The more relevant issue is the trend to the adjustments.
I’m fine with adjustment. I’m fine with correcting the adjustments to some extent.
The above chart shows that the whole thing has become a frickin game to the government climate scientists.
1. Algorithms affecting historic data should only be allowed to be adjusted once every 5 or 10 years.
2. The changes (all of them) should be reviewed by an engineering/statistician team familiar with the issues. Changes that are considered incorrect or a bad joke would be rejected.
3. The approved changes will then be implemented.
4. The timing should be set so the updates occur after IPCC meetings.
The whole concept of pause buster adjustments is just ludicrous.
The timing of these adjustments before IPCC meetings is beyond suspicious.
And for the adjusters time should be running out. When the adjusted trend (already 56% of the real trend) becomes equal to the data trend we should RIF the departments involved and outsource it with the instructions “don’t play with the damn algorithms – just make the chart”.
And there you go.
