Based on the hacked
Climategate emails
released in 2009, 2011
and 2013:
The British Climatic
Research Unit
included
Mr. Ian “Harry” Harris,
who worked
for four years
to de-bug and
properly
document
a CRU data base
“TS 2.1”
of many global
weather station's
recorded monthly
temperature data.
It seems like
the database
had a lot
of problems,
although perhaps
good enough for
goobermint work
good enough for
goobermint work
You should
read Harry's
notes and
come to
your own
conclusion.
come to
your own
conclusion.
One national input,
from the Australian
Bureau of Meteorology,
had frequent adjustments,
that resulted in a greater
warming trend.
Below are
"Harry’s" comments,
from a 200-page
logging of his notes
(reformatted for easier reading):
Concerning Australia
temperature data:
"What a bloody mess.
Now looking at the dates
… something bad
has happened, hasn’t it.
COBAR AIRPORT AWS
[data from an Australian
weather station] cannot
start in 1962, it didn’t open
until 1993!
… getting seriously fed up
with the state of the
Australian data.
So many new stations
have been introduced,
so many false references
… so many changes
that aren’t documented
… I am very sorry to report
that the rest of the databases
seem to be in nearly as poor
a state as Australia was
…Aarrggghhh!
There truly is no end in sight…!"
Harry Harris also wrote,
concerning temperature
data in general:
OH F**K THIS.
It’s Sunday evening,
I’ve worked all weekend,
and just when I thought
it was done, I’m hitting
yet another problem
that’s based on the
hopeless state
of our databases
… Bear in mind
that there is no
working synthetic
method for cloud,
because Mark New
lost the coefficients file
and never found it again
(despite searching
on tape archives at UEA)
and never recreated it
… This whole project
is SUCH A MESS.
No wonder I needed therapy!!
… So, uhhhh
what in tarnation
s going on?
Just how off-beam
are these datasets?!!
… Unbelievable
— even here the conventions
have not been followed.
It’s botch after botch after botch
…Where is
the documentation
to explain all this?!
… It’s halfway through April
and I’m still working on it.
This surely is
the worst project
I’ve ever attempted.
Eeeek … Oh bugger.
What the HELL is going on?!..
Oh GOD if I could start this
project again and actually
argue the case for junking
the inherited program suite!!
.,. Am I the first person
to attempt to get the CRU
databases in working order?!!
… So, we can have
a proper result,
but only by including
a load of garbage …
Who added
those two
series together?
When?
Why?
Untraceable,
except anecdotally.
It’s the same story
for many other
Russian stations,
unfortunately
— meaning that
(probably) there was
a full Russian
update that did
no data integrity
checking at all.
I just hope
it’s restricted
to Russia!!
… What the hell
is supposed to
happen here?
Oh yeah – there is
no ‘supposed’,
I can make it up.
So (we) will allow
bad databases
to pass unnoticed,
and good databases
to become bad,
but I really don’t think
people care enough
to fix ’em,
and it’s the main reason
the project is nearly
a year late.”