New Zealand climate agency responds to charges of data manipulation

Written by Tony Hake, Climate Change Examiner | 27 November 2009

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New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) responded to charges that it had incorrectly adjusted the nation’s temperatures records to fit the global warming theory. In a statement released on its website, NIWA said the corrections were required to compensate for changes in monitoring station locations.

Yesterday, the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition charged that the government agency in charge of monitoring the nation’s climate modified the data improperly. The group said that more recent temperature readings were artificially raised to show warming when in fact there was none or very little.

NIWA countered saying that they use “internationally accepted techniques, including making adjustments for changes such as movement of measurement sites.” Temperatures can vary widely from one location to the next, even over relatively short distances, so climate scientist compensate for this by adjusting the temperature records.

The government agency cited one case in which a station in Wellington was moved from Thorndon to Kelburn in 1928. The new site sits at an altitude 122 m (400 feet) higher than the previous one and is on average 0.8°C cooler thus requiring an adjustment upwards in the temperature from the date it moved going forward.

Six of the seven official monitoring stations have had their temperatures modified resulting in what NIWA says is a 0.92° C per century temperature rise. Without those adjustments, the data shows a negligible 0.06° C per century temperature rise.

In a statement, NIWA said, “NIWA climate scientists have previously explained to members of the Coalition why such corrections must be made. NIWA’s Chief Climate Scientist, Dr David Wratt, says he’s very disappointed that the Coalition continue to ignore such advice and therefore to present misleading analyses.”

The announcement of possible improper modifcation of climate data comes on the heels of the Climategate scandal involving  Britain’s Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia and many of the world's top scientists.  Last week, thousands of private emails between scientists were released raising charges of collusion, data manipulation and falsifying of data.

More information – NIWA: Combining Temperature Data from Multiple Sites in Wellington

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# 2009-12-06 02:27

Greenland was Green when the Vikings discovered it!. Man made Global warming is a huge Fraud that was engineered by Al Gore and Enron. It is one of the three pillars being used to bring in Global government under the UN. The other two are the engineered economic collapse and systematic freedom to print as much Fiat money as they want, which is used to buy up assets and governments with huge loans and consolidate control of banks. Third is the health pandemic, also engineered along with a vaccine where tha patents were applied for before H1N1 even existed. If Copenghagen passes, its a lot more than a tax on the very air we breath or carbon tax, its part of a sophisticated Coup to bring in a New World Order that will see a small Elite having absolute power to do what they want.

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