Why We Need An Independent Global Climate
Temperature Database
Issues & Insights,
by
Anthony Watts
Original Article
Posted By: RockyTCB,
4/5/2023 6:59:06 AM
Ever since the beginning of the global warming debate, now labeled “climate change,” there has been one immutable yet little-known fact: All of the temperature data stations used to make determinations about the state of Earth’s temperature are controlled by governments.
In June 1988, when Dr. James Hansen, then-director of NASA’s Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, went before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to say that, “global warming has begun,” he was using temperature data collected by governments worldwide from a weather station network that was never intended to detect a “global warming signal.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
philsner 4/5/2023 7:25:02 AM (No. 1441334)
As predictable as the sunrise: Government "analysis" is always biased toward political goals. As with Covid, after the fact, government "advice" is always proven wrong.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
paral04 4/5/2023 8:02:25 AM (No. 1441348)
You would think the airlines would be able to do that since weather is a big factor for the industry.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
czechlist 4/5/2023 8:47:32 AM (No. 1441388)
"Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations."
John von Neumann
There is a USCRN reporting station near me. It was once isolated but is now within a few yards of a city metal maintenance warehouse which has a paved parking lot and is close to the main entrance of a park The park is popular and crowded on weekends and holidays with standing traffic entering gates. The station does not meet the recording station requirements. Almost all temperature data prior to the 1960s were recorded in the US and Europe with little information from Asia, Africa and the Southern Hemisphere.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/5/2023 8:53:45 AM (No. 1441395)
Why we need a global, verifiable temperature database? The same reason we need one day voting, paper ballots and voter ids.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/5/2023 9:09:11 AM (No. 1441408)
Why? The only important temperature is today's in your area, unless you are traveling. Yesterday is over and tomorrow it will change. The Euros can freeze or bake, I don't care.
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There is no such thing as an "independent" agency or organization that needs money to exist. Whether government or private, for-profit or non-profit, they are all beholden to someone, whoever that might be. That's true in every endeavor, an extension of the customer always being right. And the politicos know this.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 4/5/2023 10:00:25 AM (No. 1441453)
They have been "adjusting " the database for decades.....fraud.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/5/2023 10:05:42 AM (No. 1441457)
There is a data collection site/tower near me...in a suburban area of large yards, a "Livable Forest", many large parks, a boyscout reservation, ponds, lakes, streams...very little blacktop, even the large parking lots are surrounded by trees, green spaces breaking them up. Yet the collection tower is sited in the center of a bare, mown, cloverleaf, the intersection of two major interstate, 8 lane, highways with constant 24hr semi traffic, it is in fact SO hot there that buzzards congregate to ride the updraft thermals created in that ONE spot. We have had ten record setting cold days for every hot day record broken...yet it is those very few hot days that get all of the attention. In the last ten years snowy owls have begun to appear here, NEVER seen in the area before, in the last five they have become "Common".
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/5/2023 10:13:47 AM (No. 1441466)
Impossible. Such research and record keeping needs money, and money means whoever writes the checks controls the narrative. Lefties always infiltrate where they can influence.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/5/2023 10:39:55 AM (No. 1441489)
Why we need intense psychological therapy for the cult religion of planet worship at the altar of climate change. God created this planet and man can not control the weather. Worship God and not Mother Earth for she is another false god and idol.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chagrined 4/5/2023 10:46:36 AM (No. 1441493)
Anyone remember the East Anglia emails? Where the researchers were discussing how to hide the decline in temperatures in their research. Not only are the academic researchers data hokey, but most of the governmental data included in this article.
I've been following this for decades. When the East Anglia emails came out, a buddy of mine and fellow meteorologist said "Whelp, that ought to take care of the global warming garbage". I told him, "wanna bet"! I knew these rat bastards weren't gonna stop for anything.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Nashville 4/5/2023 11:20:04 AM (No. 1441513)
The author of this article has a web site that I visit everyday.
wattsupwiththat.com
The comment section after the articles are very educational.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/5/2023 12:17:06 PM (No. 1441567)
Doesn't matter, the leftists put thermometers next to Parking Lots and large buildings...just to make it hotter!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 4/5/2023 12:28:22 PM (No. 1441581)
We also need a non-political Bureau of Reclamation. Global warming radicals are happy with the 'bath tub ring' of Lake Mead. Democrats point at the ring while shrieking about climate change and the need for socialism. Therefore, we could have 40 days and 40 nights of rain (like Noah and his boatload of animals) and Lake Mead would not be refilled. An empty Lake Mead fits the Democrat communist agenda.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Mass Minority 4/5/2023 12:46:24 PM (No. 1441598)
Back in the late 1970's there was a local news story in Philadelphia that an unprecedented increase in mean annual temperature had been occuring for the previous several years. The temperature rise was alarming and several stark and typical 70's era doom and gloom predictions of famine and overpopulation were bandied about. Then very quietly the story was backpedaled. Apparently someone did a very random act of actual journalism and tracked down the actual data. Turns out that the temperature measuring station showing the temperature rise was sited at the end of the runway at Philadelphia International Airport. It had been placed in a vacant field in the late 1940's or early 1950's and never moved. By 1970 the vacnt field was the end of one of the main runways. The station was actually recording the massive increase in Departures from PHL. The station was relocated off the end of the runway and as if by magic the warming temperature trend ceased and returned to the baseline.
So many of the weather stations our temperature record are relying on were placed decades ago, and never moved. A lot of what is being observed is urban heat island effects from improperly sited stations. Anthony Watts has a whole page dedicated to exposing the worst of the.
Add to that that the actual number of stations has been drastically reduced in recent decades and you get a dataset that is next to useless. Almost all of the temperature data reported now is calculated from a computer algorithm. Uncovered areas are "filled in" using data from stations hundreds of miles distant. Especially those arctic areas where very few actual stations are placed.. One of the most egregious examples is the temperature data for southeast Alaska. There are no actual stations there so the data is calculated using data collected, wait for it......' from temperature gauges located in HAWAII!!
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