NOAA: FUBAR high temp/climate records from faulty sensor to remain in place at Honolulu

Do we have any other instances of “failed on the high side” temp sensors other than Honolulu HI and WEAC1?
Looking back over the record (and please do check it out) for Aug 2007 it seemed to me that the hotter the actual day, the greater the error when compared to nearby stations. That’s what it looked like to me, anyways.
Honolulu is a place where the daytime max doesn’t change all that much, not like the Sacramento Valley where you can get 20 degree swings in a matter of a few days.

Britannic no-see-um (03:58:20) :
Perhaps the Honolulu station is too important as a generator of nice neat virtual grid nodes out in the wide blue Pacific. Do these people measure the CO2 up that volcano as well?

There are no active volcanoes on that island. Among the Hawaiian Islands, only the ‘Big Island’ has any active volcanoes.

Anthony, you are right about the SNIPS.
It does not serve the discussions.

Thursday, June 18, 2009
Reasons to Distrust Your Government
By Alan Caruba
In the normal course of events, when voters no longer have confidence in the President, their Senators and their Representatives, they vote them out of office, but there are whole agencies of government that continue on no matter who is in office and, since their budgets and existence depend on the politics of whoever holds power, they bend to serve their policies.
A democracy is most in peril when citizens conclude they can no longer trust their government and there is no better example of that than a recent report, “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States”, issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It is sheer rubbish.
It is typical of the deliberate distortions and outright lies that have been put forth to an increasingly doubting public regarding “global warming.” It is part and parcel of the deceptions perpetrated for decades now by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, all of which feature tortured data of dubious quality and, since 1998, have ignored the Earth’s cooling trend.
The increasing reports from around the nation of “freaky” weather, of snow in June, and other anomalies are, in fact, a reflection of this cooling trend and it is likely to last at least thirty years or more.
John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President on Science and Technology, and a man who holds some of the most outlandish and baseless views on climate change, said “This new report integrates the most up-to-date scientific findings into a comprehensive picture of ongoing as well as expected future impacts of heat-trapping pollution on the climate experience of Americans, region by region and sector by sector.”
No it doesn’t. For one thing, the “heat-trapping pollution” to which he obliquely refers is mostly carbon dioxide, a gas vital to all life on Earth and a gas which, in the days when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth, could be found in concentrations five times or more higher than today. If CO2 was the great Earth destroyer that Holden, Gore, and others insist, there should be no Earth at all as we know it today.
To call CO2 “pollution” is to immediately invalidate the entire report, but to further insist, as the report does, that it is “primarily human-induced” is not just quite wrong, but a great big LIE. Human activity plays virtually no role whatever in the production of CO2.
This product of the interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program is a 190-page piece of loathsome propaganda that predicts more frequent heat waves, more flooding and waterborne diseases, rising water temperatures, more insect infestations and wildfires, and that old standby, rising sea levels with coastal flooding that will no doubt drown Manhattan and other coastal cities.
Hollywood does a better job with such fantasy than the minions of Washington, D.C.
Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo, the first Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel and former chairman of the American Meteorological Society’s Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, said of the NOAA report “This is not a work of science, but an embarrassing episode for the authors and NOAA.”
This report and the hours of effort that went into is pure science fiction, predicting outcomes, as all such “global warming” does (now called “climate change”), fifty to a hundred years from now.
Global warming propagandists always focus on a distant and unknowable far horizon, safe in the knowledge that only a future generation will discover their lies. By then, the horrid “environmental” legislation they wish to impose on America will have destroyed its economy and ruined our lives.
It is no accident this report has arrived just in time for a debate on the “Cap-and-Trade” legislation that is nothing more than a huge TAX on all energy use and one that will increase the cost of all energy to everyone by thousands of dollars individually. It will drive industries dependent on large quantities of energy to foreign nations. It is a huge job-killer.
Duke Energy of North Carolina, based on the spurious science of global warming, has asked the regulators of that State for permission to raise electricity prices 12.6 percent. The requested price hike would cost North Carolina ratepayers $496 million. They should change their name to Enron. It’s not being used any more.
Utilities required to include a mix of solar and wind energy, the least efficient and most impractical producers of energy because of Renewable Energy Mandates will be forced to ask for similar increases. America is the Saudi Arabia of coal. It is the most affordable way of generating energy. More coal-fired and nuclear plants would ensure that rates would remain stable for many decades to come.
Naturally “Crazy Eyes” Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, was quick to weigh in on news of the NOAA report. “The impact of the climate crisis on the United states and around the world is becoming increasingly severe.” Nonsense! More lies from the Speaker.
The climate is always in a state of change and that change is determine primarily by the Sun, as well as other natural factures such as the oceans, volcanic activity, and the greatest meteorological mystery of all, why clouds behave the way clouds do.
The NOAA report has already been torn to shreds by many of the leading meteorologists and climatologists throughout the nation. It is pure scaremongering and it is intended to further an environmental agenda that is determined to deprive Americans of the energy sources we will need to power our way out of this government-induced Recession and meet the needs of an expanding population.
It is yet another Obama-driven “crisis” and Americans have good and grave reasons to reject the massive global warming deception, “Cap-and-Trade”, and all those seeking to drive us like lemmings over the cliff of an insolvent, bankrupt nation.
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/

From iceagenow.com:
“593 NEW record low max temps for the month of June –
and we’re only half way through the month
17 Jun 09 – Here we sit, with our fearless leaders in Washington DC trying to shove ever more global warming taxes down our throats while low-temperature records are being broken across the country. Where is the outrage?”
I think it is a legitimate question to ask!

Have a look at how the moderators at the British site “the environment site .org “is trying to stifle discussion on this and other subjects raised by Anthony
http://www.theenvironmentsite.org/forum/climate-change-forum/17308-new-experiment-discussion-here-19.html

Since this is about NOAA temperatures and they just came out with their report about USA warming. Lets look at the USA 48 temperatures. Since Anthony has done all the work and we can pretty much say that the NOAA temperature data for the USA is dubious, lets use the UAH and RSS satellite temperatures for the USA 48.
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.

My PC is playing up just now. I tried to post this earlier but the tea-leaves said that it didn’t get through. Here goes.
Got to admit, however much you may deplore the ‘delusionalists’ for their repudiation of the scientific method, you have to praise them for their loyalty.
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!

9.5 years, CO2 according to Mauna Loa has gone up every year, but no rise in world temperatures.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:2000/plot/rss/from:2000/trend

Anthony:
Is the ASOS temp sensor failure (my judgment, not NOAAs) a relatively slow process, or a sudden jump (up, obviously)? Slow upward drift of these neat little sensors could explain a lot of things.

Maybe we should organize a protest rally to shut down the weather station. It surely warrants the widest possible publicity. Even the radio station got the joke!