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Statistics
NOAA’s Homogenized Temperature Records: A Statistical House of Cards?
Charles Rotter
For years, climate scientists have assured us that NOAA’s homogenized temperature datasets—particularly the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN)—are the gold standard for tracking global warming. But what if the “corrections” applied to these datasets are introducing more noise than signal? A recent study published in Atmosphere has uncovered shocking inconsistencies in NOAA’s adjustments, raising serious concerns about the reliability of homogenized temperature records.
Their findings reveal a deeply concerning pattern of inconsistencies and unexplained changes in temperature adjustments, prompting renewed scrutiny of how NOAA processes climate data.
The study analyzed NOAA’s GHCN dataset over a decade and found that:
– The same temperature records were being adjusted differently on different days—sometimes dramatically.
– 64% of the breakpoints identified by NOAA’s Pairwise Homogenization Algorithm (PHA) were highly inconsistent, appearing in less than 25% of NOAA’s dataset runs.
– Only 16% of the adjustments were consistently applied in more than 75% of cases, meaning the majority of “corrections” are shifting unpredictably.
– Less than 20% of NOAA’s breakpoints corresponded to actual documented station changes, suggesting that many adjustments were made without supporting metadata.
In layman’s terms: NOAA is repeatedly changing historical temperature records in ways that are inconsistent, poorly documented, and prone to error.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/25/noaas-homogenized-temperature-records-a-statistical-house-of-cards/
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Our own BOM has been doing exactly the same thing with ACORN-SAT. The person responsible is Blair Trewin. Most likely he is working together with people from NOAA.
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Soviet-era shift in the European Union.
The Romanian “very-right and popular” presidential frontrunner, Calin Georgescu, was arrested and questioned by the far-left prosecutors after Vice President Vance condemned the ‘Soviet-era’ shift in the European Union.
Georgescu was stopped in traffic on his way to submit his candidacy for the new presidency elections in May, when he was taken in for questioning at the General Prosecutor’s Office. The country’s left-wing prosecutors said that they raided 47 addresses of people and associations connected to Georgescu.
Georgescu said on Facebook that authorities “are looking to invent evidence to justify the theft of the elections and to do anything to block my new candidacy for the presidency” He called on supporters to attend a protest on Saturday in Bucharest.
Elon Musk said “They just arrested the person who won the most votes in the Romanian presidential election”. Musk called the Romanian ‘Soviet-era’ top court chief, Judge Marian Enache, who voted to annul the election’s first round, a “tyrant”
The Trump administration has criticized Romania for canceling last year’s presidential election. Vance warned European Union leaders that they cannot win a “democratic mandate” by “censoring your opponents or putting them in jail”, “You don’t have shared values if you cancel elections because you don’t like the result – and that happened in Romania – if you’re so afraid of your own people that you silence them and shut them up”: https://www.foxnews.com/world/romanian-far-right-presidential-frontrunner-taken-custody-after-jd-vances-rebuke-european-elections
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Calin Georgescu was interviewed by Alex Jones a few hours before he was arrested: https://www.infowars.com/posts/watch-live-rightful-romanian-president-georgescu-arrested-just-hours-after-appearance-on-infowars
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This labelling as ‘extreme left’ and ‘extreme right’ is wrong. Anyone in Europe who is conservative is labelled ‘extreme right’ and instantly compared to Hitler. The political ‘Union’ called the EU is extremely anti democratic. All it lacks is an army. Conservatives are completely unacceptable. They are also labelled ‘populists’ as in popular, as if that’s evil. Threatening Conservatives like Orban and economically punishing Conservative governments like Hungary is established practice.
WWII was not between extreme right and extreme left, but between libertarians and totalitarians. And in the Eastern war, Fascists and Communists.
Hitler was a National Socialist in league with the very popular army and funded by major industrialists like the Krupp family. He copied Stalin’s concentration camps. Stalin was a communist who continually slaughtered his own army and his own people. Both were murderous totalitarians. And Stalin likely killed more of his own people than Hitler.
It was best expressed on the Berlin wall. “Socialist is what totalitarians call themselves”. And the EU is extreme socialist.
All they lack is an army. And if Zelensky and friends in Kiev had nuclear weapons today as he demands, he would have used them by now and our world would not exist.
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There are Numerous countries in Europe where parties should be in government but have been fended off because they are not ‘right’ or rather they are Right, so as the electors obviously gave the wrong verdict it needs to be ignored.
This includes Germany, Austria and Holland as well as Romania
We had this when we were in the EU regarding treaty referendums where the wrong answer would provoke the response that the country needed to vote again.
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The Common Market was great, a reinvention of of the Hanoverian states which enabled free trade. The European Commission introduced the Euro and the Schengen zone, which allowed free travel and a stable currency, for those who wanted it. Great advances in a Federation.
But the European Union is anti Federation, an extreme political vision of a single culture, single government and the total elimination of member states. It is a version held by both Napoleon and Hitler, led again inevitable by German and the French totalitarians. It oppresses smaller states. And its economic and military enemies are Russia and America. And they want control of British and French nuclear weapons.
The EU is a totalitarian state only lacking an army and control of nuclear weapons. And led today by the failed German defence minister Ursula Von Der Leyen who wants war. They are not supporting Ukraine, they are fighting Russia and America. They share this objective with the UN, which is US sponsored but China controlled.
It is great to see Macron finally agreeing with Trump to end the war in Ukraine, if he is genuine. And literally getting back to business. The sooner everyone EUEXITs the better. The savings would be incredible in a true Hanoverian free market and a real Federation like the United States itself. Or Canada or Australia.
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And as far as I can tell, the European Commission still exists as a viable Federation. It is just not a government but a trade Federation. And NATO still exists for defence. No one needs the EU.
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Is this an example of’you will own nothing but will be happy’ as amazon admits you don’t actually own a kindle ebook
https://reclaimthenet.org/amazon-kindle-ebook-ownership-disclaimer-right-to-repair
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https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/scientific-american-ignored-years
Just a passing note. It seems the Scientific American magazine became far worse after we all stopped reading it! I am surprised in fact that it has any readers these days.
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Brussels pressures Germany to ensure the correct coalition comes to power
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/foreign-interference-brussels-pressures-cdu-and-spd-to-form-government-in-germany/
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FWIW
“Yes, laughter is the best medicine”
And link
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/02/yes-laughter-is-best-medicine.html
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I’m a married man with 3 children but I have to question my very being when I think of Elon Musk. This man is pure perfection. The most accomplished and respected man in the last 500 years. I think it is totally natural to have a sexual attraction to him even as a heterosexual man. It is a testament to his incredible accomplishments and his tireless (and selfless) work to heal our world.
This is a man who bought X because he loves freedom of speech (and by extension: he loves us). There was no ulterior motive to it or sinister plans to create a digital ID “complete app.” He’s shown incredible restraint when it comes to freedom of speech on X (unless you question his video game abilities by which he will strip your blue checkmark and leak DMs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr2xOac4CRI&ab_channel=NickkoKimiko)).
He’s also an incredible engineering and energy expert. Here is Musk explaining that a single solar farm can power the entire US: https://youtube.com/shorts/nwA4HFXOzRs?si=EnR4ks8mvcn61iEF All sentiment that we align with!
I’m proud to say that I am attracted to Elon Musk in every degree. There’s no shame in it. This man will save the world!
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FWIW – on Canada’s potential Liberal leaders
“I Waded Through the Liberal Debate So You Didn’t Have To”
“Liberal Leadership Debate: Is This the Best They’ve Got?”
“Now, I know what you’re thinking—how bad was it? Well, let’s break it down, line by line, because this wasn’t just a debate—this was a masterclass in dodging blame, pushing empty slogans, and pretending they haven’t spent years making things worse.”
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/i-waded-through-the-liberal-debate
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/02/26/took-one-for-the-team/
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