On Jan 20, 8:18*pm, Liberals are vermin wrote:
On Jan 20, 8:17*pm, "Eric Gisin" wrote:



John Coleman's TV special was 6 days ago (14th), this is the first report in the MSM I think.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2465231

Richard Foot, Canwest News Service *Published: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Call it the mystery of the missing thermometers.

Two months after "climategate" cast doubt on some of the science behind global warming, new
questions are being raised about the reliability of a key temperature database, used by the United
Nations and climate change scientists as proof of recent planetary warming.

Two American researchers allege that U.S. government scientists have skewed global temperature
trends by ignoring readings from thousands of local weather stations around the world, particularly
those in colder altitudes and more northerly latitudes, such as Canada.

In the 1970s, nearly 600 Canadian weather stations fed surface temperature readings into a global
database assembled by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Today, NOAA
only collects data from 35 stations across Canada.

Worse, only one station -- at Eureka on Ellesmere Island -- is now used by NOAA as a temperature
gauge for all Canadian territory above the Arctic Circle.

The Canadian government, meanwhile, operates 1,400 surface weather stations across the country, and
more than 100 above the Arctic Circle, according to Environment Canada.

Yet as American researchers Joseph D'Aleo, a meteorologist, and E. Michael Smith, a computer
programmer, point out in a study published on the website of the Science and Public Policy
Institute, NOAA uses "just one thermometer [for measuring] everything north of latitude 65
degrees."

Both the authors, and the institute, are well-known in climate-change circles for their skepticism
about the threat of global warming.

Mr. D'Aleo and Mr. Smith say NOAA and another U.S. agency, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space
Studies (GISS) have not only reduced the total number of Canadian weather stations in the database,
but have "cherry picked" the ones that remain by choosing sites in relatively warmer places,
including more southerly locations, or sites closer to airports, cities or the sea -- which has a
warming effect on winter weather.

No surprise they'd incorporate the heat island effect to bolster their
case, then deny it has any merit! *Unreal.

Isn't it amazing that even though there are still no news sources
reporting on a
cooling climate, there are people who believe it is happening?

Unreal.