Christopher Booker, Telegraph
Following my last article, Homewood checked a swathe of other South American
weather stations around the original three. In each case he found the same
suspicious one-way “adjustments”. First these were made by the US
government’s Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN). They were then
amplified by two of the main official surface records, the Goddard Institute
for Space Studies (Giss) and the National Climate Data Center (NCDC), which
use the warming trends to estimate temperatures across the vast regions of
the Earth where no measurements are taken. Yet these are the very records on
which scientists and politicians rely for their belief in “global warming”. Homewood has now turned his attention to the weather stations across much of
the Arctic, between Canada (51 degrees W) and the heart of Siberia (87
degrees E). Again, in nearly every case, the same one-way adjustments have
been made, to show warming up to 1 degree C or more higher than was
indicated by the data that was actually recorded. This has surprised no one
more than Traust Jonsson, who was long in charge of climate research for the
Iceland met office (and with whom Homewood has been in touch). Jonsson was
amazed to see how the new version completely “disappears” Iceland’s “sea ice
years” around 1970, when a period of extreme cooling almost devastated his
country’s economy.........
Homewood’s interest in the Arctic is partly because the “vanishing” of its
polar ice (and the polar bears) has become such a poster-child for those
trying to persuade us that we are threatened by runaway warming. But he
chose that particular stretch of the Arctic because it is where ice is
affected by warmer water brought in by cyclical shifts in a major Atlantic
current – this last peaked at just the time 75 years ago when Arctic ice
retreated even further than it has done recently. The ice-melt is not caused
by rising global temperatures at all.
Of much more serious significance, however, is the way this wholesale
manipulation of the official temperature record – for reasons GHCN and Giss
have never plausibly explained – has become the real elephant in the room of
the greatest and most costly scare the world has known. This really does
begin to look like one of the greatest scientific scandals of all time."
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