Antarctica - raw data massively distorted

[marchesarosa]

The story in a nutshell is that GHCN (Global Historical Climate Network) ignored data from the 16 Antarctic thermometer stations that showed only a miniscule upward trend over the last century and for the last 17 years chose only one station, Rothera Point, on the VERY a-typical West Antarctic Peninsula, (the thin finger of land pointing northwards towards South America) to represent the whole of the interior and coast of this very large, very mountainous continent.

See the following for all the gory details.

noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/ghcn-antarctic-warming-eight-times-actual/#more-6926

savecapitalism.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/ghcn-antarctica-careful-selection-of-data/#respond


The result is that Antarctic temperature is represented in "adjusted" data as rising about 4.0 degrees C per century whereas the REAL trend is 0.04 degrees C per century.


How much more of this blatant distortion of the record can "climatology" stand, I ask?

When the region with the greatest number of measuring stations (i.e. North America) also shows the greatest cooling, isn't it only sensible to ask why the southern hemisphere, with VERY few measuring stations, is presented as showing the greatest warming?

[marchesarosa]

Kon Dealer on the Air Vent said
noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/ghcn-antarctic-warming-eight-times-actual/#comments

December 13, 2009 at 6:45 pm

"I worked down at Rothera in the 1990’s. It didn’t strike me at the time but it does now. Rothera Point has been largely cleared of ice and snow, for personnel safety reasons. The underlying rock is very dark. It also has a huge matt black gravel runway right alongside the main base.

Of course this change in local albedo would have no effect on local temperature readings would it?"

[phil1954]

That's the problem nowadays. Every politician has their own axe to grind and people worry thet climate change is just another excuse to put up taxes. Of course, it doesn't help that the 2 biggest polluters, India and China, don't have to reach their targets.

[marchesarosa]

That's what reveals the whole carbon trading system as just a giant scam and a money spinner, phil.

If governments are serious about reducing emissions they can do so at source by legislating against it in their domestic industries. There is no need for any "trading" of anything, least of all the air that we breath. Really, you couldn't have invented this scam before the 21st century!

[phil1954]

I think I mentioned this before, but the 15 biggest oil tankers which burn really crude oil produce more pollution than EVERY car on Earth.

[marchesarosa]

That's amazing, phil.

[havelock]

I should imagine that as more and more 'empty' messages are posted by marchesarosa on this climate board, those that used to pop in to see what was new will become fewer and fewer.

Afterall, rather than information which may or may not be interesting and informative, people will come to expect empty posts and so will stop popping in - a bit like crying wolf

Is that the object of this exercise?



To get a balanced view of this particular topic - antarctic temperatures - interested readers may wish to look here: cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ndp032/ndp032.html



"Temperature and pressure data for 29 stations over Antarctica were collected."

and

"This update of the database includes data through early 1999 for most stations (through 2000 for a few), and also includes all available mean monthly maximum and minimum temperature data. For many stations this means that over 40 years of data are now available, enough for many of the trends associated with recent warming to be more thoroughly examined. "