[GingisK]

It all depends on the measurements that comprise an area much larger than the USA Northeast.

Mostly it depends on placing those little white houses containing temperature sensors on airport aprons, near cooling towers, and barbeque grills. They are faking the data. This is established fact.

[rickyrikardo]

Politifact fact-checked the claim that temperature measurements are fabricated: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/feb/13/dana-perino/fox-news-host-climate-scientists-fabricated-temper/

[PA Engineer]

Mostly it depends on placing those little white houses containing temperature sensors on airport aprons, near cooling towers, and barbeque grills. They are faking the data. This is established fact.

NOAA has also been doing far worse than that. They are fudging the data upwards by a couple degrees in the official record, while ignoring the satellite data. This has been the big scandal. We no longer have accurate data records even for surface stations.

[PA Engineer]

For your reference on my post:

Republicans To Investigate Climate Data Tampering By NASA

Goddard points out that NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center makes the present look warmer by artificially cooling past temperatures to show a warming trend.

“NCDC pulls every trick in the book to turn the US cooling trend into warming. The raw data shows cooling since the 1920s,”

Pinged the AGW "believer" too.