It would be interesting to compare temperature records for this period by state with the change in number of thermometers by state. Hypothesis: The Great Dying of Thermometers might correlate with stations showing purported increases in temperature.
The global warming nutistas sat up their monitors next to heat exhausts, etc. so they could get their higher temperature readings. What freaks! Brrrrrrrr…..better get that carbon tax moving right along before we all freeze.
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It would be interesting to compare temperature records for this period by state with the change in number of thermometers by state. Hypothesis: The Great Dying of Thermometers might correlate with stations showing purported increases in temperature.
===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle
OT but interesting about times to come: the lack of money and the rise in heating fuel costs created major pollution in Athens as people turn to burning firewood.
http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2012/12/28/actualidad/1356723852_531962.html
Sorri it’s in Spanish but that’s what I got.
The global warming nutistas sat up their monitors next to heat exhausts, etc. so they could get their higher temperature readings. What freaks! Brrrrrrrr…..better get that carbon tax moving right along before we all freeze.