Scientists Want NOAA To Stop Hiding Its Global Warming Data
Hundreds of scientists sent a letter to lawmakers Thursday warning
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists may have
violated federal laws when they published a 2015 study purporting to
eliminate the 15-year "hiatus" in global warming from the temperature
record.
"We, the undersigned, scientists, engineers, economists and others, who
have looked carefully into the effects of carbon dioxide released by human
activities, wish to record our support for the efforts of the Committee on
Science, Space and Technology to ensure that federal agencies complied
with federal guidelines that implemented the Data Quality Act," some 300
scientists, engineers and other experts wrote to Chairman of the House
Science Committee, Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith.
"In our opinion... NOAA has failed to observe the OMB [Office of
Management and Budget] (and its own) guidelines, established in relation
to the Data Quality Act."
The Data Quality Act requires federal agencies like NOAA to "ensure and
maximize the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information,
including statistical information."
Smith launched an investigation into NOAA's study last summer over
concerns it was pushed out to bolster President Barack Obama's political
agenda. Democrats and the media have largely opposed the probe into NOAA
scientists and political appointees, but Smith is determined to continue
investigating. NOAA officials surrendered emails to congressional
investigators in December.
"It is this Committee's oversight role to ensure that federal science
agencies are transparent and accountable to the taxpayers who fund their
research," Smith told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "Americans are
tired of research conducted behind closed doors where they only see
cherry-picked conclusions, not the facts. This letter shows that hundreds
of respected scientists and experts agree that NOAA's efforts to alter
historical temperature data deserve serious scrutiny."
Of the 300 letter signers, 150 had doctorates in a related field. Signers
also included: 25 climate or atmospheric scientists, 23 geologists, 18
meteorologists, 51 engineers, 74 physicists, 20 chemists and 12
economists. Additionally, one signer was a Nobel Prize winning physicist
and two were astronauts.
NOAA scientists upwardly adjusted temperature readings taken from the
engine intakes of ships to eliminate the "hiatus" in global warming from
the temperature record.
The NOAA study in dispute claims the scientists found a solution to the
15-year "pause" in global warming. They "adjusted" the hiatus in warming
the temperature record from 1998 to 2012, the "new analysis exhibits more
than twice as much warming as the old analysis at the global scale."
Is The NOAA Hiding Global Warming Data That Doesn't Fit Their Narrative?
Yes __ No __
"As has been acknowledged by numerous scientists, the engine intake data
are clearly contaminated by heat conduction from the structure, and as
such, never intended for scientific use," wrote climate scientists Dr.
Patrick J. Michaels and Dr. Richard S. Lindzen of the libertarian Cato
Institute on the in the science blog Watts Up With That. "Adjusting good
data upward to match bad data seems questionable."
"If we subtract the [old] data from the [new] data... we can see that that
is exactly what NOAA did," climate expert Bob Tisdale and meteorologist
Anthony Watts wrote on the same science blog. "It's the same story all
over again; the adjustments go towards cooling the past and thus
increasing the slope of temperature rise. Their intent and methods are so
obvious they're laughable."
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