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| Website | Watts Up With That? SurfaceStations.org |
Anthony Watts is an American meteorologist (AMS seal holder, retired), editor of the blog, Watts Up With That? (WUWT), owner of the weather graphics company ItWorks, and founder of the SurfaceStations.org project that documents the siting of weather stations across the United States.
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SurfaceStations.org
In 2007 Watts launched the SurfaceStations.org project, whose mission is to create a publicly available database of photographs of weather stations, along with their metadata, in response to what he described as "a massive failure of bureaucracy to perform something so simple as taking some photographs and making some measurements and notes of a few to a few dozen weather stations in each state". Watts informed radio and television host Glenn Beck that he began the undertaking, wondering if the composition of weather shelter paint had "made a difference" to thermometer readings and, consequently, the U.S. temperature record. The project relies on volunteers to gather the data. Volunteers estimate the siting, usage and other conditions of weather stations in NOAA's Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) and grade them for their compliance with the standards published in the organization's Climate Reference Network Site Handbook. By 2009, the project had documented over 860 stations using over 650 volunteers. In a report entitled Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable?, published by the Heartland Institute, Watts concludes that "the errors in the record exceed by a wide margin the purported rise in temperature during the twentieth century."
Prompted by his work, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration issued a preliminary report that charted data from 70 stations that SurfaceStations.org identified as 'good' or 'best' against the rest of the dataset surveyed at that time, and concluded, "there is no indication from this analysis that poor station exposure has imparted a bias in the U.S. temperature trends." Watts issued a rebuttal in which he asserted that the preliminary analysis excluded new data on quality of surface stations, and criticized the use of homogenized data from the stations, which in his view accounts for the creation of two nearly identical graphs.
The Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres subsequently accepted for publication a study, citing Watts' Surfacestations.org, which concludes that "summary, we find no evidence that the CONUS average temperature trends are inflated due to poor station siting."
See also
References
- http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_CHAR=7FAD9B84-237D-9F22-E8293FE98289E87F
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7236011/UN-global-warming-data-skewed-by-heat-from-planes-and-buildings.html
- "List of AMS Television Seal Holders". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- Pearce, Fred, The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming, (2010) Guardian Books, ISBN: 978-0-85265-229-9. Pearce calls him a "radio meteorologist."
- Watts Up With That? blog
- Beck, Glenn. Inconvenient Thermometers, glennbeck.com. Premiere Radio Networks, March 3, 2008.
- ^ Watts, Anthony. "About SurfaceStations.org". SurfaceStations.org. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
- Climate Reference Network (CRN) — Site Handbook (PDF). CRN Series. NOAA/NESDIS. 2002. NOAA-CRN/OSD-2002-0002R0UD0. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
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Watts, Anthony (2009). Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable? (PDF). Chicago, IL: The Heartland Institute. ISBN 1-934791-26-6.
{{cite book}}: Check|isbn=value: checksum (help) - "Talking Points related to concerns about whether the U.S. temperature record is reliable" (PDF). NOAA Climate Services. July 6, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-02.
- Watts, Anthony (2009-06-29). "NCDC writes ghost "talking points" rebuttal to surfacestations project". Watts Up With That?. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
- Watts, Anthony (July 31, 2009). "On Climate, Comedy, Copyrights, and Cinematography". Watts Up With That?. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
- Menne, Matthew J. (2010). "On the reliability of the U.S. surface temperature record" (PDF). J. Geophys. Res. 115: D11108. doi:10.1029/2009JD013094.
In summary, we find no evidence that the CONUS average temperature trends are inflated due to poor station siting...The reason why station exposure does not play an obvious role in temperature trends probably warrants further investigation.
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External links
- Watts being interviewed on Hannity's America
- Watts, Anthony (2009). Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable? (PDF). Chicago, IL: The Heartland Institute. ISBN 1-934791-26-6.
{{cite book}}: Check|isbn=value: checksum (help) - Surface Temperature Records: Policy Driven Deception?, by Joseph D’Aleo and A. Watts, Science and Public Policy Institute, January 27, 2010.