US body rigged data to magnify climate change: Whistleblower
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) manipulated data to exaggerate global warming to influence the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, former NOAA scientist John Bates has alleged. Adding the document never passed the agency's own evaluation criteria, Bates said, "I'm hoping that this will be a wake-up call...ethical standards must be maintained".