Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart
The East Anglia study contains other data with the potential to cause
bias, notably truncation of data in many stations, so that they covered
only the most recent 30 years. During those 30 years, some
warming undoubtedly occurred following a general cooling period up to
the 1940's, a phenomenon which can be observed in Graph 1 above.
This study does not attempt to produce a temperature trend for
Australia as a whole, although the trend of the remote stations where
long term data is available provides a guide. Perhaps of greater
significance, our detailed examination of the Australian data reflects
adversely on the entire data set used by the East Anglia study, a data
set that has been highly influential in providing apparent
corroboration of global warming.
On 24 Nov 2009 I posted a blog article "Jones et al 1986
methodical insertion of warming bias"
which is seven
pages from The Australian Record on "Global Warming" dealing with
Short Term Records.
Jones et al trends in South Africa
are even more dominated by cities than their Australian data.
In 1991 I started hunting down temperature data that was not used by
Jones et al 1986 and this lead to me contacting the South African
'Weeburo" late in 1991 by mail. Despite considerable
turmoil in that country I had the luck to encounter a helpful
official who mailed me back a couple of diskettes with rural and
small town data from 1960-1990.
This lead to the 1996 paper with Professor Robert C. Balling Jr.,
of Arizona State University which was posted online years ago by the
late John Daly.
Warwick S. Hughes and Robert C. Balling, Jr. "Urban Influences on South
Trends." International Journal of Climatology, Vol. 16, No. 8, pp.
Online at http://www.john-daly.com/s-africa.htm
The paper demonstrates large differences between rural trends and the
Jones et al trends dominated by cities.
Of course hugely ignored in IPCC circles. After 1991 I tried to
obtain longer term S.A. data but co-operation stopped after they were
contacted by BoM people. We know how it works.
in 2000 I began my web pages "Global Warming".
Reviews of Jones et al station data have been posted on a city by city
There are also reviews of complete station data
various 5 degree grid cells, in parts of the USA, Canada and the old
My most extensive review is "USSR High
Magnitude Climate Warming Anomalies 1901-1996"
, the very core of IPCC global warming.
Posted 26 Sep 2005 The
site will be expanded over at least the next year
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assured if required.