NOAA Deception
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has made some surprising and indefensible statements of late; including this one, “Accuracy, with respect to global temperatue readings, doesn’t matter. The temperature reading itself is not important.” So what’s the issue here? At issue is 1) what are the real temperatures being reported? 2) are these temperatures accurate? 3) what policies are driven by global temperatures?
NOAA has five classes of climate measuring sites. The best sites, categories 1 and 2, require the site to be placed over grass or low local vegetation. According to section 2.2 of NOAA’s Climate Reference Network (CRN) Site Information Handbook:
The most desirable local surrounding landscape is a relatively large and flat open area with low local vegetation in order that the sky view is unobstructed in all directions except at the lower angles of altitude above the horizon. For categories 1 and 2 there can be no artificial heating sources within 100 meters (330 feet). For the lower quality stations 3 to 5 there must be no artificial heating source within 10 meters (33 feet).
The integrity of the site as a reliable climate measuring station is completely dependent on these criteria. Is the government adhering to its own standards?
More Research
In a landmark 2007 research project to determine the quality of the United States climate measuring network, meteorologist Anthony Watts set out to get some answers. He recruited more than 650 volunteers to photograph the climate stations around the country.
What they have found is astounding. A full ninety percent of the United States climate measuring sites do not meet the government’s own criteria for accurate temperature measurement! Again, that number is ninety percent.
This means that among numerous other violations, most climate measuring stations have artificial heat sources within 33 feet of the thermometers. Examples of these heat sources: buildings, roads, air conditioning vents, heat reflecting surfaces, stations located on top of roofs, in confined areas that restrict air flow, at waste treatment plants that generate heat, and on asphalt parking lots.
The Global Warming Bias
All of these influences introduce a warming bias to the measured temperature. Many of these warm biases were introduced in the last 25 years. During this time, a new generation of thermometers — the MMTS/Nimbus thermometers — were gradually installed across the country. These thermometers are hardwired to the weather station or building where the readings are recorded. Because of this wiring, the thermometers have been repositioned closer to heat sources. The older, more pristine locations were too far away to run the cables — there were too many things in the way like buildings, roads, and other infrastructure. The installers simply moved the thermometers closer to make the installations easier and more economical.
So NOAA now has climate measuring stations located much closer to buildings and industrial heat sources, over dirt, black pavement, cement, crushed stones, steel, shingles, wood, and other hard and heat-reflective surfaces. These violations of NOAA’s own criteria for accurate temperature measurement have gradually — and fully — corrupted the U.S. climate measuring network.
To state it bluntly, global temperatures have been deliberately manipulated to show a “global warming” trend, when in fact no trend exists. Virtually all remote sensing sites in the United States have been removed. These sites, located in forests, mountains, deserts, open fields, etc; have all been removed and transferred to urban areas. Urban areas are known to register higher temperatures than surrounding non-urban areas. So the warming trend was manipulated by simply moving sensing devices from accurate reading sites, to warmer locations (parking lots, concrete pads, etc). In the past, urban temperatures were discounted as being inaccurate and did not account for the foundation of global temperature reports. That has all now changed.
There is no global warming trend. There is a trend of moving temperature sensing stations into urban areas clearly compromised by artificial heat sources.
Actual Data Contradict NOAA's Phony Data
The actual temperature trend in the United States over the last 50 years, shows something quite different from what NOAA says. From 1960 to the late 1970s [two decades], the United States temperature was clearly falling. From that point on, there was a two-decade warming trend through the 1980s and 1990s. That warming trend ended in 1999 and there has been no warming since.
Not only did NOAA say the last 50 years was a period of warming, they said it was a “rapid warming.” This is a blatantly intentional distortion of what actually took place. The historical climate data show that the temperature only warmed for two of the last five decades!
In an attempt to “educate” the public about global warming, NOAA is working hard to deceive taxpayers about the quality of temperature measurement and the trend of temperature. The careers of many scientists and bureaucrats at NOAA depend on funding to study the “problem” of global warming. If global warming stops (as it already has), research projects could be canceled. The careers of high-ranking administrators could be severely compromised if they are blamed for “dropping the ball” on their watch.
The evidence says that to continue with funding and to legitimize NOAA’s research efforts, the myth that “temperatures have been rising rapidly” must be maintained through distortion and outright misrepresentation of the facts.
Beholden To False Data
Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” has been completely discredited. His data is faulty, his interpretation is flawed, and his conclusions are false. Still, faithful environmentalists continue to quote from this baloney science. Those making a living off of taxpayer supported “climate change research” are beholden to the theory. If they fail to “keep the faith” of climate change, their careers could be in jeopardy–wouldn’t want the truth to get in the way of someone’s career.
Many writers and researchers have challenged the myth of global warming, and more specifically, challenged the source of the data–urban placed temperatures sensing devices. Taking readings from a thermometer placed on an asphalt parking lot, near an air conditioning vent, and claiming global temperatures are rising is not only dishonest, it’s criminal. Naive citizens of the world are been manipulated, deceived, and forced to pay for this false nonsense. It’s time it ended.
