The weather stations needed scrutiny. Period. Here are three pictures of my local station (47012). It’s between an air conditioned building, another structure (well pump, I think), beside pavement, and shaded. Good grief! If they take out the “bad” sites and the “good” sites still match up, they’ve got some serious data problems. They might be normalizing to their own errors.

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(take out the “small” to see the originals)

If the only thing that comes of the WeatherStations effort is to make the NOAA and related entities open up their research to peer review, it’s definitely worth it. We are going to spend trillions of dollars to fight global warming. That money would provide clean water, food and vaccinations for the whole planet. If you ask for that much money you have to have a thick skin and rock solid numbers. They don’t,