Have a look at this chart. It tells you pretty much all you need to know about the much-anticipated scoop by Anthony Watts of Watts Up With That?
What it means, in a nutshell, is that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – the US government body in charge of America's temperature record, has systematically exaggerated the extent of late 20th century global warming. In fact, it has doubled it.
Is this a case of deliberate fraud by Warmist scientists hell bent on keeping their funding gravy train rolling? Well, after what we saw in Climategate anything is possible. (I mean it's not like NOAA is run by hard-left eco activists, is it?) But I think more likely it is a case of confirmation bias. The Warmists who comprise the climate scientist establishment spend so much time communicating with other warmists and so little time paying attention to the views of dissenting scientists such as Henrik Svensmark – or Fred Singer or Richard Lindzen or indeed Anthony Watts – that it simply hasn't occurred to them that their temperature records need adjusting downwards not upwards.
What Watts has conclusively demonstrated is that most of the weather stations in the US are so poorly sited that their temperature data is unreliable. Around 90 per cent have had their temperature readings skewed by the Urban Heat Island effect. While he has suspected this for some time what he has been unable to do until his latest, landmark paper (co-authored with Evan Jones of New York, Stephen McIntyre of Toronto, Canada, and Dr. John R. Christy from the Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Alabama, Huntsville) is to put precise figures on the degree of distortion involved.
For the full story go to Watts Up With That NOW!
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again; no surprise here.
ReplyDeleteyears ago i viewed a "special" on the lie of global warming. they showed where and how the temps were collected and it was a joke.
many of the thermometers were place on "blacktop" surfaces, etc.
since then i realized how the left and the religion of global warming was twisted and skewed. never believe these eco freaks. they're filled with lies.
You can tell when the democrats are lying to creat a crisis that government needs to fix, by the way they want to fix it.
ReplyDeleteThe only solution to every problem the dumbbocrats see, is to raise taxes and regulation.
Remember what the dumbocrats wanted to do about global warming?
Cap and trade.
Cap and trade would have made Al Gore very very rich since him and Van Jones had the copyright to the software that the carbon trading maket would use, and would get a royalty for every trade.
Al Gore, James hanson, Micheal Mann, and a whole bunch of others should be put in jail for this hoax!
Denying the fact of global warming is an unaliable right of the stupid and misinformed. It has everything to to with science, not politics. You denyers will clearly go down on the wrong side of history. I don't know why I've wasted my time commenting, because history has shown that you won't post it.
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