For the longest time, the global warmers engaged in disappearing weather station fraud. More northern weather stations would mysteriously disappear from the data, making the averages seem warmer. Then NASA came out with some satellites, and the human factor in measuring temperature disappeared and with it the supposed warming trend came to a screeching halt. They learned their lesson, and so now their focus has been on the ocean, and more specifically deep ocean temperatures. But the thing is, once again, that requires a large presence of the human factor. Leaves lots of room for data they read, data that they selectively don't choose to include.
Anyhow, all the researchers have gotten the message. Do ocean fraud, or don't get funding. It's that simple.
To be fair, I would say that some of the disappearing weather stations did "disappear", as some of them were just military outposts that are now abandoned strung along the DEW Line, like CFB Alert. The end of the Cold War and advancing technology made the DEW Line obsolete. Totally remote stations would be a more modern thing, I should think, and there likely wouldn't be as many as there used to be military outposts.
But it would be VERY dishonest for anyone arguing for or against "climate change" to ignore that phenomenon.
There's also a second problem with weather stations: A lot of them were originally built in forested and green areas, either in large parks or just outside cities, and over time their surroundings changed, so a weather station that used to be in the middle of a forest is now surrounded by concrete shopping malls and paved parking lots. Nobody seems to want to take that into account.
For the longest time, the global warmers engaged in disappearing weather station fraud. More northern weather stations would mysteriously disappear from the data, making the averages seem warmer. Then NASA came out with some satellites, and the human factor in measuring temperature disappeared and with it the supposed warming trend came to a screeching halt. They learned their lesson, and so now their focus has been on the ocean, and more specifically deep ocean temperatures. But the thing is, once again, that requires a large presence of the human factor. Leaves lots of room for data they read, data that they selectively don't choose to include.
Anyhow, all the researchers have gotten the message. Do ocean fraud, or don't get funding. It's that simple.
To be fair, I would say that some of the disappearing weather stations did "disappear", as some of them were just military outposts that are now abandoned strung along the DEW Line, like CFB Alert. The end of the Cold War and advancing technology made the DEW Line obsolete. Totally remote stations would be a more modern thing, I should think, and there likely wouldn't be as many as there used to be military outposts.
But it would be VERY dishonest for anyone arguing for or against "climate change" to ignore that phenomenon.
There's also a second problem with weather stations: A lot of them were originally built in forested and green areas, either in large parks or just outside cities, and over time their surroundings changed, so a weather station that used to be in the middle of a forest is now surrounded by concrete shopping malls and paved parking lots. Nobody seems to want to take that into account.