In the estimates spillover last week I asked why the ABC only ever report the homogenised temperature data set and not the raw temperature data set.
This was a question I asked in prior estimates when the former News Director indicated that the raw data was reported.
Rather than create new data sets the Bureau of Meteorology should report the raw data set with a margin of error.
The ABC amplify the obfuscation by stating the adjusted numbers not the real numbers.
What’s fascinating however, is that Brisbane recorded its lowest ever temperature for December last week smashing the 1888 record.
The BOM however won’t record it as a record because it wasn’t measured at 9:00am so it therefore won’t count.
They are arguing that the temperature may have been colder in the past but it wasn’t recorded so they can’t be sure what the lowest record really is.
That’s ironic because the Bureau has spent tens of millions of dollars trying to guess past temperatures. This process is called homogenisation.
Have no doubt if this was a heat record they would have found a way to measure it.
The obfuscation continues. 😢
