By: BBk
Phil M. “Picking two sites (one rural, one urban) from each state? Since when is it best practice to use less data? I don’t know if anyone has looked at a map of the U.S. lately, but states in the West...
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Regarding Robert, I would like to see him back as long as he learned his lesson about manners. I have no idea what he was saying about Anthony in that thread, but I think any of us that have been arond...
View ArticleBy: Gareth
If you were to start from an assumption that UHI is a minor issue you could end up convinced that the reliable stations are the urban ones.
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By: Manny
Video of a boy called Peter who did the same study over a year ago with the same conclusion, but without a PhD or govt money :
View ArticleBy: kwik
E.M.Smith (01:46:24) : …..Something like:….. “variance = rural – urban” “rural = rural-variance” E.M. , I think you are right. I think this is what has happened; Someone made a piece of code, with an...
View ArticleBy: juliandroms
George Turner said: > I’m not so sure on this one. If the adjusted graph is correct, > every year since 1990 should’ve been proclaimed hotter > than 1934, which still stands as the record even...
View ArticleBy: juliandroms
Oh I see.. there are no graph show of the combined raw or adjusted annual contiguous US temperature data sets either above or in the paper. The graphs are shown only broken down s rural only or urban...
View ArticleBy: LearDog
EM & Anthony – you guys really have a deep understanding of the sources of data and various ‘corrections’ made on these data. As a newb to this – I would LOVE to be able (for family and friends) to...
View ArticleBy: lang
What I don’t understand is what possible reason could they give for adjusting the rural data. To me it is the only non contaminated data, the only thing affecting it is the change in temperature What...
View ArticleBy: lang
take any trends from the non effected urban data only of course I meant non effected rural data,
View ArticleBy: kwik
He is not afraid of any opposition; http://www.examiner.com/x-32936-Seminole-County-Environmental-News-Examiner~y2010m2d12-Former-NASA-scientist-defends-theory-refuting-global-warming-doctrine
View ArticleBy: monckhausen
Let’s say, the urban island/microsite effects are real! How would that change GLOBAL warming, e.g. Ts on a global scale. The US occupies 2% of the earth’s surface and the cities are small island within...
View ArticleBy: monckhausen
Oh, and the so called paper is distributed by some obscure scence and policy institute (I guess more policy than science). It is not in a peer reviewed journal. that’s not a paper, that is a note. Hey,...
View ArticleBy: wayne
E.M.Smith (01:46:24) : Good point E.M. Boolean and sign errors are sometimes the hardest to see and catch when not a blatant crash! I was wondering what kind of machine these programs were originally...
View ArticleBy: E.M.Smith
wayne (02:39:58) : I was wondering what kind of machine these programs were originally written for. Well, it looks to me like it’s Sun Friendly code (though a couple of the f90 constructs look more...
View ArticleBy: DirkH
“E.M.Smith (04:09:39) : […] I would only add that the programmers are likely not professional programmer staff, but fellow researchers, and they would not be going into the code unless something needed...
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“JMR (02:15:20) : It looks like USHCN made a basic mathematical mistake they added a bias to the rural numbers without a physical explanation for doing so.” I object. This is not “a mathematical...
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“Phil M (21:05:51) : To say that this “paper” is amateurish is being too kind. I produced far better work as an undergraduate when I had long hair, blood-shot eyes, and a 48-hour hangovers.” Care to...
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