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US agency used selective ship data to boost global warming
THE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the world's leading source of climate data, stands accused of abandoning findings that showed no support for global warming and used other data that fanned fears of climate change.
When NOAA compiled its dataset for the UN Paris conference, it took reliable readings from buoys but then "adjusted" them upwards - using readings from seawater intakes on ships that act as weather stations instead, reports London's Daily Mail.
"They did this even though readings from the ships have long been known to be too hot," said the Daily Mail.
Revelations come from whistleblower John Bates, who until last year was one of two NOAA "principal scientists" working on climate.
"No one, to be clear, has 'tampered' with the figures. But according to Dr Bates, the way those figures were chosen exaggerated global warming," said the report.
Thus, the international Paris Agreement, a landmark scientific paper - one that caused a sensation by claiming there has been no slowdown in global warming since 2000 and committing governments to massive taxes on shipping - was critically flawed, according to Dr Bates.
Snopes, the left-liberal fact checker denies the validity of the Daily Mail report, dismissing the charges in that they had been "spelled out" in the paper that acknowledged the difference in the buoy versus the weather ship water temperature readings.
This recalls the 2009 "Climategate" when scientists at the primary source for UN climate data at the University of East Anglia at Norwich were caught attempting to "hide the decline" in temperatures gathered from Siberian tree rings by inserting nearby warmer airport "real temperatures", instead to strengthen global warming arguments.
When NOAA compiled its dataset for the UN Paris conference, it took reliable readings from buoys but then "adjusted" them upwards - using readings from seawater intakes on ships that act as weather stations instead, reports London's Daily Mail.
"They did this even though readings from the ships have long been known to be too hot," said the Daily Mail.
Revelations come from whistleblower John Bates, who until last year was one of two NOAA "principal scientists" working on climate.
"No one, to be clear, has 'tampered' with the figures. But according to Dr Bates, the way those figures were chosen exaggerated global warming," said the report.
Thus, the international Paris Agreement, a landmark scientific paper - one that caused a sensation by claiming there has been no slowdown in global warming since 2000 and committing governments to massive taxes on shipping - was critically flawed, according to Dr Bates.
Snopes, the left-liberal fact checker denies the validity of the Daily Mail report, dismissing the charges in that they had been "spelled out" in the paper that acknowledged the difference in the buoy versus the weather ship water temperature readings.
This recalls the 2009 "Climategate" when scientists at the primary source for UN climate data at the University of East Anglia at Norwich were caught attempting to "hide the decline" in temperatures gathered from Siberian tree rings by inserting nearby warmer airport "real temperatures", instead to strengthen global warming arguments.
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