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Old 28-08-2014, 07:25 AM
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Since the other thread is now closed I thought it would be worthwhile to post some background on the recent false claims published in the Australian:
http://www.theguardian.com/environme...-breaking-heat

Part of the BOM's response:
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The Bureau measures temperature at nearly 800 sites across Australia, chiefly for the purpose of weather forecasting. The Australian Climate Observations Reference Network – Surface Air Temperature (ACORN-SAT) is a subset of this network comprising 112 locations that are used for climate analysis. The ACORN-SAT stations have been chosen to maximise both length of record and network coverage across the continent. For several years, all of this data has been made publicly available on the Bureau’s web site.

Temperature records are influenced by a range of factors such as changes to site surrounds (eg. trees casting shade or influencing wind), measurement methods and the relocation of stations (eg. from a coastal to more inland location). Such changes introduce biases into the climate record that need to be adjusted for prior to analysis.

Adjusting for these biases, a process known as homogenisation, is carried out by meteorological authorities around the world as best practice, to ensure that climate data is consistent through time.

At the Bureau’s request, our climate data management practices were subject to a rigorous independent peer-review in 2012. A panel of international experts found the Bureau’s data and methods were amongst the best in the world.

The Bureau’s submissions to the review were published on the Bureau’s website, as were the findings of the review panel.

The Bureau’s methods have also been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
What I found interesting is that some of Australia's data has actually not only been independently assessed by peer-review but also as part of the Berkeley Earth (BEST) project.
Marohasy herself is dependent on funding from a climate-sceptic - she's hardly independent then.

Here's a catalogue of another 80 odd lies about science printed in The Australian:
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/cate...ar_on_science/
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Old 28-08-2014, 07:31 AM
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Or better still we could avoid this type of thread spam altogether and focus on astronomy.......... the other thread was closed for a reason

(and my 'ignore this user' list would not get so big ......)
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Old 28-08-2014, 08:09 AM
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We don't need another thread discussing it.
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