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John and Caroline in Noosa National Park.
As a farmer, I don't really care about a small rise or fall in a homogenised pattern of data. What most farmers are interested in are patterns and cycles which homogenising of data seems to remove. For instance - if a particular area has a pattern of 7 year drought every 130 years with elevated temps then we want to know about it in case that 130 years is coming up. If there is a peak period of flooding every 30 years, then we want to know about it. Many of the so-called anomalies that have been removed or distorted to meet the homogenisation process (without any non-climatic factors to justify it) may be exactly the data that is needed for accurate predictions of cyclic weather patterns. Perhaps the removal of these anomalous events has led to the BOM weather predictions becoming increasingly inaccurate and then labelled as climate disruption rather that natural cycles that they failed to predict.
A 2014 SL study finds that there is no increase in the rate SLR over the last 100 years and there is no AGW component to be found in the trend. The rate of SLR is about 1.6mm a year or 16 cm a century and that's about 6.4 inches by 2114.
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/global-sea-level-rise-from-tide-gauges.html
I just listened to the Alan Jones interview , sounded great Jen you spoke very well and Alan spelt it out.