Something intriguing and murky has happened just today over on Anthony Watts’ Climate Blog, Watts Up With That? Mr. Watts, who has been a key player in exposing widespread fraud and corruption among climate scientists and green political activists, has suspended his publishing until this Sunday, pending new developments and a coming “major announcement.” He hints that the announcement will “attract a broad global interest due to its controversial and unprecedented nature.”
There has already been some scattered speculation around the web about what “has happened.” My guess would be a new climategate-type release of information or possibly some new evidence against the character of climate scientist Michael Mann, who produced the famous but discredited “hockeystick chart” that started much of the panic about accelerating atmospheric warming. We’ll know more around noon on Sunday.
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I’ve got some tin foil hat guesses……. Thanks for posting this Grunt!
You’re welcome. Spill your guesses if you get the chance. I’m stumped.
um… nothing I want to say out loud. (adjusts tin foil cape…)
*sneaks up, whispers* nibiru!!!!1!
*scurries away, cackling. . .*
ZOMG!!!1!!1!!! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!
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Well. I learned a new word today. Thanks Zophiel! 😛
Now that’s funny! 😆
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Posted on July 29, 2012 by Anthony Watts
PRESS RELEASE – U.S. Temperature trends show a spurious doubling due to NOAA station siting problems and post measurement adjustments.
Chico, CA July 29th, 2012 – 12 PM PDT – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A reanalysis of U.S. surface station temperatures has been performed using the recently WMO-approved Siting Classification System devised by METEO-France’s Michel Leroy. The new siting classification more accurately characterizes the quality of the location in terms of monitoring long-term spatially representative surface temperature trends. The new analysis demonstrates that reported 1979-2008 U.S. temperature trends are spuriously doubled, with 92% of that over-estimation resulting from erroneous NOAA adjustments of well-sited stations upward. The paper is the first to use the updated siting system which addresses USHCN siting issues and data adjustments.
The new improved assessment, for the years 1979 to 2008, yields a trend of +0.155C per decade from the high quality sites, a +0.248 C per decade trend for poorly sited locations, and a trend of +0.309 C per decade after NOAA adjusts the data. This issue of station siting quality is expected to be an issue with respect to the monitoring of land surface temperature throughout the Global Historical Climate Network and in the BEST network.
Today, a new paper has been released that is the culmination of knowledge gleaned from five years of work by Anthony Watts and the many volunteers and contributors to the SurfaceStations project started in 2007.
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Interesting!
Sounds like the takeaway here, after you distill the science mumbo jumbo, is:
“If the phenomenon only shows up after heavy data manipulation, there is a high chance manipulation of the data is the only phenomenon.”
In other words, take away the fraudulent data “adjustments” which are always made in a way that shows warming, and there’s no longer any sign of actual global warming in the data.
Oh thank you Grunt! I was hoping someone would put it in plain English. I was pretty sure I got the gist of it, but it’s nice to have it in user friendly terms.