Here's what a correctly maintained temperature station looks like (notice temps declining, on chart at right):
And, here is a poorly-maintained temperatures-gathering station, notice it is situated next to multiple heat sources - voila!, 'Global Warming' (this faulty-data gathering problem is *COMMON* for a MAJORITY of the weather stations used across the US!):
From: http://www.surfacestations.org/
Yup. Ways to screw up the data