For years, Australian biologist Jennifer Marohasy has questioned the reliability of the Bureau of Meteorology’s (BoM) historical temperature records, which shows a significant rise in Australia over the past decades.
The BoM attributed the record-breaking hot temperatures to human-caused global warming, but Marohasy asked whether at least some of the warming was natural and whether the other component could be attributed to the methods in which the temperatures were recorded.
Her husband, environmental researcher John Abbott, is taking the matter to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Brisbane, and Marohasy is now appearing as the expert witness. They aimed to ask the judge to make the BoM make the raw temperature data public, something the BoM has previously refused….