During the interview, O’Connor asked Bastasch to further explain the phrase, temperature adjustments:
O’Connor: Temperature adjustments. That’s quite a euphemism, Michael. What does that mean? Temperature adjustments. Where did you get this data?
Bastasch: The adjustments that are made are changes to temperature readings gathered from thousands of buoys and ships and weather stations across the world. And what they do is they take the raw data and they put it through their computer programs to make adjustments for “biases” which are things like has the weather station changed places, is this ship using its engine intake instead of a bucket to measure temperatures, different types of buoys, things like that. And so what’s happening, over the years, is that scientists have applied more and more of these adjustments, but every single adjustment seems to make the warming curve steeper. And logic will dictate that some of these adjustments should actually cool the data but it always makes the data warmer. And instead of a cyclical pattern that we see where temperatures peak in the 40s, went down, and then peaked in 1998, we actually just have more of a linear warming trend that kind of fits the models instead of the models trying to fit the data.
An excerpt of the article is below:
A new study found adjustments made to global surface temperature readings by scientists in recent years “are totally inconsistent with published and credible U.S. and other temperature data.” [Read More]
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