After reading about the climatology controversies, and not knowing who to believe, I did my own investigation of the climate data using the GHCN data, which was

After reading about the climatology controversies, and not knowing who to believe, I did my own investigation of the climate data using the GHCN data, which was the most comprehensive publicly available set I could find. http://code.google.com/p/tempgraph/ http://code.google.com/p/tempgraph/ This is written in C++, and you can plot the data in numerous different ways, including individual weather stations if you wish.