Sunday, November 29, 2009

New Zealand's NIWA Fudges Data Too...

Finally provided with raw data, Anthony Watts plots both the adjusted data and the raw data for the world to view:

Data before "adustment":



After the temperature has been manipulated:



"Have the readings in the official NIWA graph been adjusted?

"It is relatively easy to find out. We compared raw data for each station (from NIWA’s web site) with the adjusted official data, which we obtained from one of Dr Salinger’s colleagues.

"Requests for this information from Dr Salinger himself over the years, by different scientists, have long gone unanswered, but now we might discover the truth."

"Proof of man-made warming

"What did we find? First, the station histories are unremarkable. There are no reasons for any large corrections. But we were astonished to find that strong adjustments have indeed been made.

"About half the adjustments actually created a warming trend where none existed; the other half greatly exaggerated existing warming. All the adjustments increased or even created a warming trend, with only one (Dunedin) going the other way and slightly reducing the original trend.

"The shocking truth is that the oldest readings have been cranked way down and later readings artificially lifted to give a false impression of warming, as documented below. There is nothing in the station histories to warrant these adjustments and to date Dr Salinger and NIWA have not revealed why they did this.

"One station, Hokitika, had its early temperatures reduced by a huge 1.3°C, creating strong warming from a mild cooling, yet there’s no apparent reason for it.

"We have discovered that the warming in New Zealand over the past 156 years was indeed man-made, but it had nothing to do with emissions of CO2—it was created by man-made adjustments of the temperature. It’s a disgrace.


Actually the bigger disgrace is that this was allowed to exist as "science", despite the stonewalling and obvious non-scientific behavior of the AGW bullies. These folks should be prosecuted.

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