”SatelliteGate” will deliver a new blow to the AGW scam
US Government
in Massive New Global Warming Scandal – NOAA Disgraced
UPDATE
8-10-2010: It would appear CoastWatch has removed the
original image. Never fear, it’s shown here. Please see author’s addendum at
end of article.
http://www.climatechangefraud.com/climate-reports/7479-us-government-in-massive-new-global-warming-scandal-noaa-disgraced
Global warming
data apparently cooked by U.S. government-funded body shows astounding
temperature fraud with increases averaging 10 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit.
The tax-payer
funded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has become mired
in fresh global warming data scandal involving numbers for the Great Lakes
region that substantially ramp up averages.
A beleaguered
federal agency appears to be implicated in the most blatant and extreme case of
climate data fraud yet seen. Official records have been confirmed as evidence
that a handful of temperature records for the Great Lakes region have been
hiked up by literally hundreds of degrees to substantially inflate the average
temperature range for the northeastern United States.
The web pages
at the center of this latest climate storm were created by NOAA in partnership
with Michigan State University.
Disgraced Administration
Mired in Another Climategate-style
Data Fix
Someone under
the pseudonym ‘Sportsmen’ anonymously tipped off skeptic blog, Climatechangefraud.com. Independent analysts affirm the web
pages as genuine.
In his email the faceless whistleblower explains that what precipitated the scoop was “a rather dubious report in the media that the Great Lakes temperatures have risen 10 to 15 degrees, I found it was downright laughable.”
He continues, “ Prior to this report I would frequent the ‘Coastal Watch’
temperature maps for northern Lake Michigan. When this report came
out it dawned on me that the numbers didn’t match what I had been reading on
the Coastal Watch temperature page.”
Under a scheme
called ‘Sea Grant’ NOAA collaborates with national universities to compile an
official federal temperature record. In this instance, the partnersip
is with Michigan University’s ‘Coastal Watch.’
Together the
two institutions show temperature maps for northern Lake Michigan registering
an absurd 430 degrees Fahrenheit -yes, you read it right –that’s four hundred
and thirty degrees-and this is by no means the highest temperature recorded on
the charts.
In the heated
debate about Earth’s ever-changing climate you certainly don’t need to be
scientist to figure out that the Great Lakes would have boiled away at a mere
212 degrees so something has seriously gone awry inside this well-funded
program.
In addition to
its civilian employees, NOAA research and operations are supported by 300
uniformed service members who make up the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps. But
don’t bet on anyone being court-marshalled over this
latest global warming fiasco.
Paid for
entirely from federal taxes, the shamed public body’s key responsibilities
include warning of dangerous weather and protection of ocean and coastal
resources, and conducts research to improve understanding and stewardship of
the environment.
Michigan State University Also Complicit in Fraud?
The worst
evidence of hyper-inflated global warming data is on a web page entitled,
‘Michigan State University Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach
Services.’
While another
web page identifies that Michigan State University’s ‘Coastal Watch’ site is officially connected to NOAA thus
implicating both institutions in a climate data conspiracy. At the bottom of
the web page mention is made of ‘Sea Grant’ that is described as a “unique partnership of
public and private sectors that combines research, education and technology
transfer for public service.“
The legend
further boasts that such data is shared across “ a
national network of universities meeting the changing environmental and
economic needs of Americans in coastal ocean and Great Lakes regions.”
NOAA Makes it
White Hot in Wisconsin
But our
intrepid anonymous whistleblower wasn’t done yet. He pointed out that Egg
Harbor, Wisconsin, really got cooking this July 4th around 9:59AM, according to NOAA and Coast Watch. It was there, at the bottom left row
of the temperature data points, that the records reveal on that day a
phenomenally furnace-like 600 degrees Fahrenheit.
Further
analysis of the web pages shows that the incredibly wide temperature swings
were occurring in remarkably short 10-hour periods-and sometimes in less than 5
hours. Strangely, none of the 250 citizens of the 78 families living in
the village appeared to notice this apocalyptic heatwave
during their holiday festivities.
Hidden Data
Spike Hikes Heating Averages
But our
sharp-eyed stranger comments, “ As I understand it,
the current available Gif data maps are several for the latest dates, but the
archives have less dates to choose from. It’s possible that in the past these
numbers were incorrect but in the archive system you do not see the numbers
that could have been in gross error.”
So it may
reasonably be inferred climate fraudsters had a perfect opportunity here to
fraudulently apply overcooked and overlooked data so that America’s Joe Public
would be none the wiser that a few climate numbers vastly ramped up the
national temperature averages.
Laughably, NOAA
publishes a caveat at the bottom right corner of their web page warning about
their data is “Not to be used for navigation purposes!”
The current
head of NOAA is Dr. Jane Lubchenco,
nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the United States Senate
on March 19, 2009 and is the first woman to serve as NOAA administrator. On her
appointment Lubchenco declared that science would
guide the agency and that she expects it to play a role in developing a green
economy. You can say that again!
Readers now
interested in doing their own detective work may wish to peruse the further
data found here (http://www.coastwatch.msu.edu/michigan/archive/m1/Jul04/")and here (http://www.coastwatch.msu.edu/michigan/archive/m1/)
to further ascertain whether climate doomsayers have rigged
more ‘real world’ temperatures in a shabby scheme to win support for green
energy tax hikes.
Author’s
Addendum:
Of major concern here is whether the false data has been fed into climate
models ascertaining the broader temperature averages for the entire United
States. The alleged response from NOAA as shown in the comments below this article, indicates evasiveness by Chuck Pistis,
NOAA Program Coordinator, in answering the question. Why so?
I also applied
due diligence and asked internationally renowned climatologist, Dr. Timothy
Ball to take a look at the numbers. Here is what Dr. Ball observed:
“I have read
your article and believe it is a very valid observation of the data as
reported. At best the entire incident indicates gross incompetence,
at worst it indicates a deliberate attempt to create a temperature record that
suits the political message of the day.”
Moreover, I
have written to NOAA but am still awaiting their reply. I specifically asked
whether this extravagantly false data was fed into climate models to help ramp
up the U.S. climate numbers by “400%” as
commented on by analyst, Jo Nova. The Australian researcher provides an excellent
summary to an important paper that removes all doubt that climate models are
utterly flawed. As Dr. Ball points out—perhaps we know why.
http://www.climatechangefraud.com/climate-reports/7491-official-satellite-failure-means-decade-of-global-warming-data-doubtful
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.
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.
NOAA has
reported a succession of record warm temperatures in recent years based on such
satellite readings but these may now all be undermined.
World-renowned
Canadian climatologist, Dr. Timothy Ball, after casting his expert eye over the
shocking findings concluded, “At best the entire incident indicates gross
incompetence, at worst it indicates a deliberate attempt to create a
temperature record that suits the political message of the day.”
Great Lakes
Sees Unphysical Wild Temperature Fluctuations
Great Lakes
users of the satellite service were the first to blow the whistle on the wildly
distorted readings that showed a multitude of impossibly high temperatures.
NOAA admits that the machine-generated readings are not continuously monitored
so that absurdly high false temperatures could have become hidden amidst the
bulk of automated readings.
In one example
swiftly taken down by NOAA after my first article, readings for June and July
2010 for Lake Michigan showed crazy temperatures off the scale ranging in
the low to mid hundreds - with some parts of the Wisconsin area
apparently reaching 612 F. With an increasing number of further errors now
coming to light the discredited NOAA removed the entire set from
public view. But just removing them from sight is not the same as addressing
the implications of this gross statistical debacle.
NOAA Whitewash
Fails in One Day
NOAA’s Chuck Pistis went into whitewash mode on first hearing the story
about the worst affected location, Egg Harbor, set by his instruments onto fast
boil. On Tuesday morning Pistis loftily declared, “I
looked in the archives and I find no image with that time stamp. Also we don’t
typically post completely cloudy images at all, let alone with temperatures.
This image appears to be manufactured for someone’s entertainment.”
But later that
day Chuck and his calamitous colleagues now with egg on their faces, threw in
the towel and owned up to the almighty gaffe. Pistis
conceded,
“I just
relooked and (sic) the image again AND IT IS in my archive. I do not know
why the temperatures were so inaccurate (sic). It appears to have been a
malfunction in the satellite. WE have posted thousands if (sic) images
since the inauguration of our Coatwatch (sic) service
in 1994. I have never seen one like this.”
But the
spokesman for the Michigan Sea Grant Extension, a ‘Coastwatch’
partner with NOAA screening the offending data, then confessed that
its hastily hidden web pages had, indeed, showed dozens of
temperature recordings three or four times higher than seasonal
norms. NOAA declined to make any comment as to whether such a glitch
could have ramped up the averages for the entire northeastern United States by
an average of 10-15 degrees Fahrenheit by going undetected over a longer time
scale.
Blame the
Clouds, not us says NOAA
NOAA further
explained that cloud cover could affect the satellite data making
the readings prone to error. But Pistis failed
to explain how much cloud is significant or at what point the readings become
unusable for climatic modeling purposes.
As one
disgruntled observer noted,
“What about
hazy days? What about days with light cloud cover? What about days with partial
cloud cover? Even on hot clear days, evaporation leads to a substantial amount
of water vapor in the atmosphere, particularly above a body of water. How can
this satellite data be even slightly useful if it cannot “see” through clouds?”
Top
Climatologist Condemns Lack of Due Diligence
The serious
implications of these findings was not lost on Dr. Ball who responded that such
government numbers with unusually high or low ranges have been exploited for
political purposes and are already in the record and have
been used in stories across the mainstream media, which is a widely
recognized goal.
The
climatologist who advises the military on climate matters lamented such
faulty data sets,
“invariably remain unadjusted. The failure to provide
evidence of how often cloud top temperatures “very nearly” are the same as the
water temperatures, is unacceptable. If the accuracy of the data is
questionable it should not be used. I would suggest it is rare given my
knowledge of inversions, especially over water.“
How Many other
Weather Satellites Are Also ‘Degraded’?
A
key issue the government administration declined to
address was how many other satellites may also be degrading. ‘NOAA-16’ is not
an old satellite - so why does it take a member of the public to
uncover such gross failings?
Climate
professor, Tim Ball, pointed out that he’s seen these systemic failures before
and warns that the public should not expect to see any retraction or an end to
the doom-saying climate forecasts:
“when McIntyre caught Hansen and NASA GISS
with the wrong data in the US I never saw any adjustments to the world data
that changes to the US record would create. The US record dominates the record,
especially of the critical middle latitudes, and to change it so that it goes
from having nine of the warmest years in the 1990s to
four of them being in the 1930s, is a very significant
change and must influence global averages.”
Each day that
passes sees fresh discoveries of gross errors and omissions. One astute
commenter on www.climatechangefraud.com
noted, “it is generally understood that water heats up
more slowly than land, and cools off more slowly. However, within the NOAA
numbers we have identified at least two sets of data that run contrary to this known
physical effect.
The canny
commenter added, “two data points in question are at Charlevoix, where the
temperature is listed at 43.5 degrees – while temperature nearby (+/- 30 miles)
is 59.2 degrees; and in the bay on the east side of the peninsula from Leland
is listed at 37.2 degrees. These are supposedly taken at 18:38 EDT (19:38
Central, or 7:38PM). These are both taken in areas
that appear to be breaks in the cloud cover.
With NOAA’s
failure to make further concise public statements on this sensational story it
is left to public speculation and ‘citizen scientists’ to ascertain whether ten
years or more of temperature data sets from satellites such as NOAA-16 are
unreliable and worthless.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/26603
Top Climate
Scientists Speak out on the Satellitegate Scandal
In an
escalating row dubbed ‘Satellitegate’ further
evidence proves NOAA knew of
these faults for years. World’s top climate scientists and even prior
governmental reports cite underfunding and misallocation as the trigger for
spiraling satellite data calamities. Key flaws with five
satellites undermines global data.
Most disturbing
of all is that it took publication of my article last week to persuade the
authorities to withdraw the errant NOAA-16 satellite from service. But as Dr.
John Christy indicates, the real Satellitegate is not
about one satellite. The scandal is endemic with comparable flaws across the
entire network; the scandal is also that it took a tip off from a member of the
public and the widespread broadcast of my article before one of the offending
junk boxes, NOAA-16, got taken down.
Readers who missed
the details when this sensational story first broke can see here at Climatedepot.com.
NOAA’s chief
Program Administrator, Chuck Pistis, at first
disingenuously tried to discredit my report and whitewash the matter with
disinformation. Indeed, we may have a smoking gun of a cover up when we
contrast and compare latest announcements with the offending satellite’s
AVHRR Subsystem Summary.
The official
summary shows no report of any ‘sensor degradation’ since
its launch in September 2000. Yet on the advice of top climate scientists I’m
reliably informed that such failures were made known to NOAA years ago.
Nonetheless,
the U.S. agency continued to sell its flawed data products to numerous international
institutions without making it public that satellite sensors were “degraded”
and unreliable for assessing climate change.
NOAA-16 had
been commissioned as a polar-orbiting satellite featuring AMSU,
AVHRR and High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) measuring instrumentation which were discovered by a
member of the public last week to have suffered catastrophic failure. Dr John Christy drew my attention to specific concomitant
flaws he had uncovered and reported with the AMSU
years ago.
NOAA in Fear of Rush of International
Lawsuits?
The snuffed out
satellite had been run continuously up until being taken offline soon after my
article went viral (August 10, 2010) in which I exposed the full extent of how
seriously degraded it’s sensors were. The automatic readings had been
contaminated by hundreds, if not thousands, of false and absurdly high
temperature readings, some as high as 612 degrees Fahrenheit (boiling point of
water is 212 F.). We now know NOAA was aware of these outrageous anomalies at
least since 2006 but they were not remedied ( see
below).
Worryingly, as
to how many of its users (mostly international meteorologists and climate
researchers) were affected has not beent revealed by
NOAA. But we know the automated numbers were sold throughout the world and it’s
readings of land and ocean temperatures have been used by climate scientists in
their models since the satellite’s launch in September 2000. As a consequence
and without full disclosure by NOAA, it is feared innumerable scientific
studies about rising global temperatures are now rendered entirely invalid.
It is open to
speculation whether NOAA may have been hesitant to admit to long standing
faults for fear of a rash of lawsuits from its customers, mainly national
governments and university research institutes. Based on such data most
scientists agree that our planet may have warmed by 0.6 degrees Centigrade
during the 20th century (with a margin of error of 0.5C degrees-but this error margin now looks way off).
From analysis
of the bogus online temperature data before NOAA removed it from view, it may
be determined that almost all the false temperature readings were far in excess
of expected averages—many by a factor of four or five – almost none of the
bogus temperatures were lower than average.
US Government Foresaw Satelligate
Failures Mounting
But it wasn’t
just a handful of skeptical climatologists sounding the alarm. The
National Academy of Sciences, in its 2007 455-page report concluded that
because of degradation in the U.S. satellite network, the country’s ability to
monitor the climate and severe weather was “at great risk.”
By coincidence,
in the same week my article led to the shut down of
NOAA-16, Susan Bohan published her excellent article here
in which she exposes the broader systemic failures in the wider satellite
network. Among the calamities Bohan reported, “the satellite, Landsat 7, is broken. And it’s emblematic of
the nation’s battered satellite environmental monitoring program.”
The term ‘satelligate’ was coined by the CO2insanity.com
blog after it diligently picked up on the piece.
At Least Five Climate Measuring Satellites Compromised
Crucially, Bohan’s article wasn’t based on any so-called
unsubstantiated ‘big oil’ funded skeptic disinformation plot, a dying urban
myth anyway, but on a US Government Accountability Office report (GAO). GAO
concedes that nine new climate instruments on the latest generation of
satellites were canceled or their capabilities scaled back in 2006. GAO is the
investigative arm of the U.S. Congress.
As a
consequence at least five such satellite programs have been identified as being
either degraded or seriously compromised:
Perhaps its no accident that the current
head of NOAA, Dr. Jane Lubchenco and hand picked by
President Barack Obama, declared that her agency would play its role in
developing a green economy.
Thus, despite
the US Government spending in excess of $80 billion in climate research a
failure to allocate sufficient funds to the satellite program has now resulted
in serious damage to the credibility of the entire data set (note: the cost of
a typical NOAA satellite is around $11 million and the network recoups the US
government millions by selling data worldwide).
Evidence from Climate Experts Points to Conspiracy to
Deceive
Dr. Roy Spencer
commented, “Obviously, whatever happened to NOAA-16 AVHRR
(or the software) introduced HUGE errors. We always had trouble with NOAA-16 AMSU, and dropped it long ago. It had calibration drifts
that made it unsuitable for climate monitoring.”
Dr Christy particularly addressed faults exclusively with
the AMSU instrumentation and not problems with the AVHRR system. He advised me, “We spent a lot of time in
2006 trying to deal with the issues of NOAA-16, but the errors were so erratic,
we ended up eliminating it as one of the backbones of our dataset.”
As many such
analysts have long been advising, these failures go way beyond the shockingly
absurd numbers of 604 degrees recorded at Egg harbor, Wisconsin.
Dr. Timothy
Ball, climate consultant to the military and lead author of a new
book
debunking the greenhouse gas theory, observes, “At best the entire incident
indicates gross incompetence, at worst it indicates a deliberate attempt to
create a temperature record that suits the political message of the day.”
Mainstream Media Turn Blind Eye to Another
‘Gate’ Scandal
In 2006 Christy
and Spencer had sought to complete a technical analysis on NOAA-16’s AMSU but Christy reveals
that it, “was very tedious and we chased a lot of rabbits that turned out to be
dead ends.”
Such appalling
facts just don’t appear in the ‘on message’ mainstream media and all the while
researchers have been struggling in vain to keep pace with the ever-increasing
numbers gap due to ongoing sensor degradation. For example, each month Dr.
Christy works with Dr. Spencer trying to piece together the faltering patchwork
of global temperature datasets given
by a total of eleven instruments flying on eleven different satellites since
1979.
Over such a
long time period it has been suggested that cosmic rays or particle impacts may
be deteriorating the highly sensitive instrumentation on board the crafts.
Spencer
publishes his findings on his blog while a fuller assessment of the satellite
problems found by Dr. Christy is found here
(http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/readme.13Apr2010).
Will Systemic Measuring Failures Cost Even more Lives?
Respected
internationally for his world leading weather forecasts, Piers Corbyn, of Weatheraction.com is another expert lamenting the
scandalous failures in the satellite network.
Piers thundered
on the Climate Realists blog, “This revelation further confirms something I and Tom Harris
said on Russia Today TV Feb (5th) 2010 namely that WE JUST DO NOT reliably KNOW
what world temperatures are and have been doing over the last decade or
century.”
Corbyn had correctly forecast this summer’s West Russia
heatwave and a general increase in VERY extreme
events (evidenced by Pakistan & China horrendous floods and “super cold” in
parts of S hemisphere) weeks and months in advance.
A Growing List of Global Warming Satellite Measuring
Failures
Satelligate points to yet another infuriating government cover up of fudged global warming numbers. Despite the
clamor for years from scientists from all sides of the global warming debate
for more transparency and better access to such data, zealous gatekeepers within
NASA and Britain’s CRU have refused such requests and unlawfully defied Freedom
of Information (FOIA) demands.
As indicated on
WattsupWithThat such errors and deficiencies along with
plain old-fashioned data fraud have long been swept under the carpet with ever
more lives put at risk.
Indeed, public
confidence in the reliability of official warnings of apocalyptic doom from
purveyors of NOAA’s trumpeted fake data has been met with increasing cynicism.
A growing number of taxpayers are voicing opposition to the zealous rush
towards crippling tax hikes dismantling first world standards of living without
first having ascertained the proper facts.
Questions NOAA Refuses to Answer
In light of
concerns that NOAA has officially admitted to only withdrawing “images” from
its archives without confirming all bogus data has also been dumped, I posed
the following and yet unanswered questions to NOAA’s Dr. Jane Lubchenco:
Until Lubchenco comes clean I fear we may be witnessing another ‘Phil Jones’ in the
making. For without full transparency and frank answers then the endless media
hype about the dangers from the so-called ‘greenhouse gas theory’ remains just
that—hype.
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Now this is very important so make sure you read it clearly..this is equal to climategate..and i bet you have not heard this story on your nightly tv news..NOAA has been using
faulty satellites to record temperatures..temperatures
have been recorded that cannot possibly be true..and yet these figures have and are used to frank
their claims of the world heating up..can
you see a problem arising here?..and
then this information is used thoughout the world as
a sort of peer reviewed confirmation of temperatures..NOAA
is complicit becuase they have known this but because
of the fear of being found out and ruining the AGW
scam they have hidden it..until
now..and the main
investigator of this story should get a knighthood..this is just purely criminal..and the fact no mainstream is covering it is also damning..pass this on to as many
people as you can..they are
ripping us off with lies and looking to create a green world using us as the
cannon fodder..maintain the
rage..
Source: http://seeker401.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/noaa-caught-in-temperature-fraud-satellitegate-will-deliver-a-new-blow-to-the-agw-scam/