Republicans To Investigate NASA Over Climate Data Tampering

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With record heat (and drought) in the west and record cold (wet and snow) in the east, the global warming game-playing continues every day but the climate-gate rhetoric has increased vociferously since we first noted three weeks ago, the data that has been so relied upon to ‘prove’ global warming’s trend was in fact manipulated. What The Telegraph called “the most extraordinary scandal of our times” – that of the “seasonally-adjusted” seasonal raw global temperature data – is about to be investigated by Congress. As Daily Caller reports, California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrbacher exclaimed “expect there to be congressional hearings into NASA altering weather station data to falsely indicate warming & sea rise.”

This began, as The Telegraph previously noted, with claims that the underlying data used to justify practically every study p[roving global warming has, in fact, been manipulated…

Although it has been emerging for seven years or more, one of the most extraordinary scandals of our time has never hit the headlines. Yet another little example of it lately caught my eye when, in the wake of those excited claims that 2014 was “the hottest year on record”, I saw the headline on a climate blog: “Massive tampering with temperatures in South America”. The evidence on Notalotofpeopleknowthat, uncovered by Paul Homewood, was indeed striking.

 

Puzzled by those “2014 hottest ever” claims, which were led by the most quoted of all the five official global temperature records – Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Giss) – Homewood examined a place in the world where Giss was showing temperatures to have risen faster than almost anywhere else: a large chunk of South America stretching from Brazil to Paraguay.

 

Noting that weather stations there were thin on the ground, he decided to focus on three rural stations covering a huge area of Paraguay. Giss showed it as having recorded, between 1950 and 2014, a particularly steep temperature rise of more than 1.5C: twice the accepted global increase for the whole of the 20th century.

 

But when Homewood was then able to check Giss’s figures against the original data from which they were derived, he found that they had been altered. Far from the new graph showing any rise, it showed temperatures in fact having declined over those 65 years by a full degree. When he did the same for the other two stations, he found the same. In each case, the original data showed not a rise but a decline.

 

Homewood had in fact uncovered yet another example of the thousands of pieces of evidence coming to light in recent years that show that something very odd has been going on with the temperature data relied on by the world’s scientists. And in particular by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has driven the greatest and most costly scare in history: the belief that the world is in the grip of an unprecedented warming.

 

How have we come to be told that global temperatures have suddenly taken a great leap upwards to their highest level in 1,000 years? In fact, it has been no greater than their upward leaps between 1860 and 1880, and 1910 and 1940, as part of that gradual natural warming since the world emerged from its centuries-long “Little Ice Age” around 200 years ago.

 

This belief has rested entirely on five official data records. Three of these are based on measurements taken on the Earth’s surface, versions of which are then compiled by Giss, by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and by the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit working with the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction, part of the UK Met Office. The other two records are derived from measurements made by satellites, and then compiled by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) in California and the University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAH).

 

 

 

 

To fill in the huge gaps, those compiling the records have resorted to computerised “infilling” or “homogenising”, whereby the higher temperatures recorded by the remaining stations are projected out to vast surrounding areas (Giss allows single stations to give a reading covering 1.6 million square miles). This alone contributed to the sharp temperature rise shown in the years after 1990.

 

But still more worrying has been the evidence that even this data has then been subjected to continual “adjustments”, invariably in only one direction. Earlier temperatures are adjusted downwards, more recent temperatures upwards, thus giving the impression that they have risen much more sharply than was shown by the original data.

 

In reality, the implications of such distortions of the data go much further than just representing one of the most bizarre aberrations in the history of science. The fact that our politicians have fallen for all this scary chicanery has given Britain the most suicidally crazy energy policy (useless windmills and all) of any country in the world.

Science blogger Steven Goddard (a pseudonym) has been a major critic of NASA’s and NOAA’s temperature measurements…

Goddard points out that NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center makes the present look warmer by artificially cooling past temperatures to show a warming trend.

 

“NCDC pulls every trick in the book to turn the US cooling trend into warming. The raw data shows cooling since the 1920s,” Goddard told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview last month.

 

“NCDC does a hockey stick of adjustments to reverse the trend,” Goddard said. “This includes cooling the past for ‘time of observation bias’ infilling missing rural data with urban temperatures, and doing almost nothing to compensate for urban heat island effects.”

And it appears it was just too much for some politicians… As The Daily Caller’s Michael Bastach explains…

Are government climate agencies tampering with climate data to show warming? Some Republicans think so. California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher says to expect congressional hearings on climate data tampering.

Rohrabacher serves as the vice chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, which has jurisdiction over NASA and other agencies that monitor the Earth’s climate.
Rohrabacher has long been critical of the theory of man-made global warming. Lately, the California Republican has criticizing NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for allegedly tampering with temperature data to create an artificial warming trend. Such data is then used to justify regulations aimed at curbing fossil fuel use and other industrial activities.

Rohrabacher isn’t the only one to call for hearings on the science behind global warming. Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe has also promised to hold hearings on global warming data.
“We’re going to have a committee hearing on the science,” said Inhofe, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “People are going to hear the other side of the story.”

As The Telegraph’s Christopher Booker concludes,

“This really does begin to look like one of the greatest scientific scandals of all time.”

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TC
TC

What the hell are those morons in Congress going to do other than a dog and pony show? What a joke. People should be prosecuted for fraud, but no way that is going to happen.

card802
card802

I agree, someone other than professional career liars (congress) should be investigating, but who?

Some time back Casey predicted that when this “man caused” scam/lie becomes a big story, the population will no longer hold science in high regard but skepticism.
So we do not believe congress, we’ll no longer believe science, we’ll no longer believe media.

No one left but ourselves.

phoenixny
phoenixny

My favorite take away

If it was real, which it aint, it would all be over one degree
Pretty much statistical error for any study, considering the natural range of temperature over the course of a year
Here , our range for the year would be -29 to 95
So a degree is less than one percent
Statistical error

Fair trade for al gore though. GWB got the presidency, gore got a co2 billion. You see gwb look of surprise on 911? Even threw up the international distress signal: flew the flag up side down. Few people noticed the cover of the book he was reading upside down had a picture of the raising of the flag on iwo jima. Chew on that for awhile, as long as we are covering an actual conspiracy in bogus anthrpogenic warming. Funny how even a genuine provable conspiracy gets zero traction. Yet “conspiracy theorists” are constantly derided.

Sensetti
Sensetti

Morons? The fucking Dimocrats push Global warming and the Republicans are going to investigate their manipulated bullshit numbers and make a run at setting the record straight, it’s about time.

TC and Card why did you use the term Congress? Read the title of this thread. It’s the Republican’s leading the fight.

Another example of the difference between the two parties, Dimocrats believe in global warming, Republican’s say it’s bullshit.

Now what say you? Who do you agree with the Dimocrats or the Republicans?

flash
flash

Republicans To Investigate NASA Over Climate Data Tampering

Too funny. And next out to their ass of laughs, they’ll pull an investigation of banksters laundering drug money, votes buying and the complete gerrymandering of the American political system by a bi-factional cartel of criminal conspirators …what a load.

GOPES!

flash
flash

Worst Spying In World History – Worse Than Any Dystopian Novel – Is Occurring RIGHT NOW

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-21/worst-spying-world-history-%E2%80%93-worse-any-dystopian-novel-%E2%80%93-occurring-right-now

We’ll at least the The Party of Pugs are still pertecting’ our right to bear arms ….or are dey?

Sensetti
Sensetti

Flash you’re starting to come around, however, progress in painfully slow. You are being exposed to the real differences between Republicans an Dimocrats, don’t try to digest all the information at one time, take small bites. I am absolutely confident you’ll be ready to vote Republican by 2016, just keep an open mind, you’ll be alright.

flash
flash

Sensetti , from my end, your confidence seems to be sorely misplaced…but one can dream, eh?

Stucky

In 2006, Schwazenegger signed major legislation that created a market-based program to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. —- he’s a Republican

Jon Huntsman, as governor of Utah believed in GW .. and then signed up his state as a member of the Western Climate Initiative, a regional cap-and-trade agreement between seven western states and four Canadian provinces. —- he’s a Republican

Senator, Mainer Olympia Snowe called on ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that disagreed with GW … and she co-sponsed the Global Warming Reduction Act of 2007 with Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, to establish a cap-and-trade program. —- she’s a Republican

Tim Pawlenty founded and co-chaired the National Governors Association’s Securing a Clean Energy Future task force … and he led talks among 45 state leaders to develop programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions because of GW —- he’s a Republican

I could go on all day long.

The FACT of the matter is that quite a few Republicans believe in GW …. they just won’t admit it … per the following article.

http://io9.com/many-gop-politicians-privately-agree-climate-change-is-1632473961

Sensetti
Sensetti

Lol

Stucky

There isn’t much difference amongst the citizenry either. Democrap American citizens and Repubcrap American citizens believe/disbelieve in GW in pretty much the same numbers.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/30/poll-sheds-light-on-gop-global-warming-views.html

This may be an Inconvenient Truth to those who think Repubs are the answer.

Sensetti, you have been beating the Republicans-Are-Great war drum for quite some time now. How is that working out for you? Gotten any converts, yet?

Mopan
Mopan

Why stop with NASA? Look into all of the 3 and 4 letter agencie!

Sensetti
Sensetti

Stucky, past performance does not necessarily guide future results.

Schwazenegger was tapping that ugly ass housekeeper his judgement was obviously flawed.

As far as this rest we may need to do a little housekeeping and run some of these RINO’s off. I’ll start working on that.

But aren’t you glad the Republicans are taking up the issue? Or …..well……Stucky, you don’t believe in global warming do you?

If you don’t please help the cause, push these Dimocrats back into the dark hell from whence they came

Sensetti
Sensetti

MOPAN, gotta start somewhere! Shit the boys ain’t had the reins 60 days. Patience grasshopper.

Sensetti
Sensetti

Stucky says; Sensetti, you have been beating the Republicans-Are-Great war drum for quite some time now. How is that working out for you? Gotten any converts, yet

Not yet Stucky. Ive started with Flash and he’s proving to be a hard nut to crack. But I’am hopefully logic and reason will when him over at the end of the day.

However, LLPOH did admit there is definitely a difference between the two parties, that’s a good start.

Sensetti
Sensetti

Win him over

Stucky

“Stucky, you don’t believe in global warming do you? ” ———– Sensetti

Yes. No. The earth has periods of warming. The earth has periods of cooling. I really have no idea what phase the earth is in currently.

I do not believe in MAN-MADE global warming.

I do believe humans can (will ?) cause global cooling …. if we unleash enough nukes whereby the dust and debris blocks out the sun for months or years … then it’s pretty much all over.

For most of my entire life … including when I first came here to TBP … I was a staunch Republican. That has changed. I have disgust for both parties. Considering all the info available here on TBP, I am somewhat amazed that you continue to have faith in either party.

Sensetti
Sensetti

I’ve got to get to the mill, logs need a saw’in, as well as the freeshit army needs my tax dollars to eat.

flash
flash

RES!

“There is now a broad consensus in this country, and indeed in the world, that global warming is happening, that it is a serious problem, and that humans are causing it. The recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded there is a greater than 90 percent chance that greenhouse gases released by human activities like burning oil in cars and coal in power plants are causing most of the observed global warming. This report puts the final nail in denial’s coffin about the problem of global warming.” John McCain

flash
flash

RES!

Stucky

Sensetti

I think you should use your considerable talents to push for a NEW American political party.

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Syriza Will Offer America Hope

By Joseph Clifford

Not since the Occupy Movement has the financial world and corporate interests, led by their mouthpiece the corporate media, been so frightened. The Occupy Movement shed much light on the darkness of the financial world, and was beginning to resonate with the public, when the financial world and the corporate interests used their power to have the US government launch a concentrated crackdown on protests around the nation. The financial world had begun to get nervous with the adverse publicity, because the Occupy Movement was making clear the disparity of both wealth and power. The message the Occupy Movement was driving home, was that you, the public, are powerless and unrepresented by your government, with government serving as a tool of the 1%. The public was beginning to get the message and at that point the 1% said enough; and had their puppet government crackdown with force and dissolve the protests nationwide. Did you notice how coordinated and simultaneously the brutal crackdowns around the country occurred? Do you really believe that just happened as a matter of coincidence?

A new threat to the big banks, Wall Street, and the powerful corporations, is emerging in Europe, and most likely will make its way to this country soon.

Syriza’s popularity has given great hope to others throughout Europe who are in a similar situation. Podemos, a third party modeled after Syriza in Spain, now leads in polls and may well capture the Spanish government in their election this spring. Portugal, Italy, and others are watching this new people’s movement carefully.

The establishment is shocked, for this party and movement represents a threat to the complete domination by the financial world over the lives of the European public

In the near future, Syriza or a Syriza like party will emerge in this country, as citizens here are beginning to see that neither of the two major parties represents them.

The people in the US have no voice or party, as both major parties have been captured by the Wall Street, large banks, and powerful corporations.

full article here —> http://www.opednews.com/articles/Syriza-Will-Offer-America-by-Joseph-Clifford-Bankers_Banks_Bush-Jeb_Corporations-150222-769.html

Mark
Mark

The Democrat constituents believe there is no difference between men and women, as well as, no genetic variation between peoples whom originated from certain geographically locations. Don’t believe your lying eyes when it comes to the Olympics or when when it comes to handing out Nobel Prizes for physics and the like. Natural selection is named evolution by the democrats. And as all Democrats know evolution is why God doesn’t exist and all those Republican Christians are off there rocker.

When it comes to entropy Democrats believe in something called clean energy. As well as something called renewable energy. Hell, if I even bother to figure out what all these catch phrases even mean , other then their hip.

The beauty of Globle Warming to a Democrat is there will be no measurable impact from any attempted restitution of a perceived impact. Which is the closest thing a Democrat can get to validation of their point of view.

Just remember Democrats are the party of science because they don’t believe in God and are in favor of stem cell research. And that’s all there is to it.

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

Sensetti

Please listen to Stucky’s advice. He is right, your energy and passion is wasted on the joke that is the Republiscam Party. Gov. George Wallace said, “There’s not a dimes worth of difference between the Republican and Democrat Party”. Within a very short time Wallace was shot in an attempt on his life. That was 50 years ago, today many people have become wise to this scam and I think most at TBP are wise to this lie of the two party system.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

Most of what we see happening in DC is a show for the plebes. The real action is happening at Raven Rock, “Site R” with Cheney & Rumsfeld pulling the strings. Please let me repeat; the GOP and Dems are THE SAME. Period end of story. Any conflict is a show for the sheeple.

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