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Surfacestations: NOAA Has Overestimated Land Surface Temperature Trends
New submitter BMOC writes "Anthony Watts of Surfacestations project (crowdsourced research) has finally yielded some discussion worthy results (PDF). He uses a siting classification system developed by Michel Leroy for Meteofrance in 1999 that was improved in 2010 to quantify the effect of heat sinks and sources within the thermometer viewshed by calculation of the area- weighted and distance-weighted impact of biasing elements to calculate both raw and gridded 30 year trends for each surveyed station, using temperature data from USHCNv2. His initial claims are that station siting is impacting the surface temperature record significantly, and NOAA adjustments are exacerbating that problem, not helping. Whether you agree with his results or not, recognize that this method of research is modern and worth your participation in the review. Poke holes in publicly sourced and presented research all you can, that's what makes this method useful."
Right now some 600,000,000 are without electric current - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19060279
"Officials said the northern and eastern grids had both collapsed.[...] It was unclear why the grid collapsed but reports said some states may have been using more power than authorised. Power officials managed to restore the northern grid by Monday evening, but at 01:05pm (0735 GMT) on Tuesday, the grid collapsed again. The eastern grid failed around the same time, officials said. [...] The two grids together serve more than half of India's 1.2bn people."
Is this really the way to go?! Still, thank you India for showing us how it can be done, or?
Call me naïve, while global warming needs fast actions this Indian kind of action may well be too fast.
An Islamicist beheads a journalist. Since the beheading made the journalist shorter, and the journalist was shorter when born than before the beheading, he isn't dead. QED. Same logic you used.
Fugue for Aaron Swartz