Measuring Temperatures

Dave Dixon is getting a first hand education on the difficulties in working with temperature data–lots of hard-to-understand adjustments, missing data, etc.  Here is a paper identifying some other issues.  It is a little arcane, but weather station housings are generally painted white or the instruments are housed in white plastic, in an effort to avoid absorption of heat, which might impact the readings.  Over time, the paint ages and is less effective and the same with the plastic housing.  The impact is to potentially raise the temperature reading, which is compounded by the “homogenization” algorithms misused by the climate community.  According to the author, if these effects were corrected for the actual measured temperatures would be six-tenths of a degree lower, or almost half of all the increase that is claimed to exist.  There are a myriad of weather measurement issues like this.  If we can’t even accurately measure trends, much less come up with convincing causal explanations for those trends, why are we spending trillions of dollars to soothe the anxieties of climate hysterics?  Oh, wait, maybe it is too make the billionaires who profit of all the “renewable” energy scams and subsidies even richer.  And gee, what a coincidence that they are the biggest contributors to the whacked Dem party.   (SCC Article)