{"id":306142,"date":"2024-03-06T19:28:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=306142"},"modified":"2024-03-06T19:28:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:28:18","slug":"how-to-falsify-weather-station-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=306142","title":{"rendered":"How to Falsify Weather Station Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

News Brief by Kip Hansen\u00a0\u2014 5 March 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a true story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two guys in Colorado took advantage of certain type of crop insurance, as explained by U.S. Attorney Cole Finegan:\u00a0 \u201dOne way the United States Department of Agriculture supports farmers and ranchers is by providing federal funding for crop insurance programs that pay indemnities when there is less than the usual amount of precipitation<\/em>.\u201d [\u00a0source<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BBS news reports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe scheme was designed to benefit Jagers <\/em>[and a fellow named Esch] through his crop insurance, the Rainfall Index Annual Forage Insurance Plan,<\/a> which is one of several agriculture subsidies administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Federal Crop Insurance Program<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal crop insurance is typically sold through private insurance companies who are subsequently reimbursed by the federal government. The Rainfall Index plan covers annual crops and \u201cis focused on the amount of precipitation, not on actual crop production,\u201d as described by prosecutors in a case document. \u201cThis means that a farmer can receive a payment when precipitation is below the historical normal level even if the relevant farmland suffers no loss in productivity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Colorado, this deals with \u201cforage\u201d \u2014 as in Annual Forage Insurance Program<\/a> : \u201cHistorically, the term forage has meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture<\/a>, crop residue<\/a>, or immature cereal<\/a> crops, but it is also used more loosely to include similar plants cut for fodder<\/a> and carried to the animals, especially as hay<\/a> or silage<\/a>.\u201d<\/sup><\/em> [ wiki<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paying indemnities means the US government pays farmers if it doesn\u2019t rain enough \u2013 rainfall below average \u2013 based on the local rain gauges at Automated Surface Observing System<\/a> stations regardless of actual crop yields.  For these ranchers, if there is less rain, there will be less forage for their cattle, which means less growth, which means less weight when sold, which means less profit.  At least that\u2019s the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is as hard to make it rain less as it is to make it rain more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it was apparently easy to make it look like<\/em><\/strong> it rained less.  Just jigger the rain gauges at the local ASOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe group allegedly damaged rain gauges located in Springfield, Ordway, La Junta, Walsh, and Ellicott, Colorado, and others in Syracuse, Coolidge, and Elkhart, Kansas. Wires were cut, funnels to rain collectors were filled with silicone, holes drilled or punched in collectors, parts of collectors were disassembled, and objects such as cake pans or pie tins were placed over the gauges during rainstorms.\u201d <\/em>[ CBSNews<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US Attorney\u2019s Office gives this version:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe conspirators used various means and methods to tamper with the rain gauges. Mr. Esch covered gauges in southeastern Colorado with agricultural equipment and used other means as well, such as filling gauges with silicone to prevent them from collecting moisture, cutting wires on the gauges, or detaching and then tipping over the bucket that collected precipitation. Mr. Jagers typically used an agricultural disc blade to cover up a rain gauge in Lamar, Colorado. This tampering created false records making it appear that less rain had fallen than was the case.\u201d <\/em>[ source<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To you and I, this might seem like a lot of work for a bit of crop insurance money \u2013 not so, the two were sentenced to sentenced to \u201cpay a combined $3.1 million<\/strong> in restitution\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bottom Line:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those are some real climate crooks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author\u2019s Comment:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any time the government gives away money, there are some people out there who figure out a scam to get some of that money illegally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn Associated Press analysis found that fraudsters potentially stole\u00a0more than $280 billion<\/strong>\u00a0in COVID-19 relief funding.\u201d [\u00a0source<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yes, that means that the climate data, at least for precipitation in those areas, is not reliable for that specific time period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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