Over the past week, The Australian newspaper has launched a major reporting campaign based on a “forensic audit” that attempts to discredit the data, claiming it has found “widespread errors” that raise “questions about the ­integrity of records used for climate analysis”.

On Thursday night, the bureau released a statement saying the claims were based on “several misunderstandings” and accusations of human intervention in the data were “false and unsubstantiated.”

The bureau’s temperature records have been a constant target for climate science sceptics for more than 15 years. So what is going on?

Former prime minister and climate science denier Tony Abbott called for an independent review,

TISM has a song that seems on point for Abbott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I99cCBpBXI

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    17 days ago

    Yeah, I know what the song was about (I’m that old) but it needs a re-write for the now-now times.

    I’m going to put the blame squarely on every individual in an American truck.

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      17 days ago

      Oh, they wrote a nice poem about that.

      In suburban driveways, park your trucks

      Run the kids to school in a HiLux

      Cyclists, climate, all else in danger

      In Raptors, Tritons, utes and Rangers

      Schopenhauer’s SUV

      But “I can’t wait for my generation to die” is like… 2 years old now.