The sensor? Or the asphalt road, the a/c, and the power transformer…

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I just finished the “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States” pdf. Depressing. I cut and pasted it into WordPerfect so I could highlight the distortions/misrepresentations/liesmisstatements/omissions/etc., but I ran out of highlighter. Found a few typos, too.

I did like the photo of weeds growing better with increased CO2. Didn’t mention the huge increase in crop productivity we have already seen. Didn’t mention a lot of stuff, come to think of it. Pointed out that if the whole Antarctic melted it would raise the sea level a bunch. Didn’t mention that if we were hit by an asteroid we’d be in even worse shape; both equally likely.

Arrrgh.

REPLY: Why would I want either title? – A

Not for them a curt dismissal into forced retirement and un-thanked obscurity, for an elderly and once-respected sensor-servant brought low by the wearage and tearage of life into disrespected and premature senility.
When you have right on your side, inconvenient facts are but, insignificant, vermin fully deserving of being ridden down.

I salute your chivalry, Viscount NOAA and wish you well for the remainder of your Crusade. Droit de seigneur – Alive and Kicking once more!

I posted this comment about PETA’s response to POTUS swatting of a fly on
http://www.ecorazzi.com/2009/06/18/update-peta-explains-criticism-over-obama-fly-swat/comment-page-1/#comment-324698

When I was 14, I asked my father. “Dad, can I join PETA? He went silent and then answered. “Son, you’re too young to join PETA”.
When I was 15, I asked him the same question. He answered thus. “Son, you’re too old to join PETA”. Thanks Dad, you were right

It’s in moderation as I scribble. Place your bets Ladies and Gents – pass or fail?

Bob Tisdale has pretty much convinced me that the 1998 El Nino had an anomalous effect on temperatures, so what I do is look at the RSS and UAH charts for the period Jan 1979 – Oct 1997 and Nov 1998 – Present for RSS and UAH. Basically cutting out the bump caused by the El Nino. (The effect has still not worn off according to Bob, but I’ll ignore that)

The results are for the USA 48:

RSS 1.68 Deg C per Century 1979 – 1997 (linear trend)
-4.2 Deg C per Century 1998 to Present (linear trend)

UAH 2.54 Deg C per Century 1979 to 1997 (linear trend)
-3.24 Deg C per Century 1998 to Present (linear trend)

Seems to me the USA 48 could use all the CO2 it can get!! NOAA better make darn sure it’s temperature data is better that the satellite data.

Gentlemen and Ms. Fujiwara:

I have just read on Anthony Watts’ blog WUWT

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/17/noaa-fubar-high-tempclimate-records-from-faulty-sensor-to-remain-in-place-at-honolulu/#more-8608

that the temperature sensor at Honolulu has been exhibiting a significant warm bias for some time and has now been replaced, but that the records will not be adjusted to compensate for the bias. If this is in fact correctly reported, I find this course of action absolutely intolerable. Measures are even now being seriously proposed to mitigate the problem of “global warming” , measures that will cost trillions and result in significant reductions in standards of living and personal liberty. Your data is part of the scientific evidence for this global warming problem and the erroneously reported “record temperatures” in Honolulu are being widely reported in the popular media as further evidence of the urgency in solving this problem. Failure to correct this data is dishonest and brings into disrepute both your organization and yourselves, not to mention the reputation and prestige of science in general.

If you care to make a clarification on this matter, I will be happy to consider it and I am sure Anthony would be happy to entertain your comment on his blog. If the clarification should simply be restatement of the “a degree or two doesn’t matter” variety, then be forewarned that it will not be acceptable. Accuracy of measurement is important in both science and the battle of public relations.

I look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

All that being said, it is worth pointing out that we have been relying on a variety of articles and have not heard what NWS Honolulu has to say for themselves. The decision on the records may not have been theirs to make. They may be defering the decision. They may be running side-by-side measurements. We don’t know. As reported, the issue certainly looks bad, but on this site, Anthony’s site, let’s gather the facts before rushing to talk about dark, smelly conspiracies. Conspiracy, somewhere, there may be, but evidence, proof, documentation…. I need good, solid evidence before going to man the barricades….

The temperature sensors are managed by the FAA anyway. This isn’t a new problem either, nor one that NWS Honolulu can do anything about. All the sensors that were part of this lineup read hot, they always have. “Wow! Could that be why all this globa….oh wait.

If you still believe climate change is man-made then go to meteorology school and get an education, then you’ll see that its all a bunch of bunk that weak minded people that operate outside their disciplines or from pseudosciences created. Since people watch too many movies where all kinds of horrible things happen and there is one hero that speaks out from the “evil tyrants” controlling their temperature sensors, everyone thinks its a good idea.

People are starving on Oahu, maybe solve that problem, then if you get that one and all the other problems fixed, we can fix the temperature sensor.

http://www.theenvironmentsite.org/forum/climate-change-forum/17308-new-experiment-discussion-here-19.html