The BoM seems to be fitting the reduction to access pattern observable in many govt depts. They use your money to collect it, but question why you should actually want it. The old librarian who gets upset if you actually want to borrow a book story.😱
Why were/are they cloud seeding during this period when floods are happening. The ABC radio had someone from the Weather Burea speak on this. This needs to be asked in Parliament. The Americans seem to be in control. This guy had an American accent. So whats going on?
Also bushfire data, in 189? one third of Victoria burned and an inquest found it to be 'poor forest management'. News papers of the time are a good source too.
@@leiaorgana5098 indeed, back in the late 1890's a huge fire burnt out one third of Victoria, an inquest at the time concluded that it was due to poor forest management or as you put it, a lack of back burning.
@@Mark70609Do you need cash? Or I can send you some t-shirts. It’s sad that you only had one to wear for the whole season. Speak up, we’re here to help.
Love your work. I've been suspicious of the climate change narrative for a while now. Two cities isn't enough to draw a conclusion yet and you'd certainly want to look into other countries as well, but it was nice to receive a bit of confirmation, albeit on a small scale.
I'm agnostic about the severity of climate change. In the early days I trusted the experts and took their claims on face value (I had no reason not to) however that trust was shattered to a million pieces and must now be rebuilt from scratch, which could take years or decades. Until then I'll remain agnostic.
I don’t think you can assume anything devious just yet. If the poster were to contact the BOM they would probably be happy to discuss his findings. I have contacted the CSIRO and found them to be very helpful.
It's not great work unless you're gullible. Everything he said points to warming. Also he has no clue of the difference between an average and a median.
@@hawkesworth1712 I've done the data for all small towns across WA. 0.3˚C temperature increase over 120 years. That's similar to the claimed temp increase as the 1800's, there is no alarming warming.
I seem to remember a few years ago reading that the BOM had "adjusted" readings from the mid 20th century to reflect a gradual increase in maximum temperatures.
BOM doesn't even meet the International standard of temperature record keeping. International standard is .2, BOM standard is .5 so they can't be trusted.
Here in the USA our government ordered all our recording stations to move to airports, and then told us that this proves global warming since we had a sudden spike in temperature.
Yes because of all the tarmac gets very hot during a normal sunny day. It might be 5 degrees difference than in the country areas. They're doing this to “prove" global warming is so bad we need to spend trillions of dollars and lower our standard of living. It's not about the environment it's about the transfer of wealth,and control.
"Here in the USA our government ordered all our recording stations to move to airports, and then told us that this proves global warming since we had a sudden spike in temperature." That's a total fiction that has no relationship to reality. Meanwhile, in the real world, rural areas are warming as fast as urban areas, and the Arctic is warming fastest of all--and no one would call that urban.
@@HealingLifeKwikly And another disinformation artist shows up. Before you show up drooling from the mouth and screaming incoherently you should check out what you are saying. We, in fact, did move our official thermometers to airports. And the arctic, funny how they have had record breaking ice for years now.
They blocked me as well a couple of years ago when they first introduced this policy and despite numerous attempts to contact them via their request for access page they are yet to respond.
Concrete surfaces accumulate/ hold more energy during the day, called the Urban Heat Island Effect. Dr Spencer has been doing very interesting work developing a process to properly compensate for it. If an Urban Station is trending down at night, despite urban heat island effect warming with stored every over the day, you can count on the actual temperature being even colder! I'm not familiar with where BOM stations are sited. In the US they're typically sited at Airports next to the tarmac.
Your presentations always reward the time invested in watching them. Splendid work. Auckland in New Zealand has seen a perpetually very wet and windy Spring and the first week of Summer has been genuinely cold and very wet. I also understand that record cold temperatures were recorded in Antarctica this year. Just to add to that the Great Barrier Coral Reef has been measured with a 36 year high expansion of growth and is burgeoning. Global warming? Carbon emissions?
One may also ask why temperature data records have been homogenised and why official temperature recording sites have been relocated from post offices to airports, where there is a lot of hot sunbaked runways and carparks.
Have I think about it first if the temperature instruments are near a airport. The heats up because of the tarmacs which rises and undoing so it draws in cool air. Which would mean the recorded temperature would be of the cool air being drawn in be the hot air rising. So there goes you heat island. I have watched the pelicans using the hot air rising at Amberley. And yes we did take the temp on the tarmac and was 50 degrees and it was 40 in the hanger at that time
@@terryquarton2523 If that theory was correct, then cities would be a cooler place to live, with all that hot air rising from roads, and roof tops, etc, yet it's not the case.
@@CamperKev suburbs with more mature trees are hotter and colder like toorak in Melbourne. Were as an airport is usually two crossed runways. Were a city is a large area of concrete mass together. The BOM would have had the old and new temperature data collecting boxes close each to compare the temperature different for yrs to check the variations of the two. A hundred years back temperature records was most done by the post offices and local airports. Before that anywhere the farm cocky hung it. I would take the BOM word over the likes of rennick and roberts any day.
I wouldn't trust anything from the BoM claiming it as data. even when they quote 'raw' temperatures they put raw (adjusted) data out there. What really is mad is with each new system in place even from the raw (adjusted) data you get a roughly 20% increase in warming each time. So the HD system was warmer than raw (adjusted), ACORN warmer than HD and ACORN 2 warmer than ACORN. They (BoM) would claim it would not matter where the algorithm starts they would still end with the same result but what was shown is that by using sites to adjust other sites works only in benefit of the warming narrative. Alice Springs, Darwin, Mackay to name a few were sites that had either cooling or neutral trends that were adjusted by sites a great distance away. In the case of Mackay at the time is was adjusted by a site 250klm away that was inland and apart of a expanding airport due to increased local mining activity. the Mackay site was a cane farm some 8klm from the CDB that had been a farm with no structures around the site for over a century. Darwin was, much like Amberley, started in 1941 but this time they had anywhere up to 5 thermometers that were in close agreement anywhere in Darwin at one time though mostly only 1 or 2 sites there were 3 sites for quite a few of those years as well. The trend was adjusted by a site about 500klm away that was situated beside a pub that turned Darwin into yet another warming site. While Alice Springs was a cooling site turned into a warming site again adjusted to become a warming site. The problem that this does it not only do site like Alice Spring invert their temperature trends but these remote sites then account for up to 1/3 of the total landmass for trend calculations. The site used to adjust Alice Springs and Darwin are not used for anything else but adjustment suggesting they are not really fit for purpose.
I can tell the weather in summertime is definitely is not as hot as it used to be just by the work I do. We don’t get summers nowhere near as hot as 10-20 years ago. Back then it was almost impossible to work in the factory we worked in, those days just don’t happen anymore.
The Bureau of Mythology deleted the hottest day on record from their site. Broken Hill...may of been 1928 or '38. The reason given was that the Post Master took the reading on the weekend and NOT on a weekday. May be worth looking up.
Just found this, fantastic Daily Insight and keep up the investigation and it reminds me of an article I was watching on Tom Nelson about badly positioned temperature stations all over the US, Wallace Manheimer if you get a chance have look. Thanks
If the BOM is to be known as the Bureau then it could be called the "B". If other investigative bureaus took this stance, the FBI could also be known as the "B". To be known as the "B" is not very descriptive.
Thanks. This data belongs to the world, not the Bureau of Misinformation. This data is still available online via genuine scientists like Tony Heller. The definition of heatwaves was also changed around a decade back. Defining heatwaves: heatwave defined as a heat- impact event servicing all community and business sectors in Australia John Nairn and Robert Fawcett CAWCR Technical Report No. 060 In Adelaide, for example, five consecutive days with maximum temperature at or above 35C or three consecutive days at or above 40C.
"Great video. And the numbers speak for themselves. We are in fact getting cooler not hotter, at least in SE Australia." Australia is less than 1.5% of the surface of the Earth, as a continent, it is getting warmer on average, and so is the planet. You have to look at trends across decades. THAT is climate.
I'm sure the same results would be found at most other non city locations. Thanks for the research. Please do some more if you have the time and inclination.
Enterprise web dev here! I really enjoy your content and analysis. FWIW BOM blocking you in the manner in which they did is the sign of a GOOD website rather than bad (and taxpayer dollars well spent). You hit the nail on the head when you said you accessed too much data in a short space of time. Maybe the limits they have in place are on the lower side, but if the vast majority of people are downloading a small amount of data and you are getting huge amounts in a small space of time the text in the error message is reasonable. Given they have a number of custom inputs to generate the data, the requests you make are more than likely not as cachable and thus use more compute resources than browsing the site normally. As such, they have to employ rate-limiting so they're not susceptible to DoS attacks and the like. For some comparison, if Optus' unsecured (🤦♂) endpoint also employed rate-limiting in a similar fashion there would be a lot less user information out in the open. Keep on smashing out the good vids mate!
I don't buy that. Asking for a few requests over a ten minute period is different from an automated bot making millions of requests in a few minutes. This is clearly to stop people finding the truth. It's very political, these politicians believe information can be misinformation and a threat to democracy. It's a worldwide trend.
I looked into changes in annual rainfall in the south west of WA, as we've been told that the region has been drying out over the last 50 years. After looking at historical rainfall tallies of numerous coastal locations in the region it became apparent they weren't drying out, which would mean the same quantity of moisture was on the coast and the inland areas had obviously been drier. Given that the SW of WA is predominately farmland and has been cleared over the years, it would mean there is less transpiration and thus lower humidity levels which would reduce potential of precipitation
What's interesting is they push this narrative (water department) on ads for Perth, where everyone knows Perth is usually stinking hot & dry for six months of the year (Oct-Mar) and Perth (and surrounding areas like Rockingham, Mandurah etc) have received massive influx of migrants, thus relentless (2020-2021 excepted) huge population growth in the last 30 years. The same water resources they had now have an extra 500,000+ people to supply water for, hence why they've built multiple desalination plants in that time.
You’re probably being blocked by a poorly written SIEM (Security Incident Event Management) system rule. Web scrapers are often used by people who want to get large amounts of data. You may recall there was a security breach about 10 years ago apparently involving the BOM so their security posture is probably more sensitive than most. If you contacted them and explained what you were doing they’d probably put your address in a temporary exceptions list.
Hey if you want more data, I volunteer to download any that you would like. If 50 of us do one site each, would that be enough data for your story to be completed? Let me know!
Certain selected weather stations have been decommissioned, temperature records are taken from city-based stations (read: urban heat islands), and the BOM "massages" actual data using mathematical algorithms to hide what's really happening with trends.
The average between Max and Min can be misleading as they could be +50c and -50c respectively and the average will stay 0c. Making a drastic and very catastrophic trend look insignificant.
This comment falls outside the general conspiracy theory trendline I have observed while reading other comments. Two hand picked datasets from a single website for one government agency is an entirely reasonable way to fire up any conspiracy, so well done.
My personal perception is that it’s getting hotter. I remember how cold it was in the early eighties. I would have to wear more clothes. This winter I was in a Tshirt for all but a couple of days.
You can picture the future as a typhoon, ice age, Tsunami, and bushfire, all in one. The temperatures will extreme from hot and freezing. I don't know why, but my theory is that the atmospheric pressures and earth cycles are unbalanced.
You'd probably find the blocking was automated .. I can understand it from their perspective. Otherwise their site would just get smashed by bots all day long. I wouldn't read too much into it. That said, it seems like it was tripped way too easily and their automation could probably be better.
BoM created by taxpayer money but its records ,seems to be highly contentious and not to be scrutinised by us mere mortals.Putin and the KGB would agree.
So disappointing, it seems evident they’re trying to increase the frequency of severe weather days too - by softening the criteria for severe events .. Days in the mid-thirties are becoming severe, windy days, etc. Bureau of Melodrama.
Greater observed temperature extremes may just be an artifact caused by more frequent measurements. This may occur at a location as better technologies becaome available at that location. The more you look at something the more likely you are to observer a rare event. This becomes even more problematic if you keep adding more locations increasing the number of spatial observations. Hence media reports of extreme events (of any kind, not just weather) might be considered to be fake news.
Very interesting, thank you for sharing. If anything, it shows that the climate is getting more extreme, which it is. Yet it still doesent show any reason for political alarmism.
I looked up sea levels when Greta first opened her pie hole on the world stage and found 1 of the oldest and continuous records was in Sydney harbour going back to early 1800s and found there was a fluctuation of about 2ft being a fisho thought must be the tides, so a week or so later thought let's have a proper look and found a website straight underneath saying how professor had been sacked from BOM after 28yrs for being a "climate denier" so went down the rabbit hole and found the professor had mapped the tides and moon cycles (which affect the tides) against this stick in the harbour that's been there for a 190yrs and found the sea levels have been constant in 7yr cycles with the tides, yep no hidden agenda😅
You won't get all the data that way on a webpage designed for public use .. but you can in fact access all the data if you make submition to them for it
The BoM seems to be fitting the reduction to access pattern observable in many govt depts. They use your money to collect it, but question why you should actually want it. The old librarian who gets upset if you actually want to borrow a book story.😱
Please go the library and continue the research. It’s very interesting.
Why were/are they cloud seeding during this period when floods are happening. The ABC radio had someone from the Weather Burea speak on this. This needs to be asked in Parliament. The Americans seem to be in control. This guy had an American accent. So whats going on?
yeah not sure why he wouldn't spend 5 mins changing his IP to continue his research.
Props for bringing in Snidely Whiplash, the perfect meme for modern bureaucracy.
Is that seriously that cartoon character's name?
@mikespearwood3914 lol yes. The protagonist was Dudley Dooright.
The best way to find temperature prior to 1960 is to go through The Australian year books. Its been freezing in Melbourne this year.
Also bushfire data, in 189? one third of Victoria burned and an inquest found it to be 'poor forest management'. News papers of the time are a good source too.
@@seanworkman431 And yet the greens are still against fire management (Back Burning)
@@leiaorgana5098 indeed, back in the late 1890's a huge fire burnt out one third of Victoria, an inquest at the time concluded that it was due to poor forest management or as you put it, a lack of back burning.
It’s been warm in Sydney, I wore a Tshirt for nearly the whole winter.
@@Mark70609Do you need cash? Or I can send you some t-shirts. It’s sad that you only had one to wear for the whole season. Speak up, we’re here to help.
Outrageous! BTW, the simple solution is the Brave browser and use Tor which is built in. Then it will be a new IP address for every request.
I use it for blocking TH-cam ads
Love your work. I've been suspicious of the climate change narrative for a while now. Two cities isn't enough to draw a conclusion yet and you'd certainly want to look into other countries as well, but it was nice to receive a bit of confirmation, albeit on a small scale.
I'm agnostic about the severity of climate change. In the early days I trusted the experts and took their claims on face value (I had no reason not to) however that trust was shattered to a million pieces and must now be rebuilt from scratch, which could take years or decades. Until then I'll remain agnostic.
Australia ain't small. Bloody massive chunk of the southern hemisphere !!!
Not a failure, defiantly not! One undeniable thing is if the data does not fit the narrative it must be ---- !👍
His data doesn't fit the narrative and he hasn't got a clue about the difference between average and median. He's only impressing idiots.
Where does he refer to median temperature? @@hawkesworth1712
@@hawkesworth1712You describe what climate alarmists routinely do.
Its a disgrace that a government agency seeks to block access to public information. You covered this very well.
Very interesting as always. Great work.
They know what you will discover, and do not want that to be known, especially if it is not the same as their narrative!
I don’t think you can assume anything devious just yet. If the poster were to contact the BOM they would probably be happy to discuss his findings. I have contacted the CSIRO and found them to be very helpful.
BoM on FB blocked me a couple of years ago. They couldn’t handle someone calling out the truth.
Absolutely brilliant work. Great vid. Nothing actually 'new' for me, but very, very well represented.
It's not great work unless you're gullible.
Everything he said points to warming.
Also he has no clue of the difference between an average and a median.
@@hawkesworth1712lol it looks like you just exposed yourself more than anything.
@@hawkesworth1712 I've done the data for all small towns across WA. 0.3˚C temperature increase over 120 years. That's similar to the claimed temp increase as the 1800's, there is no alarming warming.
Thanks for not crapping on about the politics and letting us come to our own conclusions. I appreciate the raw data without agenda.
I seem to remember a few years ago reading that the BOM had "adjusted" readings from the mid 20th century to reflect a gradual increase in maximum temperatures.
The definition of temperature changed in 1986 this changed the calibration - see change in Boltzmann's constant.
BOM doesn't even meet the International standard of temperature record keeping. International standard is .2, BOM standard is .5 so they can't be trusted.
Could you please explain what those standard numbers mean? The only ratings I can find relate to food storage refrigerators.
Great work mate 👍🏼
Here in the USA our government ordered all our recording stations to move to airports, and then told us that this proves global warming since we had a sudden spike in temperature.
Yes because of all the tarmac gets very hot during a normal sunny day. It might be 5 degrees difference than in the country areas. They're doing this to “prove" global warming is so bad we need to spend trillions of dollars and lower our standard of living. It's not about the environment it's about the transfer of wealth,and control.
"Here in the USA our government ordered all our recording stations to move to airports, and then told us that this proves global warming since we had a sudden spike in temperature." That's a total fiction that has no relationship to reality. Meanwhile, in the real world, rural areas are warming as fast as urban areas, and the Arctic is warming fastest of all--and no one would call that urban.
@@HealingLifeKwikly And another disinformation artist shows up. Before you show up drooling from the mouth and screaming incoherently you should check out what you are saying.
We, in fact, did move our official thermometers to airports.
And the arctic, funny how they have had record breaking ice for years now.
Open areas are good at holding heat
when there is little to no breeze.
I had a friend who retired early from BOM who detested the way bom used data for political means.
They blocked me as well a couple of years ago when they first introduced this policy and despite numerous attempts to contact them via their request for access page they are yet to respond.
Really liking the presentations you've been doing. Very straight forward and easy to take in ✌️
Concrete surfaces accumulate/ hold more energy during the day, called the Urban Heat Island Effect. Dr Spencer has been doing very interesting work developing a process to properly compensate for it. If an Urban Station is trending down at night, despite urban heat island effect warming with stored every over the day, you can count on the actual temperature being even colder! I'm not familiar with where BOM stations are sited. In the US they're typically sited at Airports next to the tarmac.
I just call them the BuMs now.
The bum bum boys.
Very funny, and little outrageous. It is almost as they are worried about "Australia is warming faster than the rest of the world " thing
Good info and appreciate your great presentation as always. Very interesting 🤔🧐
Your presentations always reward the time invested in watching them. Splendid work. Auckland in New Zealand has seen a perpetually very wet and windy Spring and the first week of Summer has been genuinely cold and very wet. I also understand that record cold temperatures were recorded in Antarctica this year. Just to add to that the Great Barrier Coral Reef has been measured with a 36 year high expansion of growth and is burgeoning. Global warming? Carbon emissions?
It's a scam to transfer wealth and to control people.
One may also ask why temperature data records have been homogenised and why official temperature recording sites have been relocated from post offices to airports, where there is a lot of hot sunbaked runways and carparks.
Have I think about it first if the temperature instruments are near a airport.
The heats up because of the tarmacs which rises and undoing so it draws in cool air.
Which would mean the recorded temperature would be of the cool air being drawn in be the hot air rising.
So there goes you heat island.
I have watched the pelicans using the hot air rising at Amberley.
And yes we did take the temp on the tarmac and was 50 degrees and it was 40 in the hanger at that time
@@terryquarton2523 If that theory was correct, then cities would be a cooler place to live, with all that hot air rising from roads, and roof tops, etc, yet it's not the case.
@@CamperKev suburbs with more mature trees are hotter and colder like toorak in Melbourne.
Were as an airport is usually two crossed runways.
Were a city is a large area of concrete mass together.
The BOM would have had the old and new temperature data collecting boxes close each to compare the temperature different for yrs to check the variations of the two.
A hundred years back temperature records was most done by the post offices and local airports.
Before that anywhere the farm cocky hung it.
I would take the BOM word over the likes of rennick and roberts any day.
Or Fred pales insinuations that the BOM records are fishiest.
Love your work! Please keep going.
Thank you very interesting
About 5 years ago I was doing something similar. I was using NOAA's website to obtain water temperatures off Cairns. And guess what? I was blocked.
Farmer's Almanac used to be reliable . The good ol farmers used to record temps
BOM is a political climate activist. This has been known for a long while.
Please take it up with Gerard Rennick and Malcolm Roberts so they can possibly raise it in Estimates committee
Okay, we'll take that on notice . . .
@@rustysworldofentertainment850 you missed the mumble bumble and ramble first, then there's the deflection the "we don't categorise it like that"
@@t-dog8528 Oh yeah. Sorry, I'll take that on notice . . .
I wouldn't trust anything from the BoM claiming it as data. even when they quote 'raw' temperatures they put raw (adjusted) data out there. What really is mad is with each new system in place even from the raw (adjusted) data you get a roughly 20% increase in warming each time. So the HD system was warmer than raw (adjusted), ACORN warmer than HD and ACORN 2 warmer than ACORN. They (BoM) would claim it would not matter where the algorithm starts they would still end with the same result but what was shown is that by using sites to adjust other sites works only in benefit of the warming narrative. Alice Springs, Darwin, Mackay to name a few were sites that had either cooling or neutral trends that were adjusted by sites a great distance away. In the case of Mackay at the time is was adjusted by a site 250klm away that was inland and apart of a expanding airport due to increased local mining activity. the Mackay site was a cane farm some 8klm from the CDB that had been a farm with no structures around the site for over a century.
Darwin was, much like Amberley, started in 1941 but this time they had anywhere up to 5 thermometers that were in close agreement anywhere in Darwin at one time though mostly only 1 or 2 sites there were 3 sites for quite a few of those years as well. The trend was adjusted by a site about 500klm away that was situated beside a pub that turned Darwin into yet another warming site. While Alice Springs was a cooling site turned into a warming site again adjusted to become a warming site. The problem that this does it not only do site like Alice Spring invert their temperature trends but these remote sites then account for up to 1/3 of the total landmass for trend calculations. The site used to adjust Alice Springs and Darwin are not used for anything else but adjustment suggesting they are not really fit for purpose.
I can tell the weather in summertime is definitely is not as hot as it used to be just by the work I do. We don’t get summers nowhere near as hot as 10-20 years ago. Back then it was almost impossible to work in the factory we worked in, those days just don’t happen anymore.
I agree, I used to absolutely dread factory work around d 2006 - 2012, it's been way cooler I recent times.
I agree, I used to absolutely dread factory work around 2006 - 2012, it's been way cooler in recent times.
The Bureau of Mythology deleted the hottest day on record from their site. Broken Hill...may of been 1928 or '38. The reason given was that the Post Master took the reading on the weekend and NOT on a weekday. May be worth looking up.
A published temperature maximum from Cloncurry, 1882 was 53.3°c.
Deleted.
In the early 20th century Marble Bar W.A. had the world record for the most consecutive days over 100F until BOM "normalized" the data.
Just found this, fantastic Daily Insight and keep up the investigation and it reminds me of an article I was watching on Tom Nelson about badly positioned temperature stations all over the US, Wallace Manheimer if you get a chance have look. Thanks
If the BOM is to be known as the Bureau then it could be called the "B". If other investigative bureaus took this stance, the FBI could also be known as the "B". To be known as the "B" is not very descriptive.
just go to a state library and look through old newspapers, I wouldn't believe anything in their data set
Can you follow them up and complete your study? Very interesting.
If the world cools down we’re all in trouble, those rapid changes from hot to extreme cold is concern.
Thanks.
This data belongs to the world, not the Bureau of Misinformation. This data is still available online via genuine scientists like Tony Heller.
The definition of heatwaves was also changed around a decade back.
Defining heatwaves: heatwave defined as a heat-
impact event servicing all community and business
sectors in Australia
John Nairn and Robert Fawcett
CAWCR Technical Report No. 060
In Adelaide, for example, five consecutive days with maximum temperature at or above 35C or three
consecutive days at or above 40C.
Great video. And the numbers speak for themselves. We are in fact getting cooler not hotter, at least in SE Australia.
"Great video. And the numbers speak for themselves. We are in fact getting cooler not hotter, at least in SE Australia." Australia is less than 1.5% of the surface of the Earth, as a continent, it is getting warmer on average, and so is the planet. You have to look at trends across decades. THAT is climate.
@@HealingLifeKwikly sorry to disagree with you, but I will.
Same thing happened to me when I was researching rainfall records!
I'm sure the same results would be found at most other non city locations. Thanks for the research. Please do some more if you have the time and inclination.
Good point
Good work
Have you seen the documentary by Dane Wigington called " The Dimming"
Wow! Great work mate.
And don’t forget all the data is “homogenised” I.e. if it doesn’t fit the narrative it gets massaged…
"normalized"
FANTASTIC!!...U R SHOWING STRICKLY FACTS!!...I COULD HUG U RITE NOW!!...I LUV YOUR CHANNEL...
You could also use a VPN if you cant be bothered going anywhere or dealing with people
The BoM should just make the data available in torrent form on a periodic basis if they think web scraping affects the performance of the website.
Enterprise web dev here! I really enjoy your content and analysis.
FWIW BOM blocking you in the manner in which they did is the sign of a GOOD website rather than bad (and taxpayer dollars well spent). You hit the nail on the head when you said you accessed too much data in a short space of time. Maybe the limits they have in place are on the lower side, but if the vast majority of people are downloading a small amount of data and you are getting huge amounts in a small space of time the text in the error message is reasonable. Given they have a number of custom inputs to generate the data, the requests you make are more than likely not as cachable and thus use more compute resources than browsing the site normally. As such, they have to employ rate-limiting so they're not susceptible to DoS attacks and the like.
For some comparison, if Optus' unsecured (🤦♂) endpoint also employed rate-limiting in a similar fashion there would be a lot less user information out in the open.
Keep on smashing out the good vids mate!
I don't buy that. Asking for a few requests over a ten minute period is different from an automated bot making millions of requests in a few minutes.
This is clearly to stop people finding the truth. It's very political, these politicians believe information can be misinformation and a threat to democracy. It's a worldwide trend.
Good info to know. Cheers
I looked into changes in annual rainfall in the south west of WA, as we've been told that the region has been drying out over the last 50 years. After looking at historical rainfall tallies of numerous coastal locations in the region it became apparent they weren't drying out, which would mean the same quantity of moisture was on the coast and the inland areas had obviously been drier. Given that the SW of WA is predominately farmland and has been cleared over the years, it would mean there is less transpiration and thus lower humidity levels which would reduce potential of precipitation
What's interesting is they push this narrative (water department) on ads for Perth, where everyone knows Perth is usually stinking hot & dry for six months of the year (Oct-Mar) and Perth (and surrounding areas like Rockingham, Mandurah etc) have received massive influx of migrants, thus relentless (2020-2021 excepted) huge population growth in the last 30 years. The same water resources they had now have an extra 500,000+ people to supply water for, hence why they've built multiple desalination plants in that time.
Trove is also useful for fact checking "record" and "unprecedented" claims. This August does seem to be legit hot in the north.
Gee 1year later , seems like it’s getting hotter to me.
You’re probably being blocked by a poorly written SIEM (Security Incident Event Management) system rule. Web scrapers are often used by people who want to get large amounts of data. You may recall there was a security breach about 10 years ago apparently involving the BOM so their security posture is probably more sensitive than most. If you contacted them and explained what you were doing they’d probably put your address in a temporary exceptions list.
Hey if you want more data, I volunteer to download any that you would like. If 50 of us do one site each, would that be enough data for your story to be completed? Let me know!
They were probably worried you would put it on TH-cam for the world to see.
Very interesting...
Certain selected weather stations have been decommissioned, temperature records are taken from city-based stations (read: urban heat islands), and the BOM "massages" actual data using mathematical algorithms to hide what's really happening with trends.
The average between Max and Min can be misleading as they could be +50c and -50c respectively and the average will stay 0c. Making a drastic and very catastrophic trend look insignificant.
These institutions need to restructured and remanned. They are paid for by citizens and are not there for political purposes.
This comment falls outside the general conspiracy theory trendline I have observed while reading other comments. Two hand picked datasets from a single website for one government agency is an entirely reasonable way to fire up any conspiracy, so well done.
My personal perception is that it’s getting hotter. I remember how cold it was in the early eighties. I would have to wear more clothes. This winter I was in a Tshirt for all but a couple of days.
They consider one bloke downloading a few spreadsheets automated? That's hilarious.
Captain Cooks ship diary is in the National library. Ships captains took daily meteorological records. Search there perhaps.
You can picture the future as a typhoon, ice age, Tsunami, and bushfire, all in one.
The temperatures will extreme from hot and freezing. I don't know why, but my theory is that the atmospheric pressures and earth cycles are unbalanced.
A VPN can be set to changing IPs or to use international IPs aso
They are a joke and liars.
You'd probably find the blocking was automated .. I can understand it from their perspective. Otherwise their site would just get smashed by bots all day long. I wouldn't read too much into it. That said, it seems like it was tripped way too easily and their automation could probably be better.
Very interesting indeed.
I noticed the climate seems to vary 4 times a year every year 🤔🤣
Get the raw data (ie actual temp measurements) at the highest resolution available.
Two neurons and a synapse make of it- Two fifths of f..k all..
Thanks for your time and energy Mr.
1984..
The bureau 🤔
BoM created by taxpayer money but its records ,seems to be highly contentious and not to be scrutinised by us mere mortals.Putin and the KGB would agree.
Whoa. That is funny huh. 😨
So disappointing, it seems evident they’re trying to increase the frequency of severe weather days too - by softening the criteria for severe events ..
Days in the mid-thirties are becoming severe, windy days, etc. Bureau of Melodrama.
Luv ya work!❤
Greater observed temperature extremes may just be an artifact caused by more frequent measurements. This may occur at a location as better technologies becaome available at that location. The more you look at something the more likely you are to observer a rare event. This becomes even more problematic if you keep adding more locations increasing the number of spatial observations. Hence media reports of extreme events (of any kind, not just weather) might be considered to be fake news.
curious on many levels
We can't draw conclusions unless we collect data from all points and not just from Australia
It’s hot when the temperature is high , and cold when it’s low.... climate change.
Tony Heller also has good data
Very interesting, thank you for sharing. If anything, it shows that the climate is getting more extreme, which it is. Yet it still doesent show any reason for political alarmism.
Thay have something to hide
I looked up sea levels when Greta first opened her pie hole on the world stage and found 1 of the oldest and continuous records was in Sydney harbour going back to early 1800s and found there was a fluctuation of about 2ft being a fisho thought must be the tides, so a week or so later thought let's have a proper look and found a website straight underneath saying how professor had been sacked from BOM after 28yrs for being a "climate denier" so went down the rabbit hole and found the professor had mapped the tides and moon cycles (which affect the tides) against this stick in the harbour that's been there for a 190yrs and found the sea levels have been constant in 7yr cycles with the tides, yep no hidden agenda😅
Amberly temps probable represent land temps wheras the lighthouse site would be strongly influenced by ocean temp and sea breezes.
Wouldn't t it be easier to use a VPN?
Beauro Of Moloch( or Magog)((masonry))lol
You can just use a VPN to change your IP. It's very easy.
Billion dollar bureau.
Blocked for downloading maybe 1 kilobyte of data!!! 🤔
You won't get all the data that way on a webpage designed for public use .. but you can in fact access all the data if you make submition to them for it
Lower lows typically means fewer clouds, you should look at average daily precipitation to.
I’m still confused are we going to freeze or burn? And when?
Interesting that they gave you a blocked message saying that you were a machine.. like the machine that they were blocking could read the message..
The climate is exactly the same as it was 100 years ago which is the same as the previous 100 100 years....