The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
has yet again been caught
exaggerating ‘global warming’ by fiddling with the raw temperature data.
This time, that data
concerns the recent record-breaking cold across the northeastern
U.S. which NOAA is trying to erase from history.
If you believe NOAA’s
charts, there was nothing particularly unusual about this winter’s
cold weather which caused sharks to freeze in the ocean
and iguanas to drop out of trees.
Here
is NOAA’s January 2018 chart for Northeast U.S. – an area which includes
New England along with NY, PA, NJ, DE and MD.
(Link to website for chart)
You’d never
guess from it that those regions had just experienced record-breaking cold,
would you?
That’s because, as Paul
Homewood has discovered, NOAA has been cooking the books. Yet
again – presumably for reasons more to do with ideology than meteorology – NOAA
has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent
temperatures to look warmer than they were.
We’re not
talking fractions of a degree, here. The adjustments amount to a whopping 3.1
degrees F. This takes us well beyond the regions of error margins or innocent
mistakes and deep into the realm of fiction and political propaganda.
Homewood first smelt a rat
when he examined the New
York data sets.
He was particularly
puzzled at NOAA’s treatment of the especially cold winter that ravaged New York
in 2013/14, which he describes here:
The cold weather really
began on Jan 2nd, when an Arctic front descended across much of the country,
and extended well into March.
The NWS
wrote at the end of the winter:
The winter of 2013-14 finished
as one of the coldest winters in recent memory for New York State. Snowfall
across Western and North Central New York was above normal for many areas, and
in some locations well above normal. This winter comes on the heels of two
previous mild winters, making the cold and snow this winter feel that much
harsher.
Temperatures this winter finished
below normal every month, and the January through March timeframe finished at
least 4 degrees below normal for the two primary climate stations of Western
New York (Buffalo and Rochester)…..
Relentless cold continued
through the month of January across the region.
So why, he
wondered, did NOAA have this marked down as only the 30th coldest winter (since
1895) on its New York State charts, with a mean temperature of 16.9F?
Homewood
compared the local records for January 1943 and January 2014 – months which,
according to NOAA’s charts, had very similar average temperatures.
What he
found was that NOAA’s charts were deeply inaccurate. The 2014 local
temperatures had been adjusted upwards by NOAA and the 1943 local temperatures
downwards.
He
concludes:
On average
the mean temperatures in Jan 2014 were 2.7F less than in 1943. Yet, according
to NOAA, the difference was only 0.9F.
Somehow,
NOAA has adjusted past temperatures down, relatively, by 1.8F.
Now, Homewood has given
the same
treatment to the most recent Big Freeze – the winter of
2017/2018.
Yet again,
he has found that NOAA’s arbitrary adjustments tell a lie. They claim that
January 2018 was warmer in the New York region than January 1943, when the raw
data from local stations tells us this just isn’t true.
So at the
three sites of Ithaca, Auburn and Geneva, we find that January 2018 was colder
than January 1943 by 1.0, 1.7 and 1.3F respectively.
Yet NOAA
say that the division was 2.1F warmer last month. NOAA’s figure makes last
month at least 3.1F warmer in comparison with 1943 than the actual station data
warrants.
He
concludes:
Clearly
NOAA’s highly homogenised and adjusted version of the Central Lakes temperature
record bears no resemblance at all the the actual station data.
And if this
one division is so badly in error, what confidence can there be that the rest
of the US is any better?
Well
indeed. The key point here is that while NOAA frequently makes these
adjustments to the raw data, it has never offered a convincing explanation as
to why they are necessary. Nor yet, how exactly their adjusted data provides a
more accurate version of the truth than the original data.
One excuse NOAA’s
apologists make is that weather stations are subject to changing environmental
conditions. For example, when the station sited at Syracuse in 1929
was located at what was originally just a sparse aerodrome. Since then,
however, as
Homewood notes, it has grown into a large international airport with
two runways servicing two million passengers a year. Its weather station
readings therefore will certainly have been corrupted by the Urban Heat Island
effect: that is, its temperature readings will have been artificially elevated
by the warmth from the surrounding development and aircraft engines.
So you’d think, wouldn’t
you, that to compensate for this NOAA would adjust the recent
temperatures downwards. Instead, for no obvious reasons, it has adjusted them upwards.
This is a
scandal. NOAA’s climate gatekeepers are political activists not honest
scientists and the U.S. taxpayer has no business funding their propaganda.
Drain the
swamp!
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/20/delingpole-noaa-caught-adjusting-big-freeze-out-of-existence/