USHCN Temperature Record of the Week: Hiawatha, Utah
 

The Idso clan has done it again. More cherry picking of the RAW
U.S. HCN data without regard to quality, etc.

http://www.co2science.org/ushcn/stationoftheweek.htm
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* USHCN Temperature Record of the Week: Hiawatha, Utah
*
* To bolster our claim that "There Has Been No Net Global
* Warming for the Past 70 Years," each week we highlight the
* temperature record of one of the 1221 U.S. Historical
* Climatology Network (USHCN) stations from 1930-2000.
*
* This issue's temperature record of the week is from Hiawatha,
* Utah. During the period of most significant greenhouse gas
* buildup over the past century, i.e., 1930 and onward,
* Hiawatha's mean annual temperature has cooled by 2.28 degrees
* Fahrenheit. Not much global warming here!
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Hiawatha, Utah, 39.49N, 111.02W, elevation 2219 m (7050 ft)

Annual trend = -0.37 deg F/decade, 46 years of 71 possible
Missing 1940, 41, 58, 63, 64, 66, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77,
78, 79, 85, 89, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000

Winter trend = -0.12 deg F/dec, 61 yrs
Spring trend = -0.39 deg F/dec, 58 yrs
Summer trend = -0.38 deg F/dec, 51 yrs
Fall trend = -0.45 deg F/dec, 58 yrs

Hiawatha, Utah is a very small mining town at the base of a
mountain range. It serves 2 mines and has a railroad connection.
The town has about 3 blocks of buildings on 2 roads.

The station history shows no period of missing observations from
1930 until 1992. October 1992 is the last of the data. Funny
thing, the last 8 years may have shown the greatest warming, if
the global data is of any consideration. The times of
observation are almost all in the evening, so there would be
little influence from that kind of bias. There are no large
moves, although the stations after 1973 are about 50 feet higher
than previous stations. Of the 5 nearest stations, all show a
warming trend in the Idso's data set.

In my opinion, this station is a very poor choice and the Idso's
should have known better than to include it. There are just too
many years of data missing and the fact that the 8 years at the
end of the period are lost is particularly troubling. Why didn't
they say the record only ran from 1930 to 1991 (62 years)? Even
considering this short period, there are still 16 years of missing
data (that's 25%!!).

This has got to be junk science at it's worst, IMHO.

--
Eric Swanson --- E-mail address: e_swanson(at)skybest.com :-)
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USHCN Temperature Record of the Week: Hiawatha, Utah
 

I agree, Eric, the Idso's publish junk science at its worst.
If you want a good laugh, take a look at their 'summaries'
of scientific articles and compare them to the actual articles.
These guys just can't make an honest statement.

If one looks at the fully corrected calc mean data file
one sees that there are only two sites in the entire state
of Utah which show significant cooling. Compare that
to almost three dozen sites that measure significant
warming. There are plenty of Idso lies and lots of
global warming here!

Hiawatha has only 34 years on the record, making it
the smallest record in the state. Using it as an example
is cherry picking at its worst. The town still shows a
0.61 F per decade warming with a .99 probability of
non-zero correlation, however.

~F/Dec Prob0.0 ST Station Name Lat Long AltFt
Years
0.1198 0.988273 UT ALTON , 37.43 -112.48 7040
, 88
0.2956 1.000000 UT BEAVER , 38.30 -112.65 5940
, 87
0.4008 1.000000 UT BLANDING , 37.62 -109.48 6040
, 92
0.0635 0.780344 UT BLUFF , 37.28 -109.55 4315
, 92
0.3494 0.999997 UT CORINNE , 41.55 -112.12 4220
, 79
0.1013 0.979846 UT DESERET , 39.28 -112.65 4590
, 109
0.1784 0.998059 UT DUCHESNE , 40.17 -110.40 5520
, 97
0.0649 0.866909 UT ELBERTA , 39.95 -111.95 4690
, 101
0.5128 1.000000 UT ESCALANTE , 37.77 -111.60 5810
, 92
0.0720 0.829372 UT FILLMORE , 38.95 -112.32 5120
, 91
0.3174 0.999535 UT FORT DUCHESNE , 40.28 -109.87 5050
, 83
0.3467 1.000000 UT GREEN RIVER AVIATION , 39.00 -110.17 4070
, 90
0.7211 1.000000 UT HANKSVILLE , 38.37 -110.72 4308
, 93
0.2444 1.000000 UT HEBER , 40.50 -111.42 5630
, 109
0.6092 0.993161 UT HIAWATHA , 39.48 -111.02 7280
, 34
0.1513 0.999758 UT KANAB , 37.05 -112.53 4950
, 94
0.0734 0.874208 UT LAKETOWN , 41.82 -111.32 5980
, 103
0.2445 1.000000 UT LEVAN , 39.57 -111.87 5300
, 108
0.2276 0.999999 UT LOA , 38.40 -111.65 7070
, 95
0.2132 0.999993 UT LOGAN USU , 41.75 -111.80 4790
, 109
0.0712 0.925169 UT MANTI , 39.25 -111.63 5740
, 107
0.2254 1.000000 UT MOAB , 38.58 -109.55 4043
, 110
0.1051 0.990534 UT MODENA , 37.80 -113.92 5460
, 102
0.0905 0.921551 UT MORGAN COMO SPRINGS , 41.03 -111.65 5080
, 100
0.2245 0.999891 UT OGDEN PIONEER P H , 41.25 -111.95 4350
, 89
0.3848 1.000000 UT PANGUITCH , 37.82 -112.43 6610
, 92
0.1054 0.991873 UT PAROWAN POWER PLANT , 37.83 -112.83 6000
, 109
0.0266 0.426159 UT RICHFIELD RADIO KSVC , 38.77 -112.08 5300
, 91
0.1481 0.985989 UT RIVERDALE , 41.15 -112.00 4400
, 89
0.2037 0.999998 UT SAINT GEORGE , 37.12 -113.57 2770
, 94
0.0975 0.985564 UT SCIPIO , 39.25 -112.10 5300
, 107
-0.1282 0.988937 UT SNAKE CREEK PH , 40.55 -111.50 6010
, 89
-0.0102 0.158784 UT SPANISH FORK PH , 40.08 -111.60 4720
, 94
0.1654 0.995620 UT THOMPSON , 38.97 -109.72 5100
, 92
0.0321 0.419433 UT TOOELE , 40.53 -112.30 5070
, 89
-0.0047 0.078264 UT UTAH LAKE LEHI , 40.37 -111.90 4497
, 95
0.3594 0.999765 UT VERNAL AP , 40.45 -109.52 5260
, 75
-0.0845 0.896249 UT WENDOVER AWOS , 40.73 -114.03 4237
, 92
0.1506 0.995016 UT WOODRUFF , 41.53 -111.15 6315
, 101
0.1978 0.999864 UT ZION NATIONAL PARK , 37.22 -112.98 4050
, 93