Tag Archives: Bureau of Meteorology
Australia Weather Bureau Caught Tampering With Climate Numbers
Energy From The Daily Caller Chris White 9:57 PM 07/31/2017 Australian scientists at the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) ordered a review of temperature recording instruments after the government agency was caught tampering with temperature logs in several locations. Agency officials admit that the problem with instruments recording low temperatures likely happened in several locations throughout…
August 2, 2017 in Climate reconciliation.
Clanging of the bells on extreme weather change
Guest essay by Bob Fernley-Jones Our taxpayer funded broadcaster here in Oz, the ABC, has recently aired a scary story in its "science" TV show Catalyst, entitled Climate Extremes. (For the brave, the video and web page plus comments is here). For extra emphasis on TV there were repeated shots of several heat stressed old…
August 28, 2013 in IPCC.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology Gets it Wrong
Guest essay by Ed Thurstan Abstract The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) released a new temperature dataset – the "Australian Climate Observations Reference Network – Surface Air Temperature" (ACORN-SAT) in early 2012, with data to the end of 2011. It is supposedly a ground-breaking daily homogenised dataset. Ground-breaking it certainly is. The BoM has brought…
July 4, 2013 in Climate data, Weather_stations.
Claim: Humans play role in Australia's "angry" hot summer
From the University of Melbourne, where being angry about "weather is not climate" isn't just a science, it's a way of life: Human influences through global warming are likely to have played a role in Australia's recent "angry" hot summer, the hottest in Australia's observational record, new research has found. The research led by the…
June 27, 2013 in heat wave, Modeling, Weather.
A mean study of Australian temperature
Mean and reported "Mean" temperatures and the consequences of the difference Guest essay by Tom Quirk The convention in meteorology is to report mean temperatures as the average of minimum and maximum temperatures. This assumption has been tested using temperatures recorded every 30 minutes through the 24 hour day at various locations in Australia by…
May 10, 2013 in Climate data.
One benefit of the Australian heat wave
Story submitted by Eric Worrall At least one Australian is not unhappy at the country's recent hot spell. The following is a picture of something I pulled off a private part of my anatomy earlier this year.
January 17, 2013 in heat wave, Weather.
Australians just aren't going to know what rainfall is
While the Waragamba dam overflows in NSW, and the Sydney Morning Herald reports… 'Unprecedented amount of rain': flood evacuations after Sydney dam spills …and many Australians wonder just what the hell they ARE paying drought doomsayer turned discredited climate commissioner Tim Flannery for…at Andrew Bolt's blog, he writes about some of the BS that have…
March 7, 2012 in Alarmism, Drought, Rainfall, Weather.
Climate Audit requested of the Australian BoM and CSIRO
On Jo Nova's site, the cat is set amongst the pigeons: A team of skeptical scientists, citizens, and an Australian Senator have lodged a formal request with the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) to have the BOM and CSIRO audited. The BOM claim their adjustments are "neutral" yet Ken Stewart showed that the trend in…
The approach of Cyclone Yasi as told by the data
In our previous post, we highlighted the BoM weather station on Willis Island, and wondered what would happen to it and to the staff who worked there. Fortunately the staff has been evacuated prior to Yasi hitting the island. They apparently left everything running on automatic, including the radar. The data from the weather station…
February 1, 2011 in hurricanes, measurement, Weather.
Bogus claims on Australian and Brazilian floods from ABC and Dr. Richard Sommerville
This ridiculous video story below from ABC news cites über alarmist Richard Somerville of Scripps in San Diego, and is backed up with this print story. Here's what the print story headline said: Raging Waters In Australia and Brazil Product of Global Warming Quoting Somerville: "Because the whole water cycle speeds up in a warming…
January 14, 2011 in Climate News, Disaster, Opinion, Uncategorized.