THE Bureau of Meteorology has spent several weeks looking for documentation to support its recent claim that, contrary to what is written in its published station catalogue, the weather station at Rutherglen was once moved. The Bureau hasn’t been … [Read more...] about Who’s going to be sacked for making-up global warming at Rutherglen? Part 2.
Temperatures
Homogenisation of Williamtown temperatures, draws attention to hot Newcastle in 1878
WINSTON Churchill famously said that, democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. Indeed when everyone has the opportunity to have a say it can be difficult to keep everyone marching together in the same direction, at the … [Read more...] about Homogenisation of Williamtown temperatures, draws attention to hot Newcastle in 1878
Bureau Caught in Own Tangled Web of Homogenisation
THE Australian Bureau of Meteorology now acknowledge that they change the temperatures at most, if not all, the weather stations that make-up the official station network from which national temperature trends are calculated. Indeed, earlier in the … [Read more...] about Bureau Caught in Own Tangled Web of Homogenisation
Newspapers as the guardians of hot history
OLD newspapers hold a lot of information, some of it very valuable. I’m not only referring to last week’s The Land, but clippings that date back to editions published one hundred or more years ago. For example, in the Sydney Morning Herald on … [Read more...] about Newspapers as the guardians of hot history
Go Boldly and Smash all Preconceptions: Steve Goddard
WE all have heroes. British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) is one of mine. The contemporary of Charles Darwin wrote: “Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and … [Read more...] about Go Boldly and Smash all Preconceptions: Steve Goddard
Rutherglen: Still Looking for Answers
A CENTRAL thesis of global warming is that temperatures will keep going up, and up. They did from about 1960 to 2002 at many places around Australia, but not at all of them. At Ruthergen, a wine-growing region of north-eastern Victoria, temperatures … [Read more...] about Rutherglen: Still Looking for Answers