Benny Peiser’s Global Warming Policy Foundation
Reports: Top Scientists Start To Examine Adjusted Global Warming Figures
The London-based think-tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation is today launching a major inquiry into the integrity of the official global surface temperature records. Questions have been raised about the reliability of the surface temperature data and the extent to which apparent warming trends may be artefacts of adjustments made after the data are collected. The inquiry will review the technical challenges in accurately measuring surface temperature, and will assess the extent of adjustments to the data, their integrity and whether they tend to increase or decrease the warming trend. --Global Warming Policy Foundation, 26 April 2015
Climatologists have long been aware of the poor state of
global surface temperature records and considerable effort has been put into
adjusting the raw data to correct known errors and biases. The global surface
temperature records have been the subject of considerable and ongoing
controversy. In order to try to provide some clarity on the scientific issues,
the Global Warming Policy Foundation has invited a panel of experts to
investigate and report on these controversies. --The International Temperature Data Review
Project
Many people have found the extent of adjustments to the
data surprising. While we believe that the 20th century warming is real, we are
concerned by claims that the actual trend is different from – or less certain
than – has been suggested. We hope to perform a valuable public service by
getting everything out into the open. The team approaches the subject as
open-minded scientists –we intend to let the science do the talking. Our goal
is to help the public understand the challenges in assembling climate data
sets, the influence of adjustments and modifications to the data, and whether
they are justifiable or not. --Terence Kealey, Chairman of the International Temperature
Data Review Project, 26 April 2015
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has enlisted
an international team of five distinguished scientists to carry out a full
inquiry into just how far these manipulations of the data may have distorted
our picture of what is really happening to global temperatures. Their inquiry’s
central aim will be to establish a comprehensive view of just how far the
original data has been“adjusted” by the three main surface records: those
published by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Giss), the US National
Climate Data Center and Hadcrut, that compiled by the East Anglia Climatic
Research Unit (Cru), in conjunction with the UK Met Office’s Hadley Centre for
Climate Prediction. All of them are run by committed believers in man-made
global warming.--Christopher Booker, The Sunday Telegraph, 26 April 2015
Panel member Professor William van Wijngaarden, a
physicist and climate expert from York University in Toronto, said he had been
concerned about the records’quality for many years, after noticing that when
you examined an individual station ‘you’ll see a sudden jump’. Such jumps, he
said, were not natural, but the product of adjustments. ‘Sometimes you get
“corrected” data without knowing exactly how it has been changed. I’m a
scientist. I’m not going into this with any preconceptions. But if some of the
corrections have not been properly made, then we’ll find out. We want to see
all the actual station data.’ --David Rose, Mail on Sunday, 26 April 2015
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