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Giles ACORN daily minimum adjustments for 1997

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This is addition to my post a few days ago – Even Giles minimums adjusted in BoM ACORN “Roll Royce adjusted to warm more” temperature dataset –

I thought it might help to home in on 1997 which was the last year of ACORN adjustments – for some reason Giles BoM staffers achieved perfection on 1 Jan 1998 and except for a few days rejected by ACORN maintained accuracy to end 2013.

This chart shows Giles 013017 ACORN adjusted temperature minus daily minumums for 1997. Remember that there were no ACORN SAT adjustments to raw maximum readings.

On 301 days BoM professional observers read the minimum temperature too warm – on 6 days they got the reading exactly right and on 58 days they read the minimums too cool.

We must remember that the BoM staffs the Giles Meteorological Office – these are not amateur part time instrument readers. So these numerous and often large errors as recently as 1997 take a bit of getting in perspective.

This chart shows the ACORN minus raw numbers sorted and an interesting result emerges that the zero change bin is very small.

I am no statistician but would not these adjustments be expected to show a normal distribution? If so the 0 bin should be larger – similar to the bins either side.

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Australian Labor leader Bill Shorten can not recognize the ALP’s biggest problem is being so cosy with the Greens

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Yesterday Labor leader ex-union boss Bill Shorten made a landmark speech yesterday addressing Labor’s declining fortunes at elections over decades. He said Labor had to reduce union influence on pre-selections – and increase Labor party membership.

The speech is widely reported – The Daily Telegraph says – Union movement silence on Bill Shorten’s proposals to sever ALP links to unions – while the ABC reports – Bill Shorten’s push for Labor Party reform on relationship with unions prompts criticism.

I think Tim Blair and Miranda Devine have it exactly right:
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As Miranda Devine observes, Labor’s real challenge isn’t severing ties with the unions. It’s severing ties with the Greens. Labor is addicted to Green preferences at elections and is too paralyzed to make the break.

The major parties should all put the Greens last – so simple.

Water

Sometimes you see a good news story – Australian National Water Commission might be axed

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Phew – our politicians are quietly working. Australian Commonwealth National Water Commission under threat from Federal Government budget cuts – did they ever produce a litre of water?

Just a bunch of too-green-climate-change-saluting-doomsters – Wentworth Group followers – pushers for more expensive water – pushers for high environmental flows – did they ever speak out against anti-damism? – shut them down. We need public servants working to bring water to the people, agriculture and industry at the best cost. How radical is that?
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Like resources – water is a State issue anyway – not Federal. The NWC is just another ill considered Howard Govt initiative that seemed like a good idea at the time. While they are at it – the Murray Darling Basin Authority should be pared back to the barest essentials or done away with – another useless water quango.

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Even Giles minimums adjusted in BoM ACORN “Rolls Royce adjusted to warm more” temperature dataset

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Nothing is sacred – no temperature data is immune from the warmist tampering by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in their ACORN SAT highly warming fabricated dataset. The max has not been adjusted in ACORN

Giles must be one of the most remote weather stations on Planet Earth.

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Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) blatantly inserts warming into their ACORN version of long term rural station Rutherglen 82039 from northern Victoria

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The BoM say of Rutherglen:

This site is an automatic weather station located on the grounds of a research farm, about 7 km southeast of Rutherglen and well outside the town area, on flat ground over grass (farm paddocks) but with low hills a few hundred metres to the north. A gravel road (carrying farm traffic only) is a few metres to the west of the site.

History

There have been no documented site moves during the site’s history. The automatic weather station began operations on 29 January 1998.

But the BoM soon make Rutherglen safe for “global warming”…

Just two presentations here ACORN max and min compared to Rutherglen Research and a few near neighbours. Corowa is listed as an airport but must have started as a post office or similar.

Rutherglen Research is plagued by gaps. There are no ACORN adjustments to the max after Dec 1949 – There is a large gap in ACORN from 31 Oct 1959 – 2 Jan 1965 – a gap well known in Australian T data.

Yet CDO monthly data has numbers for that large gap except for Apr 1963 and all 1964. Differences between Rutherglen Research raw and ACORN chart points after 1950 are probably due to me averaging daily ACORN dailies into years – plus the fact that 82039 has no shortage of gaps. For example ACORN dailies have no data for Oct-Nov-Dec 1957 and 1959 has no dailies for Nov and Dec.

Comparison of max T – ACORN adjustments have no major effect on trend –

Comparison of min T – ACORN minimums are adjusted 1913 to 31 Dec 1973

 

My point here is there is no sign of minimums in the Rutherglen district as cold as the BoM fabricated ACORN 82039 1913-1950’s.

So how on earth can these huge ACORN adjustments be justified?

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My experience with Antimalware Service Executable – while continuing to run Windows XP

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OT I know but I am curious if there are any similar experiences out there.

I plead guilty to being a bit of a slow learner when it comes to taking on a new operating system.

I stuck with Win98SE till about 2006 and here I am still persevering with XP Pro.

I saw news that support was ending on 8 April so I downloaded what updates I could that day.

Easter Thursday the PC was sluggish to boot – often needed several re-boots – and was prone to crashing/freezing – took me back a decade or more.
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All that was worse Easter Friday am and messages started appearing – one was just a warning that XP was not supported – but there was also one of those MS message popups saying to effect – “we are sorry but Antimalware Service Executable has encountered a problem and needs to close” – how I know that feeling.

I had never heard of that file MsMpEng.exe – anyway, I must have rebooted 40 times that morning and got a few minutes online and found it was a Windows8 file and connected with MS Security Essentials which I have used for a couple of years.

So perhaps it was inserted with an update to MSSE ?

Anyway seeing I had no chance of getting any work done I decided to take a risk and see if REGEDIT would solve the thing. Searching for MsMpEng.exe using REGEDIT found about it in about 8 locations – I deleted them all and XP has never run better. I hope nobody else has their beloved XP reduced to rubble like mine was yesterday.

IPCC, Sea levels

Global Warming alias Climate Change [the non-existent, incredibly expensive, threat to us all, including to our grandchildren]

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by Dr David Kear (former Director-General, NZ DSIR; United Nations consultant; & South Pacific geoscientist)

I remember Dr Kear as Director of the NZ Geological Survey when I was at University in the early 1960’s – hence my interest in his article now.

INTRODUCTION

“Climate Change” has become an important international topic – one might almost say religion. It began life as “Global Warming”. So very many people, including politicians and “news people”, appear to have been overwhelmed by it, and have led others to believe, and follow the doctrine. It has sponsored a good deal of international co-operation, which can only have been good.

However, the cost of “Combating Carbon” has been extremely high, and the debt and economic consequences are being passed on to present citizens, and, worse still, to future generations, including all our grandchildren. This booklet 180KB pdf – attempts to raise, in citizens’ minds, questions regarding the enormous sums of money and effort being wasted on this topic.

 

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Bureau of Meteorology adjustments to construct ACORN SAT Adelaide temperature data Jan 1910 to Feb 1979

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The Adelaide temperature history has been discussed at Jo Nova’s – Forgotten: Historic hot temperatures recorded with detail and care in Adelaide –

First – Adelaide weather data was collected at West Terrace for around a century then in Feb 1977 a new site commenced 3.2km away at Kent Town. The new BoM adjusted ACORN SAT data is named Adelaide – there is a downloadable ACORN SAT station catalogue if you go to the TAB ‘Data and network’ at the above link.

I wanted to make a start showing how the daily ACORN SAT (Australian Climate Observations Reference Network – Surface Air Temperature) adjustments vary from day to day – seemingly inexplicably. Interesting patterns appear – interesting results emerge – the reasons for which I can only speculate on.

ACORN used West Terrace data till Kent Town started Feb 1977. Then ACORN used Kent Town minimum untouched from Feb 1977. However ACORN adjusted the Kent Town max Feb 1977 until end 2001. West Terrace closed end Feb 1979. The overlap period 1977-1979 for West Terrace and Kent Town showed the raw minimums differed over a greater range than the max diffs.

Here are the daily ACORN minus West Terrace adjustments 1910-Feb 1977 – Three interesting step changes in the minimum adjustments are seen circa 1943-1951 and 1961 – were there site changes?


This Table shows daily details for Jan 1939 – month of record max at time of the 1939 bushfires – now the Adelaide all-time highest max of 46.1 on 12 Jan magically becomes 46.4 according to the god-like BoM.

Here is an example of ACORN producing seven outlier cold nights in April 1960.


Kent Town 23090 max was adjusted to end of 2001 in ACORN – Looking at ACORN max minus Ken Town max we see that mostly the adjustments make ACORN warmer except for a period ~1983-1990 where the adjustments are more balanced either side of zero. Were there site changes ~1983 and 1990?

If the steps are due to Kent Town site changes – then this should have affected the minimums – but ACORN does not touch the Kent Town minimums.

For those interested to pore through spreadsheets –

[1] ACORN has minimum on 16 April 1961 at 5.8 yet no other station in District 23A went that low.

[2] April 1970 example of mystery missing minimums in ACORN on 5th and 27th – what was wrong with the West Terrace data ? Or is it related to those days being slightly warm peaks. An example of many ACORN mysteries.
It is not uncommon for ACORN to reject a days data for no apparent reason. There are many examples of ACORN missing out an extra day if West Terrace misses a day eg Jan and Jul 1913.

[3] In May 1972 from 4th to 10th ACORN makes no adjustments to a string of warm nights where West Terrace is usually the warmest night site in district 23A. This puzzles me – I can understand that the minimums at West Terrace are often too warm and I thought ACORN was tweaking these down so I ask – why this string of zero adjustments to a run of standout warm nights. Is this an indication that the ACORN algorithm was fully up to quota in May 1972? A contra result like this leaves me puzzled.

I am sure readers can come up with many ACORN puzzles.

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Another $1.7Billion was to be spent by GreenLabor over six years through The Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Board

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This page describing The Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Board looks to describe an additional set of QUANGOS to that addressed in my previous post – A Quarter $Billion in climate change grants over three years 2010-2012 –
Downloading The Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Board 2011-12 Annual Report – taking the five or six year funding totals from pages 12-13 I make the grand total $1.7Bn.

We can only hope the new Govt has kneecapped the worst of these schemes before they can squander too much of our taxes. Apologies for my adding to their Calendar.

Primarily exposing faulty methodologies behind global temperature trend compilations