Past Decade Warmest on Record, NASA Data Shows

* In the United States, 87% of the first 1000+of the 1221 US Climate stations surveyed by Anthony Watts and his team of volunteers at surfacestations.org were rated poor to very poorly sited with warm bias exceeding 1C according to the government’s own criteria. International surveys have begun are showing the same biases due to location on or near tarmacs, next to buildings, on paved driveways and roads, in waste treatment plants, on rooftops, near air conditioner exhausts and more.

* In Canada the number of stations dropped from 600 to 35 in 2009. The percentage of stations in the lower elevations (below 300 feet) tripled and those at higher elevations above 3000 feet were reduced in half. Canada’s semi-permanent depicted warmth comes from interpolating from more southerly locations to fill northerly vacant grid boxes, even as a pure average of the available stations shows a COOLING. Just 1 thermometer remains for everything north of latitude 65N – that station is Eureka. Eureka according to Wikipedia has been described as “The Garden Spot of the Arctic” due to the flora and fauna abundant around the Eureka area, more so than anywhere else in the High Arctic. Winters are frigid but summers are slightly warmer than at other places in the Canadian Arctic.

* China had 100 stations in 1950, over 400 in 1960 then only 35 by 1990. Temperatures reflected these station distribution changes. CRU’s own Phil Jones showed in 2008 peer review paper that contamination by urbanization in China was 1.8F per century. Neither NOAA nor CRU adjusts for this contamination. NASA to their credit, makes an attempt to adjust for urbanization, but outside the United States, the lack of updated population data has NASA adjusting cities with data from other cities with about as many stations warming as cooling (see here).

Though the population of the world has increased from 1.5 to 6.7 billion people and dozens of peer review papers have established that urbanization introduces a warm bias, the main data bases of NOAA and CRU have no adjustment for urbanization. By using airport stations, the data centers claim they have rural data included, but instruments have been documented in airports near tarmacs, runways and airplane exhaust.

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/NOAAroleinclimategate.pdf

show me the data...

EDIT: From the NY Times piece:

A separate preliminary analysis from the National Climatic Data Center, a unit of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, found that 2009 tied with 2006 as the fifth warmest year on record, based on measurements taken on land and at sea.

if they are using thermometers and not satellite imaging forget it. garbage in, garbage out.

I don't wish I was the kind of scientist that could measure the stuff or at least critique the methodology. But I wish I had more knowledge of the subject because I never feel inclined to give my opinion. I tend to let the scientists do the science. But I do acknowledge there could be methodological problems. Hopefully the scientific community is doing their job with the pier review process.

"DevilFin13 wrote:

I don't wish I was the kind of scientist that could measure the stuff or at least critique the methodology. But I wish I had more knowledge of the subject because I never feel inclined to give my opinion. I tend to let the scientists do the science. But I do acknowledge there could be methodological problems. Hopefully the scientific community is doing their job with the pier review process.

i would suggest reading the report here:

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/NOAAroleinclimategate.pdf

interview with the two scientists who wrote the report here:

http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/81559212.html

"Soundwave wrote:

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/NOAAroleinclimategate.pdf

* In the United States, 87% of the first 1000+of the 1221 US Climate stations surveyed by Anthony Watts and his team of volunteers at surfacestations.org were rated poor to very poorly sited with warm bias exceeding 1C according to the government’s own criteria.

I was one of those volunteers back in late spring early summer. :up: