Monday, July 7, 2014

More on the Global Warming Fraud

A few years ago, Watts Up With That did yeoman's work on investigating the quality of the temperature measuring stations in the US are. Using the NOAA's own criteria which rates stations from 1(best) to 5(worst) based on location, paint quality, ventilation, etc... Watt had volunteers all over the country go and investigate and rate the stations in the US and found that something like 85%+ would be rated 4 or 5.

Now James Taylor at Forbes reports this:


Government Data Show U.S. in Decade-Long Cooling


The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s most accurate, up-to-date temperature data confirm the United States has been cooling for at least the past decade. The NOAA temperature data are driving a stake through the heart of alarmists claiming accelerating global warming.
Responding to widespread criticism that its temperature station readings were corrupted by poor siting issues and suspect adjustments, NOAA established a networkof 114 pristinely sited temperature stations spread out fairly uniformly throughout the United States. Because the network, known as the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN), is so uniformly and pristinely situated, the temperature data require no adjustments to provide an accurate nationwide temperature record. USCRN began compiling temperature data in January 2005. Now, nearly a decade later, NOAA has finally made the USCRN temperature readings available.
According to the USCRN temperature readings, U.S. temperatures are not rising at all – at least not since the network became operational 10 years ago. Instead, the United States has cooled by approximately 0.4 degrees Celsius, which is more than half of the claimed global warming of the twentieth century.
Of course, 10 years is hardly enough to establish a long-term trend. Nevertheless, the 10-year cooling period does present some interesting facts.


Read the rest here.

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