Russians Claim Cherry Picking on Climate Data

[Ernst Blofeld]

Essentially that the "value-added" CRU temp data that was derived from
Russian raw data was cherry-picked to show more 20th century warming,
according to some Russian researchers.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100020126/climategate-goes-serial-now-the-russians-confirm-that-uk-climate-scientists-manipulated-data-to-exaggerate-global-warming/
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Climategate has already affected Russia. On Tuesday, the Moscow-based
Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the
Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the
British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably
tampered with Russian-climate data.

The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not
substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say
Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country’s territory,
and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such
stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not
included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons,
rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations.

The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate
Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any
substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st
century.

The HadCRUT database includes specific stations providing incomplete
data and highlighting the global-warming process, rather than stations
facilitating uninterrupted observations.
On the whole, climatologists use the incomplete findings of
meteorological stations far more often than those providing complete
observations.

IEA analysts say climatologists use the data of stations located in
large populated centers that are influenced by the urban-warming
effect more frequently than the correct data of remote stations.

The scale of global warming was exaggerated due to temperature
distortions for Russia accounting for 12.5% of the world’s land mass.
The IEA said it was necessary to recalculate all global-temperature
data in order to assess the scale of such exaggeration.
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