We all knew this, but the NOAA data showing warming trends is bad to the tune of 90% crap data.
Anthony Watts from the Heartland Institute actually went out to check where the weather data stations are located. What he found were that these stations that used to be in country, leafy, areas are now surrounded by concrete and asphalt.
In order to produce accurate temperature readings based on NOAA’s own published standards, thermometers are supposed to be in natural, “pristine” locations like fields, forests, hilltops, etc. But Dr. Watts’ research has revealed that more than 90% of NOAA thermometers are in inappropriate places. 96% are in parking lots, on buildings, against brick walls, or in other artificial environments. The bricks, asphalt and other human construction materials used in these environments artificially trap heat, leading to a “warming bias” in the collected data. Thermometers placed in natural settings register lower average temperatures.
But NOAA data is used to gin up climate change hysteria and the present placement of those stations definitely feeds the agenda of the alarmists.
So I’m guessing that NOAA won’t be correcting for heat island effect or will be moving the stations to appropriate places in order to have more accurate data.
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