Jennifer Marohasy » How the US Temperature Record is Adjusted

A reader of this blog, Michael Hammer, recently studied the official data from the US official weather stations and in particular how it is adjusted after it has been collected. Mr Hammer concludes that the temperature rise profile claimed by the US government is largely if not entirely an artefact of the adjustments applied after the raw data is collected from the weather stations.

The conspiratorial among us might conclude from Mr Hammer’s assessment, that even with the help of some asphalt etcetera, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) intuitively recognises that the data still needed to be adjust upwards to achieve a politicly correct result.

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CongressDaily - House Prepares For Photo Finish On Climate Change Bill

Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson -- whose recent deal with Waxman gave Democratic leaders renewed hope of passing a bill this week -- said he believes up to about 15 of 28 Democrats on his panel will vote for it. "I've done what I can," he said, indicating he thinks rural Democrats have pretty much made up their minds.
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Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., is one Ways and Means Democrat who will vote "no." He thinks the bill has greatly improved of late but that the timing is still wrong. "There's no public outcry to pass this legislation. It's an institutional push," Davis said. Davis said he expects most of his fellow Congressional Black Caucus colleagues to vote for the bill.