BOM

All posts related to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology are at this link.

THE BOM LIST grows — Scandal after scandal

• BOM Scandal: One second records in Australia — how “noise” creates history and a warming trend
• Another BOM scandal: Australian climate data is being destroyed as routine practice
• BOM scandal: “smart cards” filter out coldest temperatures. Full audit needed ASAP!
• BOM scandal heats up: Kininmonth, Watts, Nova quoted in The Australian “We audit banks, why not BOM?”

• Scandal: Australian Bureau of Meteorology caught erasing cold temperatures
• On Sunday, Goulburn got colder than the BOM thought was possible (and a raw data record was “adjusted”).
• Two-thirds of Australias warming due to “adjustments” — according to 84 historic stations
• The mysterious BOM disinterest in hot historic Australian Stevenson screen temperatures
• The lost climate knowledge of Deacon 1952: hot dry summers from 1880-1910
•  1953 Headline: Melbourne’s weather is changing! Summers getting colder and wetter
• The mysterious lost hot Sunday in Bourke, did it really happen?
• Wow, look at those BOM adjustments – trends up by two degrees C!
• Australian BOM “neutral” adjustments increase minima trends up 50%
• Was the Hottest Day Ever in Australia not in a desert, but in far south Albany?!
• Hottest summer record in Australia? Not so, says UAH satellite data
• Mystery black-box method used to make *all new* Australian “hottest” ever records
• BOMs new data set, ACORN, so bad it should be withdrawn (954 min temps larger than the max!)
• Threat of ANAO Audit means Australia’s BOM throws out temperature set, starts again, gets same results
• Australian Temperatures in cities adjusted up by 70%!?
• The BOM calls critics names, wails, and says it won’t answer questions from The Australian any longer.

It’s been going on a long time:

• Australian temperature records shoddy, inaccurate, unreliable. Surprise!
• Threat of ANAO Audit means Australia’s BOM throws out temperature set, starts again, gets same results
• Australia – was hot and is hot. So what? This is not an unusual heatwave
• Not the hottest ever summer for most Australians in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane. Not “extreme” heatwaves either.
• Mystery black-box method used to make *all new* Australian “hottest” ever records
• Hottest summer record in Australia? Not so, says UAH satellite data
• Get Headlines! How to find a heatwave in five easy steps
• What the CSIRO State of the Climate report forgot to tell you
• Climate-trivia headlines and the BoM’s unscientific obession with “hottest ever” records
• Australian BOM “neutral” adjustments increase minima trends up 50%
• The heat is on. Bureau of Meteorology ‘altering climate figures’ — The Australian