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- There were Bigger Floods and Rain-bombs in the 1800’s Fri, 4 Mar 22, 4:18amIf only the $3 million dollar a day ABC could afford a science team that could do as much research as one unpaid volunteer does in a day?
- Magically correcting Australia’s thermometers from 1,500 kilometers away Thu, 8 Oct 20, 5:36amThe Australian Bureau of Meteorology uses “surrounding” thermometers to adjust for odd shifts in data (caused by things like long grass, cracked screens, or new equipment, some of which is not listed in the site...
- Bureau of Met reads tea leaves and finds warming at Horn Island that no thermometer can see Mon, 28 Sep 20, 2:40amKen Stewart has been looking at the mysterious pattern of temperatures on Horn Island -- right at the top of Cape York Australia. It’s almost as far north as things get in Australia. There was no thermometer there before...
- Giles weather station — sited next to almost the only bitumen for 500 km Fri, 25 Oct 19, 4:34pmI visited the famous Giles weather station a couple of weeks ago. It’s an ACORN top ranking site, it even has a Met office. Because it so central and so remote the measurements here are used to estimate temperatures...
- Giles weather station — sited next to the only bitumen for 500 km Fri, 25 Oct 19, 4:34pmI visited the famous Giles weather station a couple of weeks ago. It’s an ACORN top ranking site, it even has a Met office. Because it so central and so remote the measurements here are used to estimate temperatures...
- Feast your eyes on Streaky Bay’s thermometer — over bitumen for 31 long hot years Fri, 9 Aug 19, 5:09pmKen Stewart rates the Streaky Bay site as one of the worst he has seen This is an influential site because it’s in a remote area, is used to “correct” official ACORN sites, and has been running for a long...
- Wow, look at those BOM adjustments – trends up by two degrees C! Mon, 21 Jul 14, 1:51amThe mystery of Australian temperature adjustments Ken Stewart has been checking the Australian BOM official ACORN minima data against the raw data. This week he highlights the six very strange cases of Brisbane Airport, Amberley...
- Australian BOM “neutral” adjustments increase minima trends up 60% Wed, 11 Jun 14, 8:39pmBillions of dollars, climate models, predictions, and hundreds of press releases depend on the BOM records of Australian temperatures. There were so many inconsistencies, inexplicable adjustments and errors that we put in...
- Hottest summer record in Australia? Not so, says UAH satellite data Mon, 18 Mar 13, 12:58amThere are probably only ten people in Australia who haven’t heard it was the Hottest Ever, Record Summer Downunder. And they were probably born yesterday.
- Hottest summer record in Australia? Not even close, says UAH satellite data Mon, 18 Mar 13, 2:30amThere are probably only ten people in Australia who haven’t heard it was the Hottest Ever, Record Summer Downunder. And they were probably born yesterday.
- Mystery black-box method used to make *all new* Australian “hottest” ever records Sun, 3 Mar 13, 7:28pmThere were not many long term sites (in black dots) in the centre of Australia in 1930. This summer the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) invented a whole new metric to measure average national heat, which might be all very well...
- Threat of ANAO Audit means Australia’s BOM throws out temperature set, starts again, gets same results Mon, 18 Jun 12, 12:27amJoanne Nova and Ken Stewart A team of independent auditors, bloggers and scientists went through the the BOM “High Quality” (HQ) dataset and found significant errors, omissions and inexplicable adjustments...
- Australian temperature records shoddy, inaccurate, unreliable. Surprise! Thu, 15 Mar 12, 5:29pmThe BOM say their temperature records are high quality. An independent audit team has just produced a report showing that as many as 85 -95% of all Australian sites in the pre-Celsius era (before 1972) did not comply with...
- Australian sea level rises exaggerated by 8 fold (or maybe ten) Tue, 6 Dec 11, 1:25amThe Daily Telegraph exposed the NSW state government protecting the world from some dangerous scientific analysis of sea-levels. The officials pulled papers and posters within days of when they were due to be released, late...