GISS Inventing Temperatures In Africa–Part II By Paul Homewood
In an earlier post, GISS Inventing Temperatures In Africa , we
discovered there was only one, (yes one), rural station in the
whole GISS Temp Database for Africa that met these two
conditions :- 1) A record from 1941 or earlier up to 2011. (
There are many stations with gaps in their record, but I have
not excluded these). 2) No more than 20% missing data between
2001 and 2011. Further analysis suggested that even for the few
rural stations still operational, most seemed to have very short
lifespans, making them useless for assessing climatic trends.
Furthermore, the readings in the last few years were extremely
sparse, with typically 10 months each year with no temperature
logged at all. All of this seemed to cast great doubt on the
accuracy of the GISS temperature record, which claims that
Africa is one of the fastest warming places in the world, second
only to polar regions. So how does the GISS surface record
compare with the satellite record?