Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 211

How “they” (NASA) make Bolivia a VERY HOT PLACE EVEN WHEN THERE IS NO TEMPERATURE STATIONS OR DATA FROM THERE.

Another brilliant example of the trustworthiness of the Global Warming Hysteria.

And “their science”.

“One Small Problem. There has not been any thermometer data in GHCN since 1990.

None. Nada. Zilch. Nothing. Empty Set.

So just how can it be so Hot Hot Hot! in Bolivia if there is NO data?

Easy. GIStemp “makes it up” from “nearby” thermometers up to 1200 km away. So what is within 1200 km of Bolivia? The beaches of Peru and the Amazon Jungle. Not exactly the same as snow capped peaks, but hey, you gotta make do with what you have, you know? (The official excuse given is that the data acceptance window closes on one day of the month and Bolivia does not report until after that date. Oh, and they never ever would want to go back and add date into the past after a close date. Yet they are happy to fiddle with, adjust, modify, and wholesale change and delete old data as they change their adjustment methods…)”

http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/ghcn-gistemp-interactions-the-bolivia-effect/

GHCN – GIStemp Interactions – The Bolivia Effect

January 8, 2010 by E.M.Smith

GIS Anomaly Map for November 2009

This “Anomaly Map” was produced for the most recent month at the NASA / GISS web site here:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps/

You can create many maps, and many of them will not show The Bolivia Effect as well as this one (while some may be better). This map was not “cherry picked”, it is just the most recent month with data available. It does, however, have a very nice example of The Bolivia Effect in it. (At least 2, in fact).

Alright Already, what is this Bolivia Effect?

Notice that nice rosy red over the top of Bolivia? Bolivia is that country near, but not on, the coast just about half way up the Pacific Ocean side. It is almost entirely high cold Andes Mountains. It’s the patch of whitish mountains in this picture:

South American Andes

We originally saw this picture, and this problem, in this posting:

http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/ghcn-south-america-andes-what-andes/

One Small Problem. There has not been any thermometer data in GHCN since 1990.

None. Nada. Zilch. Nothing. Empty Set.

So just how can it be so Hot Hot Hot! in Bolivia if there is NO data?

Easy. GIStemp “makes it up” from “nearby” thermometers up to 1200 km away. So what is within 1200 km of Bolivia? The beaches of Peru and the Amazon Jungle. Not exactly the same as snow capped peaks, but hey, you gotta make do with what you have, you know? (The official excuse given is that the data acceptance window closes on one day of the month and Bolivia does not report until after that date. Oh, and they never ever would want to go back and add date into the past after a close date. Yet they are happy to fiddle with, adjust, modify, and wholesale change and delete old data as they change their adjustment methods…)

What about that other red spot in the middle of Canada? Yup, you guessed it. No thermometers survive in GIStemp in Yukon and The Northwest Territories, and only one survives in Nunavut (at the northern edge of Canada, but in a location called The Garden Spot of the Arctic due to the unusual warmth of the area allowing a variety of plants and animals to survive there that do not survive elsewhere.

We took an in depth look at those thermometer deletions in this posting:

http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/ghcn-up-north-blame-canada-comrade/

Which included this description (from the wiki page) of the only surviving thermometer in Northern Canada, at the weather station in Eureka:

“Eureka has been described as “The Garden Spot of the Arctic” due to the flora and fauna abundant around the Eureka area, more so than anywhere else in the High Arctic.” …

Further down, under “Climate” it says:

“Winters are frigid, but summers are slightly warmer than at other places in the Canadian Arctic.”

The station is on the coast near water. Water, as we know, serves to moderate extremes of temperature. There is a nice picture of it, showing the ocean in the background, on the above link, if you wish to see it.

Arctic Red is What Again?

How about all that Red in the Arctic? Well, no surprise, there are no thermometers up there. Yes, all that red across the top is fiction. It is called “estimation” based on ice estimates and “interpolation” and even “the reference station method” but in the end it all comes down to “just made up”.

So when you look at one of these Anomaly Maps, the “highest and best use” that I have found for those rosy red patches is to find those places where there have been abuses of the thermometers (such as in Morocco where they move from the coast, near cool ocean currents, to the Atlas Mountains, on the edge of the Sahara Desert) or where they have been deleted from High Cold Places (such as Bolivia), or where there are simply none at all (such as the Arctic).

Bolivian Data

This is a listing of the “By Altitude” report for Bolivia, so you can see for yourself that there are data in the “baseline” period used by GIStemp, but there is no data since 1990.

The GHCN ”By Altitude” report for Bolivia, Country Code 302:

Year -MSL    20   50  100  200  300  400  500 1000 2000  Space

DAltPct: 1919   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0 75.0  0.0 25.0  0.0

DAltPct: 1929   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0 50.0  0.0 50.0  0.0

DAltPct: 1939   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  9.1  0.0 90.9  0.0

DAltPct: 1949   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0 27.6  0.0  0.0 72.4  0.0

DAltPct: 1959   0.0  0.0  0.0 18.5 23.9  0.0 20.8 10.0  0.0 26.6  0.0

DAltPct: 1969   0.0  0.0  0.0 20.5 21.8  0.0 16.2 13.0  2.6 26.0  0.0

DAltPct: 1979   0.0  0.0  0.0 23.1 15.7  0.0 14.0 12.5  6.2 28.4  0.0

DAltPct: 1989   0.0  0.0  0.0 23.3 17.3  0.0 16.4 12.4  3.6 27.0  0.0

DAltPct: 1990   0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0100.0  0.0

 For COUNTRY CODE: 302

Notice that while one thermometer level manages to straggle into 1990, it gets shot that year (or the “decade ending” would have had a later year – by default I end the decade counts in years ending in “9″ so 0-9 end up in one decade average together; unless you run out of records… )

It is very hard to have “warming” with no data, but somehow GIStemp, with GHCN, manages to do just that. I guess Bolivia is somehow magical, so I just call it “The Bolivia Effect”… and it is warming the planet.

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