THE Minister for Environment and Energy, Josh Frydenberg, needs to immediately instigate the following four-step process to restore confidence in the recording and handling of historical temperature data. Step 1 – Instruct the Bureau to immediately: 1. Lift any limits currently placed on the recording of minimum temperatures; 2. Make publicly available the dates on […]
MINISTER Josh Frydenberg was told by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology on, or about, Wednesday 5th July 2017 that limits had been placed on how cold temperatures could be recorded across mainland Australia. This winter we have experienced record low temperatures. But only the keenest weather observers have noticed, because the Bureau has been changing […]
RATHER than admit that temperature dropped to a record low -10.4 degree Celsius on the morning of Sunday 2nd July at Goulburn, the Bureau of Meteorology has come-up with yet another even more absurd story. Responding to a letter from Josh Frydenberg, the Minister for Environment and Energy, Andrew Johnson, CEO and Director of Meteorology, […]
TWO weeks ago, in response to my queries the Australian Bureau of Meteorology acknowledged that it had put in place limits on the lowest temperature that an individual weather station could record. So, when the automatic weather station which now operates in the town of Goulburn (not far from Canberra), recorded a measurement of minus […]
OVER recent years I have documented the blatant remodelling of temperature measurements through the process of homogenisation. I have explained that it is the homogenised datasets that are used to report climate change by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO. I had assumed, however, that the raw data, kept in the CDO dataset, […]
The last few days have been very hot across eastern Australia. The mainstream media have been reporting ‘unprecedented’ conditions. This fits a popular narrative, but its inconsistent with the original historical record. It was very hot in Australia in the late 1800s and the early years of the 1900s, particularly in outback Australia – at […]
After looking at hundreds of temperature series from different locations across Australia, I’ve come to understand that only cities show the type of warming reported by the IPCC, and other such government-funded institutions. Much of this warming is due to what is known as the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect: bitumen, tall-buildings, air-conditioners, and fewer […]
Media reports yesterday claimed that 2016 was another record hot year. However, close scrutiny of all the temperature data from the state of Victoria paints quite a different picture. When all 289 temperature series from Victoria are simply combined, the hottest years are in the early part of the record. In particular, 1914 is very […]
Charts that show year-on-year increases in temperature have become a symbol of all that is wrong with the world – or at least modernity and Western Civilization. So, why then, when such a chart was shown to a studio audience of opinion leaders, did it caused them to break-out in spontaneous applause? The Sydney Q&A […]
The wild, wet weather across southern Australia this spring is a consequence of an unusually strong temperature gradient, especially evident in the following chart as warm water to the north of Australia (especially in the Timor and Arafura Seas), and the cold waters off the southwest of Australia. Former head of Australia’s National Climate Centre, […]
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
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