Were World Leaders Duped Over Manipulated Global Warming Data?

By Jack Dini —— Bio and Archives February 9, 2017

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The world's leading source of climate data rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming and was timed to influence the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change reports David Rose. ¹ A high-level whistle blower reported that America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) breached its own rules on scientific integrity when it published a sensational but flawed report, aimed at making the maximum possible impact on world leaders including Barack Obama and David Cameron at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015.

The report claimed that the 'pause ' or 'slowdown' in global warming in the period since 1998--revealed by UN scientists in 2013--never existed, and that world temperatures had been rising faster than scientists had expected. Launched by NOAA with a public relations fanfare, it was splashed across the world's media, and cited repeatedly buy politicians and policy makers. ¹ But the whistle blower, Dr. John Bates, a top NOAA scientist with impeccable reputation, has shown irrefutable evidence that the paper was based on misleading 'unverified' data. Also, it was never subjected to NOAA's rigorous internal process which Dr. Bates devised. ² His vehement objections to the publication of the faulty data were overridden by his NOAA superiors in what he describes as a 'blatant attempt to intensify the impact' of what became know as the Pausebuster paper. His disclosures are likely to stiffen President Trump's determination to enact pledges to reverse his predecessor's 'green' policies, and to withdraw from the Paris deal. ¹ Anthony Watts reports, "In an exclusive interview, Dr. Bates accused the lead author of the paper Thomas Karl, who was until last year director of the NOAA section that produces climate data of insisting on decisions and scientific choices that maximized warming and minimized documentation in an effort to discredit the notion of a global warming pause so that he could time publication to influence national and international deliberations on climate policy." ²

Pausebuster paper

Official delegations from America, Britain, and the EU were strongly influenced by the flawed NOAA study as they hammered out the Paris Agreement, and committed advanced nations to sweeping reductions in their use of fossil fuel and to spending 80 billion Euros every year on new, climate related aid projects. In the weeks after the Pausebuster paper was published, Dr. Bates conducted a one-man investigation into the paper. His findings were extraordinary. Not only had Mr. Karl and his colleagues failed to follow any of the formal procedures required to approve and archive their data, they had used a 'highly experimental run' of a program that tried to combine two previously separate sets of records. ² NOAA not only failed, but it effectively mounted a cover-up when challenged over its data. After the paper was published, the US House of Representatives Science Committee launched an inquiry into its Pausebuster claims. NOAA refused to comply with subpoenas demanding internal emails from the committee chairman, the Texas Republican Lamar Smith, and falsely claimed that no one had raised concerns about the paper internally. The other side of the story. The Pausebuster research article made changes to historical sea surface temperature records, effectively doubling the warming trend over the period to 0.086 C per decade from 0.039 per decade. Some scientists were skeptical of the data and lawmakers were briefed on the study in summer 2015. ³