Posted on 09/22/2016 7:13:02 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
A new study from USGS by Keven Gallo and George Xian verifies what weve already learned and published on via the Surface Stations project; that concrete and asphalt (aka impervious surfaces) have increased near weather stations that are used to monitor climate. In this case, it is the much studied USHCN, that climate network I presented a poster on at AGU 2015.
What is most important about this paper is that it quantifies the percentage of stations that have had increased amounts of impervious surface area getting closer to the stations. As I have long since maintained, such things act as heat sinks, which increase the night-time temperature when they released the stored energy from the sun that was absorbed during the day as infrared, warming the air near the thermometer, and thus biasing the minimum temperature upwards.
In this study, they have observed over 32% of the USHCN stations exhibited an increase in impervious surface area of ⩾20% between 2001 and 2011. When the 1000 m radius associated with each station was examined, over 52% (over 600) of the stations exhibited an increase in ISA of ⩾20% within at least 1% of the grid cells within that radius.
What this suggests, is that like Las Vegas, which has had huge infrastructure boosts in the last 50 years, that the minimum temperature is creeping upwards, and that biases the mean temperature used to look for the global warming signal. NOAA would do well to remove stations that have been encroached upon like this, but they stubbornly hold onto this flawed data, insisting they can adjust it to be accurate. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
I have always said, if you want a better pizza over, put in more stones....(chuckle)
I’m surprised that a fan is not built into the system, so that all you get is temperature, not trapped air heat/cold.
Looks like the old formula was whitewash, which gets its white color from lime. This reflects IR unlike modern white paint pigments.
Enough fudge to stock a Willy Wonka chocolate river.
Are they prepping for the needed “global cooling” findings?
It’s pretty obvious that whatever “global warming” we may be actually experiencing really comes from these concrete heat islands created by cities, large towns and highway systems - the so called “Smart Growth” the sophisticates like to push so that we can all live happily together within walking distance of all necessities to rid us of awful fossil-fueled vehicles - those of us living in the east watch the daily TV weather forecasts which always predict that temps in the regions of cities will be several degrees higher than those in the surrounding suburban and rural areas summer or winter - the real story of man made warming.....
Just like the old report said....
Around 1990, while living in Tucson, I took to jogging and would regularly make the circle around Reid Field (an entire city block). At the corner of 22nd Street and South Alvernon Way is a trailer, which sits on top of a concrete pad, surrounded by six to eight feet of gravel, and then you the six-lane asphalt street which meets the other six-lane asphalt street.
The trailer? It’s a one of the climate stations.
I stopped one day and admired the heat conduction around this trailer. Then I looked at the trailer itself. On one side next to the sensors....was an air conditioner which likely ran 24x7. My humble guess is that if you added up the AC unit, the concrete pad, the asphalt...it was a minimum of four degrees hotter than it would be on Reid field itself.
It never made any sense to me. You could have moved it 200 ft over and put a cover over the trailer to keep the heat less and put the sensors on the other side of the trailer away from the AC unit. It was like...a 4th grader planned this and had no idea what they were doing.
Ten years later, I was somewhere in Las Vegas and noticed on the outskirts of town....another such trailer....same deal. Someone should just start a public database and we all spend some time taking pictures and documenting these across the nation. It’s an embarrassment that we allowed these idiots to feed false data continually....for decades....as ‘true’ info.
Anthony Watts, the author of this article, started a project to do just that. Just when he was starting to organize people to do it the entire list of sites disappeared from the National Weather Service's website. Hmmm, I wonder how that happened.
I don't know what ever happened with that project.
People have actually taken pictures of these stations set up in absurd conditions, just like you mention.
I don't know what ever happened with that project.
A few years old, but the results are still around -
As long as there’s money in it, folks will keep on flogging this fictitious ‘global warming.’
Another fundamental fact people should remember is that the primary CO2 monitoring station is located in Hawaii near an active volcano that coincidentally began erupting right when the “global warming” phenomenon supposedly started happening. So all the data they are using is contaminated and has to be “adjusted.” Of course, you can then adjust it to get any conclusion you want.
Bookmark.
No matter what the subject matter, If the data supports more government then it is “settled science”. If you disagree, you are at first a kook, then an anti-government subversive and if you persist, a terrorist.
Translation: We’ve been caught cooking the temperature data.
A high school could set up better science than this.
A high school could set up better science than this.
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College corrects this......................
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