The fraudulent alteration of climate data records knows no bounds
The article, Bureau of Meteorology considering change to El Niño and La Niña definitions – ABC News stated:
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is in discussions with international atmospheric agencies to overhaul how La Niña and El Niño are defined, potentially rewriting the record books of global weather history.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology BOM’s Dr Andrew Watkins, the bureau’s manager of climate prediction services, was interviewed by Tom Saunders.
Dr Watkins stated:
“We started a project last year about, are we monitoring El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) correctly,” Dr Watkins said.
“Is the Niño index the right thing to be using … how do we account for global warming?”
An improved process of analysis would take a more holistic approach, along with abandoning using ocean anomalies, since climate change is continually altering the figures.
The global weather agencies are looking at changing/adjusting the way El Ninos and La Ninas are reported.
The excuse for making these changes is because currently different agencies use different methods for declaring El Ninos and La Ninas.
This confusion was no more apparent than in August last year when a survey of seven agencies, including NOAA, JMA and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), showed six declaring the Pacific in La Niña territory, while only one, the Australian BOM, had the Pacific as neutral.
Climate change/global warming/greenhouse effect, call it whatever you like, is a theory that has never been scientifically proven.
There are zero scientific papers in the empirical records that show, from observations based on experiment, that carbon dioxide causes warming.
No one has ever measured this mythical warming of the Earth from infrared radiation coming from CO2 molecules in the atmosphere and directly attributed that measured warming to that IR radiation.
This despite 30 years and tens of thousands of published scientific papers. Forget their excuse, these agencies are colluding to adjust the El Niño Southern Oscillation or ENSO definition to reduce natural warming of the oceans and include their fake warming from their global warming theory.
The agencies have been adjusting temperatures to suit their political agenda for a long time.
The sea levels are also now being adjusted. I am very suspicious of HadSST sea surface temperatures with the elimination of the 1998 El Nino.
It mirrors Hadcrut5 surface temperature that has been substantially adjusted.
Now this pesky El Nino is getting in the way of their narrative. How can they say it is their CO2 that is doing all the warming when El Nino is?
There was this statement in the article, and they don’t say if this was the reporter’s words or BOM’s words.
One key area of contention with the current method is what baseline average should be used for the Niño 3.4 calculation, considering ‘climate change’ has warmed the Pacific by about 0.5 degrees Celsius in the past 50 years it is impossible for their climate change/global warming/GHE theory to warm the oceans.
The oceans are warmed by solar radiation in the visible spectrum, with a little bit of warming coming from undersea volcanoes. The GHE Theory cannot warm the oceans The_GHE_Theory_cannot_warm_the_oceans
ENSO is one small component of the global ocean cycles. As William Kininmonth said in his paper Rethinking the Greenhouse Effect:
We are a water planet. ‘The pattern of recent global warming underscores the validity of what meteorologists widely recognise: the oceans are the vital inertial and thermal flywheels of the climate system.
The corollary is, if one wants to control climate, it will be necessary to control the oceans. Efforts to ‘decarbonise’ in the hope of affecting global temperatures will be in vain.’ [Emphasis added]
A global change to defining ENSO events is realistically at least a few years away, but the BOM could adjust their baseline average to compensate for ‘climate change’ as early as this year, helping to align their published data with other agencies.
They sound like they are trying to redefine El Nino as being caused by ‘climate change’, when we all know it is caused by undersea volcanoes.
Alternatively they are trying to attribute part of the El Nino warming to their ‘climate change’ theory.
There is no end to their desire to adjust everything to suit their political agenda. It is about time we had some politicians with the gall to bring these agencies to account.
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About the author: Brendan Godwin served as a Weather Observations & General Meteorology Radio (EMR & Radar) Technical Officer, Australian Bureau of Meteorology (Retired)
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Tom
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They lie about everything else. No shock.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
“An improved process of analysis would take a more holistic approach, along with abandoning using ocean anomalies, since climate change is continually altering the figures. The global weather agencies are looking at changing/adjusting the way El Ninos and La Ninas are reported.”
anomaly | əˈnäməlē |
noun (plural anomalies)
1 something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected: (New Oxford American Dictionary)
I am old enough to have followed the anomaly of an El Niño event from the time of its discovery. Originally it was an anomaly of the Southern Hemisphere which was experiencing abnormal seasonal weather. Then it was observed that abnormal seasonal weather was also being observed in the Northern Hemisphere. So from its discovery, an El Niño event has been a Global Abnormal Weather Event whose existence could not be questioned.
However the someone began to define “extreme” Normal Seasonal Weather termed as being a Global La Niña event because the extreme Normal Seasonal. Weather was observed to be occurring at the same time. However, the extreme Normal Seasonal Weather was not an anomaly of either hemisphere as the El Niño Event Weather was.
Hence, confusion created by considering a Global La Nina Event to be abnormal seasonal weather when it was not; it is only extreme normal seasonal weather.
Have a good day
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
“An improved process of analysis would take a more holistic approach, along with abandoning using ocean anomalies, since climate change is continually altering the figures. The global weather agencies are looking at changing/adjusting the way El Ninos and La Ninas are reported.”
anomaly | əˈnäməlē |
noun (plural anomalies)
1 something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected: (New Oxford American Dictionary)
I am old enough to have followed the anomaly of an El Niño event from the time of its discovery. Originally it was an anomaly of the Southern Hemisphere which was experiencing abnormal seasonal weather. Then it was observed that abnormal seasonal weather was also being observed in the Northern Hemisphere. So from its discovery, an El Niño event has been a Global Abnormal Weather Event whose existence could not be questioned.
However the someone began to define “extreme” Normal Seasonal Weather termed as being a Global La Niña event because the extreme Normal Seasonal. Weather was observed to be occurring at the same time. However, the extreme Normal Seasonal Weather was not an anomaly of either hemisphere as the El Niño Event Weather was.
Hence, confusion created by considering a Global La Nina Event to be abnormal seasonal weather when it was not; it is only extreme normal seasonal weather.
Have a good day
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Jerry Krause
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Have no idea why this comment was double posted.
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Whokoo
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Hi Jerry. Your comment was such a pearl of wisdom that SunMod decided it should be reproduced for posterity.
Cheers
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Kevin Doyle
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Any honest observer to this subject should question why proponents of a ‘Theory’ need to alter history?
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Mervyn
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Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology needs to read the study by Robert Leamon et al (2021) published in the journal of Earth and Space Science.
This shattering study shows natural El Niño Southern Oscillations (ENSO) are, without any doubt, linked to the 22-year Hale solar cycle. This means El Niño and La Niña events can now be accurately predicted.
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