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In terms of temperature, what sort of a year did we have in Australia?

By Don Aitkin - posted Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Being curious, I asked for the metadata. Eventually I got a single line, most of which was obvious, latitude, longitude, height above mean sea level, followed by four or five alphanumerics. This was no basis for the “adjustments” to the raw data.

Which should I believe? The raw data showed a marked drop from the 1940’s to the 1970’s, which echoed similar drops elsewhere… The raw data is probably accurate. The homogenized data is certainly not. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that “homogenization” means “revise the story line” and “anthropogenic global warming” really means “humans changed the figures”.

Prof Philip Lloyd, Energy Institute, CPUT, SARETEC, Sacks Circle, Bellville

Second postscript: In response to Nga, others have noticed that the link does’t work, but it didn’t take long for me to find a better version, shown below. And if anyone wants to check this one (from the GISS website), they can do what I did. Go the the WUWT version, read the comments and follow the links.