In Feb 2010, I described the plethora of 'gates' spawned by Climategate.
The latest? Satellite-Gate
From Climate Change Fraud: Official: Satellite Failure Means Decade of Global Warming Data Doubtful
"US Government admits satellite temperature readings “degraded.” All data taken offline in shock move. Global warming temperatures may be 10 to 15 degrees too high."
"The fault was first detected after a tip off from an anonymous member of the public to climate skeptic blog, Climate Change Fraud (view original article) (August 9, 2010).
Caught in the center of the controversy is the beleaguered taxpayer funded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA’s Program Coordinator, Chuck Pistis has now confirmed that the fast spreading story on the respected climate skeptic blog is true.
However, NOAA spokesman, Program Coordinator, Chuck Pistis declined to state how long the fault might have gone undetected. Nor would the shaken spokesman engage in speculation as to the damage done to the credibility of a decade’s worth of temperature readings taken from the problematic ‘NOAA-16’ satellite.
‘NOAA-16’ was launched in September 2000, and is currently operational, in a sun-synchronous orbit, 849 km above the Earth, orbiting every 102 minutes providing automated data feed of surface temperatures which are fed into climate computer models."
Did you catch the part of a DECADE worth of data may be incorrect?! Canada Free Press reports top scientists are discussing it. I'm sure the USA 'mainstream' media is ALL over this, right?
"The MADIS satellite sounding dataset consists of multiple products from different "providers" that are integrated into a single dataset at ESRL/GSD. Currently, these products consist of temperature and moisture soundings from the NOAA Polar Orbital Environmental Satellites (POES). The POES system offers the advantage of daily global coverage, by making nearly polar orbits roughly 14.1 times daily. Since the number of orbits per day is not an integer the suborbital tracks do not repeat on a daily basis, although the local solar time of each satellite's passage is essentially unchanged for any latitude. NOAA maintains a four satellite configuration (morning NOAA-15 primary, NOAA-17 secondary, and afternoon -- NOAA-19 primary, NOAA-16 and NOAA-18 secondary)*, allowing NOAA to obtain data five times daily in any one location. ... There are approximately 340,000 soundings available per day. Here are graphics showing typical orbits for NOAA-16, and NOAA-18."
Oh yea, and NIWA is being sued. As James Delingpole mentions "the New Zealand Climate Coalition is suing the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) – the Kiwi equivalent of our (UK's) disgraced Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia – for having exaggerated warming trends in its temperature records using heavily biased data adjustments."
Discussed at WattsUpWithThat. See details at NZ Climate Coalition or Climate Converstation "NZ Climate Science Trust seeks declarations and orders to:
A. set aside NIWA’s decisions to rely upon the 7SS and 11SS, and finding the current NZTR (NZ temperature record) to be invalid.
B. prevent NIWA from using the current NZTR (or information originally derived from it) for the purpose of advice to any governmental authority or to the public.
C. require NIWA to produce a full and accurate NZTR."
The "7SS and 11SS" terms means 7 or 11 temperature/data station series. 7 or 11 only? Doesn't seem too many, does it. Oh, and the 'facts' NZ government is relying on - from a paper by a ex-NIWA employee named Salinger: data was MODIFIED and then accepted as 'fact'.
Hopefully the court will get to the truth. NZ government MAY just be forced to abandon their ETS (carbon tax) schemes.
(pssst, hey NZ climate scientists: get LOTS more like these and place them in better locations than airports or near heating vents - perhaps track more than 7 or 11... 100 or more might be better... just a suggestion)
The world is NOT going to end... yet anyway: no death by CO2 forcast... no global death by oil leaks either... Nope, man will adapt and survive... at least until Iran has their nuclear bomb... umm, then all bets are off...
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