A bit more about the British Meteorological office – seems a straight case of fraud – from Christopher Booker at the Telegraph:
Dr Benny Peiser and Dr David Whitehouse, of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), have written to John Hirst, chief executive of the beleaguered Met Office, asking for an explanation of a press release issued by his organisation on January 20 and headed “2010 – a near record year”. This won headlines by claiming that last year was hotter than any other in the past decade.
When the two men examined the original data from which this claim was derived – compiled by the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit and the Met Office’s Hadley Centre – it clearly showed 2010 as having been cooler than 2005 (and 1998) and equal to 2003. It emerged that, for the purposes of the press release, the data had been significantly adjusted.
Comparing the actual data for each year, from 2001 to 2010, with that given in the press release shows that for four years the original figure has been adjusted downwards. Only for 2010 was the data revised upwards, by the largest adjustment of all, allowing the Met Office to claim that 2010 was the hottest year of the decade.
What the warmists can’t allow is any significant reduction of annual temperatures – its already hard enough for them to sustain global warming when temperatures have really be flat for ten years, it will be impossible if a cooling trend shows. And, so, they just adjust the data to fit their needs – adjusting down earlier years, adjusting up last year and, presto!, we’ve got one heck of a hot year.
The hoax, however, continues to unravel – but it will go on for a while yet as so many people are making so much money off taxpayers on global warming alarmism that they just won’t give it up until forced to.
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