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Climate alarmists manipulate the data to make 2015 look like the hottest year on record
Recent headlines, as well as President Obama’s State of the Union address, asserted that 2015 was the hottest year on record—1.7 degrees higher than the 135-year average. However, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which released the findings, had to manipulate its raw temperature data to come up with that result.
Now a new paper is explaining why NOAA’s conclusions are too hot.
Let me lay a little groundwork. There are three basic ways that climate scientists determine global temperatures: ground-based weather stations, weather balloons, and satellites.
The temperature data collected by these three sources must be adjusted to compensate for various factors and anomalies.
For example, the ground-based stations used to depend on regular thermometers. Those have been replaced with more sensitive digital thermometers. How does a scientist, trying to maintain data continuity, adjust for that change?
