Former Bureau of Meteorology staff say claims they deliberately manipulated data to make warming seem worse are being fed by a ‘fever swamp’ of climate denial
For more than a decade, climate science deniers, rightwing politicians and sections of the Murdoch media have waged a campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the Bureau of Meteorology’s temperature records.
Despite multiple reviews, reports, advisory panels and peer-reviewed studies rejecting claims that its temperature record was biased or flawed, Gallant says the “harassment” of the bureau has continued.
Undeterred, sceptics have continued, sending a barrage of questions to the bureau while publishing blogs that were echoed by multiple stories and opinion pieces in the Murdoch media.
Plummer says from 2010 onwards, a constant stream of “distractions coming from critics” meant leading climate scientists under his charge were having to respond repeatedly to the same questions.
Dr Greg Ayers, a former director of the bureau and leading CSIRO atmospheric scientist, has written four peer-reviewed papers testing claims made by sceptics.
But Ayers and the bureau say the response time of its automatic probes means the recorded measurement is effectively an average of the temperature over the previous 40 seconds to 80s.
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For more than a decade, climate science deniers, rightwing politicians and sections of the Murdoch media have waged a campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the Bureau of Meteorology’s temperature records.
Despite multiple reviews, reports, advisory panels and peer-reviewed studies rejecting claims that its temperature record was biased or flawed, Gallant says the “harassment” of the bureau has continued.
Undeterred, sceptics have continued, sending a barrage of questions to the bureau while publishing blogs that were echoed by multiple stories and opinion pieces in the Murdoch media.
Plummer says from 2010 onwards, a constant stream of “distractions coming from critics” meant leading climate scientists under his charge were having to respond repeatedly to the same questions.
Dr Greg Ayers, a former director of the bureau and leading CSIRO atmospheric scientist, has written four peer-reviewed papers testing claims made by sceptics.
But Ayers and the bureau say the response time of its automatic probes means the recorded measurement is effectively an average of the temperature over the previous 40 seconds to 80s.
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