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Watts analysis of US weather stations is at surfacestations.org. In it, using only verified rural weather stations, he finds the USA has been cooling for some decades. The number of stations used has been shrunk hugely, and many more are now urban than used to be. It is therefore clear that UHI plays a far greater part in modern “warming” than the Climate maniacs claim.
Describing Antony Watts as a meteorologist is pushing it a bit. He studied meteorology at University but never graduated. However, that doesn’t mean he is wrong.
The USCRN
a) has a warming trend. The chart above is so busy it is hard to see it but see here. (first answer)
b) almost exactly matches the record for adjusted US climate record as a whole (actually it shows a slightly greater warming trend than the all stations record but the timescale is too short to read much into it)
In any case the US is only 2% of the earth’s surface area.
The point is that nothing much can be read into any climate records at the moment.
So the pursuit of ‘net zero’ seems to be being followed, very much like the eccentric young officer, simply out of idle curiosity.
And no cost benefit study has been done into the effects of pursuing ‘net zero’.
But, apart from that, political leadership the world over is going really well……not.
Good news. Warming suits humanity far better than cooling, no?
The heat death of the planet in one simple graph…
Interesting chart – it doesn’t actually say what it is measuring but whatever it was it varied between -70C and +70C around 1880. Do you have the source?
As it is cooling/warming per century it looks like they are adding up all the annual anomalies for each 100 year period (on a running annual basis). That is the only way I can get anything remotely sensible from the figures, but I suspect it really shows the Met Office doesn’t understand what it is doing.
Do we know the Met office created the chart?
The title refers to Met office data, so it seems a pretty fair conclusion.
Warming trend? Not according to the complex scientific reading instruments either side if my nose.
Ref UK Met Office forecasts. If you are looking for a long range weather forecast from the Met Office, you will generally get two things,
1, is an overview of what might occur, in which, you realise that you could get anything that would be applicable within the forthcoming time period, for that particular time of year. Rain, sun, wind etc.
2 generally there is a reference to the temperature expectation ie above average or below average. However the Met Office does not identify an average mean temperature, but the average high and low temperatures recorded for that particular time of year. So when the Met Office states above average temperatures possible, it means it could be above the low average temperature, not necessarily the high average temperature.
The data presented by the Met Office is not generally misleading in itself, but its presentation is.
Does anyone remember the predictions of snow and freezing temperatures over Easter a couple of months ago?
Some Easters it’s real shirtsleeves and ‘99 weather. This ain’t one of them. That’s data, my friends.
Indeed. Assisted by the fact that it moves up and down the calendar, with just under 4 minutes a day difference in daylength.
for exactly the reason of all the issues surrounding surface temperature weather station datasets, I only ever really look at the satellite records from Dr Roy Spencer at UAH which seem to be the best way of eliminating many of these issues.
Seems the most sensible for “global” data since no other dataset gives adequate coverage of the southern hemisphere.
You’re right. The only reliable source of global temperatures is the satellite data. I think even with these though there have been attempts to “adjust” it.
I’ve followed Watts over the years and it’s incredible how the placement of these weather stations doesn’t seem to be a problem to the so called experts. The same in this country where many are located near runways and other potential heat sources.
In 2015, there was also a whistle-blower, ex NOAA climate scientist John Bates, who reported to media that NOAA were trying to deny the halt in the warming trend.
Some may also remember, back in 2009, we had the ClimateGate scandal at East Anglia University. Where scientists were found out trying to remove the inconvenient medieval warm period. Can we ever trust these climate scientists.
An article posted here 6 months ago was also interesting. Where Professor Nicola Scafetta was using the satellite data to assess the accuracy, well lack of, of climate models.
Satellite Temperature Data Show Almost All Climate Model Forecasts Over the Last 40 Years Were Wrong – The Daily Sceptic
Climate Scientists Manipulated Temperature Data to Fool Politicians and Public, Claims ‘Whistleblower’ (reason.com)
Latest Global Temps – Roy Spencer, PhD. (drroyspencer.com)
The climate system has warmed up from around zero to present day over about 12 000 years. It is non-linear with periods of sudden increase, sudden downturns, flatline.
The overall increase is so slow, so slight it cannot be observed or measured in real time. It can only be calculated retrospectively over periods of thousands of years. Any short-term analysis, decades or centuries, is meaningless.
This is why they invented the Global Mean Temperature Anomaly in the 1980s as ‘the only way to show global warming’. It purports to be able to show temperature changes of tenths and hundredths of a degree, using manipulated, averaged, whole number data of no such accuracy.
So.
Nobody knows what the Earth’s temperature or temperatures should be at the moment.
We have no way of measuring what it or they actually are.
Therefore it is impossible to say whether it or they are too high, or too low or just right.
It’s just junk science, filled with lies and corruption like the CoVid Fakedemic ‘science’. It’s all ideology and politics and money and evil.
The truth always “outs” in the end, eh, Greta?
The humanity-caused Climate Change industry is very lucrative and they will not give up their power, control and riches without a fight.
I believe our government fund and direct the UK Met Office, so like they did during Covid’s reign they are lying to us and providing false or distorted information. It’s time we cleared them all out and found politicians who can form an honest government – if there are any.