Temperature records to be made public

[Still Waters]

Climate scientists are to publish the largest ever collection of temperature records, dating back more than a hundred years, in an attempt to provide a more accurate picture of climate change.

The UK Met Office is leading the project to create a new set of temperature records from around the world.

The move is being seen as a response to criticism by global warming sceptics of the withholding of data used in climate change research.

The records, taken from land-based temperature recording stations around the world, will be made open to the public and researchers to carry out analysis to help answer key questions about how climate change will affect individual countries and local regions.

Climate scientists have come under intense pressure following the Climategate scandal at the University of East Anglia, where researchers were criticised for withholding crucial information, meaning their research could not be independently checked.

Sceptics have also attacked climate change research over the quality of the records being used as evidence for the impact mankind has had on the world's climate since the industrial revolution.

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[Siara]

Good. The more people who have access to the information the better.

[danielost]

problem is those temps are only accurate until the cities grow up around those stations. at least one of them in the usa is now sitting under a heat exhaust.

[Wickian]

problem is those temps are only accurate until the cities grow up around those stations. at least one of them in the usa is now sitting under a heat exhaust.

Assuming these are the raw temperature numbers(not the modified ones that are usually released), there's still a big problem with the temperature record. There are hundreds fewer temperature station active now than there were 20-30 years and way too many of those that are still active are in urban hotspot, rooftops, blacktops or many other corrupted locations.

It's gotten to the point that these scientists are averages temperatures of several areas from stations hundreds of miles away.

[danielost]

Assuming these are the raw temperature numbers(not the modified ones that are usually released), there's still a big problem with the temperature record. There are hundreds fewer temperature station active now than there were 20-30 years and way too many of those that are still active are in urban hotspot, rooftops, blacktops or many other corrupted locations.

It's gotten to the point that these scientists are averages temperatures of several areas from stations hundreds of miles away.

but those who support this data will just see this as us grasping for straws

[stevewinn]

If you get in contact with your amateur back garden "meteorologist" with their weather stations collecting data as part of their hobby, and its pretty impressive the way they have teamed up with the power of the internet accessing one another's data you'll find the temperature has been decreasing since 1998 with the exception of the the year 2000.

If you get the raw data from the professionals it also shows the same decrease. yet somewhere along the line they mess with the data modify it, and then when its released to the public its all altered and shows a increase?

i know whose data i believe. who would you trust a Capitan who navigates by GPS or a Captain who navigates by the stars.

Edited September 27, 2010 by stevewinn