{"id":306485,"date":"2024-03-07T20:11:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=306485"},"modified":"2024-03-07T20:11:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:11:42","slug":"scientists-expose-major-problems-with-climate-change-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=306485","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Expose Major Problems With Climate Change Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Climate activism has become the new religion of the 21st century\u2014heretics are not welcome and not allowed to ask questions,\u2019 said astrophysicist Willie Soon.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temperature records used by climate scientists and governments to build models that then forecast dangerous manmade global warming repercussions have serious problems and even corruption in the data, multiple scientists who have published recent studies on the issue told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration leans on its latest National Climate Assessment report<\/a> as evidence that global warming is accelerating because of human activities. The document states that human emissions of \u201cgreenhouse gases\u201d such as carbon dioxide are dangerously warming the Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) holds the same view, and its leaders are pushing major global policy changes in response. The Epoch Times<\/a> has the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But scientific experts from around the world in a variety of fields are pushing back. In peer-reviewed studies, they cite a wide range of flaws with the global temperature data used to reach the dire conclusions; they say it\u2019s time to reexamine the whole narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Problems with temperature data include a lack of geographically and historically representative data, contamination of the records by heat from urban areas, and corruption of the data introduced by a process known as \u201chomogenization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flaws are so significant that they make the temperature data\u2014and the models based on it\u2014essentially useless or worse, three independent scientists with the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES) explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The experts said that when data corruption is considered, the alleged \u201cclimate crisis\u201d supposedly caused by human activities disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, natural climate variability offers a much better explanation for what is being observed, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some experts told The Epoch Times that deliberate fraud appeared to be at work, while others suggested more innocent explanations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But regardless of why the problems exist, the implications of the findings are hard to overstate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With no climate crisis, the justification for trillions of dollars in government spending and costly changes in public policy to restrict carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions collapses, the scientists explained in a series of interviews about their research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor the last 35 years, the words of the IPCC have been taken to be gospel,\u201d according to astrophysicist and CERES founder Willie Soon. Until recently, he was a researcher working with the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd indeed, climate activism has become the new religion of the 21st century\u2014heretics are not welcome and not allowed to ask questions,\u201d Mr. Soon told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut good science demands that scientists are encouraged to question the IPCC\u2019s dogma. The supposed purity of the global temperature record is one of the most sacred dogmas of the IPCC.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest U.S. government National Climate Assessment report states: \u201cHuman activities are changing the climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe evidence for warming across multiple aspects of the Earth system is incontrovertible, and the science is unequivocal that increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases are driving many observed trends and changes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In particular, according to the report, this is because of human activities such as burning fossil fuels for transportation, energy, and agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at timescales highlights major problems with this narrative, Mr. Soon said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen people ask about global warming or climate change, it is essential to ask, \u2018Since when?\u2019 The data shows that it has warmed since the 1970s, but that this followed a period of cooling from the 1940s,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it is \u201cdefinitely warmer\u201d now than in the 19th century, Mr. Soon said that temperature proxy data show the 19th century \u201cwas exceptionally cold.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was the end of a period that\u2019s known as the Little Ice Age,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data taken<\/a> from rural temperature stations, ocean measurements, weather balloons, satellite measurements, and temperature proxies such as tree rings, glaciers, and lake sediments, \u201cshow that the climate has always changed,\u201d Mr. Soon said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey show that the current climate outside of cities is not unusual,\u201d he said, adding that heat from urban areas is improperly affecting the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we exclude the urban temperature data that only represents 3 percent of the planet, then we get a very different picture of the climate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homogenization<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One issue that scientists say is corrupting the data stems from an obscure process known as \u201chomogenization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to climate scientists working with governments and the U.N., the algorithms used for homogenization are designed to correct, as much as possible, various biases that might exist in the raw temperature data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These biases include, among others, the relocation of temperature monitoring stations, changes in technology used to gather the data, or changes in the environment surrounding a thermometer that might impact its readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, if a temperature station was originally placed in an empty field but that field has since been paved over to become a parking lot, the record would appear to show much hotter temperatures. As such, it would make sense to try to correct the data collected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virtually nobody argues against the need for some homogenization to control for various factors that may contaminate temperature data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But a closer examination<\/a> of the process as it now occurs reveals major concerns, Ronan Connolly, an independent scientist at CERES, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile the scientific community has become addicted to blindly using these computer programs to fix the data biases, until recently nobody has bothered to look under the hood to see if the programs work when applied to real temperature data,\u201d he told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the early 2000s, various governmental and intergovernmental organizations creating global temperature records have relied on computer programs to automatically adjust the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Soon, Mr. Connolly, and a team of scientists around the world spent years looking at the programs to determine how they worked and whether they were reliable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the scientists involved in the analysis, Peter O\u2019Neill, has been tracking and downloading the data daily from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its Global Historical Climatology Network since 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He found that each day, NOAA applies different adjustments to the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey use the same homogenization computer program and re-run it roughly every 24 hours,\u201d Mr. Connolly said. \u201cBut each day, the homogenization adjustments that they calculate for each temperature record are different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is \u201cvery bizarre,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf the adjustments for a given weather station have any basis in reality, then we would expect the computer program to calculate the same adjustments every time. What we found is this is not what\u2019s happening,\u201d Mr. Connolly said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These concerns are what first sparked the international investigation into the issue by Mr. Soon and his colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because NOAA doesn\u2019t maintain historical information on its weather stations, the CERES scientists reached out to European scientists who had been compiling the data for the stations that they oversee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They found that just 17 percent of NOAA\u2019s adjustments were consistently applied. And less than 20 percent of NOAA\u2019s adjustments were clearly associated with a documented change to the station observations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we looked under the hood, we found that there was a hamster running in a wheel instead of an engine,\u201d Mr. Connolly said. \u201cIt seems that with these homogenization programs, it is a case where the cure is worse than the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for NOAA\u2019s National Centers for Environmental Information downplayed the significance, but said the agency was working to address the issues raised in the papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNOAA uses the well-documented Pairwise Homogenization Algorithm every day on GHCNm (monthly)\u2014version 4, and the results of specific adjustments to individual station series can differ from run to run,\u201d the spokesman said, adding that the papers in question didn\u2019t support the view that the concerns about the homogenization of the data made it useless or worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNOAA is addressing the issues raised in both these papers in a future release of the GHCNm temperature dataset and its accompanying documentation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Temperature records used by climate scientists and governments to build models that then forecast dangerous manmade global warming repercussions have serious problems and even corruption in the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":306491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Temperature records used by climate scientists and governments to build models that then forecast dangerous manmade global warming repercussions have serious problems and even corruption in the data.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691827471,691818056,691819659,691818087,691818864,691823396],"class_list":{"0":"post-306485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-ceres-founder-willie-soon","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-climate-scientists","11":"tag-global-warming","12":"tag-the-biden-administration","13":"tag-u-n-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-ipcc","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OIG4-4.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1hJj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":325511,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=325511","url_meta":{"origin":306485,"position":0},"title":"The In-depth Story Behind the 97% of Scientists Climate Myth","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/05\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"This four year old presentation by Dr. John Robson investigates the unsound origins and fundamental inaccuracy, even dishonesty, of the claim that 97% of scientists, or \u201cthe world\u2019s scientists\u201d, or something agree that climate change is man-made, urgent and dangerous.","rel":"","context":"In \"97% of Scientists\"","block_context":{"text":"97% of Scientists","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=97-of-scientists"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0Screenshot-2024-05-02-132046.png?fit=1000%2C539&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0Screenshot-2024-05-02-132046.png?fit=1000%2C539&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0Screenshot-2024-05-02-132046.png?fit=1000%2C539&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0Screenshot-2024-05-02-132046.png?fit=1000%2C539&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":239494,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=239494","url_meta":{"origin":306485,"position":1},"title":"No, Exxon was wrong on warming and didn\u2019t know anything","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"13\/01\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"More fake news from the climate-industrial complex.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-588.png?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-588.png?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-588.png?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-588.png?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-588.png?fit=1200%2C845&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":278048,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=278048","url_meta":{"origin":306485,"position":2},"title":"Manmade Climate Change Remains Unproven, Dutch, German Scientists Say","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/09\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A highly topical peer-reviewed study in the scientific magazine \u201cclimate\u201d proves on the basis of measured data that the \u201cman-made\u201d climate change claimed by the media and politicians is anything but certain.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0_Rp48l4z21Xh7NhKA.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0_Rp48l4z21Xh7NhKA.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0_Rp48l4z21Xh7NhKA.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0_Rp48l4z21Xh7NhKA.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0_Rp48l4z21Xh7NhKA.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":228227,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=228227","url_meta":{"origin":306485,"position":3},"title":"New Research Showing U.S. Warming is Exaggerated by 50 Percent","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/11\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Originally posted on Climate Realism By\u00a0Linnea Lueken A recent post from\u00a0The Daily Sceptic\u00a0describes new research conducted by scientists seeking to accurately determine U.S. surface temperatures after the influence of the urban heat island effect is removed. The results revealed that the eastern United States has experienced 50 percent less warming\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/00Built-Up-40-year-change-1975-2014-SE-US-2-1.webp?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/00Built-Up-40-year-change-1975-2014-SE-US-2-1.webp?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/00Built-Up-40-year-change-1975-2014-SE-US-2-1.webp?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/00Built-Up-40-year-change-1975-2014-SE-US-2-1.webp?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/00Built-Up-40-year-change-1975-2014-SE-US-2-1.webp?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":228126,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=228126","url_meta":{"origin":306485,"position":4},"title":"Daily Sceptic Reports on Research Showing U.S. Warming is Exaggerated by 50 Percent","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/11\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent post from\u00a0The Daily Sceptic\u00a0describes new research conducted by scientists seeking to accurately determine U.S. surface temperatures after the influence of the urban heat island effect is removed.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-327.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-327.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-327.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-327.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-327.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":223353,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=223353","url_meta":{"origin":306485,"position":5},"title":"Satellite Temperature Data Show Almost All Climate Model Forecasts Over the Last 40 Years Were Wrong","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/10\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A major survey into the accuracy of climate models has found that almost all the past temperature forecasts between 1980-2021 were excessive compared with accurate satellite measurements.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0Global-Temperature-Models.png?fit=576%2C402&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0Global-Temperature-Models.png?fit=576%2C402&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0Global-Temperature-Models.png?fit=576%2C402&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121246920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306485"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306492,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306485\/revisions\/306492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/306491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}