out the temperature data into years with an El Niño warming influence, years with a La Niña cooling influence, and neutral years. Climate model-data comparisons Video youtube.com Global surface temperature data 1966-2016 from NASA GISS, broken out by years with El Niño warming influence, La Niña cooling, or neutral, with linear trends for each category. Created by Dana Nuccitelli. Whitehouse’s argument immediately crumbles. Among just El Niño years over the past five decades, there’s a 0.18°C per decade warming trend. Among La Niña years it’s also 0.18°C per decade, and among neutral years it’s 0.16°C per decade. And recent years aren’t falling below the long-term trend lines. In fact, 2016 is well above the El Niño trend line, as was 1998, because both saw particularly strong El Niño events. However, 2016 was 0.35°C hotter than 1998. How is it that the “pause” supposedly started in 1998, any subsequent warming is supposedly due to El Niño, and yet 2016 was 0.35°C hotter than 1998? The answer is that global warming has continued unabated over the past 18 years. There are of course natural temperature influences superimposed on top of that human-caused warming trend. It just so happens that 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2012 were all influenced by La Niña cooling, which along with some other factors, acted to temporarily dampen the warming. But those La Niña years were about 0.2°C warmer than the La Niña years around the turn of the century. That’s because human-caused global warming has continued to push temperatures higher, despite cherry picked arguments to the contrary. The Escalator video youtube.com The Escalator graphic: global surface temperature data since 1970 broken into seven “pauses”, with the long-term human-caused global warming trend shown at the end. Created by Dana Nuccitelli with data from NASA GISS. The faux pause was debunked before 2015 Whitehouse’s argument also falls apart because scientists debunked the faux pause myth before the El Niño of 2015–2016. For example, in the summer of 2015, Grant Foster and John Abraham published a paper showing that there was no statistical evidence of a pause: A barrage of statistical tests was applied to global surface temperature time series to search for evidence of any significant departure from a linear increase at constant rate since 1970. In every case, the analysis not only failed to establish a trend change with statistical significance, it failed by a wide margin. A few months later, a study by Stephen Lewandowsky, James Risbey, and Naomi Oreskes showed that not only did the myth lack statistical support, but in a blind test, economists found “pause” claims “misleading and ill-informed.” In fact, by late 2015, at least six papers had been published debunking this myth. The record-shattering hot temperatures of 2015 and 2016 were simply more nails in its coffin. It’s a coffin with so many nails it’s hard to find room for more. Why won’t this myth stay dead? It’s difficult to fathom why deniers don’t just move on to peddling other less transparent climate myths, but the sad reality is that these myths are like zombies. They never die. Just last week I suggested that deniers will soon reset the myth to “no warming since 2016,” but apparently I gave them too much credit. They won’t even admit the fact that human-caused global warming raised the Earth’s surface temperature 0.35°C since 1998. But as I keep repeating, facts matter, and people who continue to deny reality in the face of evidence and facts should no longer be considered credible. If the GWPF and Spectator keep peddling such obvious falsehoods, they should simply be ignored. theguardian.com