With apologies to David Letterman’s “Stupid Human Tricks”…it’s like a manifest of David Parkers “cool parks” reverse UHI urban myth. Maybe it had something to do with this ongoing threat from the European Union:
By Chris Horner at The American Spectator
This gem from Spain — Madrid’s mayor proclaimed massive air pollution reductions except, ah,
“The state prosecutor’s office found that in 2009 the Madrid municipality had quietly moved nearly half its pollution sensors from traffic-clogged streets in the city centre to parks and gardens”
— reminds us of the cheapest way to cool the planet:
Reopen the Canadian and Siberian temperature stations closed ca. 1990, prompting ‘the hottest decade on record’.
Much cheaper than energy rationing. And more effectively addresses the matter, as well.
I’m skeptical of the EU’s assumption that Spain’s air pollution is Spain’s emissions. Perhaps the geography, sunny climate, or wind patterns exacerbate a small problem into a big one. Spain is not the largest economy in Europe, and their economy right now is in the tank.
PaulH says:
February 6, 2011 at 10:28 am
“Kind of like when the government bean-counters exclude food and energy from their core inflation calculations.”
Yep. And get everyone into part-time jobs. Bingo, we got unemployment down under 10% again. Vote for us.
Werner Brozek says: February 6, 2011 at 1:47 pm
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Readers may disagree with some assumptions I used, but whatever issue anyone may have, does it affect the final conclusion about the lack of superiority of GISS data to any real extent?
No it does not affect the lack of superiority of GISS, crap is crap. I spent years beating IC processing in line with temperature measurement and control. Any data set with a step function in sampling, concurrent with a step finction in mean, must have the cause of the step function removed to be worth more than a pile of leeched out manure.
onion2 says: February 6, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Re CRS, Dr.P.H. says:
February 6, 2011 at 12:05 pm
“See no evil, hear no evil, measure no evil… One of my biggest gripes against “climate science” are the biases that Anthony has so elegantly pointed out, namely shutting down temperature stations that don’t agree with the “party line” and relying on weather stations close to turboprop exhaust, paved runways etc. Bad data = bad science.”
Where has Anthony “pointed out” scientists have shut down stations that don’t agree with the “party line”?
Where Anthony may or may not have “pointed out” the shut down, it has been covered extensively here for years. Here is another graphic.
http://i44.tinypic.com/23vjjug.jpg
If we are to believe that temperature is important, why stop measuring it? There is a big fat lie here somewhere…
As an athermist, the graph correlating global temperature to the number of stations is one of my favourites. Is there an updated version of it somewhere?
thanks
How many times do people like myself, Ian W, E. M. Smith etc have to say, temperature is not a good metric for energy!
A little experiment. Heat an oven to 200°C. Open the door & feel the warm air released. Place a bowl, (Pyrex), full of water inside. Let the water warm. Open the door again and feel the difference in perceived warmth.
The air released will be the same temperature, only the energy content changes.
As an aside, I’ve never heard of anyone being burned by the air from an oven, (even one laden with moisture), quite a few by water above about 60°C. (I think it’s 63°C but don’t quote me).
DaveE.
They have to use temperature, David, because they can’t actually measure the energy content and if they could, as with the ocean, it would not show what they want it to show. The public does not understand this, and the alarmist scientists are well aware of this fact.
Mark
My understanding is that GISS doesn’t actually measure anything more in the polar regions, but rather “smears” the data from what is measured a thousand miles or more away across the blind areas…giving the impression that it is more comprehensive. This makes the data from a handful of stations weighed dozens or more times what can be justified.
Two corrections:
The link should be: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/06/more-stupid-environmentalist-tricks/ All the “teaaudit.org” stuff stuck on the end of the original is junk.
As for “closed” stations, they’re still there and recording just fine. But they’re being ignored. CS and EAU and GISS have ADD.
Global warming is the biggist con jobs thats ever been perpatraited on the world by GREENPEACE,AL GORE and the various green hucksters and con-men like GORE and STRONG