{"id":20,"date":"2012-08-13T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T21:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/new-study-shows-half-of-the-global-warming-in-the-usa-is-artificial"},"modified":"2012-08-13T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T21:15:13","slug":"new-study-shows-half-of-the-global-warming-in-the-usa-is-artificial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"New study shows half of the global warming in the USA is artificial"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The USHCN is one of the main metrics used to gauge the temperature  changes in the United States. The first wide scale effort to address  siting issues, Watts, (2009), a collated photographic survey, showed  that approximately 90% of USHCN stations were compromised by  encroachment of urbanity in the form of heat sinks and sources, such as  concrete, asphalt, air conditioning system heat exchangers, roadways,  airport tarmac, and other issues. This finding was backed up by an  August 2011 U.S. General Accounting Office investigation and report  titled: <em>Climate Monitoring: NOAA Can Improve Management of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<div>Posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2012\/07\/29\/press-release-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"11:47 am\">July 29, 2012<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/author\/wattsupwiththat\/\" rel=\"author\" title=\"View all posts by Anthony Watts\">Anthony Watts<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>PRESS RELEASE \u2013 U.S. Temperature trends show a spurious  doubling due to NOAA station siting problems and post measurement  adjustments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chico, CA July 29<sup>th<\/sup>, 2012 \u2013 12 PM PDT \u2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A comparison and summary of trends is shown from the paper.  Acceptably placed thermometers (which comply with the USHCN rules) away from common urban influences read  much cooler nationwide:<\/p>\n<p>Here is a snippet from the paper. CONUS is Continental US:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef01676941605b970b-800wi\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Watts_et_al_2012-figure20-conus-compliant-nonc-noaa-extract\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bfac253ef01676941605b970b\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef01676941605b970b-450wi\" style=\"width: 450px;\" title=\"Watts_et_al_2012-figure20-conus-compliant-nonc-noaa-extract\" \/><\/a><br \/><em>A reanalysis of U.S. surface station temperatures has been  performed using the recently WMO-approved Siting Classification System  devised by METEO-France\u2019s Michel Leroy. The new siting classification  more accurately characterizes the quality of the location in terms of  monitoring long-term spatially representative surface temperature  trends. The new analysis demonstrates that reported 1979-2008 U.S.  temperature trends are spuriously doubled, with 92% of that  over-estimation resulting from erroneous NOAA adjustments of well-sited  stations upward. The paper is the first to use the updated siting system  which addresses USHCN siting issues and data adjustments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For the entire article read:&#0160; <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2012\/07\/29\/press-release-2\/\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2012\/07\/29\/press-release-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USHCN is one of the main metrics used to gauge the temperature changes in the United States. The first wide scale effort to address siting issues, Watts, (2009), a collated photographic survey, showed that approximately 90% of USHCN stations &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=20\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1758],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}