Dr. Friedrich-Karl Ewert (University of Paderborn)
GISS datasets are used by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to document global warming.
In a presentation at the 2012 EIKE Climate Conference in Germany, Professor Friedrich-Karl Ewert, a retired geologist and data expert from the University of Paderborn, said that he examined publicly available archived temperature records from 1,153 weather stations around the globe going back to 1881 and found evidence of "massive" tampering by GISS between 2010 and 2012.
Ewert noticed that "the temperature data of Reykjavik [Iceland] and Nuuk Nuur [Greenland] had been changed retroactively," veteran German television journalist Gunter Ederer writes. The 2012 data was higher than the temperatures recorded before 2010.
The German scientist then randomly selected 120 weather stations around the world and manually compared the archived data to GISS' 2012 temperature records.
"He always came to the same conclusion: The temperature supplied from 2012 showed a higher warming than the published [archived data] in 2010," Ederer writes.
Ewert also found that since 1881, four distinct cooling stages have alternated with three warming phases. He says the Earth is currently in a cooling phase.
And since a stronger warming cycle occurred before carbon dioxide emissions began to rise, Ewert concluded that "an influence of our CO2 emissions [on] temperatures can not be seen."
"Mankind always knew that constantly there are climate changes," according to a translation of Ewert's EIKE article. "The parable of the seven fat and seven lean years [is] an indication."
Ewert also claims to have found 10 different statistical methods used by NASA-GISS to change the overall trend from cooling to warming.
"Between the years 2010 and 2012 the data measured since 1881 were altered so that they showed a significant warming, especially after 1950.... A comparison of the data from 2010 with the data of 2012 shows that NASA-GISS had altered its own datasets so that especially after WWII, a clear warming appears - although it never existed," Ederer writes.
"Using the NASA data from 2010 the surface temperature globally from 1940 until today has fallen by 1.110°C, and since 2000 it has fallen 0.4223°C. ... The cooling has hit every continent except for Australia, which warmed by 0.6339°C since 2000. The figures for Europe: From 1940 to 2010, using the data from 2010, there was a cooling of 0.5465°C and a cooling of 0.3739°C since 2000."
Noting that "an entire industry of air rescuers and the resulting trillions of dollars that are so invested [in deindustrialization] are at stake," Ederer adds that "the thesis of man-made global warming has taken on a whole new meaning: Yes, it is always made by people when the data are adjusted to fit the theory."
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Over very long periods of time and under enormous pressure the carbon from ancient buried swamps becomes coal, phytoplankton becomes oil and gas, and humble seashells from things like long-dead coral become limestone.
In fact, the vast majority of carbon on the planet is stashed away in these long-term underground stores - 99.99 per cent of it is in limestone alone.
Under natural conditions, it can take millions of years to release that slow cycle carbon back into the atmosphere as CO2, through geological and chemical processes like crashing tectonic plates and the odd belching volcano. But we can speed the process up with the lighting of a match.
Burning fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal) and heating limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3) to make cement instantly shoot long hidden carbon back into the atmosphere as CO2.
This adds up to about an extra 6 billion tonnes of carbon each year. Luckily our plants and oceans can suck up about half that, but it still leaves an annual increase that's not showing any signs of slowing despite our slackest attempts to reduce carbon emissions.
PLEASE NOTE: cement production--exactly what Africa is set to use making roads for cars at breakneck speed-is what the modern world uses. WE USE CONCRETE . 99.9% of carbon is STORED IN LIMESTONE.