Claims of record warm days in May lack scientific balance – Melbourne and the 11 days consecutive over 20°C

SMH news item quoting the BoM – Melbourne’s record warm spell may stretch into June – no mention of urban heat island (UHI) site issues at Melbourne Regional Office 86071. Recently the BoM commenced weather recordings at Olympic Park station#86338 which will eventually replace the highly urbanized current site Melbourne Regional Office station#86071
Yes that is where they are claiming a warmth record – in the face of 150 odd years of urbanization feeding warmth into weather data.

Ignoring that the new site at Olympic Park 86338 which is still central to a huge urban heat island but is slightly less UHI affected than 86071 – only saw 9 days over 20 up to the 21st May.

Thanks to Geoff Sherrington who sent in this gem of Nelsonian telescope use.- Geoff also mentioned these 1904 & 1866 warm spells that except for minor gaps show that weather experienced by Melburnians has changed little in 149 years.

The BoM ACORN SAT dataset disaster rolls on – fatal minimum>maximum errors can not be repaired until “second half of 2014”

I recall ACORN SAT was birthed in early 2012 – during 2012 climate researcher Ed Thurstan found ~1000 instances where the daily min exceeded the daily max.

Pretty much evidence that the entire ACORN adjustment process had fatal flaws I would have thought.

Remember these ~1000 min>max errors would just be the visible population of errors – like the visible “tip of the iceberg”.

Amazing that the BoM with their colossal computing facilities failed to check ACORN SAT for basic errors such as min>max before launch.

Fast forward to 1 July 2013 and we see a BoM staffer Dr Blair Trewin responding on the Tamino blog 1 July 2013 on the issue that ACORN-SAT has adjusted many hundreds of daily minimums so they exceed the daily max. This makes for an “internal inconsistency” according to Dr Trewin – and to fix this he said and I quote – “…so in the next version of the data set (later this year), in cases where the adjusted max < adjusted min, we’ll set both the max and min equal to the mean of the two.”

I was surprised when downloading ACORN data in March and April to see these errors still there – I mean how hard can it be for the BoM to repair ACORN SAT and crunch out a new version.

Maybe too hard.

On 30 April I emailed the Director of the BoM

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Here is his reply page 1 –

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Where he avoids the issue that the standout min>max errors are just the visible “tip of the iceberg”.

Anyway all will be fixed in “second half of 2014” nearly three years after the birth of ACORN SAT.

Once again amazing that near two years from these errors being found by Ed Thurstan and the BoM is still promulgating this error ridden ACORN SAT dataset.

Simply staggering.

And remember ACORN SAT was “peer reviewed” by the great and the good of IPCC climate science.

Malaysian Defence Minister deflects ABC interviewer over MH370 issue that Air Force fighters were not deployed to make contact with unknown aircraft above Penang

A reprise of most key events of 8 March – I think it was a shame that the Four Corners interviewer Caro Meldrum-Hanna seemed to be thrown off her course by Malaysia’s Minister of Defence, Hishammuddin Hussein heatedly asking her – “do you want me to shoot it down” – or words to that effect.

Caro Meldrum-Hanna could have pointed out that there was a range of options for fighter aircraft to check on unidentified aircraft – and in fact often perform this role around various nations airspace.

They would use their radar to find the rogue airliner and make visual contact – call them on radio – fly in front of the airliners cockpit – waggle wings – make hand signals and indications to follow me – if all that failed to get cooperation then a few tracer rounds arcing away in view of the cockpit might concentrate the pilots mind.

Once contact had been made relays of jets could have escorted MH370 – at least the world would have known where it went.

In their timeline of events Four Corners missed at least a couple of relevant events – just before MH370 vanishing off radar – a Boeing 777 captain, who asked to not be named, said he was flying 30 minutes ahead of the missing aircraft, and was asked to use his plane’s emergency frequency to contact MH370 by Vietnamese air traffic control officials who wanted to establish its location.

And then there was the story that surfaced after ten days – Thai Air Force now say they detected an aircraft on radar 8 March 2014 that may have been MH370

Looking forward to Four Corners posting their transcript.

The upshot re 8 March events was that Malaysia was less than alert – that is clear.

To have a rogue airliner fly near to Butterworth airbase without fighter pilots slumber being disturbed is a bit hard to take I suppose.

Why spend $500million on a new icebreaker in the face of global warming melting polar ice?

We are told constantly about warming this and that – catastrophic melting of ice shelves – why not give the Aurora Australis a tidy up refit and keep her sailing – save some money. There seems to be an internal inconsistency here – Icebreaker to boost jobs in Tasmania – let Tasmania stand on its own two feet – many are fed up with taxpayers having to subsidise Tasmania to be a Green theme-park. European shipbuilders short-listed to build Aurora Australis replacement It is buy cheapest viagra the body’s main detoxifying agent, taking the toxins and organisms out of your blood that constrict the vessels making blood circulation a difficult task. Not just this , they can take advantage of the services at the distributed Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals campus. It has been recommended as a sexual ability enhancer by tadalafil best prices experts for so many years. The smartest move is discount viagra sales to do your job. – amazing, I would have thought Asian shipyards would have been in the running.
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I see news here about $45mill over 4 years to maintain air services to Wilkins ice runway near Casey – I thought that ice runway had melted – just Google – wilkins ice runway melting – pages and pages. In October 2012 I noted this Fairfax story about the melting runway which went viral all over Australia.

Macquarie Island mysterious azorella plant dieback blamed on “noticeable change in climate”

Saw this on ABC – Macquarie Island faces new battle against mysterious azorella plant dieback – I thought – bet they blame “climate change” – sure enough

Scientists believe the plant’s demise has been caused by a range of things including a noticeable change in climate. “Everybody who has been going to Macquarie Island for a long time has noticed longer drier periods, changes in the wind direction and the rainfall”

Yet annual temperature and rain data from KNMI Climate Explorer does not indicate significant changes.

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Some more info on Azorella –Australian Antarctic Division and from Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens

THE TIMES says – Scientists in cover-up of ‘damaging’ climate view – an echo of the infamous “Climategate” scandal

THE TIMES speaks out on continuing Lennart Bengtsson story-
Research which heaped doubt on the rate of global warming was deliberately suppressed by scientists because it was “less than helpful” to their cause, it was claimed last night.

In an echo of the infamous “Climategate” scandal at the University of East Anglia, one of the world’s top academic journals rejected the work of five experts after a reviewer privately denounced it as “harmful”.

Lennart Bengtsson, a research fellow at the University of Reading and one of the authors of the study, said he suspected that intolerance of dissenting views on climate science was preventing his paper from being published.

Powerline blog has details from behind the paywall.

Great to see these IPCC diehards damaging the entire IPCC thing – just abolish the IPCC now.

If voters would just reflect on Green policies – they would realise Greens oppose much of the infrastructure our society just takes for granted.

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Scientists find link between Southern Ocean winds and drying Australia

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Australian Workers Union Workplace Reform Association invoices and BCITF contributions re Dawesville February to July 1993

Apologies for being OT but with the current news from the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption – hearings online – I thought I would post these data which when juxtaposed show that AWUWRA monthly invoices to Thiess were approximately 10% of the amounts the Dawesville Project was being paid by the WA Govt Building and Construction Industry Training Fund.

Notes on data – I obtained this table from the Construction Training Fund through FOI in late 2012.
Full sized BCITF spreadsheet – more legible.
The AWUWRA monthly invoice amounts I have added under the table are from a 137 page pdf file posted by Michael Smith and stamped “Released under Police Freedom of Information”.
Transcripts are now up for the days of Blewitt’s testimony