Making the data fit the agenda

[DoctorDoom]

Methodology used by NASA to estimate rates of climate change are resulting in dramatic shifts in previously published historical temperature data, causing figures for estimated global surface temperature prior to 1970 to now be lower and figures since 1970 to now be higher – and appearing to provide evidence for those who say the Earth is warming.

John Goetz, writing last month in the science blog Climate Audit, analyzed the way NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies calculates estimated global surface temperatures and showed that the addition of new, contemporary data could "have a ripple effect all the way back to the beginning of a [weather] station's history."

Goetz found 32 different versions of published global annual averages going back to Sept. 24, 2005, that showed the published figures – figures used as a baseline to demonstrate change through time – changing hundreds of times.

"On average 20% of the historical record was modified 16 times in the last 2 1/2 years," he wrote. "The largest single jump was 0.27 °C. This occurred between the Oct. 13, 2006 and Jan. 15, 2007 records when Aug 2006 changed from an anomoly of +0.43 °C to +0.70 °C, a change of nearly 68 percent."Does 'climate change' mean 'changing data'? (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=63360)

More evidence that the "science" of AGW is a myth.

[sunsettommy]

Related article with a lot more detail:

A tale of two thermometers

By Steven Goddard (http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2008/05/02/a_tale_of_two_thermometers/) <SMALL class=MoreByAuthor>→ More by this author (http://search.theregister.co.uk/?author=Steven%20Goddard)</SMALL>
<SMALL>Published Friday 2nd May 2008 10:02 GMT</SMALL>
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<SMALL>Analysis A paper published in scientific journal Nature this week has reignited the debate (http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2238317.0.Doubt_is_cast_over_global_wa rming.php) about Global Warming, by predicting that the earth won't be getting any warmer until 2015. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences have factored in cyclical oceanic into their climate model, and produced a different forecast to the "consensus" models which don't.

But how will we know whether the earth is warming or cooling? Today, it all depends on the data source.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/a_tale_of_two_thermometers/

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James Hansen is behind the changes.This from a politically compromised and environmentalist activist scientist.Who is also the director of GISS.

He needs to be fired and have someone in his place who is balanced and rational.
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