Over the past week, The Australian newspaper has launched a major reporting campaign based on a “forensic audit” that attempts to discredit the data, claiming it has found “widespread errors” that raise “questions about the integrity of records used for climate analysis”.
On Thursday night, the bureau released a statement saying the claims were based on “several misunderstandings” and accusations of human intervention in the data were “false and unsubstantiated.”
The bureau’s temperature records have been a constant target for climate science sceptics for more than 15 years. So what is going on?
Former prime minister and climate science denier Tony Abbott called for an independent review,
TISM has a song that seems on point for Abbott
If you’re looking to sum up the political landscape in a TISM lyric:
When there is flooding, or temperatures high
And embers aflame on a burning sky
“The science ain’t settled”, we smirk and lie
I can’t wait for my generation to die
Which generation though? Seems like all of them have an ever increasing amount of cookers.
But, it’s the <1% creating this doubt, let’s never forget who the enemy is.
It’s about the boomers. The song was originally titled “I can’t wait for Hugh Morgan to die”, but I guess that changed at some point.
Yeah, I know what the song was about (I’m that old) but it needs a re-write for the now-now times.
I’m going to put the blame squarely on every individual in an American truck.
Oh, they wrote a nice poem about that.
In suburban driveways, park your trucks
Run the kids to school in a HiLux
Cyclists, climate, all else in danger
In Raptors, Tritons, utes and Rangers
But “I can’t wait for my generation to die” is like… 2 years old now.
Hmmm. I saw something in my YouTube feed about something similar (but with different specifics). I’m going to guess there’s some “sceptic” misinformation campaign push, perhaps because of the El Niño?
@Hanrahan The Australian’s “forensic audit” can be trusted, after all they’re experts. Rupert has been a fossil for the last 20+ years.
I certainly wouldn’t trust meteorologists who spent 8 hours a day poring over weather data and figuring out how to compensate for dynamic biases like cities growing closer to weather stations, which would no doubt make data look worse than it already appears.
