Making it all up, and then shoving it up our ...(edited)

Russ Steele

As readers of this blog know, Ellen and I support Anthony Watts' Surface Station survey project.  We recently surveyed sites in South Dakota and Wyoming. We passed through Wells Nevada on our way home, and I remembered there was a surface station in Wells that we may have missed on a previous trip to Idaho. I checked the NCDC Data base and found that the Well site had been closed in July of 2004, so we did not stop.  Here is a screen shot of the data base.

I was reading this analysis of some sites in Maine by John Simmons a volunteer at the Kristen Byrnes Science Foundation: Makin" Up Climate Data... Junk, and thought I should check to see if NCDC is still posting temperature data for the closed Wells Nevada site.  Here is the evidence from the NCDC data base right up to 2006.

The NCDC data base I have access only goes to 2006, they could be making up 2007 and 2008 temperatures as well.  Remember this is one of those "high quality" surface stations that James Hansen and his fellow travelers at GISS are using to calculate global warming in the United States. Folks here is more evidence they are making it all up.  The Wells site was closed in 2004. Where did these Wells temperatures come from out to 2006?  As Kristen wrote, they are making it up from junk.

This is the junk data that CARB is using to justify  all those greenhouse gas regulations that will require you to modify your lifestyle and destroy our economy in the process.  Rise up people, you are being ....

Comments

[Mike C]

Russ, just a minor clarification, the article was written by John Simmons who is a volunteer for the Kristen Byrnes Science Foundation.

[A Lefty]

"So how is that? The station closed in 2004 but the data continues until 2006? Did some of the worlds leading climate scientists create the data from thin air? Well, not exactly.

Part of the USHCN data is created by a computer program called “filnet” which estimates missing values. According to the NOAA, filnet works by using a weighted average of values from neighboring stations."

The above slightly modified quote (to change the date from 1995 to 2004) is from the article by John Simmons (See first comment above) - but I too am curious as to whether your statement (in essence) that they just made it up out of thin (but v. warm - ha,ha) air is true. So I am going to email the NCDC and ask them!

[Russ]

Mike,

Thanks for catching my error. I have edited the post to fix the problem.

[Russ]

Lefty,

One of the closest sites to Wells in Hollister Idaho, which we visited and found out that they do not record temperature data on weekends. We wrote up the problem here showing some of the Form 91s from the station with the missing data. Now if Hollister is used to do the "filnet" calculations for Wells Nevada, GISS is feeding garbage data in to their "filnet" computer program.