Look at how Australia collects data.....
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/reference.shtml
Australia’s Reference Climate Station Network
The Australian Reference Climate Station (RCS) network has been established for high quality, long-term climate monitoring, particularly with regard to climate change analysis. The establishment of the network followed a request by the World Meteorological Organization to all of its member nations in 1990.
Click on the link for the official definition of an RCS.
Around 100 RCSs have been selected from the existing Australian observation network. Preference was given to stations with
high quality and long climate records,
a location in an area away from large urban centres, and
a reasonable likelihood of continued, long-term operation...
A well maintained RCS network is important not only to the scientific community, but to local agriculture, tourism, other large industries, and society in general.
http://www.warwickhughes.com/climate/
GLOBAL WARMING
A fraudulent notion based on corrupted data *
The central contention of these pages is that for over a decade the IPCC has published global temperature trends distorted by purely local warmth from Urban Heat Islands (UHI’s). These spurious trends have been promoted as “smoking gun” evidence of greenhouse warming. The data were generated by Dr. P.D. Jones and others (1986, 91 & 94), mainly from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia at Norwich in the UK. The CRU and the IPCC claim that our atmosphere has warmed by ~0.6 to 0.8 degrees Celsius since the late 19th Century, and ascribe most of this to an enhanced greenhouse effect.
Ever since the beginning of the greenhouse scare, astute observers have suspected that urban heat was responsible for a large slice of the purported warming. The IPCC has stonewalled, telling policymakers that the urban heat island issue has “...been taken account of.” This site proves the contrary. There is simply no systematic compensation for urban warming in the Jones dataset. Occasionally there is a slight adjustment in a record for a site change or other anomaly but the majority of records are used “raw”. This applies even to large cities with large, documented heat islands – e.g. Los Angeles, Chicago, Sydney, Johannesburg etc. etc. In recent years, two independent remote sensing methods – nightlight pictures and infrared heat imaging – have clarified the extent of urban heat islands. Their evidence is incontrovertible. Nightlight images show that the bulk of CRU’s records come from lit areas of the surface. Infrared imaging shows that many are from cities with huge heat islands – enough to raise the annual average temperature by 2-3 degrees Celsius compared to the surrounding countryside.
The problem should have been obvious all along. The UHI was first identified in London 200 years ago, and many studies have shown that it can raise the temperature even in small towns. But political correctness, a desire not to “rock the boat”, the corrupting influence of “greenhouse funding” on the science and sheer wishful thinking have made the urban heat island a tabu subject in the greenhouse debate. This site breaks that tabu. It turns the spotlight on individual city records included in the CRU dataset, and also examines the CRU results for various “grid cells” across the globe. It leaves no doubt that the CRU temperature graphs are contaminated with pervasive and substantial urban heat which has nothing to do with greenhouse gases. Satellite images of night lights have been published by NASA and give a good indication of the location of urban areas over the entire earth. Taking the same midwest USA area as the Infra Red image above, this is a small preview of how the Jones / IPCC temperature stations are dominantly located in urban regions...
(or, as any cook will tell you, it’s always hotter in the kitchen...)
B.A., Physics and Mathematics, 1963, University of Iowa M.S., Astronomy, 1965, University of Iowa Ph.D., Physics, 1967, University of Iowa ------
I'm suddenly reminded of something I read in 'Heart of the Hunter' written by Laurens Van Der Post...
...somewhere in a play by Aristophanes a naked man on all fours, his behind pointing to the sky, crawls on the stage. "What does he think he is doing?" one character asks. Another answers, pointing at the behind: "It is learning to be an astronomer."