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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
The third instance scientists were caught adding weather stations for tracking climate change that tended to give more hot erroneous readings and deleting stations that tended to give more low erroneous readings.
But it was probably just some innocent error or oil company conspiracy.
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Citation needed.
Because I have not heard of that particular one.
In fact, over the past few years, I've read many discussions in which climate scientists have been looking for ways to correct for stations that give erroneously hot readings due to the "heat island" effect... as urbanized areas have grown up around them.
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Can you pull off a conspiracy like this with a small number of closely knit researchers handling ALL the climate data?
Sure.
Can you pull it off with thousands around the world monitoring satellite data, ground station data, weather patterns, wind patterns, debating (fighting, really) endlessly about proper temperature correction factors, drilling for ice cores, extrapolating from tree rings, measuring ocean acidification, mathematically calculating water level rise and fall (and debating (fighting, again, really) proper formulas for volume expansion due to heat) and measuring ice sheet loss AND gain? Uh...