Why is Al Gore's primary climate advisor at NASA doctoring temperature stats?

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NASA's temperature records are growing farther and farther away from everyone else's as NASA routinely-- and without offering any explanations why -- "adjusts" old temperature readings downward and new temperature readings upward, all in an effort to show rising temperatures where satellite readings show none.

Actually, it's worst than that; if a few continents or large landmasses like Africa or all of Canada aren't playing nice and in fact are getting colder, NASA removes them from the world temperature readings altogether.

Painting by numbers: NASA's peculiar thermometer

By Steven Goddard

Published Thursday 5th June 2008 12:11 GMT

Analysis

The story is that the world is heating up - fast. Prominent people at NASA warn us that unless we change our carbon producing ways, civilisation as we know it will come to an end. At the same time, there are new scientific studies showing that the earth is in a 20 year long cooling period. Which view is correct? Temperature data should be simple enough to record and analyze. We all know how to read a thermometer - it is not rocket science.

(In between the analysis and the conclusion is a lot of information and a lot of charts. Go read it if you are willing and want to. Don't go and don't read if you are afraid to challenge what you believe.)

Conclusion

One month does not make a temperature trend, and the point of this article is not to ascertain whether or not the earth is warming towards Armageddon. We are not qualified to analyze that or second-guess the experts. What is being examined is the quality and stability of the data being used by people making those claims.

For example, whatever motivations NASA had for picking the 1951-1980 baseline undoubtedly have some valid scientific basis. Yet, when the data is calibrated in lockstep with a very high-profile and public political philosophy, we should at least be willing to ask some hard questions. Dr. James Hansen at GISS is the person in charge of the NASA temperature data. He is also the world's leading advocate of the idea of catastrophic global warming, and is Al Gore's primary climate advisor. The discrepancies between NASA and other data sources can't help but make us consider Einstein's advice:

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/05/go...eter/print.html

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Hansen doctors the data to suit Gore. Gore has and will continue to make big bucks on his unfounded crap and can't afford to have anyone like NASA disputing him. One should note that Gore's reputation has already suffered when people found out he really didn't invent the internet as he claimed

I am not an O'bama fan but I give him a plus for ignoring Gore's overtures to get visibly involved in the campaign.