How not to measure temperature, part 3

31 05 2007

The picture below is from Oregon State Climatologist George Taylor. You may have heard of him, the Governor of Oregon tried to get him fired for not jumping on to the global warming bandwagon because he doesn’t see enough supporting evidence.

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The picture is of Forest Grove, Oregon, and the temperature plot below shows how it is warming. But George says:

Yes, it’s a window air conditioning unit to the east and the edge of a large asphalt parking lot to the north, northwest, and west. The pic is shot looking northeast. For those of you that may not immediately realize this, air conditions exhaust hot air to the outside.

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