The debunking process is always slower than the blow-hards.
I happen to have a brilliant friend and colleague who has a Ph.D in computer data base modelling, who says that ALL global warming computer generated models are skewed science, the complexities involved are so vast, and the systems currently being used so lacking, that they should never be trusted in any findings that they come up with. That is the fact of the matter.
Did exaggerated records make global warming look worse? Scientists to investigate whether ‘adjusted’ temperatures skewed data
- Climate sceptic group Global Warming Policy Foundation launch inquiry
- Panel drawn from leading universities includes experts with differing views
- Will look at whether ‘adjustments’ made to records cancel each other out
- Says it hopes people from all areas of climate change will help the panel
An international panel of scientists will today launch a major inquiry to discover whether official world temperature records have exaggerated the extent of global warming.
The panel, convened by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the ‘climate sceptic’ think-tank led by the former Tory Chancellor Lord Lawson, will focus on thousands of ‘adjustments’ that have been made to temperature records kept at individual weather stations around the world.
Sceptics have argued that the effect of such adjustments – made when instruments are replaced or recalibrated, or heat-producing buildings are erected close to weather station sites – has skewed the records.
Sceptics: The panel will look at whether ‘adjustments’ made to temperature records around the world have made climate change appear worse – or whether they actually manage to cancel each other out
The panel will also examine ‘extrapolations’ – when the records include virtual figures from places where there is no actual measuring station, instead basing them on the figures of other stations in the same region. In some areas, such as the Arctic, these may be hundreds of miles away. Sceptics claim that the effect of the adjustments is usually to revise temperatures from decades ago downwards, and to increase recent readings, so that the warming trend of the past 150 years looks larger than it really is.
The panel has been drawn from leading universities around the world, and includes scientists with widely differing views on climate change.
