The world is hotter than ever.At Watts Up With That, a blog run by a professional meteorologist, there has been a long running series of posts showing weather sites around the U.S. and elsewhere located in areas where the air temperature readings can be affected by nearby asphalt roads and parking lots, or reflected heat from buildings. Because urban areas tend to collect heat thanks to all the buildings and roads, these stations are not giving reliable information.
March, April, May and June set records, making 2010 the warmest year worldwide since record-keeping began in 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says.
"It's part of an overall trend," says Jay Lawrimore, climate analysis chief at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. "Global temperatures ... have been rising for the last 100-plus years. Much of the increase is due to increases in greenhouse gases."...
Joe D'Aleo, a meteorologist who co-founded The Weather Channel, disagrees, too. He says oceans are entering a cooling cycle that will lower temperatures.
He says too many of the weather stations NOAA uses are in warmer urban areas.
"The only reliable data set right now is satellite," D'Aleo says.
He says NASA satellite data shows the average temperature in June was 0.43 degrees higher than normal. NOAA says it was 1.22 degrees higher.
Mother Gaia will continue to regulate her own temperatures with or without our help. We know there were periods in the earth's history when the climate was much wetter and warmer and there wasn't a man or carbon-spewing man-made creation in sight. We can't change what the earth is going to do, and neither can we "fix" it.
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Rick, it would make a good photo post to show some locations of data collection centers in obvious warm spots in your area. We have a few near us here in Ohio that are between parking lots and major highways, or Next to an Interstate highway, or even in the median of an Interstate highway. All places that guarantee a reading that is higher in ambient temperature than the actual temperature would be when read at a reasonable distance from things that collect solar energy and radiate heat on their own, or in the case of the highways, have an elevated temperature due to motor vehicle activity.
The end-game is taking individual liberty away from you and I; they don't really give an iota about the planet or the temperature as long as they have control of every aspect of individual lives. IMHO.
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