The only proper way to communicate such sentiments, IMHO, is in a suicide note.

I’ll have to read up on the Smart Grid. Not familiar with that. As for remote wireless temp sensing, it’s not exactly a national security issue on par with the power grid and I don’t yet believe that there is actually a conspiracy to shift temps up to promote AGW. I still tend to believe that laziness and indifference and lack of initiative is behind most of the errors. I hope I’m right.

Think how valuable continuous weather data from properly sighted sensors fed into computers would be. Well within our technical capabilities IMHO.

My guess is there is probably a stockpile of the equipment and cable for surface stations somewhere in a warehouse and what is lacking is the motivation and/or means to travel the country and repair or re-situate the stations. With luck and more hard work, Anthony and his volunteers may just turn that tide and inspire the various agencies to care about the quality of their data, let alone the data collection devices. One can hope.

In the meantime, I’m striving to learn enough to understand the posts here (and the comments — Leif takes a few readings and then I look things up and read again…) so I can, if the opportunity arises, do my part.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060221084628.htm

“[...] Being from Washington state, this is my favorite:
http://gallery.surfacestations.org/main.php?g2_itemId=19357

Port Angeles, Washington. It’s a hoot! [...]”

OMG!!! (G = Gaia, in newspeak)

I think it may also have the record for area of surrounding blacktop. It looks like several hundred feet of blacktop in any direction you care to go from the… well, I was going to call it a surface station, but it’s up so high, I think its data may be part of the satellite record ;o)

Nice one!

It appears to me that much of the problem with siting of temperature sensors may have to do with accessibility. In this wireless age why can’t we develop a standardized remote sensing package that can be installed properly, independent of easy human accessibility, and monitored remotely. We could even use solar power cells to power it or a little windmill on top. This would also solve the time-of-day problem.

Good use for some of that stimulus money I think.

The problem with that is that if the government actually got ‘real numbers’, they wouldn’t use them anyway because it would probably reduce their justification in raising taxes on every form of energy in the name of reducing co2 to stop imaginary AGW

schnurrp (04:13:35) :
OT: UK population must fall to 30m (…)

“(Porritt) one of Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society.”

“Porritt is winning scientific backing. Professor Chris Rapley, director of the Science Museum, will use the OPT conference, to be held at the Royal Statistical Society, to warn that population growth could help derail attempts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. ”

“Many experts believe that, since Europeans and Americans have such a lopsided impact on the environment, the world would benefit more from reducing their populations than by making cuts in developing countries.”

Of course we, the disposable 50%, will just walk quietly into the fires. Just got to love Profs of (X) – they really do believe that they will be part of the remaining 50% when the carbon settles.

Profs! .. its called GENOCIDE and it is a precursor to WAR

http://www.optimumpopulation.org/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5950442.ece

Lucky that they didn’t have a steam line to site it by.”

They did try but it was too far from the sewage plant ;-)

DaveE.

How in their right mind could anyone have placed them where they are?

Then they massage the data till they get a ‘statistical’ reality that they can use to promote their agenda?

That blinker comparison shows ‘em adjusting the early years down and later years up. No wonder there’s global warming. They get funny data due to bad siting giving warmer readings than in the surrounding area and then they adjust it even more upwards.

My tax dollars hard at work.

For those who think in Farenheit, 0 is the freezing point in Celsius – and during those strings of 0′s I assure you the temperature went below zero (to varying extents on different days). The technician can’t fool you so easily when the data are for your own locality.

Does this scene remind one of Jurascic park ?

The ARGO data was obviously wrong since it showed the oceans cooling in a direct contradiction of what the GCM’s say is actually happening. Since that can’t be the case, they did an intense investigation, found the “problem”, and “fixed” the data.