Adjusting Data to Get the "Right" Answer

On several occasions, I have discussed how much of the reported temperature increases worldwide in the last century are actually the results of adjustments to the actual gauge measurements.  These upward adjustments in the numbers by climate scientists actually dwarf measured increases.

Thanks to reader Scott Brooks, here is another such example except this time with measurement of sea level increases.  Dr. Nils-Axel Morner is the head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden.  He has studied sea-level changes for 35 years (emphasis added).

very complicated, because it gives different answers for wherever you
And if that figure [for sea level rise] is correct, then Holland would not be subsiding, it
would be uplifting.

carefully. Now, back to satellite altimetry, which shows the water, not
straight line, variability along a straight line, but absolutely no

their website, was a straight line suddenly it changed, and showed a
recorded something; but they hadn't recorded anything. It was the
original one which they had suddenly twisted up, because they entered a correction factor, which they took from the tide gauge.
So it was not
a measured thing, but a figure introduced from outside.
I accused them
of this at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow I said you have
happened. And they ans-wered, that we had to do it, because otherwise
we would not have gotten any trend!

point: They know the answer; the rest of us, we are searching for the
modeling, not from observations. The observations don't find it!

I have
had 22 authors, but none of them  none were sea-level specialists. They
were given this mission, because they promised to answer the right
thing. Again, it was a computer issue. This is the typical thing: The meteorological community works with computers, simple computers.


I am working on my next version of a layman's guide to skeptics arguments against catastrophic man-made global warming, which you can find here.