JONES AND WMO WIPED AWAY 149 YRS OF TEMPERATURE RECORDS
Global temperature reporting had got out of hand in 1998 when British and US authorities published a global temperature baseline of 57 F, more than two degrees F less than the 59 F they had used in 1990 . It was left to Phil Jones, head Climatologist at CRU East Anglia, who had already posted higher temperatures in the 80’s and 90’s, and also a senior contributor to Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick data, to restore some sort of order where similar temperatures could be announced jointly. The Hockey Stick crew had already run into trouble when the two tree ring temperatures sets ran in two different directions, one that showed warming and the other a great deal of cooling.
Earth Temperature in 1998 Is Reported at Record High
The above link shows how Phil Jones was able to broker an agreement between all the senior climate monitoring authorities, including NOAA who had posted temperatures as high as 62.45 F, to agree on an annual Global temperature of 58 degrees Fahrenheit, a one degree above a baseline reference of 57 degrees Fahrenheit which was also posted on front cover of 1999 WMO report.
Among other contributors to a United Nations agency’s 1999 WMO diagram (above) were the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the British Meteorological Office, the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and University of Alabama in Huntsville, Ala., the International Research Institute in New York and the Climatic Prediction Center in Washington.
Both WMO and CRU East Anglia (Phil Jones) knew they had to get well below 15 C (59 F) because NASA’s own data had shown earth maintaining a stable temperature of 15 C which meant they had to come up with a temperature of 14 C to pave the way for “future warming” up to the dreaded 1.5 C above the pre-industrial temperature plus 13.73 C to 15.23 C (just below 1990 temperature at 15.45 C). NASA published data confirms 1990, at 59.81 F (15.45 C), as the warmest year on record slightly warmer than the 59.16 F (15.09 C) recorded by NASA in 2023.
The above link: Spells of cold, snow and ice like the ones this winter in the northeastern United States come and go in one region or another, as do periods of unusual warmth. But the net result globally made 1995 the warmest year since records first were kept in 1856, says a provisional report issued by the British Meteorological Office and the University of East Anglia. The average temperature was 58.72 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the British data, seven-hundredths of a degree higher than the previous record, established in 1990.
The British figures, based on land and sea measurements around the world, are one of two sets of long-term data by which surface temperature trends are being tracked.
The other, maintained by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, shows the average 1995 temperature at 59.7 degrees, slightly ahead of 1990 as the warmest year since record-keeping began in 1866. But the difference is within the margin of sampling error, and the two years essentially finished neck and neck.
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Michael E. Mann, known for his infamous ‘hockey stick’ climate graph, must pay over $500,000 in legal fees after spending years trying to silence National Review with a baseless lawsuit. Here’s an excerpt from their response:
For more than eight years, the climate scientist Michael Mann harassed National Review through litigation over a blog post — until, eventually, the First Amendment brought an end to his attack. This week, a court in our nation’s capital ordered Mann to pay us $530,820.21 worth of attorney’s fees and costs, and to do so within 30 days. It is time for him to get out his cheque book, and sign on the dotted line. There may be more of same to follow as the world is now pushing back on climate fraud.
There are now signs that global warming/net zero thing is starting to unravel. The UN’s seven subsidiaries have intensified their scaremongering dogma aimed at children. It is not the UN we once knew as a peacekeeper…quite the opposite.
All previous long term global temperature data from established authorities such as NASA and NOAA, that had recorded temperatures using a baseline temperature reference as high as 59 degrees Fahrenheit in the 1990’s, reduced their 1998 baseline to line up with Michael Mann’s Hockey stick graph at 57 F in 1998 (see email from Jones to WMO). This was at the behest of Phil Jones co-author of the Hockey Stick. WMO does not actually measure temperatures but relies on data provided by various authorities before they publish their annual reports.