Some links for you to follow
http://www.surfacestations.org/
And a related article from the Pittsburgh tribune-review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/steigerwald/s_513013.html
What does this mean? An increase in temperature across the US will be artificially inflated or even created when a monitoring station is inopportunely located. There are specific guidelines on how these stations are to be positioned and located. The article covers a guy looking to evaluated stations according to the guidelines. The website is the community effort of evaluation.
I will be reading more on this, but as a scientist, I want to say that if this is the case, I am greatly disappointed in those overseeing these stations. At best, a ton of mistakes or just bad work. At work, i will throw out the "agenda" word. That map should be mostly blue dots. Not orange and yellow. Thats like If your cars instruments all read high or low, except your oil temp. You really don't know how fast you are going, what rpm your engine is going at, what your engine temp is, etc. But thank God your oil temp is sitting easy.
Grrr. I am not saying that I do not look out for global warming information, but I have not been convinced by anything offered thus far. And this sort of thing really cooks my goose as a scientist. I believe that science is a pursuit of physical truth and an effort to explain how things work with the knowledge available. To act otherwise is to betray a scientist's fundamentals IMO.
Gotta get some clothes on now. Work time.
See y'all later.
http://www.surfacestations.org/
And a related article from the Pittsburgh tribune-review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/steigerwald/s_513013.html
What does this mean? An increase in temperature across the US will be artificially inflated or even created when a monitoring station is inopportunely located. There are specific guidelines on how these stations are to be positioned and located. The article covers a guy looking to evaluated stations according to the guidelines. The website is the community effort of evaluation.
I will be reading more on this, but as a scientist, I want to say that if this is the case, I am greatly disappointed in those overseeing these stations. At best, a ton of mistakes or just bad work. At work, i will throw out the "agenda" word. That map should be mostly blue dots. Not orange and yellow. Thats like If your cars instruments all read high or low, except your oil temp. You really don't know how fast you are going, what rpm your engine is going at, what your engine temp is, etc. But thank God your oil temp is sitting easy.
Grrr. I am not saying that I do not look out for global warming information, but I have not been convinced by anything offered thus far. And this sort of thing really cooks my goose as a scientist. I believe that science is a pursuit of physical truth and an effort to explain how things work with the knowledge available. To act otherwise is to betray a scientist's fundamentals IMO.
Gotta get some clothes on now. Work time.
See y'all later.
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