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
@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.