Climate Audit and surfacestations.org are down

Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit is down due to excessive traffic that may have been caused by either or a combination of these things: 1- Rush Limbaugh mentioning the website in…

1998 no longer the hottest year on record in USA

Here’s a story of scientific investigation and discovery I’m proud to have had a small part in.Regular readers may remember that I posted about a climate station in Detroit Lakes…

How not to measure temperature, part 28 – Eureka!

Well, I found it. Eureka that is, but what I found was rather depressing. I visited the climate stations of record both old and new at Eureka, California on July…

How not to measure temperature, part 27 – Basketball anyone?

This is the climatological station of record for Odessa, Washington. It is at the residence of a COOP weather observer administered by NOAA. The photo was taken by surfacestations.org volunteer…

Closed Minds of the herd

Spot the free thinker in this photo (photo courtesy ZombieTime) Russell Steele over at NCWatch has an interesting post about “going against the herd”. He says “Bob Prechter, an expert…

Another milestone – 200 Volunteers

As of this evening, August 3rd, my surfacestations.org project collected it’s 200th volunteer sign-up. Granted not all of them are actively out there surveying stations, some have done none, others…

How not to measure Temperature, part 26 – counting A/C units

There’s been some recent discussion about how only rural stations have been used in the NASA GISS analysis, and those rural stations are qualified by looking at night time DOD…