Being a sceptic of Anthropogenic Global Warming has not been an easy ride in the blogosphere for anyone trying to debate or prove the warming claims are false from the U’N.’s IPCC or the NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration let alone the hundreds of Non Governmental Green Organizations whose life blood of money and donations depend on the AGW propaganda that has been embraced by politicians and promoted by mainstream news orgs for decades!
Now a Press Release today from Anthony Watts should set the record straight about the REAL story of what the Earth’s Temperature has been doing with REAL scientific facts done by REAL scientists and not a group of politically motivated “wannabees”
PRESS RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE – U.S. Temperature trends show a spurious doubling due to NOAA station siting problems and post measurement adjustments.
Chico, CA July 29th, 2012 – 12 PM PDT – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A reanalysis of U.S. surface station temperatures has been performed using the recently WMO-approved Siting Classification System devised by METEO-France’s Michel Leroy. The new siting classification more accurately characterizes the quality of the location in terms of monitoring long-term spatially representative surface temperature trends. The new analysis demonstrates that reported 1979-2008 U.S. temperature trends are spuriously doubled, with 92% of that over-estimation resulting from erroneous NOAA adjustments of well-sited stations upward. The paper is the first to use the updated siting system which addresses USHCN siting issues and data adjustments.
The new improved assessment, for the years 1979 to 2008, yields a trend of +0.155C per decade from the high quality sites, a +0.248 C per decade trend for poorly sited locations, and a trend of +0.309 C per decade after NOAA adjusts the data. This issue of station siting quality is expected to be an issue with respect to the monitoring of land surface temperature throughout the Global Historical Climate Network and in the BEST network.
Today, a new paper has been released that is the culmination of knowledge gleaned from five years of work by Anthony Watts and the many volunteers and contributors to the SurfaceStations project started in 2007.
This pre-publication draft paper, titled An area and distance weighted analysis of the impacts of station exposure on the U.S. Historical Climatology Network temperatures and temperature trends, is co-authored by Anthony Watts of California, 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 be submitted for publication.
The pre-release of this paper follows the practice embraced by Dr. Richard Muller, of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project in a June 2011 interview with Scientific American’s Michael Lemonick in “Science Talk”, said:
I know that is prior to acceptance, but in the tradition that I grew up in (under Nobel Laureate Luis Alvarez) we always widely distributed “preprints” of papers prior to their publication or even submission. That guaranteed a much wider peer review than we obtained from mere referees.
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Hi. Canada’s AES has deliberately created the same bias – by placing all their weather stations in urban areas or on airports. At the same time, they’ve chose to ignore long term records (for instance, ongoing weather monitoring by agriicultural research stations across the country). Interestingly, those stations not adjacent to urban areas have shown a long term cooling trend.