For years, Australian biologist Jennifer Marohasy has questioned the reliability of the Bureau of Meteorology’s (BoM) new methods of reporting historical weather records, which have shown a rising in temperatures over the past few decades. She wants the BoM to make public its sets of raw data from both mercury thermometer readings as well as electronic readings from updated automatic weather stations.
The BoM has attributed the increasing temperatures to manmade global warming, but Marohasy is sceptical, saying the recent warming trend could be attributed to changes in how temperatures are now recorded and the data standardised, as well as natural causes.
