[UCANSEE2]

Good information but this tactic has been argued over and over for years.

Of course, everything is always new to someone.

[Red Badger]

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/02/where-thermometers-go-to-die-how-not-to-measure-temperature-part-80/

[TXnMA]

"Good information but this tactic has been argued over and over for years."

Correct: my granddaughter nailed GISS on their reliance on thermo stations that are now in the middle of "asphalt islands" when she was in the fifth (5th) grade.

She's a Junior now (and just transferred from our small school into a class of 600 -- as #10 in the class...)