The sad fact is the people who make the scary, wrong for 40 years so far, climate change predictions ... also own the average temperature 'actuals' ... and they "adjust" raw data 'actuals' to better match their predictions.
Making predictions and controlling historical data is a HUGE conflict of interest for the leftists who invented the coming climate change catastrophe fantasy 40 years ago.
In ClimateGate E-mails,
the team made clear their desire
to manipulate the temperature record
and remove the post-1940 cooling:
From: Tom Wigley
To: Phil Jones
Subject: 1940s
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:25:38 -0600
Cc: Ben Santer
So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say, 0.15 deg C,
then this would be significant for the global mean — but
we’d still have to explain the land blip.
It would be good to remove at least part of the 1940s blip, but we are still left with “why the blip”.
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In another ClimateGate E-mail,
Phil Jones said that much of the
southern hemisphere data was
“mostly made up.”:
Date: Wed Apr 15 14:29:03 2009
From: Phil Jones
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: contribution to RealClimate.org
To: Thomas Crowley
Tom,
The issue Ray alludes to is that in addition to the issue
of many more drifters providing measurements over the last 5-10 years, the measurements are coming in from places where we didn’t have much ship data in the past.
For much of the SH between 40 and 60S the normals
are mostly made up as there is very little ship data there.
Cheers
Phil
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