{"id":275969,"date":"2023-08-28T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T10:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=275969"},"modified":"2023-08-28T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T10:03:11","slug":"contaminating-good-data-with-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=275969","title":{"rendered":"Contaminating Good Data With Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"420\" data-attachment-id=\"275972\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=275972\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0Screenshot-2023-08-28-115929.png?fit=975%2C567&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"975,567\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Screenshot-2023-08-28-115929\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0Screenshot-2023-08-28-115929.png?fit=723%2C420&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0Screenshot-2023-08-28-115929.png?resize=723%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0Screenshot-2023-08-28-115929.png?w=975&amp;ssl=1 975w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0Screenshot-2023-08-28-115929.png?resize=300%2C174&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0Screenshot-2023-08-28-115929.png?resize=768%2C447&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TonyHeller\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/yt3.ggpht.com\/7XcheT5ZnxnTIBVMTgBS3vhByap6kko-aa09ZcnTFIvWSyoV5Gw4ooWxllvhXF4lWnweYWMeHA=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj\" alt=\"\">Tony Heller<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Temperatures in cities have been known for a long time to be much warmer than surrounding rural areas. Instead of eliminating the Urban Heat Island contaminated data, NASA and NOAA use it contaminate surrounding rural stations as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QQK2_kNSCnc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures in cities have been known for a long time to be much warmer than surrounding rural areas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":275972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691819773,691818386],"class_list":["post-275969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-temperature-measurement","tag-urban-heat-island","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0Screenshot-2023-08-28-115929.png?fit=975%2C567&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-19N7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":426994,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=426994","url_meta":{"origin":275969,"position":0},"title":"The University of East Anglia Discovers the Urban Heat Island Effect","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/19\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The UHI phenomenon- where cities are warmer than surrounding rural areas due to human activities, buildings, paved surfaces absorbing heat, reduced vegetation, and waste heat- was first systematically observed and described in the early 19th century by Luke Howard in his studies of London's temperatures (around 1810\u20131830). 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