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The black and white image in the animation below is what Hansen said Phoenix should like after UHI adjustments – almost no trend.

The blue line is how Hansen currently shows Phoenix – a sharp warming trend. Apparently the UHI effect in Phoenix has disappeared since he wrote his 1999 paper. He cooled the past by about a degree and warmed the present by almost that much.

pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1999/1999_Hansen_etal.pdf

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

No doubt this is all first rate science, and has nothing to do with politics or funding.

This week will be remembered as the one when Jeff Mastercherrypicker and Bill McKitten became interested in the Greenland Summit Camp –  for about five minutes

summit:status:webcam

“Mitt Romney is launching a false attack,” the ad’s text states. But the weird thing is: The Obama campaign is purposefully trying to make it sound like Romney is misquoting the president, when the official White House transcript backs up Romney’s quotation.

In the ad, Romney says that Obama revealed his thoughts on business when he said this, “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.”

And, in fact, according to official White House transcript that’s precisely what Obama said on July 13, 2012 in Roanoke, Virginia.

Obama Ad Accuses Romney of ‘Launching a False Attack’ for Quoting Obama | The Weekly Standard

This guy knew about Obama 200 years ago.

Yet Clare’s sharp questions must I shun
Must separate Constance from the nun
Oh! what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive!
A Palmer too! No wonder why
I felt rebuked beneath his eye

Superheroes don’t always wear a cape

Environmental Justice Lisa is protecting Americans from mercury – by forcing them to put mercury light bulbs in their houses.

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Stand with Lisa | Superheroes don’t always wear a cape

h/t to Marc Morano

In Hansen’s 1999 paper, he claims that he lowers Phoenix temperatures by nearly 3C due to UHI adjustments.

pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1999/1999_Hansen_etal.pdf

Sounds great – the only problem is that he doesn’t actually do what he says he does. Below is his current fully adjusted version of the Phoenix graph. It looks like he has actually been bumping temperatures up above what he was reporting as raw data in 1999.

It appears that he is ignoring the huge Urban Heat Island issue which he reported in 1999.

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

It is also curious how the raw data is higher now than it was 13 years ago. Perhaps Hansen went back in time and remeasured the temperatures.

Barrow has less than 5,000 residents, yet they have a very large Urban Heat Island Effect.

www.cas.umt.edu/geography/documents/Hinkel_etal_2003_winter_UHI.pdf

The latest news is that Obama has accused Romney having some Latin American investors at Bain Capital.

This is the same Obama who is attempting to bring in millions of Latin American voters.

Juan Mata and Fernando Torres won the FA Cup, Champions League, and The European Championships – in less than eight weeks this spring. I wonder if anyone else has ever done that?

Our official US government data tamperers cool the past, and warm the present – based on the idea that observers used to read the thermometers in the afternoon, and now they read them in the morning.

If that were true, we would see a decline in raw minimum temperatures, but we see the opposite.

In other words, the official data tamperers are wrong at both ends. Their upwards adjustments are much too large, and their downwards adjustments are much to small.

According to USHCN raw daily data, afternoon temperatures in the US have declined more than one degree since 1930.

During that same period, US minimum temperatures have increased about a quarter of a degree

The next graph shows that the difference between maximum and minimum temperatures has dropped precipitously.

Strongly elevated nighttime temperatures are the primary symptom of the Urban Heat Island effect, which appears in cities and towns of all sizes.

New York   Phoenix    Barrow, AK

USHCN makes a token political adjustment of 0.1 degrees for UHI, but the actual effect is more like fifteen times larger.