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Is NOAA Lying to US (and Us) about US Climate History?

by E. Calvin Beisner

June 2, 2015

In an article titled “The ‘Trick’ to Controlling the Climate Agenda,” energy physicist Michael W. Brakey accuses the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of systematically falsifying historical temperature data to create the appearance of more warming than has actually happened.

His argument: NOAA has applied an algorithm (a bit of computer code that applies itself repeatedly to a set of data) that systematically lowers observed temperature data more and more the farther back into the past you go, and raises it more and more the closer to the future you come, creating the appearance of colder past temperatures and warmer recent temperatures than the raw data justify.

The results?

First, deception. A deceived public. A deceived Congress. A deceived Administration–except that NOAA is part of the Administration and acts on its orders, serving its policy goals.

Brakey, Recent Algorithm Fingerprints

Second, policies adopted on the basis of falsehood rather than truth.

Third, billions, even trillions, of dollars wasted trying to solve a problem that is at best grossly exaggerated.

Fourth, suffering. Lots of it. Not just the moderate suffering of the average American who sees energy and all other prices rising. No, much worse. The suffering of the low-income American family that can no longer make ends meet because energy and other prices have risen while wages haven’t. And, in the longer term, the suffering of hundreds of millions of poor families in the developing world who never gain access to the abundant, affordable, reliable energy that lifted us out of poverty and therefore remain trapped in it for decades, generations, perhaps even centuries. Needless illnesses. Needless deaths. Needless, needless, needless.

Not quite sure you understand how data adjustment works? Here’s a funny–and tragically realistic–parable depicting it: “Grandma Learns About Data Adjustment: A little story about how data adjustment might work in everyday life,” by E.L. Core, from Anthony Watts’s WattsUpWithThat.com website.

Brakey’s case looks strong. Read for yourself.

Time for a hard-knuckles investigation by the Subcommittee on Oversight of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) and Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX), are you listening?

[Note: Edited to correct the second paragraph. Thanks to Michael Brakey for catching the slip!–ECB]

Dated: June 2, 2015

Tagged With: 2014 warmest year, and Technology, Anthony Watts, Barry Loudermilk, Climate Change, data homogenization, data manipulation, E.L. Core, Global Warming, House Committee on Science, Lamar Smith, Michael W. Brakey, NOAA, Space, Subcommittee on Oversight, WattsUpWithThat.com
Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment

About E. Calvin Beisner

Dr. Beisner is Founder and National Spokesman of The Cornwall Alliance; former Associate Professor of Historical Theology & Social Ethics, at Knox Theological Seminary, and of Interdisciplinary Studies, at Covenant College; and author of “Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry into the Environmental Debate” and “Prospects for Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources, and the Future.”

Comments

  1. Mike Brakey says

    June 2, 2015 at 3:37 pm

    NO NEED TO PUBLISH – JUST AN OBSERVATION: I liked the title and what you drew from the article.

    There might be a little confusion with your statement “systematically raises observed temperature> data more and more the farther back into the past you go,”

    It likely gets into the weeds and detracts from your important message but I just wanted to point out it is either “decrease temperature data” or it should read “increase Heating Degree Day (HDD) data”.

    It is the Heating Degree Days (HDD), NOAA has gone back over time and inflated that ultimately results in lower temperatures being published to deceive the public.

    The larger the Heating Degree Day number recorded for any given year, the lower the temperature is preceived for that same given year in the history books.

    The equation works out to something fairly simple. A rough rule for converting annual HDD to Annual Temperature for any given location is approximately
    65F- (HDD /365 days per year).

    There will be a slight further offset if Cooling Degree Days are taken into consideration but that is what I have theorized NOAA has done over the years!

    Thanks again for your article!

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