The foreign media has reported on NASA and NOAA exposed for intentional manipulation of temperature datam, including the removal of sensors from colder areas and the artificial inclusion and emphasis on warmer data often from wholly inappropriate remote regions (jamesrgrangerjr.com)
It is less likely that there will be clerical errors in a recount, though one could argue that there has been more opportunity for intentional manipulation. (politics.stackexchange.com)
Geoengineering — the intentional manipulation of the climate to counter the effect of global warming by injecting aerosols artificially into the atmosphere — has been mooted as a potential way to deal with climate change. (sciencedaily.com)