DocWat (07:53:57) :
You know I hadn’t been to the ss.o site for a while, it’s good to see that you and other folks (who know what they’re doing) are participating in Kansas. Did he not have the dog out? I went down the alley a while back and it didn’t sound too friendly (No, it wasn’t the fluffy pooch in the picture, this one could eat fluffy). I delivered newpapers as a child and developed a distinct fear of dogs.
“My wife and I spent about 20 minutes visiting
with the curator and his wife. Nice folks.”

I live in Wichita, but work in Anthony for the State Government. Had a little misunderstanding a few years ago. Some folks don’t appreciate good government. Hope he voted for B.O.

Have you done Norton, Oberlin or St Francis, or are the directions you gave from Google? I can probably get those done in one trip this Christmas. We’ll both have trouble doing the east part.

I already did Anthony, KS Look in the :
http://gallery.surfacestations.org for

http://gallery.surfacestations.org/main.php?g2_itemId=2195

My wife and I spent about 20 minutes visiting with thew curator and his wife. Nice folks.

Probably. Not only that, but UHI is being severely lowballed because urban stations are judged by surrounding rural stations which are, themselves in severe violation.

Hmmmn. 120 mile side trip @ ~60 mph in mid-KS = 2 hrs out, 2 hours back.

I can waste (er, use) 4 hours going to the hardware store on most any Saturday morning.

Recommendation: tell her you went to the hardware store, but “didn’t find anything interesting, and came back home without spending anything.” End of wife heat island effect. Temporarily, at least. 8<)

I’ll spring for the gas at 65.00/barrel.

Robt

Meanwhile the Antarctic is setting its own http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.365.south.jpg

Has anyone noteced that the Arctic sea ice is now greater than any time in recorded history (well, since 2002 anyway)? Good think you all voted for Obama; he has saved us from AGW.

http://www.physorg.com/news145286037.html

Apologies if this has already been posted…

I think the Medicine Lodge one is still there, but the data is not used. I’m in the process of doing the Anthony location, but due to previous non-related difficulty I am not getting cooperation from the “cooperator”, and the thing is in his back yard under a tree next to his garage with a dog chained to it intermittently. Could be a source of CHI (canine effect).

I too, am unfamiliar with the process, and on my WUWT Labor Day pilgrimage to Independence erroneously photographed a USGS river guaging system. :<{ It was over 1/2 mile from the GE bubble. Pretty country for KS. Nice pictures! The one I need to get is about 1/2 mile north of town on the east side at the water pumping station. Don’t know when I’ll return, it’s 120 miles away. When my wife was informed I wasted our time she developed WHI (wife effect). The hot dog lunch over an open fire didn’t impress either.

Anthony, I don’t know if you could post really current updates at ss.o, otherwise, you folks let me know which you plan to do. I’m planning on taking the upper route (north of I70) through Oberlin, Norton, St. Francis etc. at Christmas when I have to visit the Outlaws in SW Nebraska.

I hope a vintage Garmin GPS 12 is accurate enough for everybody.

I guess that demonstrates my unfamiliarity with the tool.

Thanks again!

http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/38598

what does it mean?

“A few UK scientists have done a smart thing; they’ve combined the proposals of G8 policymakers for combating climate change with actual data on the status of play in the carbon cycle. The resulting study (pdf) is interesting not only because of this highly useful approach but also because it focuses on atmospheric carbon dioxide and its impact on the environment in the far future.

If anything is beyond doubt, it is that making cuts in greenhouse gases won’t be any good if the longer term problem of atmospheric carbon dioxide gets ignored. Atmospheric carbon dioxide threatens to become a massive problem that will catch up with us at a speed way more dangerous than the man made carbon dioxide emission problems we’re facing at the moment, the scientists write in their study, published in the Environmental Research Letters”

I get sick to my stomach whenever I hear “combating climate change” and similar permutations without bothering to define climate change – the convolution above is the kind of summary that will be picked up by MSM…

the real issue seems to be the residence time of CO2 in the atmosphere – time to review that again…