Hi Jake,
Are you aware of the systematic shutting down of the land based weather stations that don't show what is required by the current model.
i.e. these stations are showing the actual ambient temperatures which are lower than what the forecast model require. At present it is only the weather stations that are situated next to heat sources etc that are being included in the data sets.

Also calibration tests were carried out and found that most of the existing weather stations are reading at a minimum of 2 Degrees high.

Bad science is just bad science, regardless. Fraud is Fraud, which this is.

I would worry to much about it as non of the proposed changes will be able to be implemented as the upcoming Economic Recession/Depression will put said to that.

>I know I'm supposed to be disengaged, but this is just too good. ;)
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>US Government admits satellite temperature readings “degraded.” All data taken offline in shock move. Global warming temperatures may be 10 to 15 degrees too high.
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>The fault was first detected after a tip off from an anonymous member of the public to climate skeptic blog, Climate Change Fraud (view original article) (August 9, 2010).
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>Caught in the center of the controversy is the beleaguered taxpayer funded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA’s Program Coordinator, Chuck Pistis has now confirmed that the fast spreading story on the respected climate skeptic blog is true.
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>However, NOAA spokesman, Program Coordinator, Chuck Pistis declined to state how long the fault might have gone undetected. Nor would the shaken spokesman engage in speculation as to the damage done to the credibility of a decade’s worth of temperature readings taken from the problematic ‘NOAA-16’ satellite.
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>‘NOAA-16’ was launched in September 2000, and is currently operational, in a sun-synchronous orbit, 849 km above the Earth, orbiting every 102 minutes providing automated data feed of surface temperatures which are fed into climate computer models.
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>NOAA has reported a succession of record warm temperatures in recent years based on such satellite readings but these may now all be undermined.
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>World-renowned Canadian climatologist, Dr. Timothy Ball, after casting his expert eye over the shocking findings concluded, “At best the entire incident indicates gross incompetence, at worst it indicates a deliberate attempt to create a temperature record that suits the political message of the day.”
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>http://www.climatechangefraud.com/climate-reports/7491-official-satellite-failure-means-decade-of-global-warming-data-doubtful