This map is from Hansen’s 2001 paper, which has been deleted from the NASA web site.
It shows that US rural stations cooled -.05C from 1900 to 1999, and that urban stations were 0.31C warmer. The obvious conclusion being that the US is cooling, and needs to be cooled further to account for UHI.
So what does NASA and NOAA do? They adjust the other direction – by about 0.8C, to create a fake warming trend.
If your phoney baloney job depends on it then that trend is real 😉
If reality does not fit the models, change reality.
This the paper?
http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha02300a.html
Looks like they’ve been playing ‘hide the papers’ again.
Strange the title page is different (from above) but the information and diagrams are there. Also the layout is different from other Hansen documents I have.
I wonder if the properties (meta data) is the same as Steven original.
Not sure, but the ‘internal’ title and author lines appear to be the same as in the first image.
That is the wierd thing.
I can do that by editing the PDF. I can edit the embeded data as well as edit pages.
But NASA wouldn’t have altered the original PDF data…
…forget it.
🙂