Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-the-flamewar-begin dept.

DustyShadow writes "On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) claimed that the Hadley Center for Climate Change had probably tampered with Russian-climate data. The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country’s territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations. The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley CRU survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century."

2 of 715 comments (clear)

  1. rational analysis .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    investigations on http://climateaudit.org/ and http://wattsupwiththat.com/

  2. I've got to chime in here.... by Rooked_One · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So honestly, whatever is going on in the world... who knows... it seems like everything out there is to seperate people and make them fight rather than "come together" which would be beneficial - but when have humans ever done the right thing?

    so I live in the midwest, and when I was much younger, 18 years or so ago, I remember every winter we would get 2 or 3 feet of fluffy white snow which we would do all sorts of things with - I remember one year that it snowed so hard that we were able to grab shovels and pile up a good 8 feet of snow in between two houses, then carve a cave out of it... it took a couple days.

    Now, it is december. Some of my grass is still green!!!! I can't remember the last time we got the kind of snow that we got back in the eighties...

    now, I am not on either side of the whole global warming debate, but I always err on the side of caution - so if it takes a little thought and research, and my simple observation as I have outlined to you just now, I can't help but think something is wrong.