Noel. I saw this, this morning. I found this most important.

There’s one more weather station operated by NOAA in Death Valley, at Badwater, and it too suffers from the “some like it hot” mentality that seems to pervade weather stations in Death Valley. The late John Daly has an interesting writeup on it’s placement which seems to be for the sole purpose of edging out El Azizia, Libya for the hottest temperature ever recorded of 136°F. Currently Death Valley is second at 134°F.

The link to the old John Daily post, prior to his death is most revealing.

It was at Furnace Creek that the all-time hottest record in the USA was broken,  57°C. ( 134°F.) in 1913, just 2°F short of the Libyan all-time record.

It discusses misleading information on a plaque at Badwater., by  NASA and the NPS.

On the western side of the instrument is a vast white salt pan, caused by salt deposits from a spring bubbling up from underground (the `bad water') (Fig.1&6). This salt pan has a high albedo to sunlight so that the afternoon sun will reflect light and heat off the white expanse directly onto the cliff and the instrument itself.  On a bright afternoon, it will act almost like a mirror to sunlight.

In all of Death Valley, the ARC has chosen just about the hottest spot possible in the hottest valley in North America. They have in effect put it into a natural oven - and done so in the full knowledge of Badwater's topography.  Now all they have to do is wait - wait for the inevitable day when the conditions will be just right - clear skies, still air, a blazing sun, and that instrument will heat up from the combined heating of the air, the immense heating from the nearby cliff only metres behind the instrument, the intense reflected heat radiation from the salt pan, and the mercury will very likely fall over the Libyan line and record the `hottest temperature ever measured on earth'.

Then we will see the champagne corks fly as the greenhouse industry will cry with righteous indignation, announcing the `new hottest temperature ever recorded on earth', how it's all due to global warming etc. etc. and all the time, the whole thing will be about as fake as a three dollar bill

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They have to prove something. Even if they have to lie to do it.

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

It is time for the various skeptical climatoligist, meteroligist, geologists, etc to write a hard copy book on this.  Each one write his own chapter.  I am sure many would dismiss it, but it would be harder to dismisss it if it were hard copy, volume 1 thru X.

Of course, there would be the "meterologist are not climatologists" comment by many of the true believers.  I have ran into that comment before. 

This issue needs more than just prodding on the part of conservatives to goad our drive by media to highlight this obvious bias in the gathering of temperature data. 

It seems to me that the most advanced nation on the earth, could devise a weather recording station that could be operated completley independent of human intervention and be sited only when strict criteria were met to minimize temperature bias.

Then, a concerted effort be put in place over the next several years to remove all the old stations and replace them with independent stations that are properly sited.

Most importantly, have a moratorium on the present AGW nonsense while the new data is being gathered over the next 50 years.

Meanwhile, you all are free to move about the cabin and exhale if you must.