Fake weather - the Australian Bureau of Meteorology scandal
Contents The heat is on... Australian articles Findings History References ----------------- 1. The heat is on ..... Whilst scrolling through postings on a proto-social media Australian archivist listserv (an electronic mailing list whose origins go back to the 1990s), the writer came across an 18 October 2026 posting by archivist Michael Piggott regarding early Australian weather records housed in a national archive and their reported misuse / abuse to appease a contemporary and real, though heavily politicized, scientific agenda, namely Climate Change (Piggott 2026). A comparison of the archival historic temperature records from the National Archives of Australia with that presented by the responsible government agency - the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) - revealed numerous discrepancies in the latter's online data sets. Continuing on from an issue first raised back in 2014, accusations now came thick and fast from journalist Graham Lloyd and rese...