Further significant doubts have been cast on the accuracy of global surface temperature results following the discovery that electronic thermometers in Australia have read up to 0.7°C higher than traditional mercury glass units. The Australian dataset is a major component of global compilations since it provides an important guide to one of the largest land masses in the southern hemisphere. After many years of trying, local freedom of information requests from scientists have forced the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) to release comparative information from the two measuring devices around Brisbane airport. It shows that automatic readings are higher 41% of the time, compared with 32% when the temperatures were the same.
Electronic temperatures devices have been in general use in Australia since 1995. The guidance of the World Meteorological Organisation suggests averaging temperatures over a minute to remove corruptions caused by temporary effects such as a sudden gust of hot air. But the BoM records highs for just a second, something that basic mercury thermometers cannot do. For years, the BoM has refused to release comparative instrument data.
The Australian journalist Jo Nova takes a sceptical view as to why the BoM has been so stubborn. Potentially, the electronic sensors “offer a bonanza of propaganda headlines for the Green Blob to pick from, especially when ‘coldest ever days’ get ignored by the media”. The sensors are offering many more headlines of records for heat, heatwaves, hottest nights, more days over 35°C, she continued, adding, “there are many cherries to be picked here”.
The use of highly sensitive measuring equipment to produce temperature records and hence whip up climate emergency fears is common throughout the world. Last year In the U.K., the Met Office promoted a ‘record’ high of 40.3°C halfway down the runway at RAF Coningsby on the afternoon of July 19th. Admittedly, the record was declared to have stood for longer than a second – 60 seconds to be precise. To this day, the Met Office has refused to answer a number of Daily Sceptic enquiries about possible non-climatic causes of this widely promoted record. In the light of the Australian disclosures, we wonder if the Met Office should re-examine the way it declares heat records and compare the results of its measuring devices with those produced by basic mercury thermometers.
Dr. Jennifer Marohasy analysed the three years of Australian data that was eventually squeezed out of the BoM and found significant differences between the two measuring devises. In the most extreme cases, the modern probe was 0.7°C hotter than the mercury reading. She said it contradicted claims by the Bureau’s director Andrew Johnson that measurements from the two instruments are equivalent. Marohasy estimates the BoM holds data for a total of 38 different locations across Australia. The small Brisbane airport cache is thought to be the first public release of this data.
The former Liberal MP and noted climate sceptic Craig Kelly was merciless in his condemnation of the BoM actions. Noting the Bureau’s decision to reduce the size of protective Stevenson screens, which he said was known to artificially increase temperature recordings by up to 1°C, he concluded that Australia’s temperature records “have been cooked to artificially manufacture ‘hottest day ever’ headlines in the media”. Heads must roll, he demanded, but with the new Labor Government protecting this “malfeasance” at the BoM “they’ll get away with it”.
The Australian weighed in by suggesting that the Brisbane revelations raised some “difficult questions” about the BoM’s ability to claim new temperature records are being broken. “Given that new records are claimed on the basis of readings that are only a tiny fraction of a degree warmer, the problem is obvious,” it said in an editorial. The lengths to which the Bureau has gone not to cooperate with FOI requests, it continued, “gives the impression of an organisation with something to hide”. The newspaper said it was “truly astonishing” that the Bureau should suggest that understanding the effect of instrumentation was of no public interest. “This is particularly so given the Bureau was simultaneously publishing reports and giving media interviews claiming that a temperature increase of 1.5°C would have devastating consequences for the planet,” the editorial said.
The BoM information from 38 sites is of more than academic interest, noted the newspaper. This is because much of it eventually finds its way into what becomes the international global temperature record, on which climate change policy is based. The information is the property of the public, it states, and all the parallel records “should be made immediately available alongside all of the other data the Bureau prides itself on making public”.
These disturbing revelations about temperature gathering in Australia add to the numerous concerns that are mounting about the entire global surface temperature record. The Daily Sceptic has covered this story in great detail (see here, here and here). In this case, it seems that modern gauges have been used to establish new ‘records’, compared with the old mercury recordings. In addition, there may be a slight warming bias over the last 30 years, and if confirmed this will add to further corruption of global results. The BoM claimed its new electronic sensors were adjusted in light of mercury readings, but the Brisbane release suggests otherwise. It is particularly disturbing when public officials refuse to release scientific figures for no apparent good reason. The example of Climategate shows that when activists and scientists refuse to release basic data, it is time to start counting the spoons, if not undertaking an audit of the whole canteen.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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No outbreak just power play.
o/t a bit but ?
Wow.
This could do with further investigation.
Was a comment on the Mail article linked to for this page.
What I find fascinating is that they keep telling us that gain of function research is vital because we need to learn how to defend ourselves against super viruses, but in the meantime lab grown viruses are more commonplace than actual viruses.
More commonly dangerous, our entire evolution has been predicated on surviving attack from natural viri but that is why novel manmade ones are potentially so dangerous.
Not a scientist, just sayin .
that they keep telling us that gain of function research is vital
For “gain-of-function”, read “biological warfare”.
I think this will turn out to be the truth, but what is Faucis gain as a traitor?
As far as can be seen his institute contributed a measly $600,000 towards research, that is known about.
I don’t think you can take anything China says at face value.
I’d imagine this is about making the world terrified once more.
Does China have permission for this latest outbreak because Lord Bill of the Gates of Hell has said his next pandemic will be smallpox?
Most outbreaks happening in Inner Mongolia and Manchuria, not densely populated and not Han Chinese either
Not Chinese at all from their perspective.
The Uigers seem to be getting it easy, probably because lots of them are already locked up for re-education.
Same Goes for the Tibetans. Not Chinese, minority in their own country because forced Sinification
Free Tibet!
Much like March 2020, China claim they’re having an outbreak and having to lock down in order to convince the useful idiots in the west that they need to do the same.
Staggeringly, the unvaccinated are now being blamed for all cause excess mortality!
UNREAL! Look who Health Minister blames CCP Lockdown Deaths for!
Tomorrow’s headline, COP26 mandates compulsory covid vaccination to tackle climate change.
China’s role in the fraud has been to provide the optics; If China claims to be in the midst of a deadly outbreak, then it’s because the pandemic narrative needs a boost in the US. Cue footage of extreme containment measures, hazmat suits and whole city streets being disinfected. Cameras rolling, ACTION!
When the revolution comes, the revolting masses need to forget the politicians & cut the head off the chicken, go for the billionaires!
Talking of animal farm… dis funneey!
https://twitter.com/SheepNewsTV/status/1457633851333873665?s=20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWzG9sFlFHE
‘You Can Deny It All You Want’: Rand Paul Rips Fauci Over Gain-Of-Function Research
Things could always be worse for us British purebloods.We could be in Austria. We could be in Lithuania. We could be in Victoria. We could be in China.
Fake News?
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich- The Corona Plandemic and the International Legal Approach Lawyer’s Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
Summarizes his case.
Oh my. I sure hope no government follows their lead in locking people down. It doesn’t seem to work very well. Hope someone at the WHO and Westminster take note.
The ongoing COVID-19 nonsense here in the United States exists solely and exclusively because our governments have failed to use the correct treatment. They used so-called “vaccines” when Japan has just proven, in less than ONE MONTH, that Ivermectin can wipe out the disease. IVM was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 2015. One of the 3 most important drugs in human history: Aspirin, Penicillin, and Ivermectin. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Lol. Anyone not seeing this for what it is (“lockdowns are not enough, we need to vaccinate everyone and their dog”) is daydreaming.
Unraveling the lies of the pandemic one by one – with PANDA co-founder Nick Hudson
https://youtu.be/OHtQ1JRoTOs
You’d have thought this was made within the last eighteen months, not four years ago:
YOU JUST WANT PEOPLE TO DIE
https://youtu.be/eXWhbUUE4ko
Can we believe anything in the media these days, editing is just too good.
Hmm. This delta variant seems to be hanging around a lot longer than the other variants…
Looks like the CCP is oriental equivalent of nutty New Zealand and over-the-top Oz when it comes to COVID. All this kerfuffle over a total, out of a population of nearly one and a half billion, of 62 alleged infections, according to the latest Worldometers COVID report. Funny how, irrespective, of their alleged political ideologies, they’re all singing off the same authoritarian songsheet – presumably with lyrics courtesy of Herr Schwab and the oligarchs running the Great Reset.
I doubtthe Daily Gawp bothered to publish this graphic, which shows the horrendous death toll from the resurgent plague now supposedly ravaging the Communist superstate (which, since they kicked off the pandemic in early 2020, has produced far more billionaires than the US and UK combined!)
Wow, 65 new cases. There’s more people in my town of 15k people who’ve got it at the moment, and it’s otherwise business as usual here. Just goes to show what happens when you bully and coerce a naive, weak public into doing as the authorities want, whatever the reality of the situation.
PS. My area has had more people die in road traffic accidents over the past month than of COVID. Let that sink in.