NOAA cooks surface temperature data to remove global warming pause...

The raw satellite data is the only thing we can trust at the moment. 

Via Daily Caller:

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have found a solution to the 15-year “pause” in global warming: They “adjusted” the hiatus in warming out of the temperature record.
New climate data by NOAA scientists doubles the warming trend since the late 1990s by adjusting pre-hiatus temperatures downward and inflating temperatures in more recent years.
“Newly corrected and updated global surface temperature data from NOAA’s [National Centers for Environmental Information] do not support the notion of a global warming ‘hiatus,’” wrote NOAA scientists in their study presenting newly adjusted climate data.
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Image of the Day: Animated Gif shows how NASA and NOAA dramatically altered US climate history

The Gif shows the actual temperature record and the NASA and NOAA adjusted temperature record for the U.S. The actual record shows a cooling trend from the 1930's. BTW, they cooked the temperature record for the rest of the world in a similar manner.

Via Real Science:

NOAA and Federal Amber Alert websites are shutdown, but Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" site is up.

Priorities: NOAA and the Federal Amber Alert websites are shutdown, but Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" site is up.

Update: The Obama administration removed their heads from their arses long enough to restore the Amber Alert site. Michelle Obama's site is still up.

NOAA report finds 2012 was coolest year in last decade

NOAA spun this information to claim 2012 was one of the hottest 10 years on record. This could be true is the last 10 years really were the hottest on record. However, the instrumental temperature record has many poorly situated recording stations and questionable adjustments (always up.)

Via CNS News:

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently released its “State of the Climate in 2012” report, which states that “worldwide, 2012 was among the 10 warmest years on record.”
But the report “fails to mention [2012] was one of the coolest of the decade, and thus confirms the cooling trend,” according to an analysis by climate blogger Pierre Gosselin.
“To no one’s surprise, the report gives the reader the impression that warming is galloping ahead out of control,” writes Gosselin. “But their data shows just the opposite.”
Although the NOAA report noted that in 2012, “the Arctic continues to warm” with “sea ice reaching record lows,” it also stated that the Antarctica sea ice “reached a record high of 7.51 million square miles” on Sept. 26, 2012.
And the latest figures for this year show that there’s been a slowdown of melting in the Arctic this summer as well, with temperatures at the North Pole well below normal for this time of year. Meteorologist Joe Bastardi calls it “the coldest ever recorded.”
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NOAA Temperature Data Has Been Adjusted To Warmer Bias

By 1990, NOAA deleted 4500 of the 6000 temperature data stations they were using to create their temperature record. The number of US stations was down to a low of 136 as of 2007. This is a 90% reduction. An analysis of the deleted data sets compared to the ones NOAA kept indicates they created a +0.6°C warming in U.S. temperature history. NOAA kept the lower altitude data sets near the urban heat islands of cities.

From American Thinker:

Although satellite temperature measurements have been available since 1978, most global temperature analyses still rely on data captured from land-based thermometers, scattered more or less about the planet. It is that data which NOAA receives and disseminates – although not before performing some sleight-of-hand on it.

Smith has done much of the heavy lifting involved in analyzing the NOAA/GISS data and software, and he chronicles his often frustrating experiences at his fascinating website. There, detail-seekers will find plenty to satisfy, divided into easily-navigated sections -- some designed specifically for us “geeks,” but most readily approachable to readers of all technical strata.

Perhaps the key point discovered by Smith was that by 1990, NOAA had deleted from its datasets all but 1,500 of the 6,000 thermometers in service around the globe.

Now, 75% represents quite a drop in sampling population...

Read the entire post at American Thinker.