publication of the faulty data were overridden by his NOAA superiors in what he describes as a blatant attempt to intensify the impact of what became known as the Pausebuster paper.His disclosures are likely to stiffen President Trumps determination to enact his pledges to reverse his predecessors green policies, and to withdraw from the Paris deal so triggering an intense political row.In an exclusive interview, Dr Bates accused the lead author of the paper, Thomas Karl, who was until last year director of the NOAA section that produces climate data the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) of insisting on decisions and scientific choices that maximised warming and minimised documentation... in an effort to discredit the notion of a global warming pause, rushed so that he could time publication to influence national and international deliberations on climate policy.Dr Bates was one of two Principal Scientists at NCEI, based in Asheville, North Carolina.A blatant attempt to intensify paper's impact Official delegations from America, Britain and the EU were strongly influenced by the flawed NOAA study as they hammered out the Paris Agreement and committed advanced nations to sweeping reductions in their use of fossil fuel and to spending 80 billion every year on new, climate-related aid projects.The scandal has disturbing echoes of the Climategate affair which broke shortly before the UN climate summit in 2009, when the leak of thousands of emails between climate scientists suggested they had manipulated and hidden data. Some were British experts at the influential Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.NOAAs 2015 Pausebuster paper was based on two new temperature sets of data one containing measurements of temperatures at the planets surface on land, the other at the surface of the seas.Both datasets were flawed. This newspaper has learnt that NOAA has now decided that the sea dataset will have to be replaced and substantially revised just 18 months after it was issued, because it used unreliable methods which overstated the speed of warming. The revised data will show both lower temperatures and a slower rate in the recent warming trend.The land temperature dataset used by the study was afflicted by devastating bugs in its software that rendered its findings unstable.The paper relied on a preliminary, alpha version of the data which was never approved or verified.A final, approved version has still not been issued. None of the data on which the paper was based was properly archived a mandatory requirement meant to ensure that raw data and the software used to process it is accessible to other scientists, so they can verify NOAA results.Dr Bates retired from NOAA at the end of last year after a 40-year career in meteorology and climate science. As recently as 2014, the Obama administration awarded him a special gold medal for his work in setting new, supposedly binding standards to produce and preserve climate data records.Yet when it came to the paper timed to influence the Paris conference, Dr Bates said, these standards were flagrantly ignored.The paper was published in June 2015 by the journal Science. Entitled Possible artifacts