Garbage in, garbage out.

"What's happened to investigative journalism in this country? Wouldn't
this be a perfect story for "60 Minutes" or "20/20"? Do news outlets
today only investigate that which supports and/or advances their
agenda? How can't this number of weather stations not meeting federal
guidelines be something that virtually every press outlet would find
newsworthy?"

I have time on my hands and I am taking the training to go and document the condition of "official" reporting stations. It's not that hard and there are many in my local area. I found it hard to believe they "actually" put a station to record the temps ON TOP of a building next to a blacktopped parking lot at the Mall. That just shows micro climate changes due to development (paving heats up longer than dirt or "grass"). Yea, summers are HOTTER after all.

Umm, I don't see what the big deal is. I mean, obviously the planet is heating up. So these artificially heated areas that have temp sensors will still show heat increases. They will just be a higher total number, the percent should be about the same. No wonder the MSM isn't reporting it. Its a non issue. We should focus much harder on things like Leonardo Di Caprio's film which is in need of increased awareness because apparently not too many people are aware he has a movie out judging by his numbers! :D

The earth is on fire and it is YOUR fault for owning a car...

As Tina Turner might have plaintively asked: "what's truth got to do, got to do with it?"

Curt

Noel:  Honestly, this matter being totally buried should make it easy for Americans to conclude not just how biased the media are, but also that they are complicit in a fraud being perpetrated on this nation with grave present and future implications. 

Every time I read one of your excellent articles, that is what makes me concerned.  We joke that you are in danger of becoming a thug because you keep hammering away at this (I love it), but your last line has a lot of truth to it.  This is a power grab of unprecedented proportions, both economically and politically, involving Gore, Soros, Hillary and the whole web of sycophants that unfortunately, like the communists or fascists, have a lot, and I mean a LOT of both money and power at their disposal in the form of uncounted lawyers and rich corporate backers taking advantage of every loophole, creating loopholes in the laws they write, and then funding webs of orginizations to bureaucratically enforce their version of the loopholed laws.  When Rush says that when they start complaining about us doing something, it is really them trying to deflect what they are doing, he is not kidding at all.  This is no joke.  Your closing is only too true. 

"The future is not set.  There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

You should read Anthony Watts blog on this,  http://www.norcalblo... look at comments for day 2 conference ....

"My only worry is that the observers at the various locations will get self conscious about their sites if your work gets too much publicity and will start doing housekeeping before all the sites are surveyed. While they can't do much for the big things like asphalt parking lots, they can certainly move burn barrels, bbq pits, and ore carts full of rocks away from the sensor. While doing so will be an improvement in the long run, it is important for them to document such things if they do it, so the potential impact to the historical data can be evaluated. The last thing we need is to start a "global cooling" panic if too many bbq pits get moved in a short period of time." 

LMAO, ROFL

dscott's postulate:  The degree to which someone exaggerates or deceives is inversely proportional to the merit of the advocated position.

Noel, thanks for this article.  I just e-mailed the gist of this article and Mr. Watts' blogsite address and surfacestations.org to Senator Inhofe, suggesting he can use the information in an upcoming session of the environment committee.  I certainly hope he uses the information and, perhaps it'll get some MSM publicity then. 

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

This may be a little off topic and if it's way over there in left field, mea culpa.  However, I found some information when reading "Unstoppable Global Warming..." that I hadn't heard of before.  Basically there appears to be a Pacific heat vent that takes care of regulating the earth's temperature.

p. 183:  "The tropical Pacific Ocean may be able to open a 'vent' in its heat-trapping cirrus cloud cover and release enough energy into space to significantly diminish the projected climate warming caused by a buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.  If confirmed by further research, this newly discovered effect - which is not seen in current climate prediction models - could significantly reduce estimates of future climate warming." (from Meterological Society news release, 28 Feb 2001)

p. 184: "After the NASA studies revealed the massive planetary heat vent over the Pacific, the agency threw the "heat vent" anomaly into the laps of the global climate modeling community.  NASA asked the climate modelers to reconfigure their models to account for this previously unknown and newly observed reality.  They were unable to do so."  

Interesting food for thought.

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

What has not been mentioned are the weather stations that have been moved to a different location but still reported as the same station location.

Now a day global
warming controversy is very hype. NASA sciencetists completely work on global warming research. According the sciencetists after 30 year
earth is completely effected by global warming.