Russia affected by Climategate

[rayofreason]

Source: Ria Novosti

A discussion of the November 2009 Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident, referred to by some sources as "Climategate," continues against the backdrop of the abortive UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) discussing alternative agreements to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that aimed to combat global warming.......

Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country's territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports.

Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations.

The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century.

Read more: http://en.rian.ru/papers/20091216/157260660.html

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It gets worse, now with accusations by the Russians of tampering with their data. Scroll down - the article is the last one. If you speak Russian, read http://www.iea.ru/article/kioto_order/15.12.2009.pdf

[Andronex]

1. not surprised...

"IEA analysts say climatologists use the data of stations located in large populated centers that are influenced by the urban-warming effect more frequently than the correct data of remote stations."

[FarCenter]

2. Time to review all the input data and re-run the models

The scale of global warming was exaggerated due to temperature distortions for Russia accounting for 12.5% of the world's land mass. The IEA said it was necessary to recalculate all global-temperature data in order to assess the scale of such exaggeration.

Global-temperature data will have to be modified if similar climate-date procedures have been used from other national data because the calculations used by COP15 analysts, including financial calculations, are based on HadCRUT research.

[WriteDown]

3. More evidence that there have been shenanigans going on...

This is quite the sticky wicket.