"Dire "global warming" predictions are based on bad science from the very start, says a veteran meteorologist who found surface temperatures recorded throughout the U.S. are done so with almost no regard to scientific standards.
Anthony Watts set out to investigate the facilities used by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Watts' concerns about the temperatures being used to gauge whether global warming is actually taking place began when he read a 1997 study by the U.S. National Research Council that concluded the consistency and quality of temperature stations was "inadequate and deteriorating." Meanwhile, he learned, the U.S. Historical Climatological Network, responsible for maintaining the stations, was doing nothing to address the problems. The vast majority of the stations surveyed to date fail to meet the prescribed standards. All of the most egregious violations observed in the study would result in artificially higher temperatures being recorded
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