Tony Heller on Radiosonde Data
Radiosonde Data Since 1958 Sometimes it's difficult to believe the stuff that Tony Heller says. In one of his blogposts[1] from 2016, Heller claimed that NOAA has been hiding radiosonde data in “their latest attempt to defraud the public.” According to Heller, NOAA is hiding this data because they don’t want to tell you that there has been no warming since 1958. As he writes, “Here is why they are hiding the rest of the data. The earlier data showed as much pre-1979 cooling as the post-1979 warming.” He then goes on to haphazardly splice a graph from a paper in 1978[2] with another graph showing radiosonde data from 1979 on (from NOAA’s 2015 climate report).[3] From this he concludes that there has been no warming in radiosonde data for the last 58 years. However, careful observers will note that Heller just slapped one graph on top of the other. He didn't even bother to find the data and graph both together properly. He literally just lined up 0 C on both graphs, but the prob...