Contaminated Temperature Data


	Contaminated Temperature Data

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1-4-2008 7:35 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/441be45b-ea79-417f-a0f7-c815203c3050/278D9BAF-BBF6-49B6-8BB3-4C49CDF47CEF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/12/22/contaminated-temperature-data/" href="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/12/22/contaminated-temperature-data/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.worldclimatereport.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/12/22/contaminated-temperature-data/">The problem remains one of determining what part of a given temperature trend is climatically real and what part the result of observational difficulties and of artificial modification of the local environment</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/12/22/contaminated-temperature-data/">data inhomogeneities (such as station moves and closure, record discontinuities, equipment change and changes to the time of observation) are known to have affected records of mean temperature. Modification of the land surface, including urbanization and other economic activity, has been shown to affect local, regional and possibly global meteorology</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/12/22/contaminated-temperature-data/">examined the gridded temperature dataset used by the IPCC</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/12/22/contaminated-temperature-data/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.worldclimatereport.com/img/4E6EBB42-E240-471C-B8F3-D23F3FD3C1E5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/12/22/contaminated-temperature-data/">Differences between observed and adjusted trends around the world</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/12/22/contaminated-temperature-data/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.worldclimatereport.com/img/F33467A5-6FEB-4EB1-8318-A3E5B0AB2F0A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/12/22/contaminated-temperature-data/">Distributions of temperature trends 1979–2002. (top) IPCC surface data. (middle) Satellite
(MSU) tropospheric data. (bottom) Adjusted surface data</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/12/22/contaminated-temperature-data/">our analysis does suggest that nonclimatic effects</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/12/22/contaminated-temperature-data/">add up to a net warming bias at the global level that may explain as much as half the observed land-based warming trend</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/278D9BAF-BBF6-49B6-8BB3-4C49CDF47CEF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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