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Yeah we should definitely make policy based on claims from 15 year old Fox News articles, which are famous for their even-handedness and lack of editorial bias.

• aspenmayer 1y ago
  Here’s something from 2024. It’s not heat sources, but tampering with rain gauges in this case. https://coloradosun.com/2024/09/08/patrich-esch-ed-dean-jagers-ranchers-fraud-insurance/ https://coloradosun.com/2024/09/08/patrich-esch-ed-dean-jage... ( https://archive.is/jBh8H https://archive.is/jBh8H ) > Wrecked rain gauges. Whistleblowers. Million-dollar payouts and manhunts. Then a Colorado crop fraud got really crazy. > The sordid story of two ranchers who conspired to falsify drought numbers by tampering with rain gauges on the plains of Colorado and Kansas, resulting in millions in false insurance claims
• jccalhoun 1y ago
  And even in that article it states: "If you use only the sites that currently have good siting versus those that have not-so-good siting, when you look at the adjusted data basically you get the same trend," said Jay Lawrimore, chief of the climate monitoring branch at NCDC. Lawrimore admitted that Watts' volunteers had discovered real problems with sensor siting, but he said that even when those sites' heat readings were adjusted down, they still showed a steady overall rise in temperatures. "The ultimate conclusion, the bottom line is that there really isn't evidence that the trends have a bias based on the current siting," he said. And surface station data is only a small subset of information confirming the warming of the climate, Lawrimore said.