Have you ever wondered how they get temperature readings for climate research???? Well, today is your lucky. I have found a blog that audits the weather stations that they are using for all that great science about Manbearpig.
Just take a look at where some of them are at:
How not to measure temperature, part 25
This picture, taken by www.surfacestations.org
volunteer Don Kostuch is the Detroit Lakes, MN USHCN climate station of
record. The Stevenson Screen is sinking into the swamp and the MMTS
sensor is kept at a comfortable temperature thanks to the nearby A/C
units.
The complete set of pictures is here
From NASA’s GISS, the plot makes it pretty easy to see there was no
discernible multi-decadal temperature trend until the A/C units were
installed. And it’s not hard to figure out when that was.
But hey, thy can "fix" the problem with math and adjustments to the temperature record.
Another one:
How not to measure temperature part 24
Warren Meyer,
one of the first surfacestations.org volunteers, delivered Tucson for
us Saturday. It was discovered during an analysis of climate stations
around the USA on the Climate Audit
blog that Tucson had the greatest positive temperature trend for any
USHCN station after the TOBS adjustment was applied. The TOBS
adjustment corrects for differences in local times of observation of
temperature by the observer. The picture says it all:
Yes folks, this is an official climate station of record, the
temperatures it measures go into our National Climatic Database and are
used in research such as the graph produced by NASA Goddard Institute
for Spaceflight Studies here:
There’s a British word that has been bandied about to describe the reaction to pictures like this one: "gobsmacked". The word applies even more so since this station is operated by science faculty members at the University of Arizona.
They are so proud of this station they even had a sign made for it to hang on the chain link fence enclosure:
The complete photo essay is available at the Tucson album at www.surfacestations.org The satellite and aerial photo images there are telling of the environment being measured.
Besides the obvious questions like "why is it in the middle of a parking lot?" and "why would scientists who should know better allow such a bizarre siting for a USHCN climate station of record?" Then there is this burning question: "Why
did they go to the trouble of installing a precision aspirated
temperature sensor and then not even bother to place it at the standard
observing height?".
It appears that the Stevenson Screen serves no other purpose except
as an equipment holder, as Warren Meyer reports the Stevenson Screen to
be empty. Originally the inside standard mounting board for the mercury
max/min thermometers were mounted about 1.5 foot higher than the air
inlet of the precision aspirated temperature sensor. So the lower
mounting height for the precision sensor adds a positive bias.Is there no diligence left in basic measurement? Is this what they teach in college science departments these days?
This is just a few of the great weathere stations that are looking for Manbearpig. Maybe the Goracle should look be hind one of the A/C units for Manbearpig.
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