United States climate models receive input from surface weather stations all across the nation. The output is then massaged and harmonized to arrive at additions to temperatures graphs and climate projections.
In 2007, meteorologist Anthony Watts initiated a Surface Stations project. Most of the work was done by individuals at varying locations across the country. Photographs were taken and the data and images were compiled by Watts. The findings were abysmal. Even though National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have published standards for weather stations, the vast majority did not meet those specifications.
The single largest problem is the encroachment of urbanization. Heat-bias on the stations is generated by urbanization’s close proximity to such things as rock formations, asphalt, machinery, and other heat-producing, heat-trapping mechanisms.
In a recent follow up survey just published an astounding 96% of weather surface stations continued to be found substandard. As Anthony Watts, director of this latest study as well, states, “With a 96 percent warm-bias in U.S. temperature measurements, it is impossible to use any statistical methods to derive an accurate climate trend for the U.S.”
This is momentous evidence in the conflict over anthropogenic climate change legitimacy. Clearly it has been substantiated and documented that the earth is not experiencing any acceleration in storms of any type, nor are the intensities any greater. There have been no increase in droughts, floods or wildfires and the ocean’s rise has not fluctuated since the end of the Little Ice Age (LIA) in the mid 1800s. In this matter all the climate proponents have left are temperatures.
Yet, despite this investigation and the one prior, the advocate scientists continue to argue that temperatures are rapidly rising and this is an existential threat leading to some form of worldly apocalypse. This research study clearly demonstrates that the rise in temperatures is artificially enhanced by defective placement of weather stations and these stations face an astonishing failure in abiding by standards, criteria and specifications
The only reliable temperature data is that which is received from orbiting satellite systems. This was originated by the University of Alabama (UOAH) Huntsville and continues to be plotted there. In space there are no impediments, obstructions or influences and of course, the temperature data from space is significantly different than that produced by surface stations.
One of the initiators of the UOAH satellite system, Dr. John Christy a Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the university said one of my favorite climate change quotes, “Here we have a science that’s so dominated by personalities that claim the science is settled, yet when you walk up to them and say prove it, they can’t.”
The full surface Weather Station report can be accessed here. I note that it is 62 pages long - its length testifying to the predicaments, problems and perplexities found.