Perplexed by Smoking Gun  Santa never made it to Yamba?  By Rick
Jelliffe December 9, 2009 | Comments: 2  It is odd that I should
be blogging about Climategate and my hometown's climate
recently. I think I have found another connection.  I was
looking at an article The Smoking Gun at Darwin Zero which has a
lot of charts of the temperature in Darwin that don't seem to
make sense. The article is by Willis Eschenbach who has lead the
FOIA challenge to get CRU's data. It was picked up by several
media here too.  To give some background, here are some graphics
I constructed from the Australian BOM websites handy graph
pages. This is their 'Australian high-quality climate site data'
which means it has been adjusted for various factors: there is a
little page explaining the kinds of things they do to get rid of
extraneous factors, with things such as:   It is this earlier
data that Eschenbach includes, and to some extent relies on, in
order then gets his very different trend lines. But for a
different source of inf