More Adjusting of Temperature Records
Posted by jennifer, December 17th, 2011 - under Information, News, Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Hi Jen,
For some time I’ve been popping in to your blog to relate my region’s monthly weather extremes, based on the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s own records. The highlight was always the mean monthly maximum, since every month had its hottest max between 1910 and 1919, with the exception of August, which was hottest in 1946. These are the records as they have stood for many years on the the Elders website under Kempsey climatology. http://www.eldersweather.com.au/nsw/mid-north-coast/kempsey
No more!
The hottest months by mean max have all been changed. Every single one. If you look at the fine print, you’ll find the explanation: the temp data is now from 1965 to 2010. No doubt the BOM can adduce good scientific reasons for this…and who reads fine print anyway?
So there you have it: our searing decade around WW1 has not been eliminated from memory by any Orwellian measures.
It’s just been taken off the page.
If a careless reader might think those were cooler times – his own fault!
To add to the perfectly legal distortion, our rainfall records extend from 1882 to 2010, so a careless reader might think the temp records also fall within that period. The only downside of this for the BOM: all our monthly records for drought were set between 1882 and 1957. I wonder when all that will be removed from the page, with a little fine print in explanation.
Thought this might interest.
Appreciate your work mightily.
Rob
Tom Wigley sees the light:
Even CRU’s/NCAR’s Dr. Tom Wigley knows this as illustrated in a ClimateGate2.0 email:
“Quantifying climate sensitivity from real world data cannot even be done using present-day data, including satellite data. If you think that one could do better with paleo data, then you’re fooling yourself. This is fine, but there is no need to try to fool others by making extravagant claims.”
But Jim still keeps plugging away:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/20/hansens-arrested-development/
What are you on about Spanglers – find the published paper that says CSIRO predicted an end to La Nina and that it would never rain again. In fact these beloved researchers have done most of the local work on ENSO and IPO. If you are fair dinkum you should now say that ENSO and IPO do not exist – otherwise why are trusting them selectively.
I suppose you like to think there are no mechanisms at play as you seem to object to science attempting to solve them.
And indeed local information about a big wet last year was well known and disseminated by mid-year – again why would you trust such information from same researchers?
Nothing like a big wiff of hypocrisy. And when cornered make bluster, lay smoke, and change tack.
I don’t ignore “30 year trends”, I’m the one who keeps pointing out what a great cycle we are now in, with diminishing weather extremes c/w cool.
“And indeed local information about a big wet last year was well known and disseminated by mid-year”
You mean they correctly assessed the future flooding during a drought?
If they’d've done that correctly then they couldn’t have said that rainfall was declining since the 1980s.
More uncertainties that the climate models ignore:
http://judithcurry.com/2011/12/21/a-biologists-perspective-on-ice-ages-and-climate-sensitivity-part-i/#comment-152072
luke says: “What are you on about Spanglers – find the published paper that says CSIRO predicted an end to La Nina and that it would never rain again.”
Here you go luke:
http://www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/721285/csiro-bom-report-future-droughts.pdf
Speaking of “adjusting”
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/17772#more-17772
So Cohers – where is the part that says “CSIRO predicted an end to La Nina and that it would never rain again”
It’s there luke; and here:
http://www.csiro.au/news/Study-indicates-a-changing-climate-in-the-south-east
And here:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/business-old/dams-not-an-option-in-labor-food-plan/story-e6frg95o-1225828061772
Just read between the lines.
“The year in Josh – 2011
Posted on December 22, 2011 by Anthony Watts
What would we do without the comic relief from Josh? So much hilarity.”
View at
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/22/the-year-in-josh-2011/#more-53562
Thanks for that cohers.
Bureaucrats can’t read between the lines. Reading between the lines is like putting your head out the window. You’re confronted with reality. Bad.
Even when la Nina was starting in Oct 2010 they were in denial about rainfall and the future of dams.
Have you heard anything on new problems with desal water being high in Boron content and dangerous to health and having to be heavily diluted into big dam storages to be made safe?
21st century. The evolution of the white dinosaur!
Yes Cohers – and that would be right too ! Climate is NOT a year or two.
Dam policy is errr….. policy.
“Dam policy is errr….. policy.”
Yeah! Great policy!
Sending the country broke and wasting all that beautiful rainwater!
Labor govts spout “sustainability” and build desal plants.
What with you and your droughts, Labor and its droughts and Flummery and his droughts, we’re droughted into the poor-house.
“A Christmas Pantomine”
http://fenbeagleblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/211/
Now now now – don’t you worry about that – “Can Do” and “red Bob” will wack a couple of dams on the Flinders and Gilbert for you. You’ll have dams before you know it. All evaporating like they’ll do. hmmmm …. Need to solve that evaporation business.
“Broke” pigs botty – you’ve never had it so good. Stop ya whinging. And ya gotta ya one of them thar water grids next time the big dry turns up. And the good burgers of Wolfdene won’t even have to lynch ya for flooding them out.
“you’ve never had it so good.”
Yeah, “♪ we don’t know how lucky we are ♪”
Wolfdene! More Labor disasters! Kevin Rudd at his head-kicking and leg-cutting best for Goss, tries to win the seat of Beaudesert by promising to scrap the Wolfdene dam after the coalition govt had battled their own supporters and finally got it through. Didn’t win the seat, Kev Lingard was too good but they won power and had to scrap a great dam and then try to build other second raters like the Wyaralong and Traveston to take its place and when that only half worked they created the Tugun Desal disaster and the alconnex water grid which has set the Qld impoverishment in place. But what’s another million-a-day interest bill plus a doubling of water rates for a couple of million people to a dumb bureaucrat?
Cohenite; it’s been my job, not yours to “read between the lines” cause practice = science at the grass roots.
Only a little Google reveals CSIRO and Dr David Post had an historic focus on large scale change, note those quotes in your link and all Post related seminars since for a contrast with Evans Nova etc.
But there is more and I choose this link to illustrate the detail in these projects. It’s my place, there is a variety of food production though it’s not THE bread basket and it’s all about scientific models to fit the quality of records available to us.
http://www.clw.csiro.au/publications/waterforahealthycountry/tassy/pdf/TasSY-3Arthur-Inglis-Cam.pdf
Now, Luke, SD can keep their damn QLD stuff out of it for at least new year
More Flummery crap from gav.
With the sort of good reliable rainfall available in that area it should have water storage for all the usual energy and food purposes.
Look what’s really happening:
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/rain/index.jsp?colour=colour&time=latest&step=0&map=totals&period=18month&area=nat