How long before we see a series of photoshops of these measuring instruments on the back of drag racing cars, etc.?

Ironically its one of the better ones I've seen so far.

More fruad and lies and how many of those tempeture sensors have they placed in DEATH VALLEY and the GOBI DESERT?

These temperature sensors are strategically located or selected to support the Al Gore, David Suzuki Global Warming argument.

Relocating these to an open field in Delisle, or Billings MT would probably have us all buying thicker parkas instead......

I can see the sensor serving as a center pole of a snowman the kids may build around it in the winter ;-)

I wonder what would happen if you held a propane torch to the pole of one of these. Or an ice pack? Should these sensors not be placed somewhere where they cannot be tampered with? If these devices were around when I was a kid,we would have definetly screwed around with them.

Somewhere in Minnesota I'll bet you can find one of those things sitting behind the goal of a local outdoor hockey rink. Or in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart.

Not sure what the problem is here. I don't see a window air conditioner 20 feet away.....

Yeah, where's the air conditioner?

Asphalt, street, cars, trucks. Heat.

Ever notice how places like this are much, much hotter than parks, countryside, middle of the ocean (more than two thirds of Earth's surface)

Man's built up areas are but a drop in the bucket compared to the Earth's total surface. Are there more urban stations than there should be ?? I bet there are. Let alone placed near heat sources instead of parks.

But the alarmists/calamity Janes say, yabut, man is heating up the cities, isn't he ?? Yes he is. It is called the Urnban Heat Island effect. But.

What %age of the Earth's surface is hot asphalt ?? Say it is 1%. Do you think urban wx sites make up only 1% of the Earth's total ??

But the whole issue as I see it ---- As towns, cities grow they engulf existing wx stations. Over the years temp data is skewed to the upside.

But that alone does not seem to be good enough for the alarmists. They want our society, lifestyles shut down now. Temp devices moved closer to heat sources fits the bill.

With the McIntyre exposing of the Hansen/GISS fraud it makes one think (and know ?) there is a lot more fraud out there.

Why don't they just shove it up the tailpipe of that red truck and be done with it?

Ron, in all fairness that's not the absolute worst place that guy could have put the thing on his small lot. Too close to the road yeah, but at least he didn't stick it on the side of the house. Next to the air conditioner. Over the barbecue. :)

Question is, why does that guy have a station at all? There's nowhere on that property to get a decent temp.

Spurwing Plover, here's your fake Death Valley station:

http://www.john-daly.com/stations/badwater.htm

Well to be fair, it IS sitting on a grassy lawn, and in a place like Odessa, that's not very common. Odessa is in the middle of a desert. It's all surrounded by basalt and lava.

Behind the pickup is the remains of a large tree that has been severely trimmed. Wonder how much shade it used to provide?

...off in the distance, a dog howls...

Interesting comment about photoshoping. Absolutely anyone can go to the location and take a picture ... and call the photo takers.

BTW: I didn't see any frozen to death or drowned polar bears in the picture.

Ya know, I'd bet those MMTS thingys would make darn good bird feeders, if they didn't have plenty as it is.

Hey:

I saw the big flare flame shooting out at Saskferco the other day, just east of Moose Jaw.

Maybe they should mount one close to that. Another one by the flare at the Coop Upgrader too.

Breaking news.  Al Gore has left the Global Warming movement. Here is his speech about the most serious threat ever to face mankind. Link

Maybe we should try a new tack...let's see if anyone can get a picture of one of these stations which has been positioned and installed properly.

Albatross,

Precisely who are "you people" (sounds like something from one of George Wallace's 1960's ruminations), and why do you, in your learned opinion, identify the series of photos of weird locations for temperature sensors as "crap". They certainly don't look photshopped, and they're funny as hell.

Before I became a geologist, I spent a few years with the DOT as a radiosonde technician/ weather observer. I assure you that the absurd locations shown by Kate would have elicited gales of laughter.

This is cheating i mean its like thise wildlife officials who were planting lyxn hairs on rubbing posts in oregon and washington these radical enviromenatlists supporters should lose their jobs entirly

Ask Alby about his opinion on sterilizing brown people in the Third World to save the planet. He thinks there's 3 billion too many of 'em and would like to get to work on that right away.

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/006800.html#c186443

Zog,

Don't waste time with alby. He's a twit with a sub-par IQ who doesn't realize he isn't smart.

Dumb people who realize the extent of their abilities and limitations are benign. Dumb people who think they're on par with Einstein are insufferably obnoxious.

If the fool can't see the obvious, let him rot in his smarmy self-satisfaction. Everyone but him will be laughing at his stupidity.

Phantom:

Thanks for the link. I see that Albatros is a social parasite - 46 years old and still a student. When he gets his "environmental" credentials he can get a nice cushy job and spend the rest of his life sponging off of useful and productive folks. Attended Woodstock too; that figures! (Contempt button off)

The thing I noticed was he's got a picture of the fifth Marx Brother (Karl that is) on his site there but he claims all this military experience.

Funny he doesn't know how to field strip an FNC1. One miserable summer in the Weekend Warriors and I could still do it in my sleep.

None of which excuses that sterilize the n***ers business. Looks like we got us a possible concentration camp guard in training.

It eventually dawned on me that, if he was at Woodstock, he was nine years old at the time. On that basis I started to give his entire resume closer scrutiny and concluded, as I gather that you have too, that Albatros is a fraud. Too many things simply don't make sense. Ah well, it's not the first time that I've been sucked in by somebody having a bit of fun, and I'm not blushing too profusely.