The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. Who said that? What does it mean?
Of course, for the educated climate scientist this chart that shows the mean annual maximum temperatures for Bathurst gaol and Bourke post office should be homogenised. But what beauty and intrigue in raw data that throws up an identical cooling trend when the entire record, unhomogenised is plotted for these two locations in New South Wales, both with exceptionally long records.
I shall not be posting so much for the next little while, as I've technical papers to write on rainfall forecasting, diatoms, frogs and also temperatures.
Thanks Keith. Almost didn't find this note. Best to post such information with queries at the most recent 'Open Thread'…
Steve has started looking at the satellite record perhaps in response to Neville Nicholls post last week at The Conversation… in which Nicholls suggests the UAH satellite record shows warming… http://theconversation.com/an-independent-inquiry-into-the-bureau-of-meteorology-bring-it-on-32692
I am not across the detail of the satellite record. I'm following Steve's postings and have suggested he bring this information together for an article that he at least submit to The Conversation.
I've been working on a separate response to The Conversation focused on ACORN-SAT
Dear Jennifer,
Regarding the on-going exposure of corruption of climate data in Australia, Steve Goddard has a very interesting post comparing surface data from large cities in Australia with the satellite data in the same grid box.
He shows a warming trend for the surface data (before homogenisation), ascribes it to UHI and then compares the satellite data.
It appears to me to be a very good way to demonstrate the discrepancy.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/satellites-show-melbourne-cooling-for-18-years/#comment-439811
What do you, Ken Stewart and Jo Nova think of that approach?
(I posted something on their sites too).
Thank , your work is much appreciated, and best wishes, Keith
I sincerely hope skeptic organisations and individuals are receiving funding. They can take it from Heartland or anyone who's legal. I also hope they continue to direct criticism against national weather organisations and all those with power and huge resources whose performance is questionable.
That's kind of the whole point, duh.
Thanks again for your efforts, Jen.