Surfacestations.org FAIL
In 2007, Anthony Watts, a meteorologist, blogger, and global warming denier, launched the website surfacestations.org. It was created in response to “a massive failure of bureaucracy to perform something so simple as taking some photographs and making some measurements and notes of a few to a few dozen weather stations in each state”. The primary purpose is basically to expose supposed biases in the land temperature record, due to improperly placed measurement devices, thereby proving that the planet is not really warming. According to this theory, the supposed warming is due primarily to errors in temperature measurement.
Nevermind for a minute that NASA corrects for various anomalies in their analysis of raw data, or that satellite measurements match nicely with land data. A recently released study has analyzed the data from the sites recorded at surfacestations.org, and found something very interesting:
Poor sites show a cooler maximum temperature compared to good sites. For minimum temperature, the poor sites are slightly warmer. The net effect is a cool bias in poorly sited stations.
Exactly the opposite that is insinuated by Watts. FAIL.
h/t Tim Lambert
