[01] A. Parker, School of Engineering and Physical Science, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.

As almost any trend can be built by continuous tampering of past information rather than simply keeping the computational procedure unaltered and updating the data sets with freshly measured data, the latest paper published by NOAA in Science that negates the “hiatus” in global warming since 1998 also admitted by the IPCC is not a surprise. However, this prompts serious questions about the political bias of high impact factor journals. My contribution shows the information from conflicting data sets of measured lower troposphere temperatures and reconstructed surface air temperatures continuously corrected.

Surface Air Temperatures, Measurements, Reconstructions, Global Warming, Climate Change

[01] Karl, T. R., et al., Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus. Science express, 2015, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa5632 [02] Tollefson, J., Puzzling global warming 'pause' was illusion. US agency’s updated temperature records suggest that global warming continues apace. Nature, 2015, doi:10.1038/nature.2015.17700 [03] A. Parker, MELBOURNE URBAN HEAT ISLAND CONTAMINATION OF TEMPERATURE TREND MAPS IN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, Nonlinear Engineering, 2013, 2(1-2):39-62. [04] A. Parker, Energy budget constraints on climate response: Uncertainty or wrong theory?, Environmental Science: An Indian Journal, 2013, 8(8): 293-296. [05] A. Parker, The present global warming hiatus is part of a quasi-60 years’ oscillation in the worldwide average temperatures in the downwards phase, Environmental Science: An Indian Journal, 2014, 9(1): 14-22. [06] A. Parker, WHY GLOBAL WARMING WENT MISSING SINCE THE YEAR 2000, Nonlinear Engineering, 2013, 2(3-4): 129-135. [07] A. Parker, Are carbon driven models to predict global temperature change and sea level rise still actual?, Environmental Science: An Indian Journal, 2014, 9(4):156-161. [08] A. Parker, May the variable Sun weather and irradiance affect the climate on Earth?, Environmental Science: An Indian Journal, 2014, 9(6): 203-210. [09] A. Parker, PATTERN RECOGNITION OF TEMPERATURE TRENDS FOR ANTARCTICA FROM LINEAR AND NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSES, Nonlinear Engineering, 2014, 3(3): 179-187. [10] A. Parker, DISCUSSION OF THE CASE OF THE MISSING HEAT, Nonlinear Engineering, 2014, 3(4): 247-253. [11] A. Parker, Global temperatures may not increase by 4ºC by the end of this century, Current Science, 2014, 107(03): 0356. [12] A. Parker, The temperature record of Alice Spring, Northern Territory of Australia revisited, Environmental Science: An Indian Journal, 2015, 10(3): 81-87. [13] A. Parker and C. D. Ollier, The warming of Australia is man-made, but not by carbon dioxide. Environmental Science: An Indian Journal, 2015, 10(5): 172-183. [14] Parker, A., The Acorn Adjustments of Australian Temperatures are in the Wrong Direction, Physical Science International Journal, 2015, 6(4): 245-252. [15] http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data_v2/, visited June 1, 2015 [16] http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data/, visited June 1, 2015 [17] http://www.climate4you.com/GlobalTemperatures.htm, visited June 1, 2015