Analysis of weather station data

For those of you that want to see a detailed analysis of the data the weather stations mentioned here have produced, please take a look at Climate Audit at www.climateaudit.org

There a number of highly intelligent people are thinking through a number of the issues raised here. For example, it appears that adjustments made to the measured data by researchers may actually enhance the urban heat island effect.

But its hard to tell for sure, because key software programs and formulae used to create such types of analyses for the IPCC haven’t been made fully public. There is a Freedom of Information act effort going on in that regards because some requests for data sharing and formulae used to analyse the data have been rebuked.

Whats certain is that between the inconsistencies found with some of the surface weather stations and the lack of full disclosure on the methods used it warrants further study and investigation. One of the tenets of good science is data and methods sharing and repeatability by others. It is baffling that NOAA is not allowing their methods to be tested in this way.

June 19th, a busy day at Watts Up

Today was a record setting day, not only for this blog, but for any blog sponsored by the Enterprise Record. And to think I used to be excited when I got 3000 hits a month. My traffic today was over 20,000 visitors!

Today my work with weather station surveys hit Fox News. I was on Brit Hume’s Special Report “Grapevine” show at 3:35PM PST and I was right up there with Al Gore and Reid Bryson, dubbed the father of climatology. I hope to have a You Tube clip to show soon. This is all because of one column by Bill Steigerwald in the Pittsburgh News and Tribune who stumbled across my blog last week. Yesterday his article was on The Drudge Report and it has been snowballing ever since.

So far most of the commentary has been supportive of the weather station survey work myself and volunteers like Russ Steele of Nevada County are doing.

I haven’t sought any publicity, but apparently a lot of people have found this work interesting. I just hope the publicity doesn’t get in the way of completeing this project.