On the Origin of Specious
Willis Eschenbach has been digging into the temperature data from Darwin Airport that indicate radical, accelerating AGW. He believes the books have been cooked and the hockey stick is specious:
Before getting homogenized, temperatures in Darwin were falling at 0.7 Celcius per century … but after the homogenization, they were warming at 1.2 Celcius per century. And the adjustment that they made was over two degrees per century…when those guys “adjust”, they don’t mess around. And the adjustment is an odd shape, with the adjustment first going stepwise, then climbing roughly to stop at 2.4C…
People who say that “Climategate was only about scientists behaving badly, but the data is OK” are wrong. At least one part of the data is bad, too. The Smoking Gun for that statement is at Darwin Zero.
One thing seems pretty clear in the ClimateGate debate — the credibility of one side or the other will be seriously impaired at the end of all this. HT’s: Ace, Volokh
December 12th, 2009 at 3:33 am
If the data proved the desired conclusion, there would have been no need to tamper with it. There should be a RICO investigation of the climate Mafia, with prison sentences for those who sought to obtain public funding for further research based on these fraudulent conclusions.
December 12th, 2009 at 10:49 am
cant get a post with a hyper link to go through. Go to Coyote Blog and watch the great little vid done by a kid and his dad titled:
Awesome Analysis of Urban Biases on Surface Temperature Records