Talk of climate change is heavy today. Arguments never cease, both sides are emotional and repeat any kind of data that suits their cause. There are people on both sides of the issue who don't want to hear the other side. Their mind is a clamped up trap.
Recently, I read an article that pointed out some things I had never seen or heard.
John Steele Gordon wrote an article that was titled "Global Warming or Bad Data?"
He wrote, in part, "…climate science has always suffered from the problem of shaky and missing data. Seventy percent of the globe is covered by ocean, where data is hard to collect. Reliable weather records only go back to about 1850 and in many parts of the world, are far more recent. Modern recording weather stations date only to the early 20th Century.
Recently, I read an article that pointed out some things I had never seen or heard.
John Steele Gordon wrote an article that was titled "Global Warming or Bad Data?"
He wrote, in part, "…climate science has always suffered from the problem of shaky and missing data. Seventy percent of the globe is covered by ocean, where data is hard to collect. Reliable weather records only go back to about 1850 and in many parts of the world, are far more recent. Modern recording weather stations date only to the early 20th Century.
"And many of those stations have a big problem. While they haven't changed appreciably over the years, the land around them has changed, often profoundly with the great growth in urban and suburban areas. The weather station that was put, say, in the middle of a Nassau County, Long Island, potato field in 1923 is still in the same spot. But the potatoes are long gone, and now it's behind a strip mall, twenty feet from the kitchen exhaust fan of a Chinese take-out joint.
"A study by meteorologist Anthony Watts found that almost 90 percent of the 1221 weather stations in the U.S. did not meet the National Weather Service's setting standards, which require that they be at least 100 feet from any artificial heat source or radiating surface….To deal with this defective information, climate scientists have 'adjusted' the data to solve this problem."
There is much more about the adjustments in this short article, but I will leave it for everyone to read it for themselves.
I remember several years ago, the National Weather Service came to Neosho to honor the Neosho National Fish Hatchery for hosting a weather station for 100 years. The station was moved when the new Visitor Center was built. This was the first time the little station had been moved from its original spot.
One of the weather officials who spoke noted that the station was moved only 100 yards in 100 years,. He said that was very important and really remarkable.
I attended that ceremony at the hatchery, but little did I know how true that statement was. This article by Mr. Gordon made me aware of the importance of the move.
For many years Jeff Messens took recordings each day from that little station. Before Jeff, many other hatchery employees did the same. The data was recorded in a large book, so each day of any year, a person could find the day's vital statistics. These included the amount of rain or snow, high and low temperatures and such things as a blizzard, thunderstorm, or a tornado.
Just between you and me, that is an interesting book to read and just another example of the hatchery's contribution to the people of Neosho.
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