The BoM’s temperature record keeping is under attack – again. What’s going on? | Temperature Check
An ‘audit’ of the Bureau of Meteorology main dataset for measuring climate change claims it contains ‘widespread errors’.
The Guardian reports that an ‘audit’ of the Bureau of Meteorology main dataset for measuring climate change claims it contains ‘widespread errors’.
It doesn’t stack up Want to get this in your inbox when it publishes? If you were so motivated, you might think if you could discredit this data, then you would undermine the whole climate change story and even – perhaps – the rationale for cutting Australia’s greenhouse gas…
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- Australia · Oceania
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- BoM, Temperature Check, Bureau of Meteorology, Clear Air Australia
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- Environment
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