This seems to be so wrong on so many levels it is stunning.
It includes his newest plan to save the world.

The way things are reported & commented upon by apparent observers is always illuminating in many ways.

I recall a wonderfull BBC documentary broadcast a while ago, following a Sky at Night special hosted by the marvellous Sir Patrick Moore, all about the Sun! Well, the documentary that followed was equally marvellous, with wonderfull photography, graphics, & descriptions of the workings of the Sun. In fact I was totally enthralled by it until the last 5 minutes or so, when the narrator dramatically spoke the closing words along the lines of “No one can explain what effects the power of the sun has on our climate, but whatever it is, it’s already been overtaken by man-made global warming!”, coupled with an image of a bright furious sun cutting immediately to an image of a calving ice sheet. Very impressive. I only wonder as a simple structural engineer how that, if one doesn’t know what effect ‘A’ has upon ‘B’, how does one know that ‘C’ has a greater effect upon ‘B’ than ‘A’, & one doesn’t really know what effect ‘C’ is having upon ‘B’ if any?

BTW great website Mr Watts, please keep up the splendid work! If it wasn’t for this & ICECAP among others I would have still been a AGW believer.

I hope the family will be given a very fine award to mark a century of dedicated work to an important process. That could only happen if someone tells NOAA that the century has been achieved, perhaps those who know Bob’s name and address could bring it to their attention.

Perhaps the site could be featured in the next Coop Observer’s newsletter. With photos, of course. :-)

Why doesn’t someone take a pair of calibrated thermometers and take readings near the box and further away. This could prove the impact of a air conditioner nearby, if any. While I can see the station is ridiculously out of compliance I would rather have some fact to back it up – not just a touchy feely picture. Actually, if someone were good enough at statistics I wonder if you could correlate this stations data versus another one nearby (that is better in compliance) and see an “air conditioning effect” on warm days – if its measurable.

Should be able to measure the impact of using metal on the roof using a pair of models set up side-by-side.

Also, if “Bob” knows when he moved you might be able to see some change in the data at the time. This would back up arguments that data collection is biased.

Ah, so many experiments, so little time… :-)

I hope the family will be given a very fine award to mark a century of dedicated work to an important process. That could only happen if someone tells NOAA that the century has been achieved, perhaps those who know Bob’s name and address could bring it to their attention.

My understanding is that, with the exception of a small handful of stations put in place in the past few years, the network was not established with the goal to identify a minor, incremental rise in temperature over decades or centuries. The dedicated individuals who have been gathering regular data should be given their due. It is simply that the data was never intended in the first place to give — and as the state of the network demonstrates, cannot now give — a meaningful trend, when the trend itself is supposedly measured to a sensitivity that for so many of the stations is obviously well below the margin of noise.

Is anyone else affected in the same way?

No problems here (and I’m dial-up).

Perhaps another browser would work?

Disagree it was a fraud. The Russians were already occupying Eastern Europe and nothing anyone said or did not say was going to change that. Romania and Bulgaria already had armies in the field on the Soviet side. They outnumbered allied forces around 4-1, were far better fighters man-for-man (second only to the Germans, themselves), had an equivalent tactical air force, and incredibly superior armor (and numbers of AFV), and could supply directly by rail. And if we’d made a bid for Berlin, they just would have made their move in March rather than waiting until April.

And Moscow (and Soviet production) was far out of bomber range.

If we’d been crazy enough to take them on, it probably would have been Dunkirk v.2.

At the time no one had any idea whether the bomb would work or not. We got the promise of Russian help in Asia to pin down the Japanese army, which did not turn out to be necessary, but was thought by all to be a big deal at the time. All FDR and Churchill gave up was what the Soviets already had and nothing was going to change.

(Sorry, jeez, I could not bring myself to let that pass.)

You need not be.

I assure you that these conditions are quite usual.

So you can feel better now.