Hooray for the weekend! I’ve had a busy weekend so far because I just got back from the pancake breakfast fundraiser. I’m ready for a nap! Anyway, let’s go with this open thread.
The “urban heat island” effect does not explain away global warming:
Many skeptics for years have sought to explain away decades of climate research by showing slides of weather station thermometers sited next to heating vents or surrounded by asphalt.
This much-touted “urban heat island effect” was supposed to trump all those fancy graphs and equations that egghead scientists were fixated on. Except it’s not true.
A recent peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research looked at data from 114 weather stations from across the US over the last twenty years and compared measurements from locations that were well sited and those that weren’t.
They did find an overall bias, but it was towards cooling rather warming.
Oh well, it’s still cold outside in winter so they’ll find something to talk about. Oh, by the way, the 2000s were the warmest decade ever recorded.
The Sunday political shows are stuck in a time warp. Guess who’s going to be on Sunday TV again.
Yes, we’ve reached the first anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration, so it’s time once again to have John McCain appear on yet another Sunday morning talk show.
For those keeping score, this will be McCain’s 19th appearance on a Sunday morning talk show since Obama took office 12 months ago. That’s an average of one appearance every 2.9 weeks for a year — more than any other public official in the country.
That liberal media strikes again!