THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XII, Issue # 37, February 28, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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U.S. TEMPERATURES: ADJUSTED OR MASSAGED?
By Dennis T. Avery
GOVERNMENT MANIPULATION & FALSIFICATION OF U.S. TEMPERATURE RECORDS TO SUPPORT THE THEORY OF
HUMAN-INDUCED GLOBAL WARMING.
GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS EMBEDDED IN U.S. GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED RESEARCH UNITS WASTING BILLIONS OF
DOLLARS ENDLESSLY RUNNING MISLEADING COMPUTERIZED "CLIMATE MODELS" IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY IMPOSING UPON
AMERICAN SOCIETY COSTLY ENERGY & ECONOMIC POLICIES, INCLUDING HIGH ENERGY TAXES & SEVERE RESTRICTIONS ON
UTILIZATION OF OUR NATURAL RESOURCES.
NEARLY BANKRUPTING AMERICA THROUGH THE FORCED SUBSTITUTION OF COSTLY, ERATIC SOLAR & WIND POWER FOR
COAL, OIL, & NATURAL GAS.
THE GOVERNMENT'S REFUSAL TO AUTHORIZE NEW NUCLEAR POWER PRODUCTION FACILITIES.
HIGHLY PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES: SHARPLY INCREASED ENERGY PRICES, ENERGY SHORTAGES, HIGH
UNEMPLOYMENT, & COLLAPSE OF U.S. INDUSTRIES, OR THEIR FLIGHT TO THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES WITH NO ENERGY
TAXES.
FULL STORY:
My neighbor, physicist Edward Long, is afraid our temperature records have been falsified to support the man-made global
warming scare. Long recently chose two sets of U.S. meteorological stations from the master list offered by the National
Climate Data Center. One data set was rural, one urban. Each had a site in each of the lower 48 states. From the 1890s to
2006, the urban set of measurements showed an increase of 0.72 degrees — but the rural set showed only 0.11 degrees of
warming.
The vast majority of America is rural, and our cities obviously create their own “heat islands” with masses of cement, brick,
and blacktop. Thus, the U.S. temperature record should logically show a true temperature gain that is close to the low rural
increase of 0.11 degrees Celsius. In fact, NCDC record shows an overall U.S. temperature increase of 0.69 degrees Celsius.
On the American Thinker blog, Ed Long says:
“The NCDC’s massaging — they call it ‘adjusting’ — has
resulted in an increase in the rural values, from a raw value
of 0.11C/century to an adjusted value of 0.58C/century, and
no change in the urban values. . . . This is the exact opposite
of any rational consideration, given the increase in the size
and activities within urban locations — unless deception is
the goal.”
The global warming alarmists embedded in our government-sponsored research units have already wasted billions of
dollars to endlessly run misleading computerized “climate models.” They have come close to bankrupting our society
through the forced substitution of costly, erratic solar and wind power for coal, oil and natural gas, while we refuse to
authorize new nuclear facilities. Next would come the job losses, as U.S. industries shut down, due to high energy costs,
or flee to Third World countries with no energy taxes.
Now we find that the man-made global warming record, which has supposedly triggered all of this, is “supported” by
government-manipulated temperature records:
The Russians say Britain’s East Anglia University officially deleted most of the thermometer sites scattered across
Russia’s vast hinterlands — because the readings didn’t show global warming.
New Zealand’s official record shows a major warming in the 20th. Century, but none of its weather sites shows that
warming trend.
Veteran meteorologist Joe D’Aleo of Icecap recently charged, on John Coleman’s KUSI-TV special, that the U.S.
temperature record has been similarly corrupted over the years, weeding out non-warming weather sites.
James Goodridge, then California State University Climatologist, published a peer-reviewed report in 1992 that found
California’s urban counties had experienced a strong warming, the suburban counties a moderate warming, and the rural
counties no warming at all.
We’ve been enthralled by the Green Wave of guilt and redemption. I recently reminded in a column that the 1995 IPCC
Report claimed a “human fingerprint on our warming,” with no credible scientific to support it — and no such scientific
support has since been proffered. A National Institute of Health physician who believes in man-made global warming
looked at this column and said, “What do I care about a 14-year-old report?”
Heavily-taxed energy will double and triple the real costs for everything we buy. Look for food costs to soar five-fold as
nitrogen fertilizer — made with natural gas — is forced out of the farm economy. Steel will have too big a “carbon
footprint,” so the steelmakers and manufacturing will be in China and India. Yet, there is only a 22 percent correlation
between our global warming record and the rise of human-emitted CO2 in the 20th. Century. The correlation with
sunspots is 79 percent.
The government-sponsored climate research community — for whatever reasons — has apparently betrayed us.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Dennis T. Avery is a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. He is an environmental economist and
was formerly a senior analyst for the U.S. Department of State. He is co-author, with S. Fred Singer, of Unstoppable
Global Warming Every 1500 Hundred Years.
Readers may write him at PO Box 202, Churchville, VA 24421 or send email to cgfi@hughes.net
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