I agree! How about a government research grant to develop a green alternative, implement the solution(s) in some target cities and compare vs a control group to see if the urban heat island condition can be reduced... -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300
On August 20, 2015 8:12:32 PM EDT, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >I think blacktop paving contributes to GW. I think this every time I >cross a parking lot in summer. We should rip it all up, especially in >cities where there is so much of it. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of >> Meade Dillon via Mercedes >> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 4:26 PM >> To: Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Cc: Meade Dillon <dillonm...@gmail.com> >> Subject: [MBZ] OT More NOAA bias toward Global Warming >> >> A little something to liven up the list! >> >> >http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2015/08/20/the_latest_climate_kerfuffl >> e_1397.html >> >> August 20, 2015The Latest Climate Kerfuffle*By* *Patrick Michaels* >> <http://www.realclearpolicy.com/authors/patrick_michaels/> >> >> Are political considerations superseding scientific ones at the >National >> Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration? >> >> When confronted with an obviously broken weather station that was >reading >> way too hot, they replaced the faulty sensor — but refused to adjust >the bad >> readings it had already taken. And when dealing with "the pause" in >global >> surface temperatures that is in its 19th year, the agency threw away >satellite- >> sensed sea-surface temperatures, substituting questionable data that >showed >> no pause. >> >> The latest kerfuffle is local, not global, but happens to involve >probably the >> most politically important weather station in the nation, the one at >> Washington's Reagan National Airport. >> >> I'll take credit for this one. I casually noticed that the monthly >average >> temperatures at National were departing from their 1981-2010 averages >a >> couple of degrees relative to those at Dulles — in the warm >direction. >> >> Temperatures at National are almost always higher than those at >Dulles, 19 >> miles away. That's because of the well-known urban warming effect, as >well as >> an elevation difference of 300 feet. But the weather systems that >determine >> monthly average temperature are, in general, far too large for there >to be any >> significant difference in the *departure from average* at two >stations as close >> together as Reagan and Dulles. Monthly data from recent decades bear >this >> out — until, all at once, in January 2014 and every month thereafter, >the >> departure from average at National was greater than that at Dulles. >> >> The average monthly difference for January 2014 through July 2015 is >2.1 >> degrees Fahrenheit, which is huge when talking about things like >record >> temperatures. For example, National's all-time record last May was >only 0.2 >> degrees above the previous record. >> >> Earlier this month, I sent my findings to Jason Samenow, a terrific >forecaster >> who runs the *Washington Post*'s weather blog, Capital Weather Gang. >He >> and his crew verified what I found and wrote up their version, giving >due credit >> and adding other evidence that something was very wrong at National. >And, in >> remarkably quick action for a government agency, the National Weather >> Service swapped out the sensor within a week and found that the old >one was >> reading 1.7 degrees too high. Close enough to 2.1, the observed >difference. >> >> But the National Weather Service told the Capital Weather Gang that >there >> will be no corrections, despite the fact that the disparity suddenly >began >> 19 months ago and varied little once it began. It said correcting for >the error >> wouldn't be "scientifically defensible." Therefore, people can and >will cite the >> May record as evidence for dreaded global warming with impunity. Only >a few >> weather nerds will know the truth. Over a third of this year's 37 >90-degree-plus >> days, which gives us a remote chance of breaking the all time record, >should >> also be eliminated, putting this summer rightly back into normal >territory. >> >> It is really politically unwise not to do a simple adjustment on >these obviously- >> too-hot data. With all of the claims that federal science is being >biased in >> service of the president's global-warming agenda, the agency should >bend >> over backwards to expunge erroneous record-high readings. >> >> In July, by contrast, NOAA had no problem adjusting the global >temperature >> history. In that case, the method they used *guaranteed* that a >growing >> warming trend would substitute for "the pause." They reported in >*Science >> *that they had replaced the pause (which shows up in every analysis >of >> satellite and weather balloon data) with a significant warming trend. >> >> Normative science says a trend is "statistically significant" if >there's less than a >> 5 percent probability that it would happen by chance. NOAA claimed >> significance at the 10 percent level, something no graduate student >could ever >> get away with. There were several other major problems with the >paper. As >> Judy Curry, a noted climate scientist at Georgia Tech, wrote, "color >me >> 'unconvinced.'" >> >> Unfortunately, following this with the kerfuffle over the Reagan >temperature >> records is only going to "convince" even more people that our >government is >> blowing hot air on global warming. >> >> *Patrick Michaels is director of the Center for the Study of Science >at the Cato >> Institute.* >> >> >> >> ------------- >> Max >> Charleston SC >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com > >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
