The Heartland Institute: Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable?

This report, by meteorologist Anthony Watts, presents the results of the first-ever compre-hensive review of the quality of data coming from the National Weather Service’s network of stations. Watts and a team of volunteers visually inspected and took pictures of more than 850 of these temperature stations. What they found will shock you:

“We found stations located next to the exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, on blistering-hot rooftops, and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat. We found 68 stations located at wastewater treatment plants, where the process of waste digestion causes temperatures to be higher than in surrounding areas.

“In fact, we found that 89 percent of the stations--nearly 9 of every 10--fail to meet the National Weather Service’s own siting requirements ...”

The conclusion is inescapable: The U.S. temperature record is unreliable. And since the U.S. record is thought to be “the best in the world,” it follows that the global database is likely similarly compromised and unreliable.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Perspectives on Cap and Trade [Scam] vs. Carbon Tax [Scam]

With one exception on either side, the academics prefer a tax and the environmental advocates prefer a cap and trade. I’d hypothesize that a lot of this difference can be chalked up to those who are looking at what is happening inside the Beltway — where cap and trade is currently king — versus those who are looking more broadly — where a carbon tax makes far more sense.

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Environmentalist Edit-Whores Strike Again

I did a story, but my editor removed all references to debate about climate change, global warming or whatever they are calling it now. He didn’t tell me, which is unusual when removing such a huge chunk of a story, but I just discovered it today after it didn’t appear in our print edition.

Warning Signs: Die, Global Warming, Die!

...Despite this, the White House and the U.S. Congress—at least its Democrats—have been telling everyone that, because of global warming, the United States government must impose draconian regulations and restrictions on “greenhouse gas” emissions, by which they primarily mean carbon dioxide (CO2). The claim, utterly false, is that CO2 is “forcing” a warming that will kill us all if we don’t reduce energy and other emissions.

The utterly vile politicians advancing this—I will not name them because the very act causes nausea—had better begin to pay some attention to public opinion on the subject because the Gallup, Zogby and Rasmussen polling organizations all are reporting that large majorities of people no longer believe their lies.