So NOAA and NASA are doctoring temperature data.

I didn't recognize the writer of this opinion piece, so I wiki'd the think tank he works for, The Heartland Institute:



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In the 1990s, the group worked with the tobacco company Philip Morris to question serious cancer risks to secondhand smoke, and to lobby against government public-health reforms.[12][13][14] More recently, the Institute has focused on questioning the science of human-caused climate change, and was described by the New York Times as "the primary American organization pushing climate change skepticism."[15] The Institute has sponsored meetings of climate change skeptics,[16] and has been reported to promote public school curricula challenging the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change.[17]

ETA: The Wiki section on funding is a fun read...strange happenings.

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I didn't recognize the writer of this opinion piece, so I wiki'd the think tank he works for, The Heartland Institute:

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Right on Cue! Thanks for attacking the source and not the actual argument points. Makes for an invalid counterargument

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secondhand smoke

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How many people do you know that have died from secondhand smoke?

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has been reported to promote public school curricula challenging the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change

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As opposed to promoting only one side of an argument? How sound is that?

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Thanks for attacking the source and not the actual argument

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There is no "actual argument." Taylor says the raw US data is cooling and NOAA "doctors" this by "substituting their own desired readings." The adjustments are well-known and described in multiple papers, e.g., here. Taylor, Goddard, Watts, etc., never bother to read, link, or directly challenge the primary literature underlying and laying out the rationales, methodologies, and equations for these adjustments. They just make snarky posts implying that all adjustments are fraudulent (again, except UHI, because UHI is an adjustment against the AGW trend and therefore skeptics believe if anything the data should be adjusted more for UHI.)

And if you want to say "don't adjust anything, just use the raw data" that's fine and dandy, just be prepared to cover your eyes whenever you look at the global land or sea records, because the U.S. record is fairly unique in showing a raw cooling trend (due to various long-term shifts in observation methodology and equipment described in the above-linked papers.)

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Raw temperature data show that U.S. temperatures were significantly warmer during the 1930s than they are today. In fact, raw temperature data show an 80-year cooling trend. NOAA is only able to claim that we are experiencing the hottest temperatures on record by doctoring the raw temperature data.

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and its based on this:

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Steven Goddard

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= proven trash




Of course they are targeting people that will just believe whatever they are told without justification.

It seems that sea level rise would be fairly easy to qualify. Minus any spin or scam info.

The bottom line. Authoritarian Socialists/Statists have co-opted the Green demographic; it's all about World Socialism now. And failing economic mechanisms are a far greater threat to human populations than any variations in Global temps. Throw in shrinking fisheries, water pollution, increased competition, viral threats, tectonic occurrences/asteroids and Ideological nuclear warfare, and temps will be moot.

But of course, Greens would love to see a lot of humans go away; and I suspect that Mother Nature will accommodate em'. Though many don't realize they'll be in the 'go away' numbers.

Raindrop in the ocean.

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It seems that sea level rise would be fairly easy to qualify. Minus any spin or scam info.

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How?

Even small regular waves are a couple of feet high but these "scientists" can measure the sea level rise in centimeters? I call bullshite.

I've got a news flash for you guys...wait for it....BOTH SIDES FABRICATE AND MANIPULATE DATA!!

Why? Because they BOTH have an agenda to push.

I've got a news flash for you guys...wait for it....BOTH SIDES FABRICATE AND MANIPULATE DATA!!

Why? Because they BOTH have an agenda to push.

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global land or sea records, because the U.S. record is fairly unique in showing a raw cooling trend

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this is because of the gov't sponsored chemtrail program that keeps the US from becoming a barren wasteland due to runaway co2 output

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Even small regular waves are a couple of feet high but these "scientists" can measure the sea level rise in centimeters? I call bullshite.

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They actually measure it in millimeters, but why call bullshite just because you don't understand it?

Your example of waves being a problem is the easiest part to filter out, with just a pipe with a hole in the bottom. The next problem is tides, but we understand them and it's easy to measure at high and low tides to spot trends. Another problem is changes in local atmospheric pressure, but those variations average out in the long term. There is also the rise in sea level due to the temperature of the water, but this doesn't need to be filtered out because it's part of what's being measured.

Those damned "scientists".