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To: Brumar89 who wrote (78075)	7/6/2017 1:59:20 PM
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Study Finds Temperature Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of Recent Warming’ In Climate Data Sets A new study found adjustments made to global surface temperature readings by scientists in recent years “are totally inconsistent with published and credible U.S. and other temperature data.” “Thus, it is impossible to conclude from the three published GAST data sets that recent years have been the warmest ever – despite current claims of record setting warming,” according to a study published June 27 by two scientists and a veteran statistician. The peer-reviewed study tried to validate current surface temperature datasets managed by NASA, NOAA and the UK’s Met Office, all of which make adjustments to raw thermometer readings. Skeptics of man-made global warming have criticized the adjustments. Climate scientists often apply adjustments to surface temperature thermometers to account for “biases” in the data. The new study doesn’t question the adjustments themselves but notes nearly all of them increase the warming trend. Basically, “cyclical pattern in the earlier reported data has very nearly been ‘adjusted’ out” of temperature readings taken from weather stations, buoys, ships and other sources. In fact, almost all the surface temperature warming adjustments cool past temperatures and warm more current records, increasing the warming trend, according to the study’s authors. “Nearly all of the warming they are now showing are in the adjustments,” Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo, a study co-author, told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. “Each dataset pushed down the 1940s warming and pushed up the current warming.” “You would think that when you make adjustments you’d sometimes get warming and sometimes get cooling. That’s almost never happened,” said D’Aleo, who co-authored the study with statistician James Wallace and Cato Institute climate scientist Craig Idso. Their study found measurements “nearly always exhibited a steeper warming linear trend over its entire history,” which was “nearly always accomplished by systematically removing the previously existing cyclical temperature pattern.” “The conclusive findings of this research are that the three [global average surface temperature] data sets are not a valid representation of reality,” the study found. “In fact, the magnitude of their historical data adjustments, that removed their cyclical temperature patterns, are totally inconsistent with published and credible U.S. and other temperature data.” Based on these results, the study’s authors claim the science underpinning the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gases “is invalidated.” The new study will be included in petitions by conservative groups to the EPA to reconsider the 2009 endangerment finding, which gave the agency its legal authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. thegwpf.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (78075)	7/7/2017 9:21:10 AM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Merkel's Husband Is Sending Ivanka and Melania Trump to Learn About Climate Change By Arne Delfs July 6, 2017, 12:56 PM PDT Ivanka, Melania Trump to tour research lab on G-20 sidelines German leader’s husband hosts spouses at Hamburg summit U.S. First Lady Melania Trump Photographer: Maciej Gillert/Gallo Images Poland via Getty Images As Group of 20 leaders seek to avoid a blowup over the U.S. stance on climate change, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s husband is giving Ivanka Trump a lesson in what it looks like. President Donald Trump’s daughter, First Lady Melania Trump and other spouses of G-20 leaders aren’t just going sightseeing during the global summit in Hamburg, they’re also getting a tour of the German Climate Computing Center on Friday. German officials say the idea for the visit came from Merkel’s husband, Joachim Sauer, a professor of physical and theoretical chemistry. The lab, located near the secured hall where Merkel, Trump and other leaders are meeting, uses supercomputers to model climate change and its effects on the world’s regions. It’s been in operation since 1987 and has more than 60 staff. While the chancellor’s husband hasn’t commented publicly on the purpose of the visit, Merkel has made her stance clear. After Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accord calling it “very unfair” to the U.S., Merkel said the rest of the world wouldn’t be deterred. “We want to tackle this existential challenge and we can’t and we won’t wait until the last person on earth is convinced of the scientific basis for climate change,” Merkel said in a speech on June 29. bloomberg.com