Henry Paulson is now out of his multi million retirement to encourage us to all get on the climate change bandwagon.
Yet this revelation that the climate change data is being manipulated, going back to the 1930s in order to make the climate change computer data work.
Goddard shows how, in recent years, NOAA’s US Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) has been “adjusting” its record by replacing real temperatures with data “fabricated” by computer models. The effect of this has been to downgrade earlier temperatures and to exaggerate those from recent decades, to give the impression that the Earth has been warming up much more than is justified by the actual data. In several posts headed “Data tampering at USHCN/GISS”, Goddard compares the currently published temperature graphs with those based only on temperatures measured at the time. These show that the US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record; whereas the latest graph, nearly half of it based on “fabricated” data, shows it to have been warming at a rate equivalent to more than 3 degrees centigrade per century.
Lem's Place quotes some Orwell: “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
I'd like to know more about the particular adjustments made to the raw data and the reasons for them. Obviously it looks suspicious, but OTOH maybe this is what comes out of a standard formula for constructing a composite of surface temp readings, ocean temp readings, tree ring data and the like.
ReplyDeleteNot a lot of info at that blog.
Henry Paulson's motivation seems more on what's good for Goldman Sachs is good for the nation, or at least good for guys who used to work at GS.
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