The Australian reports ‘widespread errors’ in BoM temperature data. Where is the evidence for those big claims?

The Bureau of Meteorology has defended its historical temperature record keeping against claims made in an audit that their dataset includes errors and ‘human intervention’. Photograph: Ye Myo Khant/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

Australia’s climate has warmed by more than 1.5C since 1910, according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s main long-term temperature data.

If you were so motivated, you might think if you could discredit this data, then you would undermine the whole climate change story and even – perhaps – the rationale for cutting Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions.