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Chapter 6 : Corruption in the “Carbon World”

century with catastrophic results. The second pillar of "global warming" is that carbon dioxide
concentrations in the atmosphere are exceptionally high and that this drives temperature rises.

The first thing to note is the disparity between the historical rise over the past 100 years and the
predicted rise, which is ten times greater and over a shorter period. This prediction is based in
Global Climate Models (see page xx) that are unreliable.

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There is no such thing as “average global temperature ” and even less an average increase. As
discussed later, current temperatures are based primarily on thermometer readings taken on
land and measurements from satellites. Since thermometers only came into general use some
150 years ago, earlier temperature records are derived from “proxies”, such as tree rings, ice
cores, lake sediments and coral.

The way in which global temperatures are calculated is also error prone. One agency, associated
with the UEA, divides the world into 2,592 cells of 5 degrees of latitude and 5° of longitude. If a
cell has no specific temperature reading, one is derived from an adjacent cell and then averaged
in blocks of eight. Cells are successively merged and averaged to produce a global temperature.
Even then, the figures most favourable to the global warming cause show only minimal warming
in the Northern hemisphere and none whatsoever in the Southern. It is perhaps therefore no
coincidence that there are 649 recording stations entered into the 1,296 cells for the Northern
hemisphere and only 289 in the South. The IPCC uses a different method and GISS divides the
world into 8,000 cells.

46.7% of measuring stations used in most temperature compilations cover only 4.8% of the world’s surface. One
single temperature reading may be applied to cover an area the size of Spain and a proxy used that is 1,200kms
away from a recorded cell. This is like basing London’s temperature on readings in Morocco.

Many organisations and individual climate specialists – in addition to the IPCC ‐ have tried to
reconstruct the historical temperature record. This is one example, which doesn’t look much like
a hockey stick:

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