Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology is less than honest.

In fact, I reckon they’ve been taken over by the True Believers of the global warming scam. When living in Australia it was very obvious to me that their weather site was heavily slanted towards the warmist agenda, so much so that I bombarded them with increasingly plainly-worded emails. To bet met with the usual doublespeak evasions. Here’s the proof:

 

‘AS a child, Ian Cole would watch his father Neville take meticulous readings from the Bureau of Meteorology thermometer at the old post office in the western NSW town of Bourke and send the results through by teleprinter.
The temperature was recorded every three hours, including at night when the mercury sometimes plunged to freezing, and the data was logged in handwritten journals that included special notes to help explain the results.
That all changed in 1996 when the Stevenson Screen, the official measuring equipment, was replaced with an automatic station and moved to an airport site.
The Stevenson Screen went to the dump and, but for fate, the handwritten notes could have gone there too. But without instruction, the records were kept and are now under lock and key, held as physical evidence of what the weather was really doing in the mid-20th century.
These Bourke records have ­assumed a new significance in light of concerns about how historic data is being treated at many sites around the country. The records are also important in an ongoing row that frustrates Mr Cole.
The Bourke cotton farmer may be managing director of the local radio station 2WEB but Mr Cole can only broadcast temperature records that date back to 2000 because the Bureau of Meteorology won’t supply historic records to service provider Weatherzone.
As a result “hottest day on record” doesn’t really mean what it seems. “We keep on being told about records that are not actually records and averages that are not quite right,” Mr Cole said.
Worse still there are concerns about what has happened to the precision of those handwritten records in the earlier years. Bourke now forms part of a network of weather stations used to make up the national record known as ACORN-SAT. The raw temperature records are “homogenised”, a method BOM says has been peer-reviewed as world’s best practice and is used by equivalent meteorological organisations across the world.
Independent research, the ­results of which have not been disputed by BOM, has shown that, after homogenisation, a 0.53C warming in the minimum temperature trend has been increased to a 1.64C warming trend. A 1.7C cooling trend in the maximum temperature series in the raw data for Bourke has been changed to a slight warming.
BOM has rejected any suggestion that it has tampered inappropriately with the numbers. It says the major adjustment to Bourke temperatures relate to “site moves in 1994, 1999 and 1938 as well as 1950s in homogeneities that were detected by neighbour comparison which, based on station photos before and after, may relate to changes in vegetation around the site”.
Queensland researcher Jennifer Marohasy, who has analysed the Bourke records, says BOM’s analysis is all very well but the largest adjustments, both to maximum temperature series, ­occurred in the period 1911 and 1915 with a stepdown of about 0.7C, followed by a step-up between 1951 and 1953 of about 0.45C. Of greater concern to Dr Marohasy is that historic high temperatures, such as the record 51.7C recorded on January 3, 1909, were removed from the record on the assumption it was a clerical error. In fact, all the data for Bourke for 40 years before 1910 has been discarded from the official record. If it were there, says Dr Marohasy, the record would show that temperatures were particularly hot during that period.
For Mr Cole it is a simple matter of trusting the care and attention of his father. “Why should you change manually created records?” Mr Cole said. “At the moment they (BOM) are saying we have a warming climate but if the old figures are used we have a cooling climate.”..’

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20 Responses to Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology is less than honest.

  1. Cadwallader says:

    I don’t think is unique to Queensland. When you are an “expert” in an inexact “science” it is easy to inject a shot or two of voodoo. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_unsure.gif

  2. Michael in Nelson says:

    Our local MP isn’t convinced that there has been a pause in warming for over 17 years. How can science prevail when the facts are denied. The man has a PhD in a physical science too!

    • Ronbo says:

      I wonder if he also believes that the Roman Catholic Church can sell him a ticket to heaven and the world if flat :?: :mrgreen:

      The ignorance and stupidity of the alleged intellectual class of the West World never ceases to amaze me…You’d think in 500 years or so they’d wise up. The only thing that changes for them is a new false god to worship. :roll:

    • Robertv says:

      He/she is in power because of his/her way of thinking. They would sell their mother/father, wife/husband, soul to stay in power. If changing their way of thinking would leave them in power they would change on the spot.

      • Ronbo says:

        This is true for the top ten percent of the Leftist ruling class; however, the lackeys below them actually believe that Global Warming crap.

        These are the “Right Thinkers” – the Outer Party, who transmit the lies of the ruling elites to the Proles. The editor of most big city newspapers “Ministry of Truth” is the perfect example of this creature.

        It’s like George Orwell said in “1984” – the Inner Party knows the truth to the Big Lie…Indeed, they are the author of the Big Lie, which is done, as you say, to maintain their power…Power is the final goal for the Inner Party.

        “We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”

  3. Robertv says:

    We have a cooling climate, that is why the weather got (a little) more extreme.

    http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_cool.gif

  4. mawm says:

    And that increase in severe weather events………
    http://www.newsnet5.com/weather/weather-news/us-hurricane-drought-still-in-record-territory

    …….and heart-felt care about the fate of the Pacific Islands. (The comments are a hoot).
    http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/08/30/Does-no-one-care-about-the-plight-of-drowning-Samoa-Apparently-not

  5. mawm says:

    OT – Those nasty jews….

    Over 30 UN peacekeepers rescued on Syrian Golan
    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4565766,00.html

    75 UN troops flee into Israel to escape Syrian rebels

    http://www.timesofisrael.com/syrian-rebels-attack-un-peacekeepers-in-the-golan/#ixzz3Bv2qk9VJ

    Filipino peacekeepers in Golan Heights trade fire with Syrian rebels

    http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2014/08/30/1363487/filipino-peacekeepers-golan-heights-trade-fire-syrian-rebels

    • Ronbo says:

      Three cheers for the U.N. Filipino troops firing back at the enemy :!: http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

      They must have been trained by either the Aussies or the Americans, because usually the blue helmets bug out when fired upon by hostile forces.http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_good.gif

  6. Ronbo says:

    Now let me get this right – UKIP is the most popular party in Britain, but doesn’t have one seat in the House of Commons :?: :shock: Oh, yes, shortly they get ONE whole seat :!: :shock:

    I thought Britain was a Democracy where the People ruled…It would appear to be an oligarchy like the United States where the Leftist Elites still pull the strings.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2738787/Cameron-faces-Ukip-election-bloodbath-Party-set-win-Commons-seat-shock-poll-reveals-Farages-staggering-44-point-lead-Tories.html