Just maybe Steyn and Bastardi aren’t nuts.
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This is absolute “No sh_t Sherlock!” type info. Often the “Official weather station” for a port city has been the thermometer at the Customs House. In the past the Customs House was located on a pier at the waterfront. With landfill and other waterfront construction, the Customs House is now at least several hundred yards or more from the water, surrounded by concrete streets and tall buildings-one great big heat sink! I am not a climatoligist but know from common sense that pavement, comcrete or blacktop, absorb and give off a lot more heat than water, lawn or forest covered areas. Place that thermometer over the AC unit that was installed to offset the warmer condition in the Customs House and of course the temperature recorded will be higher than it was 200 years ago-not due to CO2 emissions but to change in the surroundings of the location. Either change the “Official location” or correct for the new conditions.