NOAA massively tampers with US temperature data, to turn a century of cooling into warming.

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The two leading excuses for tampering with US temperature data are time of observation bias, and changing station composition.

The time of observation bias adjustment is based on the idea that most stations during the 1930s reset their min/max thermometers during the afternoon, causing some double counting of hot maximum temperatures. NOAA adjusts for this by cooling the past, and warming the present.

It is simple enough to test their theory out, by splitting the stations into two groups – 1930s morning stations, and 1930s afternoon stations. If the TOBS theory is valid, the morning stations (blue line below) would be warming faster than afternoon stations (red line below.) But as you can see, the slope of both lines is nearly identical – both are cooling at about the same rate. The morning stations are warmer, because they are located at lower latitudes where people are more likely to work outside earlier in the day, The average latitude of the morning stations is 38.5°N and the average latitude of the afternoon stations is 39.7°N.

The changing station composition adjustments are based on the fact the set of USHCN stations in use varies from year to year.  Again, it is simple enough to test this theory out, by using only the 896 stations which were active in both 1918 and 2018. The black line below is the set of all stations and the brown line is the set of stable stations. The stable stations are not cooling quite as fast as the set of all stations, but the difference is minimal.

Tamino tried to sucker his readers over this concept, but the bottom line is that there is no valid excuse to tamper with temperature data.

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NOAA data tampering is the excuse for turning cooling into warming.

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Which then becomes the excuse for destroying civilization.

Achieving these limits will require “rapid, far-reaching, and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society,”

Charles Mackay wrote about this in 1841.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Charles Mackay

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March 13, 2019 at 07:46AM

Putin’s plans to run the TurkStream pipeline through the Balkans won’t end well.

In the ongoing showdown between Russia and the West, Russia has a trump card: natural gas exports. Despite chilly relations, in 2018, gas shipments from Russia to Europe and Turkey hit an all-time high of 201.8 billion cubic meters (bcm). And even as the EU sticks to its guns on Russia sanctions, many of its members happily press ahead with their pet energy projects. Germany, for example, continues to back the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will bring natural gas from Russia to the north German coast.

Now Russia may be using another major project—TurkStream—to deepen its influence in Europe’s backyard. The pipeline, which traverses the Black Sea between Russia and Turkey, was inaugurated last year, and the first shipments of gas are expected toward the end of this year.Trending Articles

TurkStream is a commercial and geopolitical coup for the Russians. On the commercial front, the pipeline helps cement Gazprom’s position in Turkey, its second-largest customer after Germany. From a geopolitical perspective, the pipeline bypasses Ukraine and deepens Russia’s strategic partnership with Turkey at a time when Ankara’s ties to long-standing allies on both sides of the Atlantic are fraying.

TurkStream may strengthen Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hand in the Balkans too. In its second phase, if Putin gets his way, the pipeline will transport 15.75 bcm of gas through Bulgaria and then on to Serbia, Hungary, and Austria.

It is no secret that the Kremlin has been throwing its weight around in the EU’s backyard. But its frequently discussed methods—propaganda, disinformation, and intelligence ops—pale in comparison to its activities in the energy sector. The Kremlin has failed spectacularly in its efforts to stop countries like Montenegro and newly renamed North Macedonia from joining NATO. But its ability to co-opt politicians and businesspeople by dangling lucrative infrastructure contracts and hydrocarbon profits in front of them is unparalleled.

Europe is fighting back hard. Because TurkStream will terminate in the EU, Gazprom needs to bring it into conformity with European anti-monopoly rules. These rules, largely crafted after Russia shut off gas shipments to Ukraine in 2009, are geared toward diversifying energy supplies to avoid dependence on Russia. One such rule—that energy companies can’t simultaneously own transit infrastructure and sell gas through it—presents a particular challenge for Moscow, which would otherwise allow Gazprom to both build the pipeline and then supply it.

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March 13, 2019 at 07:21AM