There is some recent discussion of Marysville and Orland at Eli Rabett and Tamino. The gist of their arguments is that the failure of NOAA to implement their promised quality control doesn’t “matter” since the problems get adjusted out in the adjustment software so that trends at Orland end up being similar to trends at […]
Eli (RTFR) Rabett, has a new defence of GISS adjustments, arguing that we should simply trust the clergy at GISS. Eli seems to be particularly prickly when it comes to anything that could be construed as criticism of GISS. (BTW Roger Pielke Jr and others have said that Eli is a pseudonym for Josh (RTFR) […]
On July 17, 2007, Rob Wilson archived British Columbia measurement data obtained in 1997-1998 and used in Wilson and Luckman 2002, 2003 (20 ring width; 7 mxd series). The data is here: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/updates. Wilson et al (JGR 2007), a new article, reports on a new tree ring reconstruction from 1750 on, which Rob claims to […]
Lonnie Thompson’s work is prominently cited by Al Gore, was cited by the NAS panel of Surface Temperature Reconstructions and is used both in temperature reconstructions and in articles arguing that there was no MWP. One of the remarkable aspects of Thomspon’s corpus is both that the original sample data is unarchived – even for […]
Another parking lot being measured for climate change: Newport, TN The surfacestations.org project has reached an important milestone. With the submission of #222, Lexington, VA, submitted by John Goetz, we are now below the 1000 mark (out of 1221) stations left to survey. It was a 3 -way race to #222 between power surveyors John […]
A Tucson climate scientist commenting on the location of the University of Arizona weather station in parking lot acknowledged that: It’s true that situating a weather station in a parking lot is not the best location. An understatement to day the least. He argued against locating the weather station on a nearby lawn: The emissivity […]
Apologies for the service in the past week, but I think the excuses may be valid. We had a two-and-a-half day outage when the home town (Gloucester, UK) of the webhost (fasthosts.co.uk) got flooded. Although the server hardware wasn’t affected, electrical power to the town became sporadic, and the ISPs supplying connectivity for fasthosts couldn’t […]
This picture, taken by http://www.surfacestations.org volunteer Don Kostuch needs no commentary from me other than to say it is the Detroit Lakes, MN USHCN climate station of record. The complete set of pictures is available in the online database here Here is the GISS plot:
Anthony Watts has observed that there is good reason for concern about USHCN stations. A reader at Anthony Watts’ blog has drawn attention to the following story in which suspicion of weather stations was taken to a new level. The suspicious device blown up by a State Police Bomb Squad Thursday evening turned out to […]
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Suspicious Weather Stations
Anthony Watts has observed that there is good reason for concern about USHCN stations. A reader at Anthony Watts’ blog has drawn attention to the following story in which suspicion of weather stations was taken to a new level. The suspicious device blown up by a State Police Bomb Squad Thursday evening turned out to […]