en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/666628 Comments by ATKeys http://bigjournalism.com/chorner/2010/02/13/breaking-news-global-warming-really-means-cooling-or-maybe-climate-change/#IDComment56734566 Marc Sheppard wrote an article that appeared in The American Thinker on 22 January 2010. It is rich with allegations and specifics. From the article: "Last Thursday, Certified Consulting Meteorologist Joseph D’Aleo and computer expert E. Michael Smith appeared together on KUSI TV [Video] to discuss the Climategate -- American Style scandal they had discovered. This time out, the alleged perpetrators are the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). "NOAA stands accused by the two researchers of strategically deleting cherry-picked, cooler-reporting weather observation stations from the temperature data it provides the world through its National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). D’Aleo explained to show host and Weather Channel founder John Coleman that while the Hadley Center in the U.K. has been the subject of recent scrutiny, ''w]e think NOAA is complicit, if not the real ground zero for the issue.' ” Mr. Smith claimed that Canada's reporting stations dropped from 496 in 1989 to 44 in 1991, with only one station above Latitude 65, and that in Eureka, reportedly warmer than other high-latitude locations. California supposedly now has only four temperature-recording stations, one in San Francisco, and three in southern California, near the beach. Over time, such locations can detect temperatures, but they do not convey the temperatures in the hotter inland areas or the cooler mountain areas. They also spotted a hot Bolivia in a GISS temperature map for 2009. But a recording station for high-altitude Bolivia had been dropped, perhaps 20 years ago. How could the graph show a hot Bolivia? By extending the temperatures from recording stations at a beach in Peru and from the Amazonian jungle. It's tempting to write a lot more. Are the allegations of dropped stations true? Have temps been taken from close to cities, i.e., "heat islands," in preference to recording sites with cooler temperatures? Who is challenging GISS and NOAA to justify their data collection and analysis to knowledgeable scientists of independent mind? That we have had some warm years, no question. But up here in Taxachusetts, it sure seems that this past decade was much cooler than the 1990s, too. Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:31:07 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/chorner/2010/02/13/breaking-news-global-warming-really-means-cooling-or-maybe-climate-change/#IDComment56734566