Climategate has alerted the world to what sceptics have known for years – the temperature record has been so tainted by chicanery, poor records and secret adjustment anomalies that it needs an independent enquiry to determine what has really happened to global temperatures.
There are three major problems, all of which have served to give the appearance of more warming than has occurred.
The most notorious problems result from deliberate manipulation, adjustment, cherry picking, and truncation by the Climategate team in UK and USA to produce dramatic but false temperature graphs (starting with the notorious “Hockey Stick” graph).
For a taste of what Climategate is all about listen to:
For info on the Hockey Stick Fraud see:
These revelations alone are sufficient to justify abolition of the discredited IPCC and abandonment of the climate congress in Copenhagen.
More adjustment questions concerning the New Zealand temperature record have been revealed recently by independent investigators.
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The second major problem concerns the temperature recording stations used to create the averages. With the fall of the Soviet Union, many recording stations in frigid Siberia have been abandoned. As these records disappeared, the averages naturally rose, creating an appearance of more global warming than has occurred.
The third problem concerns the lack of adjustment for urban heat bubbles that have expanded to engulf many previously rural temperature recording stations. When truly rural temperature records are examined in Australia, England and USA, the alleged warming disappears.
For Australia see:
For UK see:
For USA see:
Urban warming is real, but it is not caused by the minute trace of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It is caused by concrete, bitumen and buildings heated in the sun, air conditioners pumping heat from buildings onto the streets, and millions of hot bodies with their breathing, motor vehicles, trains, engines, stoves, furnaces and appliances all generating urban heat.
Most of the above problems with the temperature record are reduced or eliminated by recent satellite temperature recording. This shows that global warming stopped over ten years ago, and solar studies suggest this cooling may continue for decades
Before the western world is sacrificed on the decarbonisation altar, we need to have an independent assessment of the selection, treatment, adjustments and presentation of archived temperature data.
Climategate has proved that neither the IPCC nor its world-wide network of paid promoters of alarmism can be trusted to do this.
Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, has spent his life working in exploration, mining, farming, infrastructure, financial analysis and political commentary. He has worked for government departments, private companies and now works as a private contractor and farmer.
Viv has also been a guest writer for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Queensland and mining newspapers. He was awarded the “Australian Adam Smith Award for Services to the Free Society” in 1988, and has written widely on political, technical and economic subjects.
