How not to measure temperature, part 77: Surveying a weather station by watching JEOPARDY! « Watts Up With That?

...Looking at the style of the automobiles, I’m guessing these photos were taken sometime in the early 90’s when this office was opened. What is interesting about these photos, besides the siting issues with proximity to parking and the building, is the fact that the Stevenson Screen door is facing SOUTH rather than the requisite north. The idea is to keep direct sunlight from hitting the thermometers when readings are taken.

PJack Wheeler: Green is the New Red (Communism): How You can Help Stop “Green” Globalwarming

...You could ask your Congressista or Senator to personally contact NASA Administrator (thus Hansen’s boss) Mike Griffin requesting that Hansen be fired for science fraud.

I know for certain that Griffin despises Hansen, knowing full well of his total dishonesty as a scientist. Yet he feels Hansen has so much support in the media and on Capitol Hill that he is impregnable. Give Griffin some Capitol Hill backup, and he just might discredit and fire Hansen anyway.

Discrediting Hansen by going public with the enormous amount of evidence available to do so - so much evidence there’s even a name for it, “Hansenizing” data or “Hansenization” - could discredit the global warming hoax. [Via Skeptics Global Warming]

WSJ.com calls an economist who's in the carbon-trading consulting business a "Climate Guru"

For the past two years, Lord Nicholas Stern has been the standard-bearer of the most aggressive approach to curbing emissions to limit the fallout from global warming, influencing government policy from the U.K. to Australia and sparking a sharp academic debate. The former World Bank chief economist and U.K. government adviser now oversees a carbon-trading consultancy.

His basic message? The world can’t afford inaction on climate change, even if taking action to curb emissions will cost at least 2% of global GDP through 2050. He recently revised his already-gloomy projections, saying that the world’s climate was changing faster than scientists expected and calling for even more radical action.
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Lord Stern: I’ve worked in China and India for many years, and in the past few months I traveled to India, China and Brazil. There is a real deepening of engagement on the issue that is remarkable. Yet at the same time there is a real and tangible anger at industrialized countries, which contributed the most to the problem over the past 100 years as they grew rich on a carbon-heavy economy.
For developing countries, it’s really important that any climate deal be equitable. I think the framework for the Copenhagen negotiations [in 2009] is simple: if rich countries commit to at least 80% cuts in emissions by 2050 from 1990 levels, then developing countries will be willing to sign on to their own emissions reductions starting perhaps in 2020.
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Lord Stern: No matter what happens we are going to have to adapt to changes in our climate. The question is whether we have to adapt to a change of 1-2 degrees centigrade, or more like 5-6 degrees centigrade.