End US War Machine: NASA has no independent temperature data sets contrary to public perception. Entire climate industry would collapse if media told truth.

"NASA does not, contrary to widespread media and pressure group claims, have an independent temperature data set.

Instead, as NASA told USA Today in an email, despite its serial, breathless press releases trumpeting some new temperature high

it actually is just a modeling office"...

It makes no sense to accept the word of public employees on even minor matters. Almost none of them ever get fired like a normal person would, including 'lifetime' or 'senior' employees in positions to do the most harm. Yet in a huge joke, US taxpayers are told by creatures from this corrupt system-in concert with mass media and profiteers- that we have to 'take their word for it' that they have correctly placed thousands of temperature recording devices around planet earth, maintained them correctly, and come up with reliable results. No amount of bullying and ridicule can supply a reason to accept a word from any of these people.
The Chicago Climate Exchange was up and running in 2003 before anyone heard of celebrity climate 'scientists' who in any case themselves make conflicting statements.

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"The United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) is essentially a subset of the U.S. Cooperative Observer Network

operated by NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS). ...

USHCN datasets have been developed at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in collaboration with the Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC). "...

"The closest USHCN station to Washington is at Lincoln, Virginia. Since the mid-1990s, the thermometers say that Lincoln has

cooled about three degrees (blue below) – while USHCN

carefully adjusts the temperatures in the
opposite direction.

Note that the adjusted (red) trend is up by two degrees since the mid-1990s. Thanks to the excellent work of our top scientists, we can actually reverse the

naughty behaviour of anti-science thermometers."
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"The United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) is essentially a subset of the U.S. Cooperative Observer Network operated by NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS). ...USHCN datasets have been developed at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in collaboration with the Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC). "...

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(NASA personnel are no different from US Post Office personnel. All seem to have jobs and benefits for life no matter what they do courtesy of the US taxpayer. Science? Obama has ordered NASA to redirect its goals to that of Muslim outreach). ed.

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11/4, Re: Lawsuit filed against NASA for withholding information: "Our suit, CEI vs. NASA (U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia), followed on the heels of ClimateGate, and a December 2009 Notice of Intent to Sue if NASA did not turn over certain records withheld since CEI sought them in August 2007 and January 2008 requests.

That Notice was eleven months ago and, despite NASA offering some documents and admitting -- temporarily -- that certain others relating to the advocacy site used by NASA scientists, RealClimate.org were "agency records", NASA then ceased its brief steps to comply with the transparency statute FOIA.

Despite NASA stonewalling CEI has already learned, for example, that

NASA does not, contrary to widespread media and pressure group claims, have an independent temperature data set.

Instead, as NASA told USA Today in an email, despite its serial, breathless press releases trumpeting some new temperature high,

it actually is just a modeling office,

which also (for unknown reasons, possibly extra attention and importance, or mere advocacy)

cobbles together some US data from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) with that of the
Climatic Research Unit's temperature history (CRU).

You may recall how CRU withdrew its claim to a temperature history data set after ClimateGate led to an admission it actually lost its data.

Specifically, CEI's FOIA suit seeks documents and emails relating to NASA's temperature record, which NASA was forced to correct in response to criticism from a leading climate watchdog, Steve McIntyre.

Those corrections destroyed NASA's stance that U.S. temperatures have been steadily rising in recent years and returned 1934, not 1998, to being the warmest year on record.

NASA refuses to give CEI the computer file they used to make these changes, whose title includes "Steve" and "alternate cleaning."

CEI also seeks emails from NASA scientists using Real Climate.org on official time using official resources, often to advance what NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (its climate activist office) has decided is appropriate public advocacy.

In addition to uncovering the "Steve"/"cleaning" file, a few of the more interesting pieces of evidence expounded upon in CEI's brief include:

* After CEI filed the FOIA seeking RealClimate emails, administrators at Real Climate deleted all timestamps on all of their postings, making it impossible to show they were made during work hours. But we kept color copies of the original posts.

* NASA admits that it discovered 3,500 emails on Dr. Schmidt's NASA computer related to his work on RealClimate but won't produce them.

* NASA did not ask Dr. Schmidt to look for responsive records until 22 months after we sent them the FOIA and threatened to sue. It is highly likely relevant emails were destroyed during this period.

* NASA's delay in responding to CEI's FOIA requests was extraordinary, far outside its normal or even most egregious examples of delay or non-compliance. For instance:

o NASA took more than 900 days to produce documents pursuant to CEI's two 2007 requests. The agency took more than 700 days to produce records in response to CEI's 2008 request. NASA does not explain these delays. FOIA requires that an agency produce responsive records within 20 days. Although agencies rarely meet that deadline, even for "complex" FOIA requests, NASA's average processing time is under 100 days. In 2008, NASA processed complex requests in 82 days, on average. In 2009, it processed such requests in 89 days, on average.

o Prompted by congressional inquiries, the NASA Inspector General investigated the delay associated with these FOIA Requests. The Inspector General determined that the delays were caused by "inadequate direction" as to what documents were requested; "inadequate communication between NASA personnel; and "inadequate staffing" at the Goddard FOIA office.
In reality, one of the primary reasons for the delay was that NASA did not inform GISS officials about one of the requests and inexplicably
held documents for years instead of producing them on a rolling basis, as requested.
We should argue this within the month. CEI requests the court allow it to proceed to the discovery stage next,
examining records and deposing relevant witnesses."