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Posted on 07/06/2009 6:18:07 AM PDT by Bulwinkle
If we don't know what the temperature is today, how can we say it is getting warmer? If we don't know what the temperature was in the past, how can we say it is, umm, getting warmer?
There are controversies brewing about measurements in global warming. Some of them are very new, some of them have been bubbling along unsettled for a while. Let's review, starting with measurements of land temperatures here in the United States.
If you click here you will be taken to a picture of an official temperature measurement site in Hillsboro Ohio. Here's one in Honolulu, Hawaii. Anthony Watts, a meteorologist (and principal contributor to Watts Up With That, voted Science Blog of the Year), has organised an all-volunteer effort to photograph and classify all 1,221 surface temperature measurement stations. So far, they've surveyed an impressive 80% of the total. Sadly, only 11% meet government specifications regarding which direction to face, how far they should be from heating sources or even walls, etc. In addition, many of these stations have had cities grow up around them, which tends to raise temperatures more than they should…….
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
http://defendourfreedoms.net/2009/07/05/epa-and-trading-hot-air.aspx
The National Center for Environmental Economics report the EPA ignored
Best analysis indicates that the ENTIRE AGW effect - the apparent rise in surface temperature between 1970 and 1998 of 1/2 of one degree - was due to the “corruptions” made in the by the NOAA between the actual recorded temperatures and the “corrections” supposedly for Urban Heat Island, time of observations (TOBS) bias, bad siting of the instruments, and meter (wiring) changes.
Actual temperatures - once heat island effect is removed - do NOT increase over time.
Evidence won’t make a difference, because global warming is one of the sacraments (along with abortion) of the religion known as liberalism.
42 in Flagstaff AZ this AM.
Doesn’t look good for setting tomatoes this summer.
Am putting in several extra cords of juniper and pine against a very hard winter.
“NaughtiusMaximus to Bulwinkle
42 in Flagstaff AZ this AM.
Doesn’t look good for setting tomatoes this summer.”
I have a plot at community garde in Fairfax, va... everyone’s tomatoes are 2-3 weeks behind compared to the last few years.
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I agree with this article, and your post completely. The only temperatures I really trust to be sufficiently accurate are the Satellite data, and to a lesser degree the balloon measurements.
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